If you’re even remotely interested in graphic design, you should probably check out this Russian site that displays many of the icon systems for past olympic games. My favorties are Mexico Summer Games Moscow Summer Games, 1980, and of course the 1972 Munich Winter Games. Found via a comment on this post at DesignObserver about Olmpic Design Systems, via Kottke.
Apparently, my Colorstrology color is Pastel Lavender. The description fits me to a T, but damn if that’s really a terrible color that I hate. What’s your Colorstrology color?
I actually used the title of this post twice today, once on a car forum regarding a design change (back to an old look) and now for this useless little tidbit.
So whats the tidbit … well, you’ll have to remember back to the Syquest and Bernoulli days to appreciate my rant… Anyway, Iomega has recently released what is basically a Syquest.
Historical Removable Media Lesson:
The Syquest 88 was crushed by the Zip 100, the Zips by the Jaz (Iomegas first Syquest rip off), the Jaz by CDRs, CDRs by firewire drives, and now they think they can pull their slowly dying company out of the ashes and to the forefront of removable media with yet another re-branded fucking syquest. Once again, damn tards.
Why living in a rich society makes us feel poor.
Put the question another way, however, and we seem a little less certain. Consider a choice between these two worlds:
World A: You earn $110,000 per year, others earn $200,000.
World B: You earn $100,000 per year, others earn $85,000.
The income figures represent real purchasing power. Your income in World A would command a house 10 percent larger than the one you could afford in World B, 10 percent more restaurant dinners and so on. By choosing World B, you’d give up a small amount of absolute income in return for a large increase in relative income.
So which would you pick? A majority of Americans, it turns out, choose World B.
Don’t forget to vote in the newest Alternate.org survey, answer #3 submitted by Phil. Via Kottke.
So, wow… lately works been everywhere. Is it just me, am I having a lucky streak or is the economy and the job market up in you area to?
Post in the comments. Let me know.
Kurt Vonnegut on the state of things:
My governments got a war on drugs. But get this: The two most widely abused and addictive and destructive of all substances are both perfectly legal.
One, of course, is ethyl alcohol. And President George W. Bush, no less, and by his own admission, was smashed or tiddley-poo or four sheets to the wind a good deal of the time from when he was 16 until he was 41. When he was 41, he says, Jesus appeared to him and made him knock off the sauce, stop gargling nose paint.
Other drunks have seen pink elephants.
And do you know why I think he is so pissed off at Arabs? They invented algebra. Arabs also invented the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which nobody else had ever had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
Were spreading democracy, are we? Same way European explorers brought Christianity to the Indians, what we now call Native Americans.
How ungrateful they were! How ungrateful are the people of Baghdad today.
So lets give another big tax cut to the super-rich. Thatll teach bin Laden a lesson he wont soon forget. Hail to the Chief.
That chief and his cohorts have as little to do with Democracy as the Europeans had to do with Christianity. We the people have absolutely no say in whatever they choose to do next. In case you havent noticed, theyve already cleaned out the treasury, passing it out to pals in the war and national security rackets, leaving your generation and the next one with a perfectly enormous debt that youll be asked to repay.
Pinpoint any zipcode, digit by digit, in the US. Way more fun than it sounds. Via Coudal
