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Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS, from 456 Berea Street. Cool.

I was cleaning out an obscure corner of my desk this morning, and came across my little stash of Westin’s perfumed ads that ran earlier this year in The New Yorker and Wired. At first glance at those, I thought they were silly, but they smelled so nice that I hoarded them. Looking at the comments here, I see I’m not the only one — and now that I finally remembered to look, I’m really glad to see that it should be available in stores this month.

Test your sites on a PSP Web Browser Simulator. (Windows only.)

“This isn’t your _[older relative]_’s _[noun]_.”
Oldsmobile wasn’t cool when it ran that campaign, the campaign wasn’t cool, and it went so far as to make Oldsmobile even less cool. So why the fuck is this structure / reference still showing up years later? It’s even pretty nonsensical: there’s lots of stuff that I wish were “my father’s X” — clothing, cars, telephones… all far more durable years ago than the crap that’s available now.

FORWARD Governor Mark Warner is going to hold a virtual Town Hall meeting in Second Life. “When we all quit laughing, we kind of looked around and said, ‘Hey, that’s not a bad idea.”
Wow.
via BoingBoing

Stockholm – The musical. Neato.

Mod your own Pez Drive.
via Make

I, um, think I really need these Ultimate 3D Glasses. For the costume box. Yeah.

TupperDiva, a nice collection of all things Tuppery. Lots of gorgeous scans. I recognize some of the products and hadn’t realized they were Tupperware. We didn’t have much of it (expensive!!), but they still make the best (only?) cake carrier on the market. If only I could find the legendary kimchee keeper in the US, that would be nice.
Via Scrubbles

I found this while looking at the credits of Remington Steele (For work! I swear!). Between her great taste in telephony and her nice performance in Gramma’s Boy,* I’ve just gotten over my reflexive dislike of Doris Roberts.

Shirley Jones stole the show, though!

Check out this very cool little DIY fountain with flourescent dye, a calibrated strobe and blacklight that lets you see –and play with– individual drops of liquid. Triptastic science!

The Milwaukee Admirals got a hideous new logo which, given this article, not a rebranding of the team on their own but merely as a brand extension of the agency and it’s dick-tastic sounding owner and his obsession with skeletons. Great jorb.
Via number-one hockey fan CzelticGirl

Meanwhile, Jen’s friend cooked up this Most Exceelent On-Notice Board Generator. Hours of fun.

Jazz and design innovation.

I got this Dorothee Becker Uten.Silo for TWO BUCKS. A little elbow-grease and the stickers, sand and paint drops are gone, and it’s perfect. I’m guessing original, too; if it were a re-issue, it would have had a very different price tag.

Actually, I didn’t know what it was either, other than something I’d seen crop up a lot in the backgrounds of gorgeous spaces in the Terence Conran house design books from the 70s.

I can set the measurement units in CICEROS.
I can set the measurement units in DIDOTS.
hours, minutes, seconds, too.
miles!
feet!
kilometers!
BUT NOT FUCKING PIXELS! ! ! ! !

My friend Pete just moved to Hawaii and he swears up and down that EVERYONE has one of these in their house. I think he’s lying, but wouldn’t that be rad? If you don’t live in Hawaii where these apparently come FREE with your rent, you can make a home-made Tiki Fireplace with smoking nose, like this dude did.

A nice Photoshop tutorial on cleaning up a face so it’s pretty / normal-looking. (Mouse over the “final result” image.) This is hardly Photoshop plastic surgery stuff, but it’s what I have to go through pretty much EVERY DAMNED TIME I’m given a person’s photograph for a site or brochure. Please! Look in the mirror. Comb your hair, powder your nose (men, too… and you might want do your shiny head while you’re at it), and do something about those eye bags — the five minutes you take will save a very expensive hour, and god forbid your company doesn’t have the budget for those hours and THEN THE INTERNETS WILL THINK YOU’RE UGLY.

Oh, and if you’re a smoker or drink a pot of coffee every day? Two words: whitening strips. You don’t have to go Ross-Nuclear-White, but it’ll take five years off of you.

Quite a Shiny collection, but they don’t have the spinning CBS Special Presentation that is still my favorite. More here.

For rhyming “modem” and “scrotum” (check the music video), and for coining the phrase “optical inch” (great band name, btw), I love this new bodyshave viral. Optical inch! I’m not going to be able to stop saying that today.
Via Mike Davidson

Want a less lame looking mySpace profile? Mike Davidson (he of sIFR fame and many fine web sites) shows you how. He also has 57 billion friends.

How to Feel Miserable as an Artist.

Gorgeous animation and type, deconstructed here.

X-Ray is a groovy new Firefox extention that shows you the code in context of a page.

Quark re-redesigned their logo after the old new one caused a flap. The new new one could be more refined… but, what do I care, since I use InDesign anyway?

This Xtra-pine Cleaning Hunk site is very cute but I was hoping they’d do it up like Subservient Chicken, and you could ask him to polish things in the room. Heh. Polish things.
via Very Big Blog

“I don’t have to get all dressed up like I’m going to Wal-Mart or something…”
Via Day of the Deadly

MIT Advertising lab has a really nice collection of magazine and newspaper ads that use the properties of paper very creatively. I love this ad for car polish.

Type in Web 2.0 logos round, soft and friendly. Also, the official color is chartreuse, but I already knew that. There’s chartreuse everywhere you look in women’s clothing this spring, too.

A ginormous collection of Dr. Pepper rip-offs, with photos of each can. Browse the lot of them, and you’ll start to wonder what would happen if next time you ordered a soda you asked for “doctor flavor.”

Neutral-good CSS ROCKSTAR — level six, without the book which would be about food, anyway.
Via 456 Berea Street