Karma 3G is quite nice but LTE is even nicer

should probably get this huh?

endurance challenge - see how much of this album you can stand. via @JensenSportag

nice insight on RCA Studio A situation.

if you've never heard it, take some time to hear it

I'm headed into a weekend of travel and celebration with friends at the wedding of one my best friends. I can't wait to celebrate such a great occasion in his life.

But enough personal celebrations, here's your playlist!

• Spaz Attacks Water Balloons - I. Love. This. Dog.
• KTVA reporter reveals herself as owner of Alaska Cannabis Club, quits on-air - sometimes the quick, short, profanity is the perfect solve to a situation.
• Ice Cream Melting Time Lapse - oddly beautiful if you ask me
• Koalas fighting - I had no idea what kind of noise a Koala makes, particularly when angry, is far from what I assumed it would be.
• Narashimma - I dug into the archives for this and it's every bit as good as the first time I saw it and promptly forgot it.
• "Little Superstar" - in celebration of Mr. Holland's marriage, a little bit of the best of the dancing Internet.

Need more? Enjoy this lovable oaf, this terrifying view or this bit of insight into a classic. Oh, and don't miss this gem.

Have a great weekend.

Rather enjoyed this Robert Williams piece on The first thing your website should say as it contains some obvious but often overlooked insight many startups could do to heed the advice of:

So many websites start by telling you about their great solution. Whatever the app, service, or product they all claim theirs is the easiest and best to use. Usually, they make these sweeping statements in big bold letters. It's always the first thing you read on a page. ...

It's sorta like a comedian going on stage and just delivering punchlines without the setup. It wouldn't make sense and it wouldn't be funny. Also, it wouldn't be very hard to be a stand-up comedian. There's no skill in delivering a punchline. Anyone who can speak can do that.

It's a problem that you see all the time - state the solution before the problem is established. I highly suggest reading the rest of the piece and taking it to heart.

via Daniel

Manual is a high class, iOS, app for turning your powerful iPhone camera into a dSLR. Meaning, it takes all those automated focus and white level smartness and puts the control in your hands. Assuming you're comfortable with a manual camera, it seems like a nice option for doing it your own way.

Bonus, the intro video is quite amusing. Just the right amount of flippant absurdity. The outtakes aren't bad either.

Precious Treasure

looks like a thing I'd watch

This is a post about the above image - a glitched out piece of goodness I encountered from MAVS and tried to find the original artist. It's not this guy or even this guy. They're all derivative works from the awesome rooftopping series by Aurelie Curie. An absolutely wonderfully talented photography that really isn't getting her due with those equally compelling animated glitch works.

I can't stop thinking about this NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual Kickstarter Project. The story behind the manual is quite a feat:

If you found yourself in the New York City subway in the 1960s, you were probably lost.

Signs didn't help you find your way, standards didn't exist, even handmade lettering was common. Mass confusion was the status quo.

In 1970, the Standards Manual changed everything.

Designers Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda created a graphic system that unified the entire subway system and is still, by and large, in place today. The KS project is reprinting the entire manual in its entirety.

I'm a bit torn on spending a decent chunk of money on an inspirational coffee table book but also quite compelled by the idea of a such a noted, albeit under recognized, piece of graphic design history.

Give some serious consideration to backing it.

Absolutely gorgeous illustrations from David Doran spanning across various book covers and editorial pieces. Lots of brilliant negative space shapes, perfect colors and even a little unexpected glitch.

There's a Tumblr of his work and I suggest you follow it. via Goldenfiddle.

this looks so beautiful but do I wanna spend $120 for a coffee table book?

a dropbox competitor?

In case you missed it, Steven Soderbergh took it upon himself to create a version of Raiders of the Lost Ark as a "staging study" of the film as a whole. You can see plenty more examples of these kinds of investigations here but Soderbergh's is particular interesting because (A) It's a black and white version, (B) It's got The Social Network soundtrack underneath it - giving it a particularly odd new vibe on the whole and (C) it's Steven Soderbergh and rarely do you see notable directors posting bootleg versions of popular films on Vimeo. Watch it while you can.

A Flickr image search plugin for Photoshop sounds like one of the most obvious and "how does this not exist already?" things I've encountered in awhile. I tend to lean more on Illustrator these days but I can think of any number of occasions where this would be incredibly useful.

There's a level of pixel pushing that can be extremely aggravating as a developer. Being told to literally move a pixel one or two pixels in a particular direction seems asinine until you realize that somehow that difference actually ends up mattering with the final product. This Dimensions extension easily lets you view the distance between elements - so when you feel the need to be really sure that something is off by a pixel or two,

bonkers.

was not familiar with this concept until now and it's both terrifying and brilliant