The 50 most annoying things about the internet is a fairly complete list but, as with anything, I'm sure they overlooked a few things. Anything not on that list that you feel is worthy of inclusion as one of the Most Annoying Things About The Internet?

My Associate Cornelius have updated their site with several new posters and test prints (new to me at least) worth taking a gander at.

Matt Curry, aka Imagefed aka NinjaCruise, has shifted his portfolio over to a new Cargo Collective page. I'm sure the work he's got in there is maybe 1/1000th of the totality of his accomplishments but it's a nice quick browse through some of the best of the best. I'm really enjoying this Omega Code piece that I'd not seen before...

Reminder to self: Find some time today to read 'Look at the Birdie' - the previously unpublished story from Kurt Vonnegut that, apparently, stems from a forthcoming new book.

If you hadn't noticed it's that Halloween time of year again. For the past four years I've put out a compilation of music that, I felt, sort of embraced the spirit of the season. Each year it gets a little harder to put them together because I try my best not to repeat songs from previous mixes but that's neither here nor there - the fact of the matter is I've finished the latest and hope you take the time to partake in it.

Dark Despair (Undead Trespass) is meant to evoke the feeling of Halloween - ominous, foreboding, sinister, etc. I think it does a pretty good job - so go download it and let me know what you think.

The previous mixes are also available, so be sure to snag those if you like: Crepuscular, Et Tu, Morte?, Songs for Spooks and Pure Terror.

I've been enjoying the site experience at Pull and Bear this morning. It's a simple layout but an effective means of getting around. I love that the majority of content is set to fill the browser and they vary things up between sections - i.e. Exhibitions vs The World Project vs Oxford St. Well worth clicking around on for awhile.

It's been awhile since I've visited the Freegums catalog but it still appears to be filled with goodness. There's always been a nice injection of humor to his work worth enjoying. It also turns out that he's starting to do art exhibitions - anyone in the SF area should go check it out.

I realize I'm only a few years late to this party but I just recently embraced Greasemonkey so if anyone has any must have scripts worth suggesting.. I'm all ears.

The Big Picture has posted a bunch of great stuff from their take on World Animal Day - items of note include: Artic Fox pup, Baby Pygmy Hippo, Gorilla getting a CT scan and the Gaza Zebra (a donkey with paint). Via Jnonfiction. The Telegraph has a Gallery of Albino Animals worth taking a browse through. The red eyes always weird me out a little bit but it's worth it when you see documentation of a white humpback whale.

There are several things about this list of oldest registered domains worth taking note of. 1) Symbolics.com is the oldest registered domain in the system and the site itself is an odd mix of new design and poorly done old design. Appropriate. 2) There were only six domains registered in 1985 and it wasn't until late 1986 that the very nerd sounding domain was obtained - Stargate.com.

Sort of a silly list but oddly fascinating to know that Octopus.com was registered on Nov. 17th, 1986.

Via Shane.

As you embark on your weekend, please remember that if you haven't procured the new release from Shaboi - Curse Walk - you really need to do so now. It will get the gears properly turning for the forthcoming pagan celebration of Halloween.

It was a pretty good week for bizarre videos. See the playlist or the individuals below.. and be sure to watch the extra content below that. All good stuff.

• End Cat - this is weird, weird, weird. I can't explain it but I love it.. be sure to turn your sound up for the insane audio that accompanies it.
• Chaos Reigns - super short clip from Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. I've read zero good things about the film but that fox is terrifyingly great.
• Bear vs Gorilla - the best part about this clip (aside from the fact that it's a man in a Gorilla suit wrestling a bear) is that there is no contextual information with it. Just something strange someone stumbled upon. Via.
• Intro to Smooching - These kissing styles are out of this world. There are things here I've never witnessed; particularly "The Music Kiss" - amazing. What is this from!?
• IHOP Commercial 1969 - the music involved with this makes the commercial anything but appealing. I'd go as far as to say it's somewhat frightening.
• If Peggy Vlogged - obviously this one is only for people who watch Mad Men.. also only for people that find inappropriate humor quite entertaining.
• The Bunny and Bull Trailer - as mentioned earlier; the new Paul King movie is just around the bend and the trailer finally hit YouTube.
• Bad Brains with Leonard Nimoy - typically I wouldn't find such a mash-up so entertaining but it's actually surprisingly well done. And Leonard Nimoy singing Bad Brains is not something you'd ever think you'd see.

BONUS VIDEO (aka Not From YouTube but Every Bit As Good):

• The Button - parody of the forthcoming Richard Kelly movie The Box. The joke is obvious but it's great.

There are a lot of crazy theories surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (not helped by stuff like this) but the notion that its existence could create a classic Grandfather Paradox is pretty amazing. This article explains that the LHC is attempting to discover the Higgs Boson - a theorized particle that would explain the origin of mass in the universe - and that its discovery "might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one."

It's an insane theory but I like it. A whole lot. Though I do tend to agree with this line of thinking in regards to the LHC, just to be safe.

via Blake.

I've been doing a bit of listening to the new AIR album and I find myself listening to "Eat My Beat" on repeat. So, with that in mind, enjoy the track and consider listening to it a lot.

Apparently some rather important steps have been made in the field of Suspended Animation. Researcher Mark Roth has cheated death in a number of animals - fish embryos, fruit flies, rats - and they all seem to recover just fine. He hasn't been able to tackle the problem with a bigger beast (i.e. a pig) but it's a very intriguing area to make progress in. Overall it's not about suspending life forever but more about giving doctors additional time to work on a problem area without highly risking the patients life - something I think everyone can get behind. Plus it gets us one step closer to being unfrozen 1,000 years in the future.

Via Madrid.

I'm of the mindset that the Good Magazine site is among the best designed on the web. It's message is clear, UI / UX is effective and easy, it's pleasant to look at and the content is great. Not many sites can make such a claim.

That being said, I was even more floored when I saw their First Ever Good 100 list. The list itself consists of 100 (or so) "people, businesses, projects, organizations, and ideas that will be improving the planet and the lives of the people on it" and the presentation is out of this world. Handmade paper cutouts of icons representing each idea is no small feat but they went for it quite successfully.

Enough gushing on my part - go check the cover, the making of and then spend a good bit of time actually reading the list - it's great.

This infographic documenting 50 Years of Space Exploration is not to be missed. Seriously, there's no way you can appreciate it at non-fullsize. The enormous rings / multiple trips around the nearby planets are great but the real eye-opening information is around the planets much farther out. Amazing.

Via Jamie.

This article talks about Marissa Mayer's (Google homepage "keeper") recent talk at an AIGA conference and her admittance that a majority of design decisions at Google are made based on statistical data. Nothing rolls out to the masses without being tested, thoroughly, on smaller pools of people.

None of this is new information or really even that surprising but isn't it just a geekier form of Design by Committee? I'm all for user testing and creating the most effective UI but if you're unable to roll something out that a large percentage of people aren't into then you're also unable to take any risk. I'm fine with Google's clean / sparse look (and I don't just mean the homepage, I mean the majority of their products) but it really seems like there is a predominant lack of design.

There's something very interesting when comparing the homepages of Yahoo, Bing and Google and considering that Google is unwilling to change something without massive amounts of statistical data behind it being the "right" choice. Does this strip them of their identity or establish it?

CollegeHumor can be pretty base and terrible a lot of the time but occasionally they hit upon a gem that works just perfectly. Such is the case with this article: 7 New Professors on RateMyProfessors.com. It's insanely nerdy, a little crass and something I can see turning into a full fledged meme.

It's always a treat when two great things come together. In this case it's the Kitsune Noir Desktop Project and the works of Steven Harrington.

Like I said, a real treat! Go get it.