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Keyboard Shortcut Skins for Macs: Photojojo.  See also Photojojo: Time Capsule.

Design By Humans 20% off sale.  Use the offer code “iamaaronmartin” and get a chance to win a $10 iTunes Giftcard while helping Aaron get a new MacBook Pro and a new iPhone.

If a Coca-Cola sponsored racer wins the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona tonight, you get a coupon for a free coke zero at www.cokezero.com.

Update: Kyle Busch wins the Coke Zero 400 - Which gives everyone in America a free coke zero.  Sweet!

A sad day in racing. Scott Kalitta was pronounced dead after a fiery crash qualifying at the Lucas Oil SuperNationals.

Fantasy Interactive - They redesign, and redirect.  I’ve been following these guys since before they did their road runner site, and I went to their site expecting to see flash and was pleasantly surprised and shocked.  Nice work guys.

3G iPhone photos leaked. Needless to say I’ll be selling my iPhone in exchange for this.  Assuming these are real.

37Signals releases their once internal application called “In/Out” - now the Backpack Journal - Basically the concept is that you list the things you’re going to do for the day (check in) and then list the things you actually got done that day (check out) - a common practice among teams.  We do something similar at WeGame.com - though don’t use backpack.  Highly recommended over the IM or the poke “What are you doing right now?” questions.

48hourprints.com - Recommended by Cameron Moll.

Paul Rand: A well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Paul-Rand.com.

Hulu: Watch your favorites. Anytime. Free. - I just finished watching October Sky on the site, as well as 3 episodes of The Riches.  Really is a very nice concept and very good execution.

A good read on Total Cost of Ownership (Part I & Part II) by Kurt at Ellislabs

Eight Tips That Make You a Better jQuery Coder


Relocation from Ryan Sims on Vimeo.

Virb Inc. Moves
I’m a little late on this one - I didn’t have a blog at the time it was released - but its still fun to watch regardless.


The Blue Man Group on Global Warming

ExpressionEngine is built on CodeIgniter

ExpressionEngine Official Sneak Preview - I’m loving what I’m seeing so far!

Derek Allard posts some official screenshots of ExpressionEngine 2.0 - more on my opinions so far later once SXSW wraps up and I gather all the information I can about it.

A creepy but cool modular robot snake.

ExpressionEngine Tip: Using HTML in RSS Feeds.  Not really just an EE tip though, you have to do this with any feed to get links to render in your feed.

37Signals shows us the design decisions they made when adding the calendar strip to the Backpack Newsroom.

Cameron releases part 2 of his article series: Extensible CSS Interface.

37Signals adds a calendar to the Newsroom in the new backpack. Excellent idea!

Michael Winslow. Need I say more?

Wiimotion. Connects to a Wii Remote to a bluetooth-enabled Mac so you can analyze the motion data.  Control iTunes with a Wii Remote. (via)

FFFFOUND! Image Bookmarking.

Intel Xeon Presents: RoboBrawl.  Build your own robot for a multiplayer battle in an arena.  Get upgrades and points to climb the leader board.  I played it for about 10 minutes when I had to get back to work.

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