How do you tie your shoes? Do you use any of the bizzaro alternates?

I’m tempted to try the checkerboard:

I have excessively long laces on my current pair of shoes so it might just put the huge dangling ends to good use…

I came across this: Googlism

complete with 9 proofs of Google’s existence as a God…

Proof 2:

Google is everywhere at once (Omnipresent). Google is virtually everywhere on earth at the same time. Billions of indexed WebPages hosted from every corner of the earth. With the proliferation of Wi-Fi networks, one will eventually be able to access Google from anywhere on earth, truly making Her an omnipresent entity.

via::buzzfeed.com

I wonder if they could also accurately predict the end of the world 2 weeks in advance? …perhaps based on how many users searched for “barack obama antichrist”? (here’s what I found, in case you’re wondering)

Continuing the retro-cool theme…

Some of you will have seen my cassette t-shirt design (on my merch page or on my body)

The images were sourced from tapedeck.org - an collection of high res tape images. It’s a pretty wacky idea for a website, but it is interesting to see the variations in packaging.

Best thing about tapes: Their usefulness in the production of the mixed tape. I have no idea how long I spent back in the day listening to rage and top-40 radio/super-request recording stuff to my next mixed tape!

Did you ever make one? for a love interest? did it work?

Winner of recent Tropfest short film festival - shot entirely using a mobile phone in NY and Sydney…!

via::design crush

Gold: A national public toilet map. complete with continence-sensitive online trip planner and the ablility to “register to save your trips, destinations and public toilets”

http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/

Thank you Mr. Rudd

Spire Christian Comics

Worth a look…!

Ok, so it’s probably a coincidence given how dissimilar they are musically and influence-wise. But just thought I’d put it out there!

Does it bug you when people use the word ‘like’ in ways other than for comparisons?? teenagers perhaps? ye stereotypical amerian blondes?

A linguist from U of Canterbury via ‘American Speech‘ has gone to the trouble of analysing the usage of like and has found that it is not meaningless filler in sentences and actually follows some rules. The most common usages are:

1. To separate phrases (similar to using “i mean”): “He was at work all the time, like, I can’t imagine what he’d be doing!”

2. To keep conversation flowing (often an alternative to using “you know”)

3. As an equivalent to says: “He was like, lets go to the roller-disco”

4. As an equivalent to about: “It was like 15 stories high”

photo via :: ffffound.com

if you need inspiration or instruction:

Via:: DG