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How bold can Darth Vader be?
Idea: Measuring cups that look like tiny pots
Googlyi: An iGoogle Theme
Happy Overpass
Video Store Clerk Game: A Crowd Wisdom Experiment
Idea: Tactile Feedback While Driving
Eyeglasses and the pushing up thereof
A photo of a tree
Idea: The Wikroll
Idea: The Bulbdial Clock
Animated Manhattan: G.I. Joe: The Movie
If you’re attending SXSW this weekend…
The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists
Idea: A new typography term
Idea: The last product Polaroid should make
Blogs: The Book
Idea: Scientist Valentines
Idea: Other Custom Islands
Humor in a Jugular Vein
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Propagandists
60 Seconds in the Life of a Humidifier
Glamour Mug Shots
Idea: The Gethuman Dialer Application
I see a Sandcrawler
Idea: Tetris one brick at a time
Animated Manhattan: Downtown
New Ironic Sans merch for the Holidays
Bookstore Befuddlement
Idea: Truly Crappy Statues
Siriusly?
60 Seconds in the Life of a Puddle
The Constitutionality of Storyboarding
Halloween on the Upper West Side
Interview: Art Binninger, the Ed Wood of 1970s stop-motion animated Star Trek parodies
Animated Manhattan: Casper the Friendly Ghost
Best book title ever
The Original Must See Movies Checklist
Reader takes Histogram Idea even further
Advertising on the overhead bin now a reality
Idea: The Histogram as the Image
Puzzle: Find the Hidden Picture
Book Trend: A Novel
Idea: Color Photos with the Game Boy Camera
Adam Rex Contest: The Winner
Adam Rex Contest: Vote for the winner
Contest: Win original Adam Rex artwork
Idea: Celebrity middle finger coat hooks
The Beetlejuice House
Discovered by PC Magazine
Animated Manhattan: TMNT
Dog Day Anniversary
60 Seconds in the Life of the Wonder Wheel
Idea: Give the boss a grade
Idea: Breed a “Mickey” Mouse
Photos from the Galapagos Islands
Bad Fake New Yorker Cartoons
60 Seconds in the Life of the Galapagos Islands
Top 5 Remainder Ideas
Terrorist organization logos
Idea: The Alien Stapler
She’s a vector girl. I’m a bitmap guy.
A new billboard in Times Square
The best and worst of The Economist
Idea: Lolcatvertisements
Idea: The Sensory Deprivation game
A Graphic Designer clears his name
New Delta ad campaign an in-joke for nerds?
Idea: The Hamburdog
Idea: You Say You Want An Evolution (T-Shirt)
Idea: “12” — a spinoff of “24” for kids
Basketball Court
Murmur at the poetry slam.
Interview: Morgan Taylor, creator of Gustafer Yellowgold
Idea: Uncensor the Internet with Greasemonkey
Crash into me
The best employee ever
“The Week” in review
Idea: The Digital Jewel Box
Animated Manhattan: Shortbus
New species of falcon named after Millennium Falcon
Idea: Develop an F-Bomb
Idea: The Kotter Family Tree
A mattress commercial I’d like to see
Joost Invitation Contest - Part II
Joost invitation contest - Part I
The fine print
Mauling Helena
Idea: Joost’s missing feature
Binder clip
50 States in 10 Minutes
George Bush and Jack Bauer
I see the Death Star
Libby Lewis on Lewis Libby
Idea: Simultain-O-Vision
Acknowledgements
Idea: An Orange Clockwork
Le Reve - The Blog
60 Seconds in the Life of Seagulls
“Dear Sophina” — An amazing follow-up to “The Astoria Notes”
Idea: Paintings of descriptions of the paintings
Idea: “CNN Fortune Cookie” Greasemonkey script
Every ad in Times Square
60 Seconds in the Life of Summer
The Astoria Notes
Have your own millionaire Picasso experience
Idea: Fun with facial recognition
Animated Manhattan: The Wild
Idea: Word balloons as quotation marks
Ironic Sans 2006 in Review
Celebrity Patents
I see R2-D2
Pointless Vandalism
Idea: A virtual slide projector
Receipts of Unusual Size
Idea: A “Flying Wiimotes” Screen Saver
A subway ad paradox
Animated Manhattan: Late Night With Conan O’Brien (Opening Credits)
The Burt Reynolds Museum
Idea: A building shaped like Godzilla
Those wacky Canadians
60 Seconds in the Life of Tae Kwan Do Class
Idea: Commemorative T-shirts for Fictional Events
By nobody who brought you Jurassic Park
A museum recommendation and a recommendation for the museum
Louise Brooks’ 100th Birthday
Idea: Use “apparent” when it’s not simply “alleged.”
Interview: Louis Klein, audience member of nearly every episode of Saturday Night Live
What about Southbund?
Interview: Andrew Brody of the Princeton Review LSAT Podcast
60 Seconds in the Life of a Painting
When you need those photos in a rush
Idea: Another commercial I’d like to see
Designing Ironic Sans
Animated Manhattan: Red Garden
Running on Empty, Stopping at Studio 60
Idea: The Mr. T Virtual Playset
Idea: The Wii Workout
Marioteria
Idea: College Admissions reality show
Idea: Approve of more than just “this message.”
But they already have their own chairs
Clean up in aisle two
Interview: Seetharaman Narayanan
Waterworld
Idea: Fiber Optic Streetlights
Six Feet Dahlia
Idea: “Hello My Name Is John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” name tag shirts
Idea: Dunder Mifflin branded paper
Amp’d Mobile’s “Li’l Bush” seems strangely familiar
Five years after 9/11/2001
Animated Manhattan: Oliver & Company
Idea: Pac-Man napkin holder with Ghost salt and pepper shakers
Idea: The iZod
Interview with Adam Rex, illustrator and author of “Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich”
60 Seconds in the Life of Rafa Nadal’s Shadow
Agassi vs. Pavel vs. Agassi vs. Pavel…
Thumbing through the dictionary
Idea: The “O Fortuna” Short Film Festival
60 Seconds in the Life of a Fly
Norbert Wiener slept here
Idea: “CSI: Drive Time”
Idea: Take “jowlers” to the next level
Idea: The Ant Desk
Plane in a Snake
The Day Lorenzo Music Died
60 Seconds in the Life of Clouds
Idea: Wear your DNA on your sleeve
A parallel istaverse
Animated Manhattan: An American Tail
Turn of the century racist jokebooks
Big Boggle box bears best board
Green means stop. Red means go.
Idea: A “Critical Thinking” section on the SAT
How one man sent one e-mail and took down my entire website. And he didn’t even know it.
The Art of 1010 WINS
Idea: A new slogan for New Jersey
Terrorism makes this ad special
The Eutats of Ytrebil.
Uma Thurman’s Severed Head
60 Seconds in the Life of Snow
Animated Manhattan: Madagascar
Idea: A new TV show gimmick
Idea: A new movie gimmick
Idea: A five dollar “skip” button on jukeboxes
Idea: Under-the-seat carry-on boarding first
You got your picture in my logo
60 Seconds in the Life of an Aquarium
Idea: Two functions in one button
Georgia O’Kleenex
Idea: A new mental disorder diagnosis
Idea: Lexidiem, the word of the day.
This cliché is dead. Long live this cliché!
Is that a Pepsi logo on that Coca-Cola product?
Remote Remake
Hot town. Summer in the city.
60 Seconds in the Life of the Apple Store Stairs
Idea: The Correlation Project
Animated Manhattan: The Critic
When Isamu Met Bucky
Idea: A parking lot compass
Random Acts of Emphasis
60 Seconds in the Life of Luggage
9/11 in 3D
CONS T ANT I NE
I see storm troopers.
Idea: A remake of “Fred Ott’s Sneeze”
Freaks stay at Marriott?
Animated Manhattan: Futurama
Idea: Another commercial I’d like to see
100,000 hits
Blog Name or Band Name?
The Google Maps Guide to Ghostbusters
Animated Manhattan: Fantasia 2000: “Rhapsody in Blue”
60 Seconds in the Life of a Wild Tail Pet Toy
60 Seconds in the Life of a Bear and Sea Captain
Museum store shop for is open inspiration!
H2O OTC
Boris Vallejo’s palette
Flaky Advertising
How Google Book Search saved the day
Animated Manhattan: Family Guy
Flat footed art
60 Seconds in the Life of Sea Lions
It’s like an Amazing Window that let’s you See Through a Wall!
The Chevy Bandwagon
60 Seconds in the Life of Landing Gear
Idea: The Pacifist Chess Set
Animated Manhattan: Tom & Jerry - Mouse in Manhattan
Idea: “Less is.”
Idea: The Ishihara Triptych
Idea: “What’s your AIM Name?”
60 Seconds in the Life of a Staircase
60 Seconds in the Life of a Skater Boy
Idea: Design for a WTC Monument
Thanks for the hits
Lost in translation
Idea: Advertisements on the overhead bins
Animated Manhattan: The Simpsons
Idea: An album of Misirlou covers
Idea: A website for reviewing restaurants in airports
Idea: A poster for a dorm room.
60 Seconds in the Life of a Taxi Meter
Idea: Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows
Animated Manhattan: Sundae in New York
Watch “V” on-line for free!
The Hall of Fame Hall of Fame
Balabananza, the Convention for Bob Balaban Fans.
Original Wallace and Gromit only worth £6,000. Total.
60 Seconds in the Life of Escalators
Happy Pi Day
Animated Manhattan: Antz
Idea: A commercial for batteries
60 Seconds in the Life of Steam
Viral Life imitates Bad Art
They seemed so much happier as citizens
Lou Costello’s 100th Birthday
Animated Manhattan: Fritz the Cat
Michelangelo’s “David” meets David’s “George Bush”
60 Seconds in the Life of Laundry
Idea: Ironic Sans
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