Today’s Big Picture blog entry is a must see. So many amazing photos from yesterday.
Also, if you’re even a little bit into photography, you should subscribe to this blog.

Tags: obama, photography

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A few weeks ago, Karen and I set off for a Fall vacation. This was the plan: fly in to San Francisco for 1 night, go to Napa for 2 nights, drive up the coast of CA (1 night), spend 1 night in to Portland, OR before heading to Vancouver, BC (2 nights) and finally [...]

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Here’s a great piece about the Virginia Chutney Company (made of up of our friend Oliver Turner and his lovely parents) and how, whether you realize it or not, chutney is sweeping the nation. In fact,
…if you think you’ve never eaten chutney, you’re probably wrong. Ever had ketchup? Or McDonald’s sweet and sour sauce on [...]

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I finally ffffound a solution for not having a fffound.com account. weheartit.com seems to do exactly what I was looking for: bookmark images I like from graphic design to zen gardens so that I could create a library of inspiration images. It also allows you to bookmarks videos.
If you were having trouble tracking down [...]

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Thank you, guys at Commoncraft. Moms all over the world will thank you too.Go here to check it out for yourself.
Twitter in Plain Engligh
(originally posted on everydayUX)

Tags: video

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Karen, Dennis and I went back to ITP last night to celebrate Clay’s book release for Here Comes Everybody.
Clay was so instrumental to our experience at ITP and served as a inspiration for a lot of the ideas we ultimately explored with dodgeball. I feel very fortunate to have been able to cross paths [...]

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… check out this awesome indoor bocce set. You could make it all “extreme” and play around your furniture, etc., too. Sasha (or a dog of your own choosing) could even be a course hazard to watch out for.
Read more: Indoor Bocce Ball Game | Uncrate

Tags: bocce, games

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What I would have given as a child for night vision goggles like these. How f’ing cool would are these?!
On the other hand, this Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 (seriously?!) seems totally mental.

Tags: kids, toys

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And it works beautifully.
Reasons why this is a great application:
1. 1 step registration process
2. 1 feature - a bookmarklet you drag to your toolbar and click to save links you want to read later
3. 1 page that aggregates all those saved links for you to check out when you have the time
That’s it.
Go check [...]

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Once Apple added the ability to send text messages to multiple recipients I thought I’d finally be able to have my dodgeball checkins be reflected as my status in Twitter, and in turn, Facebook (via the Facebook Twitter app). I’ve always appreciated the location information inherent to dodgeball messages and longed for that utility in [...]

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