To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong.

"Nobody checks the signature. Credit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed to make you feel safe, like airport security checks. So my question was, how crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?"

"The Torn-Up Credit Card Application – I get a heck of a lot of credit card applications in the mail. I almost always tear credit card applications in half and throw them away. Is that good enough? Could a determined and dexterous criminal gather all the bits, tape them together and apply for a credit card in my name?"

On 5th May, 2008, Nine Inch Nails released "The Slip" for free via their website, as a gift to their fans. Or as Trent Reznor put it: "This one's on me". On December 13th, 2008, dozens of Nine Inch Nails fans recorded the last show ofthe Lights In The Sky tour at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas. On January 7th, 2009, over 400Gb of video from the Victoria, Portland and Sacramento shows from the same tour were unofficially released by the band. By working together, the Nine Inch Nails fan community have created "Another Version of the Truth" – a 3 disc release bringing together numerous editors, designers, and web programmers to create a professional digital film, followed by a physical release created by fans for fans.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB, AN INTERACTIVE MEDIUM IN WHICH SCREEN RESOLUTION STATISTICS ARE TRIVIAL, BROWSER VIEWPORTS ARE VARIABLE, AND SCROLLING BEHAVIOUR IS A STANDARD.

THERE IS NO PAGE FOLD.

LOVE YOUR SCROLLBAR

The idea was to build a bare-bones, but visually compelling and highly usable to-do app.
Features include: week overview, check off done tasks, delete tasks, move tasks, someday bucket

The book of David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer.

"A passion of mine is for visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words.

I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!

My pet-hate is pie charts. Love pie. Hate pie-charts."

"Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month."

Billions spent on this. Billions spent on that. It's all relative right?

She is among the rarest of the rare: a child seemingly born mentally ill.

It seems to have passed without huge fanfare, but on April 20th 2006, the Alexa rankings for tech sites around the globe suddenly doubled, literally overnight.

An incredibly natural and interactive spider made in Flash.

Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with.

Contacts: Download all your contacts from Outook, Plaxo or your phone and print them out in your Moleskine. Export your contacts in Vcard format and choose how you want them printed.

Events: Schedule the events you are attending and fit them in your Moleskine. Look out for the iCal file of the event and then choose what you want to print out and the layout.

Content: Set up the page with your image and text and print out your MSK page to put into your Moleskine. Choose the image from your desktop and write out or copy and paste the text.

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