'Goldilocks' Planet's Temperature Just Right For Life

The possibility of life on other planets has been a staple of science fiction for decades. Now that possibility has taken a step closer to reality as astronomers say they have found a planet orbiting a star a mere 20 light-years away that has the right conditions for life to exist.

Facebook and Skype Plan Integration

Facebook and Skype are working on a broad partnership that will include the integration of the two services through Facebook Connect.

Digg us up!

If you have a digg account, please Digg us up!

The Pineberry

The Pineberry is a strawberry cultivar owned by breeder Hans de Jongh and commercialized by VitalBerry BV in Made, The Netherlands, and publicized in Germany in April, 2009, as Ananaserdbeere, or pineapple strawberry. It is a hybrid of Fragaria chiloensis, originating in South America and Fragaria virginiana, originating in North America.

11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused

Jolie O'Dell at mashable picked up some knowledge about trends in the logo design field. Some of the trends are good; others, regrettable. Others still are simply overused.

Graphic Designer's Journey: Freelance to Freedom

Just when you thought decision making couldn’t get any harder (you didn’t sleep for 2 nights, trying to decide between Helvetica and Times font), real life appeared and forced you to make a resolution about your career

MacArthur Fellows Program

Meet the 2010 MacArthur Fellows.

ifoundyourcamera.net

Every photo on this website comes from a lost camera or memory stick or roll of film somewhere around the world. The pictures come from as far as Japan, Ireland, Australia, Iceland, Dubai, and many, probably from your hometown.
Based in Canada, ifoundyourcamera.net has helped return dozens of these found cameras and orphan pictures to their owners.

evercookie

evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify a client even after they've removed standard cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others.

Google celebrates 12th birthday: a timeline

Google is celebrating its 12th birthday this September. Here is a timeline of the search giant's rise and rise from a garage in Silicon Valley to stratospheric success.

25 examples of well-designed personal websites

vandelaydesign has a roundup today featuring 25 examples of well-designed personal websites.

Tilt-shift Van Gogh

Here is a slideshow of 16 awesome photomanipulations with tilt-shift photography based on some of van Gogh's most moving and powerful paintings. Via lines and colors

Shyama Golden

Shyama Golden is a one woman shop for art and design, though I do hire a couple of brilliant interface designers and developers at times.

Auction Preview: Heritage Illustration NYC

Texas-based Heritage Auction Galleries is coming to New York City, bringing with them artwork from some of the greatest illustrators of the 20th century.

Seven Elements That Help Make A Great Black & White Photograph

Scott Bourne has outlined seven elements that help make up a great B&W image.

Watch out for the Super Harvest Moon

For the first time in almost 20 years, northern autumn is beginning on the night of a full Moon. The coincidence sets the stage for a Super Harvest Moon and a show to mark the change of seasons. Via Kit at finefettleguide.blogspot.com

Seeing Detroit Through the Eyes of a Jackass

In "Detroit Lives"–a three-part video series in collaboration with Palladium Boots–Knoxville brings viewers along a tour of the Motor City, exploring its rise, fall, and potential rebirth by showcasing the city's burgeoning youth movements.

Google New

Finally an easy way to follow all the good stuff Google is coming out with: Google New, via swiss miss.

25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career

This collection of 25 classic fonts is a round up of the best and most popular fonts every designer should own.

NYTimes - LINE BY LINE

A series on learning the basics of drawing, presented by the artist and author James McMullan. Line By Line begins with installments on line, perspective, proportion and structure, and continues from there, using examples from art history to illuminate specific issues. Pencil and paper recommended.

lydia jane

Lydia Jane is a photographer based in the MD, DC, VA area, but loves to travel! Be sure to check out her latest post- Mr and Mrs Murphy, very powerful stuff.

@big_picture

The @big_picture is pretty great, check out Octoberfest.

From Scandinavia With Love

A blog all about design and style from beautiful Scandinavia. Via swiss miss.

David Bolinsky animates a cell

David Bolinsky and his team illustrate scientific and medical concepts with high-drama animation. You've never seen the life of a cell quite like this.

Instant inspired.

Last week, Aboukhadijeh, 19, a Stanford University student, created YouTube Instant. The site lets people search the enormous YouTube video database in real time inspired by google instant. But imitation is the highest form of flattery, have a look at Google Maps Instant and all-encompassing Instantise page.

Apple Relaxes Restrictions For iOS Apps

Apple states in the official document that it is relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. Meaning apps developed in Adobe Flash CS5 will be allowed in the Apple app store.

The Digital Agencies of the Future!

Showcasing the mobile websites of ad agencies. Yikes!

Photo Tampering Throughout History

A collection of some examples of photo tampering throughout history.

Canon Announces the G12 and SX30IS

A week after their rival Nikon unveiled their P7000 compact camera for prosumers, Canon is firing back with their newly announced G12.

11 groundbreaking comics that sold for more than $70,000

This month, an original Todd McFarlane cover from Amazing Spider-Man 313 sold on eBay for $71,200- which Todd had sold years earlier for $700.

Meet the new Twitter.com

The new twitter. New design, View photos, videos, and other media content, Discover related content, Mini profiles.

Incredibly Realistic Illustration Portraits

Made by various artists these are some of the top illustrations you'll find in DeviantART. We're talking about ultra-realistic illustration here.

Bob Lukasik

The very talented Bob Lukasik (my former creative director at Grey) started a photography blog as a disciplined way to think and see creatively each day. As he began taking the pictures he realized it will ultimately be a visual diary documenting one year of his life.

Ricciotti Ensemble

I am back from Amsterdam. While I was there I was very lucky to catch a performance by The Ricciotti Ensemble playing in front of the Anne Frank House. (See more here, here and here) The Ricciotti perform symphonic music in a busy marketplace or the rural countryside, in prisons or in hospitals, Ricciotti plays everywhere, for everyone! The amount of energy, enthusiasm and just pure fun makes for a really fantastic performance.

Tipp-Ex Bear

Pretty Cool Ad takeover by Tipp-Ex.

Honey Bee Billboard

Honey-bee populations are mysterious dwindling worldwide. In England, the Banrock Station winery created the "world's first ad with live bees" to call attention to the problem.

tiltshiftmaker.com

Use tilt shift maker to transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures.

Yum yum

Yum yum are beth algieri and jonny plummer, two directors / designers with a common passion for creating new and exciting things. via motionographer

minimalist photography

Paulo Gabriel gives us a round up of some beautiful minimalistic photos.