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Wheres mah latte?

This photo is based on ancient news, but it was recently revived by Hillary Clinton’s awful chief strategist Mark Penn, who claimed in a GQ interview last week that Hillary was undone by “latte voters.” It’s true that we “coastal elites” were a major block of Obama’s support, but that doesn’t explain why he did so well in the mountain west.

For example, Wyoming:

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Free hardcore band logo

(It might even work for a post-hardcore band)

I printed the following letters at Heavenly Letterpress Workshop for a freelance design project last weekend, but ended up not needing them. They were so gorgeous looking that I thought I’d rearrange them into an appropriately brutal-sounding nonsense word…

Beta invites for Aviary

The “web as platform” concept — the increasing ability to do everything via a web browser — started with easy applications like word processing, but as time passes more complex programs are going online. Adobe recently put a stripped-down version of Photoshop online for example, probably to preempt competition.

Thing is, I haven’t come across any other online photo editors I’ve been crazy about. I do use Snipshot for cropping and resizing sometimes, but that’s not really what I’m talking about.

But I’m excited about Aviary — the photo editor looks decent, and they’re promising a long list of other useful tools. I has five three private beta invites for anyone that wants one…

Really this is more about viral marketing than beta testing I’m sure, but I’ll bite

‘DOT Creates New Lane for Reckless Drivers’

Is it just me, or is the Onion making better fake graphics these days?

From “DOT Creates New Lane for Reckless Drivers”:

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Though srsly Onion guys, I don’t think you’d ever see Frutiger on a standard green sign like that…