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Enjoying Links for October 2004

MSNBC's blogs are now available in a handy RSS feed (full content would have been nice...grumble)

Pitchfork reviews Eminem's "Mosh"

Never Forget: Internets Vets for Truth (one stop source for election related video - fancy design too)

Dick Cheney is Scarface (headphones required if at work -- hilarious)

The Economist endorses Kerry (and in other news, hell freezes over)

EVB Halloween Party Invite

Pulp Politicians

Super Mario Brothers on Ice (oh my, this video is just awful)

Thinking With Type

David Lanham's Somatic theme for OS X (fuzzy, textured, and silly, this new ShapeShifter theme is really fun to use)

The Wired CD (Fantastic track listing. Free, and legal here from Nixlog)

Eminem's Mosh

U2 iPod | iPod Photo

Building Letters (latest issue now available -- includes a great selection of free fonts (India is especially nice), two posters, and the money goes to charity)

HTML Character Converter (OS X service for converting funky characters)

DropCopy (cool little desktop app to quickly move files between networked Macs via Rendezvous)

Nextgen Flash Player video demo (what's next for Flash)

Portland Studios (simply outstanding studio portfolio site)

Tattoos Translated (blog chronicling the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture)

CatPrin - Tailor for Cats (an old favorite updated with Engrish -- now twice as funny)

Zanzibar (typeface that's practically begging for a applicable project)

Chicken Fight (Burger King does it again - go Spicy!)

How to turn a CD spindle into a lamp

George wants beer

Swift 3D 4 for OS X now available

Ruler favelet (brilliant Moz/Firefox/Safari utility)

Left Justified (funky, fun blog design)

Downtown by Philippe Starck (unbelievable NY living residences)

Paul Shambroom, Meeting Series (the power, at work)

Seriously now, who thought this Kings of Convenience video was a good idea? (iTMS)

We cannot endorse Bush (Tampa Tribune, which has endorsed every Republican candidate for president since 1952)

Get ready old school gamers, the (originally built in Flash) Alien Hominid is about to be released for the consoles.

Firefox Full Page NY Times Ad (new Spread Firefox campaign raising money to place ad)

We voted for Bush in 2000. We're voting for Kerry in 2004. (new ads directed by Errol Morris)

Turner Classic Movies iTMS mini-site (iTunes link)

George Bush Action Figure (question is, does it come with a sock?)

Frontline - The Choice 2004 (entire program)

Without a Doubt (the faith-based presidency)

Collaborative fridge letters (other uses keep stealing my characters)

Apple Self-Checkout Machine (the G5's mother)

DailyCandy (lovely typography and warm illustrations)

In Which Nothing Worked (Dean, and the dogs, finally update their site)

drewmedia Studios (simple, straightforward Flash portfolio site -- reminds me of Kurt Noble)

Star Wars - The Changes (I'm not all that into Star Wars, but I found this collection of before/after images amazing)

BMW M5 (good lord these videos are huge)

Apple 'mini store' photo

Lego, The Type Designer's Friend

Virus Music (beautiful mix of sound and style)

David Pogue reviews the OQO (NY Times -- interesting that it was designed by two former Apple laptop designers)

Freedumb (fantastic wood type font with all proceeds donated to Moveon.org -- even has a version lacking the 'W' -- how snarky)

Shiira (yet another WebKit-enabled OS X browser with unique features)

George Wedding is using my Flash slide show source with great results

Miss the debate? NY Times is offering it all here (in Flash video with chapters no less)

Hard Working George

Viewtiful Joe 2 trailer

Cellphone users could decide the election

W stands for...

Vinyl (free Mac/Win plug-in to add that sexy turntable vibe to your digital audio)

PhoneAgent (very robust OS X utility for Sony Ericsson mobile phones)

ABC News redesign (interestingly, they're shuttling IE 5 users to an upgrade page -- xhtml/css throughout)

BBEdit ActionScript 2 Language Module

Zoomquilt (nutty shockwave project)

Give Bush a Brain Game (if only it was this easy)

XBox to Flash video tutorial (actual video here)

Behind the Volvo V50 web site (interviews with the company and the designers)

TextMate 1.0 (brand new, much hyped OS X text editor and potential BBEdit killer)

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