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keep britain tidy: brilliant idea to keep smokers from tossing the butts on the street

mind the map: expansive, frenetic hand-drawn landscape of London that took a decade to complete

microcosmos: a visit to Amsterdam’s microbial menagerie, via Superpunch

yes, very like a cloud: via Mindhacks, an explanation of the robotic hallucinations of the Deep Dream project – they’re experiencing pareidolia, seeing dinosaurs in the sky 

palisade-park or load-bearing

This nice little appreciation of the iconic stave church of Borgund in Norway from Twisted Sifter reminded us of our visit there a few years ago. Of course the natural beauty of that country is nonpareil with whatever man-made constructs can frame it. It was truly a wonderful and privileged experience and we are hoping to be back and astounded again one of these days pretty soon.

rebus oder panda, pizza, oselot

There is how PfRC translates into emoji, according to the service Linkmoji.  This demonstration, that comes to us via WIRED!, is a little baffling linguistically, I admit, plus a bit recursive as we are just linking back to this site.  So share with us how your website looks in webdings or however this sequence is generated.  It seems to come out differently each time and there are poo and non-poo versions available.

graphic dynamism or baby bells

Saul Bass gave Ma Bell a crisper corporate logo in 1969 that was in use until 1983 when Bass himself pitched the Death Star design to a dismantled and reorganised AT&T, as Kottke shares with some more background and promotional featurette. That blogger has also noted that lately what goes around, comes around in design and branding.