Some of my best friends are records

by Grant Snider

A girl with colitis goes by…

In the early days of the web, Am I Right was one of the funniest sites there was: a database of misheard lyrics. The misunderstanding of the psychedelic Beatles lyrics “A girl with kaleidoscope eyes” with the absurdist “A girl with colitis goes by” is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

And now there is a wonderful infograph by direct lyrics, to summarize the most common mistakes. Wasn’t it about time?

By the way, Am I Right has also published a collection of misheard lyrics in Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza: And Other Misheard Lyrics.

See the full infograph after the jump.

Weapons of mass distraction

by Hunter Langston

See also:

• The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
• I can be googled, therefore I am
• Help the semicolon not to become extinct

Tarantino from below and Anderson from above

Filming from below and filming from above. Two different techniques, two different approaches, both contributing to the film’s essence.

Kogognada has created two short fascinating videos; the first one is a compilation of Quentin Tarantino’s shots filmed from below.

And the second one is compilation of Wes Anderson’s overhead shots of hands doing all sort of things.

Pretty cool. Don’t you think?

via Laughing Squid

See also:

• The ABCs of cinema
• Kubrick’s animated odyssey
• Cut. The last image

The semicolon was getting tired of winking

by Marc Johns

See also:

• Help the semicolon not to become extinct
• Can you take a hint?
• “Pun,ctu.a’tion?

Lorizzle sheezy dolizzle boom shackalack amet, funky fresh yippiyo you son of a bizzle

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc malesuada, est at varius faucibus, nisl massa suscipit velit, in pharetra nulla neque eu tellus.

Don’t tell me that you haven’t come across with these absurd Latin words? Lorem ipsum text is a placeholder text, used in graphic design to show how a web page/a mock up will look with real words once completed. It derives from sections 1.10.32–3 of Cicero’s De finibus bonorum et malorum and makes no sense at all.

However, it seems that designers and other internet professionals got bored with the classic dummy text and new word generators pop up more and more often. Well, there is a text version for every taste.

Here is the gangsta version:

If you prefer a meatier approach:

A sweeter one:

More after the jump

The game is over

Game over. How many times haven’t we heard this phrase? Some of the most famous old school video games deaths compiled together.

via Kottke

See also:

• A history of videogames
• Arcade characters invade urban landscapes
• The bad guys (in video games)

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I am socially stoned

Well, we all know that all social media can be extremely addictive, but each one with a completely different way. Patrick Moberg compares each one of them with popular drugs and alcoholic beverages:

via Design Taxi

See also:

• It started with the occasional profile update and now you are hooked: social media addiction
• The drugs of Alice in Wonderland
• Multitasking is addictive

Hello summer!

Google celebrates today the summer solstice with a new colorful Google Doodle, created by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

See also:

• What do the oos in google mean?
• The joke is on Helvetica
• Do you know about Google A Day?

The anatomy of a smurf

via Pop Chart Lab

See also:

• See fig. 2
• Prose before Hos
• The dark side of the loom

Wouldn’t life be perfect if…

Help the semicolon not to become extinct

Out of all the punctuation marks the semicolon is my favorite; semicolon is the shit. And here’s how to use it:

by the Oatmeal’s grammar series 

See also:

• “Pun,ctu.a’tion?”
• Say it with an e-card
• I shot the serif

Follow @itsasmallweb

WTF?

Don’t tell me that you have never reach the point when the only thing you could say was WTF? Argentina based design studio Minga created these minimalist posters for those moments in life.

See more posters after the jump

Videogaming hurts

And I am not talking about good-old wii injuries. I am talking about chronic, painful, disfiguring afflictions. I am talking about Game Arthritis. About a hidden epidemic that the gaming industry wants to keep secret.

Created by Italian artist Matteo Bittanti and mischievous art collective IOCOSE, Game Arthritis is an online art installation, a powerful commentary on the demonization of video gaming.

I really don’t know what I like the most about this project: the concept in itself (genius), the photos (clinically delicious) or the accompanying text (hilarious).  Read for yourself: “The conformity of interfaces produces deformity. It’s a fact. Call it “the reality of the virtual”. Prolonged vicarious aggression lead to permanent physical disfiguration. […] The authorities have dismissed this hidden epidemic as “mass hysteria”. But according to some scientists – who speak under condition of anonymity fearing ostracization – these undiagnosed disorders are the psychopathology of ludic societies”

via Holy Kaw 

See also:

• A history of videogames
• Playing with reality
• Arcade characters invade urban landscapes

Follow @itsasmallweb

Midcentury furniture growing old

by Fueled by coffee via core77

See also:

• Flight diaries
• Taking the IKEA out of your IKEA furniture
• Shiro to Kuro means Black and White

Prose before Hos

One of the rare, true LOL moments online.

From the lovely people at Busted Tees, who also brought us little gems like:

See also:

• See fig. 2
• I shot the serif
• The dark side of the loom

The sarcastic meta-infographic

Well, I could explain myself, but the title says it all.

See the full image after the jump

Would you tell a stranger what you tell Facebook?

See also:

• Don’t give up on facebook just yet
• Facebook in Bamako
• 57% of people talk to people more online than they do in real life, part 2
• At night your facebook profile comes to life

Say it with an e-card

If you can’t find the words to say what you think, just post an e-card.

You can find these ecards at Somecards.

Don’t give up on facebook just yet

The first email of the day said this:

That’s all Folks!
I am deleting my facebook account (at least for the moment) because I am bored of it.

[goes on to give me us – all of his facebook friends- his new contact details].

And he’s not the first to do so. Infact, the number of my facebook friends is on a downward slope, at least for the last six months. People are getting fed up with Facebook. Has it simply run its course, like Friendster and myspace before it? Are people tired of all the overexposure? Are the original Facebook users maturing into Twitter users? Or is it simply because our Facebook newsfeeds usually look like this:

There are those, though, that are not ready to give up without a fight. Yo Zuck! Implement this is a tumblr blog with ideas on how to improve Facebook. It includes realistic, common sense suggestions that would indeed improve user experience. For example this one would be really helpful to me since my Japanese friends have the weird habit of writing in, well, japanese:

Newsfeed illustration via Thought Catalog. Link to Yo Zuck! via freeweird.

See also:

• Facebook in Bamako
• Tweets say the darnest things
• Focusing on usability traits instead of faults