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The Masters of Professional Studies in Branding is a brand new, one year Graduate Degree Program from the School of Visual Arts in NYC...

The blog You Aught To Remember is counting down all the of the memorable people, ideas, and trends of the 2000s. Some recent entries include the demotion of Pluto, World of Warcraft, the Red Sox winning the World Series, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Tags: The 2000s   weblogs

Paul Graham asked the founders of the startups he's funded what they know now that didn't going in. Here's what they said. I've been surprised again and again by just how much more important persistence is than raw intelligence. Tags: business   Paul Graham

Schott's Vocab blog covers Single Serving Sites today. Tags: language   single serving sites

Antville has a list of the 100 best music videos of the decade, the first 50 or so are embedded right on the page. (via fimoculous) Tags: best of   lists   music   The 2000s   video

At 70, writer Charles Bukowski started using a computer -- a Macintosh IIsi that his wife gave him for Christmas -- and was so taken with it that he never went back to the typewriter...

Javascript code for navigating between posts using the j and k keys, just like on ffffound and The Big Picture. (via 37s) Tags: Javascript   web development

Are the problems that have plagued the Large Hadron Collider and previous high-energy efforts (SSC, I'm looking at you here) a result of the Higgs boson travelling back from the future to meddle in its own discovery? A pair of scientists think it's a possibility...

Emigre has released a sans serif companion for Mrs Eaves, Mr Eaves. Mr Eaves was based on the proportions of Mrs Eaves, but Licko took some liberty with its design. One of the main concerns was to avoid creating a typeface that looked like it simply had its serifs cut off...

Interesting article about the technology behind the 4- and 5-bladed disposable razors...

This is page 471 of The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code book (previously mentioned here). Looks like the scanner caught one of Google's pink-fingered elves at work. A quick search reveals several other such errors. Tags: books   Google   Google Books

A pair of McSweeney's lists to brighten this sleepy Monday morning. 1. YouTube Comment or e.e. cummings? 1. loog a his lirow nose2. there is some shit I will not eat3. LISN bud LISN 2...

Kseniya Simonova won Ukraine's Got Talent 2009 competition with her dramatization of Germany's invasion of Ukraine during WWII, performed with sand on a giant lightbox. Sounds like the cheesiest thing, but this performance is amazing...

Writing for The Atlantic, Benjamin Schwarz says we've got it all backwards regarding Mad Men: January Jones is a bad actress and the show's appeal lies not in the accuracy of the production details but in the emotional intelligence...