Quoted: John Gall is the vice-president and art director for Vintage and Anchor Books. He's the designer of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," a personal favorite of mine. While the video's a touch light on substance, you do get to see a bunch of nifty covers while learning the 5 rules , which are: read the bookinspiration is everywherebe thrifty with fontspractice

Quoted: I hate Bill O'Reilly and his toddler temper. Nice to see folks having some fun with his more classic moments over at College Humor. I feel my inner child being expressed every time the producer speaks in the video.

Quoted: I know it's a ways off (july 25th) but I find myself irresistibly drawn to this reminder of what it was like to be in High School.

Quoted: This morning, it appears that Google has decided to honor the invention of the laser with another one of their nifty logo tributes. On May 16th, 1960, Theodore Maiman demonstrated the first laser. At the time, he was quoted as saying, "A laser is a solution seeking a problem." He had no idea that it would eventually be used for brain imaging, measurement,

Quoted: The above video is a short documentary about the back-end of the clothing lifecycle, the part where US citizens donate their out of style, or functionally lacking clothing to the purveyors of secondhand goods. It focuses specifically on the US market's hand-me-downs to Haiti. Haitians call these clothing goods "pepe" and have adapted to it's pervasiveness

Quoted: Thank you to the folks who provided feedback regarding what you wanted to see in the site redesign. I dove in really thinking that I wanted to get back to the simple look of a two-column layout but ended up settling on the Thesis Theme from Pearsonified. I think that it gives the initial simple appearance i was going for while also providing some flexibility

Quoted: So color me impressed, a bit excited, and perhaps slightly concerned. Scarlett Johansson's debut EP, a collaboration with Dave Situ of "TV on the Radio" and a collection of assorted other music heavies, is a set of 10 Tom Waits covers and 1 original song. Whoa. You can check out the samples of the tracks just below (even though the album isn't due out

Quoted: Guy Ritchie's new Nike-spot is a stylish first-person recreation of what it's like to be a soccer star. It's a fantastic piece that's going to get a bunch of kids out on the practice field.

Quoted: This is great.