How to build a great paper airplane

"It glided like no paper airplane I have ever seen before, it was acting like a REAL airplane. It gently curved into the slight breeze and began to rise vertically without moving forward. The craft then began to lower as if it were a helicopter and gently came to rest on the asphalt below. "

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Is that color the color you think you are seeing?

This website shows some cool color visual perception things.
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"The Insider" is out.

My latest book cover design has hit the shelves. In this, his third book, author Dan Verton explores the bizzare, itinerant life of proprietary corporate data and the federal government's most closely guarded secrets. In startling detail and with a skilled eye for historical perspective, Verton shows us how America's secrets -- its proprietary trade secrets, personal identity information and national security data -- are being stolen and inadvertently disclosed. More Info

CSS Web Design - Throwing Tables Out the Window

Any serious web designer should read this great article on table-less CSS design. You soon realize(as I did) this is the way forward!

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Coca-Cola M5

In an inspired change of pace from their constant re-tinkering of flavors and additives, Coca-Cola has instead chosen to focus on an evolution of their design. The soft drink giant recently comissioned five talented young design groups from five continents to rethink their packaging with an eye towards hip urban flair.

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Creating Styled Checkboxes and Radio Buttons Using CSS/XHTML

This page demonstrates how to create custom checkboxes and radio buttons using CSS/XHTML. These custom elements are able to fall back to the unstyled versions for clients that don't support CSS/XHTML.

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Amazing Sand Castles

Ah...free time. I remember that. check it out.

Personalized Google Page Gets RSS!!!

Google's Personalized Page NOW HAS A RSS FEED Reader

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More surfers choose 1024 x 768

More internet users choose for screen resolution 1024 x 768 which is the most popular screen resolution for exploring the internet. The resolution 1024 x 768 has reached an all time high and has risen from 54.02 percent in June 2004 to 57.38 percent. Users with monitors set to 800 x 600 have an approximate 18.23 percent global usage share.

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Stalking Elmo

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Top 100 Global Brands of 2005

Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, Intel, Nokia, Disney, McDonald's, Toyota, Marlboro...

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The Best Product Designs of 2005

This is a realy big slide show of the latest and greatest products of 2005, very cool

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Coldplay X&Y Album Art Generator

The Coldplay X&Y Album Art generator, written in JavaScript by Brendan Houle, produces images based on the album artwork of Coldplay's "X&Y" album. The liner notes provide a chart of the code which is used to write "X&Y" on the album cover. The generator translates the text input from the user to images as specified by this chart.

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Tivo's Hidden Web Server

Who needs a Slingbox, get a Tivo Series 2!

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Speed up Safari

Here's a way you can speed up Safari by changing the rendering delay. After changing the rendering delay to something really low, Safari feels far more responsive on my system. Tip: try "defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay -float 0.0001" to speed up Safari even more.

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Its official: more cellphone lines than landlines in the US

It��s not really a competition or anything, but the FCC just released a report confirming that as of late last year the number of cellphone lines in the U.S. officially surpassed the number of landlines.

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I Like Your Colors

Enter any URL and "I Like Your Colors" will extract the color palette used on that particular site. Designers might find it useful.

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Beer Of The Week

Chimay Red Ale Chimay is made in a monastery in Belgium. It is one of only seven true trappist breweries in the world along with Rochefort, Orval, Westvleteren, Achel, Westmalle (all in Belgium) and Schapskooi in the Netherlands. Chimay produces three beers: the red, a white label "Cinq Cents" (five hundred), and the blue labeled Grand Reserve. Bottle sizes range from 330cl to 1.5 liters. 7% by volume alcohol content. The monastery is also famous for its cheeses.