one last thing before I quit

Wired is by far my favorite magazine. Their features and articles are always very informative as well as entertaining. They also change up their design from issue to issue, which makes for a nice treat every time you crack open the pages.
On top of that, they've got a tremendous blog roll. They cover all of our modern interests, cars, sports, photography, space, business, web and even one for the geeky dad.

While catching up on some of old posts from their Gadget Lab blog, I came across a very neat story covering the history of common computer symbols. Here's a few of my favorites:

Originally drawn to represent Neptune's trident. The USB promoters decided to change the three triangle tips to the square, circle and triangle to signify that all of the different peripherals that could be attached.

That's a small taste. They've got the story behind much more symbols, including Bluetooth, Firewire, Pause, Play, the spinning beach ball of death and even '@'. We see these icons everywhere we go in our regular lives. It's just neat to catch up on how they got to where they are. Go read up!

I don't spend a lot of time watching videos on YouTube. There are hundreds of viral videos that I can honestly say I have never seen, and I'm not really phased by it. I just never seem to have the time for it.

But today I came across something I hadn't seen before. What seems to be a New Zealand pizza chain called Hell Pizza has come up with a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' / Zombie chase video advertisement. You goal is to help Steve get across the city to deliver his pizza without being killed by zombies! If you manage to make it all the way, you can get entered to win a year's supply of pizza. I'm assuming you've got to be from New Zealand to actually win that though.

I think it's got excellent production value and is a great idea for gaining new customers. Good on them!

I found these the other day and I quite enjoy them. It's one guy's minimalist take on some classic album covers.

Check out Ty Lettau's flickr for the rest of his set, or his portfolio site, Sound Of Design, for more work that he's done.

Last week my favorite art gallery of choice had my favorite yearly exhibit hosted by my favorite movie director. Yep that's right, the now legendary Crazy 4 Cult show took place. And in traditional fashion, there were a ton of pieces that I love and shall share.