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Via Dave Gibbons on twitter, all the issues of the breathtaking llustration Magazine are available for viewing online (through some pdf flash thing)

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From The New Zealand Edge : Nancy Wake.

Nancy Wake was the Allies’ most decorated servicewoman of WWII, and the Gestapo’s most-wanted person. They code-named her ‘The White Mouse’ because of her ability to elude capture

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Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc.- Search photos on Flickr by color combinations. [via Gaal]

Go on, do flesh tones, I dare you.

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Via Lucius Sheppard:

here’s a really awesome action sequence from the movie Chocolate, starring Jeeja Yanin, about an autistic girl with a gift for kicking butt. You can watch the entire movie on youtube-it’s not great, very thin plot, tho it comes from the producers of Ong Bak, ( Read more... )

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via Richelle Mead‘s blog, two cool toys for playing with names. Most awesome is the NameVoyager, which lets you query a name’s popularity over the decades. It’s cool how my mother’s name peaked in popularity in the 1940s while my sister’s name peaked in popularity in the 1970s. ( Read more... )

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