- AIGA | Aquent Salary Survey Calculator
- Are you getting paid what you should? Find out with this free online calculator, created by AIGA and Aquent after surveying nearly 6,500 design professionals.
- Pantone’s Fall Fashion Color Report
- The fashion forecast is for cool, calm colors from the earth. Wear them tomorrow, see them on your website the day after.
- Magic 8_Ball on ‘Zune’
- Daring Fireball has fun kicking Microsoft’s me-tooism.
- CreativeIQ: Create Letterhead Templates in MS Word
- Creating letterhead templates in Microsoft Word that don’t suck.
- Most Inspired
- Design inspiration aggregation.
- Netdiver: Outstanding
- Design inspiration, collected by Netdiver. Sharp concepts and fresh perspectives.
- “People nearby started to panic”
- A mobile phone rings on a London-to-New-York flight.
- Time Capsules: Douglas Coupland: September 11
- From the vantage point of a 52-day book tour that began on September 11, 2001, the author recalls the surreal first days of post-9/11 America.
- Congress: Hall Pass Revoked
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If Net Neutrality didn’t do enough to get you squirming HR5319 AKA Deleting Online Predators Act AKA DOPA should serve as proof that Congress should no longer be allowed to vote on any laws governing the internet. In case you missed the news, DOPA basically will require all public schools and libraries to block access to social networking sites and chat rooms.
- The Agency Model is Dead – Blue Flavor
- Brian Fling of new agency Blue Flavor lists “signs of the decline in the traditional agency” and discusses his agency’s nontraditional approach.
- AppZapper – Making uninstalls easy
- AppZapper for Mac OS X lets you confidently try new apps while knowing you can uninstall them easily. Drag one or more unwanted apps onto AppZapper and watch as it finds all the extra files and lets you delete them with a single click.
- Bokardo: Why Netscape Will Succeed
- Bokardo, a blog about social web design, says Netscape’s reinvention of itself as a mass-market version of Digg will succeed.
- Zach Klein: Connected Ventures + IAC
- The guys behind collegehumor.com sell to Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp.
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