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The following conversation took place between Twitter, Facebook, email and in-person.

Me: The iPhone should be able to play random songs for ringtones. For confident people who aren’t afraid of ABBA’s Dancing Queen popping up.

Myshell: You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen

If I was still just on the other side of your cubicle I’d totally sing that to you!

Me (to Jake & Ashley): Because she cares…

Ashley: Um…. I never really knew her, but dancing queen? Please tell me that’s some inside joke?

Me: I like ABBA.

Jake: You know how I know you’re gay?

Me (to Elaine): Hey, did you see GLEE??

Me (to everybody): Dancing Queen used to be my ringtone and I can’t wait for So You Think You Can Dance to start back up on the 27th.

I’m like the Transformers: more than meets the eye. Oh yes.

Jake:

Image by niebuck

Need to choose the right font for your next project? Look no further.

Complex Flowchart

Complex Flowchart

Simplified Flowchart

Simple Flowchart

This comes courtesy of a tweet from @cameronmoll. Cameron credited @swissmiss who credited @markboulton who credited both @nathansmith and @chrisbowler and on and on. I stopped there. Cameron was the only one to include the simplified chart so I think he deserves the lion’s share of the credit for this anyway.

I know. On a Monday instead of a Friday right?

Neutra Face : An Ode On A Typeface (A Bearded Poker Face Parody)

I thought I’d lead off with one of the funnier typography related videos that I’ve seen in a while.

Trajan is the Movie Font

This video actually turned me on to Goodie Bag. I know follow Kirby on Twitter and routinely check his website for updates. He seems to be relatively unknown, which I find amazing—in a bad way.

A few from CollegeHumor

• Font Conference
• Font Fight
• Big Red Text

Helvetica Film Official Trailer

Kinetic Typography

Definition of kinetic typography from Wikipedia:

the technical name for “moving text”—is an animation technique mixing motion and text. This text is presented over time in a manner intended to convey or evoke a particular idea or emotion. It is often studied in Communication Design and Interaction Design courses. Some commonly seen examples of this technique include movie title sequences and credits, web page animation and other entertainment media.

Here are a few samples. My favorite, “Google Wave Pulp Fiction” is near the end. It’s NSFW. It’s also awesome.

Blink 182 – Online Songs Kinetic Typography

Fair Trade Coffee

This one is really more of a data visualization but I like the use of typography in it.

Fair Trade Coffee Infographic from Simon Vieira on Vimeo.

Typography by Paweł

Typography from Paweł on Vimeo.

Typography from Paweł on Vimeo.

Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction (NSFW)

Kinetic Typography Tutorial by Elrond Hubbard

Kinetic Typography Tutorial from Elrond Hubbard on Vimeo.

More Kinetic Typography Videos

• ILT Typography Channel
• tYPE iN mOtiON
• “Animation & Motion Graphics / Typography” on Vimeo
• 18 Creative Examples of Typography in Motion
• Kinetic Typography Channel on Vimeo

Have any favorite typography related videos? Share them in the comments. I’d love to see them.

Found:

Too much good stuff on the internets today.

• XKCD on Pluto
• New British Comedy “No Heroics”
• Why I like Joe Biden
• Silly? Awesome? Silly andawesome?
• Google brings the 21st century
• Wordle

Are you a designer? Do you have clients? Are they in love with their logo to the detriment of anything you try to design for them? Then this song is for you:

Make the Logo Bigger presumably by Burnback.

Song and links courtesy of today’s Compiler Blog.

From a post titled “Rush’s Law“:

Rush should be urged to share his story with America. Here’s he is, an impotent, thrice divorced, ex-drug addict, conservative, parolee who went on a sex tour in the Caribbean and found himself rudely embarrassed for carrying recreational prescription drugs in his doctor’s name. Who can’t relate to that?

I like Stephen Colbert but I have to admit that I prefer his mentor, Jon Stewart. After the White House Press Correspondent’s Dinner though, I have newfound respect for the man. My jaw dropped watching his ballsy, spot-on performance at the dinner:

Update: I realized after posting this that it doesn’t contain the full video (and it has an annoyingly long introduction). To see the full thing check out Salon’s Video Dog. They also posted his press secretary audition skit.

More Firefox commercials here.

Waxy.org is hosting a series of parodies of Bill Cosby called the “House of Cosbys” wherein Cosby is the subject of a cloning experiment gone wrong. Bill Cosby is threatening legal action against Waxy, claiming “unfair competition” and a violation of Bill’s “rights of publicity.”

Bloggers have been removing links to Waxy in response to messages from Bill’s legal team. Nevermind that the material is protected under the first amendment and nevermind that, as Waxy points out, Cosby has been paradied by Mad Magazine, Saturday Night Live, South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and others.

This is a guy with extremely thin skin going after the little guy because he knows he can’t go after the big boys, legally or professionally. The latter would be career suicide. Not that he is doing much these days anyway.

Go here for Waxy’s response which includes clips from many of the Cosby parodies.

Now that I’ve posted no less than three links to Waxy (oops, four now), I have one thing to say to Bill Cosby and his legal team:

Sue Me

PS If Waxy ends up getting sued and has to setup a legal defense fund, I’ll gladly contribute to it. (Hopefully, those of you reading this will do the same if I get sued.)