Day archives: November 24th, 2005

Free Retro Clipart

I read about this in the Unofficial Microsoft Office Stuff blog: What is original fifties clipart? Most communities in the fifties had small town print shops that doubled as printers of local news and advertising papers. These printers could not afford graphic artists so they used stock clipart supplied by large companies who distributed common …

A Tiny Windows Laptop With a Sense of Fashion

From the New York Times: Everywhere you look, the electronics industry seems to be playing its own mutant variations of limbo. But the question isn’t “How low can you go?” At Dell, it’s “How cheap can you go?” At Apple, it’s “How cool can you go?” And at Microsoft’s Windows division, it’s “How slow can …

Google Video: Yo Yo Champion

Amazing stuff from the The Unofficial Google Weblog: I find myself browsing through the Google Video blog tonight as a last-ditch avoidance of sleep. (I hit Starbucks at 7pm; a lethal REM-killing tactic.) I can do without the Hilary Duff video of which Google seems to be proud. And all those cooking clips? Please—enough. But …