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Word as Image

I am loving the Word as Image project and the accompanying book. Started 20 years ago as an assignment in typography class in art school, Ji Lee creates images out of words by contorting the letters that form the word itself. Anyone can create a word as image. It doesn't require any design or drawing skills. All you need is a little creative thinking and to see words and letters in a different way. The dictionary is filled with thousands of fun visual puzzles just waiting to be solved. Now that I think about it, I can recall that I learned the word "parallel" — which happens to be one of the words pictured below — by remembering the three parallel lines embedded...

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Cool Tool Tuesdays: Panasonic Electric Thermo Pot

I have decided to implement some regularity to this blog. I believe that not only will it give readers something to look forward to on a weekly basis, it will also force me to be more creative as well as provide a focus when I am struggling with writer's block. The new schedule will not be too rigid, because anyone with kids — heck, without kids too — knows that life is anything but predictable. So for now, I plan on doing the following: Cool Tool Tuesdays, where I feature a favorite item from my life and spotlight it so that others who are not familiar with the product may also benefit from it. A cool tool can be any book, gadget,...

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Demon Fever [A Daily Dose of Zombiepocalypse]

For each day of 2012 thus far, Redditor Vidzilla has been posting mock-screencaps of various websites "in real time" in an effort to demonstrate what might happen if World War Z were to really take place. You can be sure that I will be checking in every day for all the nitty gritty updates. :-D  My only worry is that it will eventually come to a stop as I believe an actual zombiepocalypse may result in the death of the interweb. Day 1 Day 2  Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12   Day 13 Day 14   Via The Daily What....

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