Wow, I just watched the video for Aphex Twin’s Come to Daddy. This is also the first time I heard the original version of the song. I heard the cover that Mike Patton and Dillinger Escape plan did a while back, but never seemed to get around to hearing the original until now. As sacrilegious as this sound, it’s a bit of a toss up as to which one I like better. I think I’m just at a time and a place in my life that I’ve heard some pretty exotic music and now that I’m finally getting around to listening to more Aphex Twin it just doesn’t have the same effect on me as it would had I heard it 5-10 years ago. Don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate that it is phenomenal music, especially given the scene in which it was originally released. Sometimes certain music will just flick a switch in your head and shift your perspective a little to the left, I’ve had that happen many of times myself, and I can see how this would’ve done the same to other people. I just didn’t see the fireworks or anything like that. I know, I suck.

North Carolina is prepared to replace over 10,000 license plates with the commonly used acronym WTF printed as the first three letters. Apparently, this issue came to light after the grandchildren of a 60 year old technology teacher clued her in on why they were ROFLing every time they saw her hooptie cruising down the boulevard. To add insult to injury, NC officials later realized that WTF also appeared on the sample license plate displayed on their website.

I can almost guarantee that they guy who’s job it is to post that image knew exactly why it was funny.
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If you haven’t heard by now Netflix is pulling the plug on one of it’s most popular features, Profiles. I for one am a little disgruntled about this. For starters I spent an entire Saturday afternoon separating my sci-fi, action, and anime titles from our main list. Now I will have to do this all over again to get them back in the mix. The whole reason I made a separate profile is so I could get a chance to watch those movies, and Ivy could add whatever romantic movies she wanted without having any disagreements about what movie we’re getting. Since setting up my own profile, I’ve been able to spend less time managing my list too, about 0–5 minutes a week compared to at least 30 minutes a week. Ivy especially appreciates not having to sort through all the “weird crap” that I like to watch just to get the latest season of Nip/Tuck to the top of the list.

If you didn’t already know, June 20th is Take Your Dog to Work day, and for the occasion the official website of the day is having a contest in their Professional Pooch Gallery. Since we are total dorks for our dog, Ivy and I decided to submit a shot of PT for kicks. After a week they finally have his pic posted.

Now PT needs your votes. We all know he’s the cutest little bugger in the land, so let’s make it official. Follow the link to find Mr. PT with all of the other Shih Tzu’s… CLICK

I love seeing examples of great Photoshop work, and designfeedr is providing the goods today with samples from some of the top PS Artists/Designers in the biz, check it out. Be sure to skim all the way down to the bottom of the post to see some resources to up your game.

Speaking of upping your game, PSDTUTS just posted a list of their Favorite Photoshop Tutorial Sites.

If you haven’t found a reason to appreciate Barack Obama yet, this just might do it. Once again the Obama-tons are taking to the intertubes, this time to battle the mud-slingers with a new website called Fight the Smears. I don’t know about you, but I can respect someone who can stand up to all off the petiteness and grade school name calling that goes on in American politics in a mature fashion. From a design standpoint, Fight the Smears—like all of Obama’s marketing pieces—is nice and clean. I reckon that whoever has been working on this campaign will be raking in the design awards when all is said and done.

I was recently turned on to this little blog, NE Creative. It’s a nice little blog by Zach Origitano over at Envoy (at least that what I deduced from 30 seconds of cyber-stalking), that focusses on the “No Coast” design community. There is some good stuff on his blog, so I recommend checking it out if you are from the area. The best part is probably the Agency and Talent Directories.

Come to think of it, I did have the opportunity to meet Zach at the Addy’s a couple of years ago when his (then) girlfriend, Heather, was working at Firespring. He’s a pretty nice guy, so say hello if you ever get a chance to meet him too.