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Lucas Arts has released a a few (read: 7) retro style PSA/Travel images that you can get printed on a bunch of merch through their online store.

An aside here is that they run their Print-on-Demand shop through a service called Zazzle. Zazzle is very similar to CafePress in regards to the services they offer, but they have an expanded catalog of items that can be printed on, including shoes and skate decks. I’m currently in the process of getting some sweet-ass designs up onto Zazzle for your pleasure/my profit, but in the mean time, score yourself some Star Wars swag.

This kid’s beatbox skills are impressive.

My name is Daichi, I am 18 years old Japanese. You might have seen me on other video like this one.

This time I did my best to win the Beatbox Battle wildcard. I hope you enjoy!

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A group of artists have started buying up the ridiculously cheap houses in Detroit. For less than $3,000 Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert were able to buy half the houses on their block, with a little elbow grease—and some help from the neighborhood kids—the couple has began to turn a rundown neighborhood into an eco-friendly community. This is truly a bright spot in the shit-storm that is the current economic crisis. via

Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

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The newest version of my favorite browser has been release into the wild. Apple has posted the Beta release of Safari 4. From looking at the spec sheet Safari 4 isn’t a radical departure from v3, rather it offers refinement to both the front-end UI and back-end performance enhancements. As always, Safari is blazing the trail in adapting to the latest CSS technology with support for CSS Effects and CSS Canvases. This is particularly fun for Safari-friendly designers who like to sneak in little Easter eggs that only other Safari users will notice. Be sure to check out the full feature list to see what the folks at Apple have been up to.

• Safari 4
• What’s New with Safari 4
• Full Feature List
• Download Safari 4

It’s a fairly well known fact that I don’t give a flying-woop about sports, especially ridiculously over-hyped sporting events like the Super Bowl—I was at the movies during the Super Bowl this year. Even more, the insane cost of advertising during said event is enough to make me wretch. Although, there was a glimmer of sunshine in the deluge of ads this year, but since I don’t pay attention to the ads it had passed me by until today.

I’m talking about Pedigree’s Maybe You Should Get a Dog campaign. The premise being that these folks have exotic pets, like a water buffalo, which they should’ve thought better of and adopted a shelter dog instead. The best part is that for every video that you watch on their website until Monday, February 23, Pedigree will donate an 8 oz. bowl of of food to an animal shelter of their choosing—up to $1 Million Dollars in total retail value.

247 Media Studios is an awesome design studio based in Germany, now with locations in Dubia and Tokyo. They’ve worked with plenty of big names in the gaming and music industry, and are probably known best for creating top-notch Flash based websites.

I’ve been a minor member of their forum for some time and have always found it useful for Photoshop tips and tricks. Sometime last year the content got a little stagnant with only a few people posting/commenting—I’m just as guilty on this point—so I stopped visiting. Out of curiosity, I hopped over to 247 Media’s forum today, just to check out what’s been going on, and I got a bit of a shock.

They’ve completely redesigned their site and forum. Gone is the dark grungy Flash site, and black forum. In it’s place is a crisp black and white site with a hint of teal. Instead of Flash (which took forever to load) the new 247 Media is a blogstyle html portfolio with news briefs and job openings on the side. Best of all is the inclusion of the RSS Feed to keep up to date on their goings on.