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Nov 20, 2008
Today is Mickey Mouse's 80's birthday!
Plane Crazy (1928)
Steamboat Willie (1928)
He's sure changed quite a bit over the years, from a wreckless plane-flying letch to a guy who got a tune by wrenching animal tails and hitting them with sticks to the wonderfully …
Nov 6, 2008

Design geeks! Check out this wonderful Pantone Rubik's Cube concept by Italian industrial designer Ignacio Pilotto.
I also particularly like his Race Clock and ice bucket that turns into a watering can once the ice has melted!
Nov 5, 2008

Ward Jenkins, animator, contributor to Drawn! and curator of the wonderful Ward-O-Matic blog current has a wonderful looking solo show at the Grassy Knoll Gallery in Portland, Oregon inspired by graffiti and 80's hip hop. This is a little too far for me to travel so …
Nov 5, 2008
I was, apparently, born in the same town and went to the same school as Illustrator Quentin Blake, most famous for his wonderfully apparently effortless illustrations for the books of Roald Dahl; although obviously not at the same time... what with him being 43 years …
Oct 7, 2008

The National Archives have released a transcript that was to be read by the BBC every two hours in the wake of a nuclear attack in the Cold War between 1973 and 1975.
This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. …