Today’s flash funny. Not Safe For Work, but funny.

That’s Hot., originally uploaded by spacesick

Spacesick is Making Something Cool Every Day, and you should at least give him some time too look at what he has created.

Congratulations go out to the Steelers Nation after tonight’s 27-23 victory over the Arizona Cardinals. I’m sure someone will make a Red State-Blue State crack, this site won’t stoop that low.

Ben Fry in , Songs off the Charts, has an interesting data-to-audio video from Johannes Kreidler, with the help of Microsoft Songsmith. Please watch:

I have to agree with Ben, Songsmith is one of those projects which will untimely be judged a success because it allows people to hijack and misuse the program in ways which its creators never would have imagined. Besides Runnin’ With The Songsmith, Charts Music – Songsmith fed with Stock Charts shows how versatile Songsmith can be.

From the boys who brough you Helvetica, comes Objectified, a feature-length documentary about our relationship to manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
It is a bit surprising that it has taken movie makers this long to create movies centered around very niche, but insanely popular, design topics; yet unsurprising that director Gary Hustwit brought two movies to print which look to be making a proper bit of grownup cash.

Wildwood Plaza, originally uploaded by sebmouttet

ABC Verlag corporate design international, originally uploaded by sebhayez

If you have 20 minutes today, please watch Merlin Mann’s MacWorld presentation entitled Toward Patterns for Creativity.
As someone who’s job it is to be creative day in and day out, Merlin gets it.

The US House of Representative just passed H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 244-188 after defeating the Republican’s proposal which was a collection of long-sought tax cuts. After a few legislative maneuvers (including trying to get recommit the bill with instructions back to the Appropriations Committee – effectively killing the bill), the bill was passed.
Note that all 177 Republicans vote against the bill. So President Obama hands a fig leaf out to the opposition, including tax cuts, and the Republicans complain for a week and then vote against it. Nice.