She’s not easy to define. I can say she’s born in 1972 and is a photogenic non-Barbie doll, but this is not enough. This is Blythe, (Gina Garan, Chronicle Books, 2002) is the book that made her famous and, later, a cult icon. See: This is Blythe Dreams in Plastic blythe is go! Blythe the doll

“…Unlike Barbie, Blythe does not have a boyfriend. She also does not advertise her professional life.”.
Above: eleven entry from Show Us Your Customized Girl contest, at thisisblythe.com.

Qurple, a true story about a boy. From Flip Flop Flyin’, by Craig Robinson.

“I spent most of my younger days as a nasty little boy who loved to draw and build lego. Pencils and markers were always my tools, until one day my father got our first computer.”

“All things on the world can be explained by correct reasoning. Unfortunately reason by itself is too relative if there are no set laws to follow.”.
	“Established laws can be too shallow and frivolous if there is no justice behind it. Correct laws represent verity - therefore only those laws can be valid, which were excreted through logik. We design these shirts to illustrate logik by the means of graphics.”.

Extraverage: the personal portfolio of Karoly Kiralyfalvi, aka Drez.
Above: Illogic wings t-shirt, for logikwear; illogic wings logo, for drezign.hu.

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“A young american has come to visit me. He is a writer, or a lawyer, or some other profession requiring great wisdom.
There is something naive and reckless about him. He’s like Charles, in a way. He seems very interested in me, he asks me a lot of questions about Wonderland and the looking glass.”.

The tangle box, by Ken Wong. Alice in Wonderland, made dark.

“Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations.”.

A book written by James Surowiecki.

“I think the most important lesson is not to rely on the wisdom of one or two experts or leaders when making difficult decisions. That doesn’t mean that expertise is irrelevant, or that we don’t need smart people. It just means that together all of us know more than any one of us does.”.

Art. Lebedev Studio “was founded in 1995. At present, it is the largest design company in Russia.”.

“We do industrial design, graphic design, web design and interface engineering.”.

In Mandership, Artemy Lebedev writes about graphic and industrial design, interface engineering, typography, semiotics, and visualization.

From Coding. Part two :

“One of the most successful implementations of audio coding can be heard in the Moscow metro.
A male voice announces stations when the train is headed towards downtown, a female voice when it moves from the center to city outskirts (sort of a mnemonic rule: the boss calling you to work, the wife calling you home).”.

From the top: Optimus mini, world’s first keyboard with color screen; Gond, by Alexander Zhitomirsky.

Humanmetrics provides a Jung-Myers-Briggs personality classification test.

I did it.

Well, I am supposed to be an ISTJ (Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging) as described from Heiss and Butt in Typelogic .

I don’t know if I must be happy or not…

“Some stories are about how you react to a problem or conflict. Often, those are the most interesting.”.

How to write a short story, and much more, from eHow : “clear instructions on How To Do (just about) everything”. For example…

How to say no to colleagues
How to remember names
How to forgive
How to be happy

“Most products we see on the market want to increase our productivity, organize our screen joyfully or make wonders with our sound card, but NaDa™ does nothing.”.

“There are no bugs in NaDa™. It is impossible.”.
(By Bernard Belanger)

“An ordinary day in a block of flats…” Neuro, a short cartoon by Bruno Bozzetto. Music and sound effects: Roberto Frattini.

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