>british library check the illustrated original alice in wonderland and this magic book cover from japan.

>Web Design is 95% Typography offers some words of wisdom to those debbie downer typographers, “The argument that we do not have enough fonts at our disposition is as good as irrelevant: During the Italian renaissance the typographer had one font to work with, and yet this period produced some of the most beautiful typographical work.”

>Architect magazine, edited by Ned Cramer, is finally on newsstands. Some spreads here, and a critique by Witold Rybczynski here. Meanwhile, when it seems like all architecture magazines are folding, here comes Pin-Up: The Magazine for Architectural Entertainment. Polar Inertia, the journal of nomadic and popular culture.

>London's The Times redesigns. Working with Neville Brody, and a new font called Times Modern by Luke Prowse, the story covers 221 years of typography, including Stanley Morison's Times New Roman, Walter Tracy's Times Europa, Aurobind Patel's Times Millennium and Dave Farey/Richard Dawson's Times Classic. The Times "crest" is its own story, involving Reynolds Stone, Berthold Wolpe and Edwina Ellis. For a slideshow of 20 different The Times mastheads, visit here.

>U.S.News & World Report has a special feature on America’s Best Leaders. In it, Warren Buffett gives some good quotes:

• “Be a nice person…It’s so simple that it’s almost too obvious to notice. Look around at the people you like. Isn’t it a logical assumption that if you like traits in other people, then other people would like you if you developed those same traits?”
• “You’re thinking that the investors, bankers, and regulators are the people you need to survive. Put them all aside, and give priority to talking to your people and your customers about what is wrong and what you have to do.”
• “Our favorite holding period is forever.”
• “Berkshire is my painting so it should look the way I want it to when it’s done.”
• “You don’t need to play outside the lines. You can make a lot of money hitting the ball down the middle.”

>paris at night is a panaroma of le paris at night.. for those moments when you need a break.. just stare into this.

>alessiocannella a photographers site that allows you to change the background color of the site to a color in a photo... with a click of the mouse.. V.cool.

>USSR posters a collection of Soviet Union propaganda and advertisement posters from 1917 to 1991. You could use these for a collage?

>christofwagner you might think this site is made in flash.. it isnt. he is using techniques like lightbox javascript, which if you havent heard of and you are a web designer.. you need to run to your computer and examine this link to the code..

>flowers.jpg legos can be made into amazing things..

>custom dunks nice shoe maker.

>some amazing illustrations at hehe.com The professional world of illustration is widely believed to be in poor shape. As Steven Heller noted recently: “I am an advocate of illustration and saddened by its loss of stature among editors who feel photography is somehow more effective (and controllable).” There are, of course, many reasons for illustration’s fading stature other than the commercial world’s hard-nosed preference for photography over the arty vagueness of hand-rendered imagery. The ubiquity of software that allows graphic designers to generate their own imagery is another factor, as is the rise of illustration stock libraries. Yet perhaps illustration’s current status owes most to its near-total eclipse by graphic design.

>Jeff Veen finds a Berkeley cafe that appears to be putting the Newseum's daily exhibit to use.

>How to Pirate a Vinyl Record So you thought you've pirated everything huh?

>crazyegg.com new software that allows you to monitor where users are clicking. in a nice presentation. web2.0 style

>tools splash page by joshua davis. uses randomly generated graphics. nad in other music news Snoop Dogg is coming out with a line of clothing for dogs. gigposters is a site that houses a large collection of music concert poster art. I like to use this for inspiration or relief from boredom.. Some posters are better than others.. but this is a great resource comprable to deviantart

>hotelfox.dk coolest hotel in the world.

>The Belgian newspaper De Morgen, which redesigned in April, has been named Europe’s Best Designed National Newspaper in the eighth European Newspaper Award.

>okaydave.com interesting fake portfolio..

>flippies.com - great marketing idea to break thru the clutter..

>BibliOdyssey blog is a neat collection of eclectic, old school book illustrations. If you only read one post there, check out Dr. Alesha Sivartha’s Brain Maps.

>Congress Looks To Block MySpace In Schools.. watch out next they will be taking away

>"If you want to change big things, you pay attention to small things." -Rudy Giuliani on C-span talking about the Broken Windows theory

The Broken Windows theory was the catalyst for solving NYC’s crime wave in the 80’s and 90’s. NYC’s administration had been focusing on major crimes, like murder, and overlooking smaller crimes along the way. But it wasn’t working. So the city started going after petty crime that it had been overlooking: turnstyle jumpers, squeegee men, public drunks, etc. The result: All crime rates fell suddenly and continued to drop for the next ten years. Giuliani says, “The idea of it is that you had to pay attention to small things, otherwise they would get out of control and become much worse.”

>The Scanner Darkly movie site allows you to make your own trailer