Clearly, the Etch A Sketch is the winner. Clearly. ...though I'm kinda grateful for the iPad since it'll lower netbook prices.

via Mint blog

What the F? Did you know Google Maps on iPhone had street view? I sure as heck didn't. Search Engine Land, you rock my socks. Mind's blown. #THINGSTHATBLOWMYMIND

via Miss @AlanaJoy That's my girl!

Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2010

Top 20. See the rest at source (click chart.) Why am I posting this? Well, the US Supreme Court made a recent ruling and well, see for yourselves. click.

"A woman who was taking an art class at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has accidentally fallen into a Picasso painting and damaged it.

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But the damage did not affect the "focal point of the composition" and should be repaired for an exhibition later this year, the museum said."

UN. REAL. ht Vixy

These cookies look a hot mess...hopefully on purpose. Maybe? Yikes. I'm amused and horrified at the same time.

ht: holy kaw @guykawasaki

WE may be able to amass 5,000 friends on Facebook but humans’ brains are capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships, a study has found.

Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, has conducted research revealing that while social networking sites allow us to maintain more relationships, the number of meaningful friendships is the same as it has been throughout history.

Dunbar developed a theory known as “Dunbar’s number” in the 1990s which claimed that the size of our neocortex — the part of the brain used for conscious thought and language — limits us to managing social circles of around 150 friends, no matter how sociable we are.

Dunbar derived the limit from studying social groupings in a variety of societies — from neolithic villages to modern office environments. He found that people tended to self-organise in groups of around 150 because social cohesion begins to deteriorate as groups become larger.

“There is a big sex difference though ... girls are much better at maintaining relationships just by talking to each other. Boys need to do physical stuff together.”

Dunbar’s study is due to be published later this year.

ht: @mike_elgan

Debuted at the Cannes Festival where it earned the Best Short Film honor in the Cannes Critics' Week Competition in 2009 and showcased at Sundance, "Logorama" is an animation of two thousand corporate logos used to compose film. I cannot believe how everything, from the characters (the Pringles Man to Ronald McDonald - the villain - ) and even the city is made of logos. So clever.

Read a comprehensive interview, see a different clip, and check out Logorama sketches, logo collection and storyboard art on Creativity Online.

[added] Whoops, I lied. The different trailer is here.