Issue 65
Mascots of the Universe. Having a bird in your hand might look like a sneaker, but it's not worth two sneakers.
HE-MAN & BASEBALL 💪 CONNECTING WITH STRANGERS 👔 SUSTAINABLE WEB 🌱
Heya,
You've gotta love the return of baseball; creative people use it as a seed for some pretty cool creations. Last week it was GoT bobbleheads and this week I follow it up with an MLB-Masters of the Universe mashup. The fact that He-Man is not included in the final roster makes me think his mass is not entirely natural. It's a shame to see a classic toy get asterixed out of contention like that.
I also found some nice tools for productivity, a guide to a more sustainable web, Google's next level snooping, and cool things to make with paper.
Enjoy,
Chris.
🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web
Mascots of the Universe.
If the He-Man universe was actually a clever cross-promotion with MLB then these would be the characters.
redd.it
Having a bird in your hand might look like a sneaker, but it's not worth two sneakers.
twitter.com
Unicode art gallery: Random generative art works collected in a frame.
glitch.me
Whoaaa. Robot solves a Rubik’s cube in a fraction of a second. The GIF also includes slow-motion replays. 🤖
gfycat.com
⚒️ Tools and Resources
Technically, the tool is below but the article title is better: "I let a stranger watch me work for a day". 🕵️
melmagazine.com
If productivity apps were designed by Victorinox then Notion would be that app.
I have only just started testing it out and largely because I liked the idea of the disappearing interface. However, the idea of merging all of my RedBooth tasks and my Trello boards has me quite giddy.
notion.so
A metaphor for our desire to colonise the galaxy, or a CSS DNA strand floating through space? 🧬
codepen.io
FixIts are awesome; fix anything from cables to flying spoons with these eco-friendly moldable...things.
fixits.com
🕷️ Design & Development Arena
This is a great introduction to the laws of user experience that make for a better, sustainable, web.
wholegraindigital.com
Matthew McConaughey's next project? How to design type in 5 days. 🖋️
uxdesign.cc
Ungrabbed sends brandable domains right to your inbox. 📧
I am not sure this is a good share; domain squatting is a crappy occupation. However, I likes a good domain name and I'd like something for a new blog so I am going to test it out.
ungrabbed.com
🥇 World of WordPress
Behind the scenes as a #WCEU Media Partner. 🗞️
This is the true tale of our experiences partnering up as part of the WordCamp Europe posse. Full disclosure: I included this because my name is mentioned.
codeinwp.com
Awesome list of WordPress blocks plugins. 🏗️
dessign.net
🤔 Articles of interest
Google talks to tulips and shares all of their secrets.
blog.google
Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang plans to campaign via hologram. 🎛️
What's more amazing than the hologram is Yang's appearance on TMZ. As a hologram with a hologram Tupac.
futurism.com
🎮 Fun & Games
A bunch of templates for making cool things when folding paper. 📄
LIke those old romantic predictors from your early school years, except more sophisticated and less legally binding.
cutfoldtemplates.com
Outro
And that is the end of my loved links of the week; I am always looking for more if you're of a mind to send them. Hurl them in the direction of Twitter.
Also, if you would like to run this puppy for a week, you can reach me in the same place.
Tupac himself said, "We can never go nowhere unless we share with each other". Let's go somewhere and forward this all over the place.
Finally, if you arrived via a forward, then you can subscribe here.
Have a great week,
Chris.