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Friday Links: Celebrate the nerdy passage of time

• America’s 50 most influential designers.
• The internet: 1996 vs 2011.
• How to celebrate the nerdy passage of time.
• This article on how an advertising ban won’t end brand bullying reminds me of that scene in Little Women when Amy brings limes to school and has to throw them out. Which might seem weird, but my point is that kids deem certain things “must haves” and bully regardless of advertising.
• Video game in a box.
• How Whole Foods primes you to shop. Just remember this: Everything is about getting you spend money.
• Woman punked by Toyota ad campaign sues for millions.
• The colors of good vs. evil.
• SAT reading scores at lowest level ever recorded.
• World’s funniest analogies.

Not such a good idea after all

Over at Pop Art they have a post about Technology that Failed, and Hard. It’s a short, fun list with only a few obvious choices (the Zune, IE6). However, there’s a few on the list that I’d totally forgotten existed (do you remember beenz? I think I might have actually bought something with beenz/flooz), and one that was so ludicrous that I blocked it from my memory (the Twitter Peek). It’s a good list, go read it for a nice stroll down memory lane.

Friday Links: Now on Thursday

We’ve had a pile of links piling up on us here at Inside the Nerdery. Since tomorrow promises to bring some nerdtastic Halloween fun on the blog, we decided to free the links a day early.

• Top 10 Internet rules and laws from Godwin to Poe (Godwin’s law is one of my favorites).
• E-mail turns 40 today.
• Ventriloquist Dummy Choir Sings ‘Yesterday’. Yes, it is exactly what it says it is.
• An animated version of xkcd loves the Discovery Channel.
• When geeks have twins
• Pick up lines for graphic designers.
• Contrariwise (the literary tattoo blog) has a nice collection of Where the Wild Things Are.
• Handcrafted marketing helped make “Where the Wild Things Are” Number 1.
• Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer.
• 12 of the best looking hard drives.
• This stop motion animation of The Flintstones is pretty rad even if it features Fred fantasizing about some hussy that isn’t Wilma.
• If you need a little happy on a cold, rainy Friday, watch Improv Everywhere’s Grocery Store Musical
• Giant crocheted raccoon Mario rug.