In the new version Grafikas, Drew Europeo ditched Flash for XHTML and JavaScript. Fantastic works as always.

Alex Wright:

The more time we spend “talking” online, the less time we spend, well, talking. And as we stretch the definition of a friend to encompass people we may never actually meet, will the strength of our real-world friendships grow diluted as we immerse ourselves in a lattice of hyperlinked “friends”?

Lupe Fiasco:

I love the Lord, but sometimes it’s like that I love me more
I love the peace and I love the war
I love the seas and I love the shore
No love for no bitch…

From New York Magazine‘s cover story, Emily Nussbaum takes an inside look at the nail industry:

The first time I got a pedicure, I felt something similar: physical vulnerability, mingled with a lurid awareness of power—an Asian woman who didn’t speak English was kneeling in front of me, washing my feet. It felt distinctly slave and master.

Quite a workaround to accommodate IE 6 transparency.

The New York Times Style Magazine web site kicks off with Holiday’s art, culture and style. The black-bar navigation looks familiar.

William Safire:

Black is the new black. Walking briskly down Madison Avenue in New York, I passed the window of the designer DKNY, but the display therein slowed my gait to a lugubrious plod. All the mannequins in the windows were clothed in funereal chic — outfits suitable for matronly morticians at an undertaker’s convention.

Love the typography from Bobby C. Martin Jr.

Steven Kroeter:

I was reminded of the concept of “muddled thinking” while reading a recent copy of Business Week. In its October 15th issue, I came across a headline that read: “The Top Design Schools.” Great, I thought. Let’s take a look. Art Center College of Design: no surprise there. Further down: California College of the Arts. No surprise there either. But then sandwiched between Georgia Institute of Technology and Hongik University College of Design appeared the Harvard Business School — which was a surprise, especially since Harvard’s Graduate School of Design was conspicuously absent from the list.

2pac sang Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” with his own words. His out-of-tune singing is mad hilarious.

Flash animation of Layer Tennis.