From Autoblog:

A 1995 Honda Civic is for sale in Atlanta with, count ’em, 939,899 miles. That’s 200+ miles a day. Every day. Including Sundays. For 12 years.

Nokia aquired Navteq “in efforts to compete with companies like Apple, whose iPhone comes with navigational software from Google.”

Saul Hansell:

Here’s a suggestion to every Internet executive: take a Post-It note, write “EBay wasted $3 billion on Skype” and stick it to your monitor. Stare at it the next time some hot social whatever-2.0 company comes by and talks about growing fast and finding a revenue model later.

Smashing nails it again with “10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of.” Even 37signals gets it too.

The new Barnes & Noble web site goes tableless. Like the new review section.

Spotted four of Vassar’s Web sites while browsing through EduStyle’s gallery. LTC and Development designed by yours truly. Biology designed by Chris. Vassar homepage designed by us (the whole team).

An amusing yet controversial view on how Beijing 2008 Olympics logo was created.

The first Layer Tennis has started. Enjoy your weekend!

With the growing of social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, how do we benefit from them in our communication? College Relations invited Brian Oberkirch to speak about these products as well as his recommendation for how Vassar College could take advantage of these services. One of Oberkirch’s strengths was his ability to explain social media in plain English so that even the least techie people could understand. He is both knowledgeable and approachable on the topics, particularly OpenID. Check out his slideshow on “Designing for Hackability” to see why “Hack. It’s good for you!”

No. Anorexia (a provocative ad)