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1. How to create "cinemagraphs" (animated gifs that look like photos with subtle movement). Via.2. Big Sister maquette. (Bioshock 2.)3. Sounds like this former AOL worker has quite an axe to grind, but read this if you're jealous of professional bloggers.

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1. There are some incredibly vibrant subtle animated gifs at Mike Pecci's site. (They're huge, so be patient while they load.)2. The sleazy trick that launched Anthony Weiner's political career.3. Well, this is timely in light of what I'm reading: "Tom Hanks' Playtone Productions is set to produce a six-season, open-ended series, American Gods, for HBO."4. The recipe for a USA channel show:

For USA, it’s three things: Is there a slightly flawed but likable lead character? Is there a strong drama with a dollop of humor? Is it blue skies? I mean that literally and figuratively. Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show. You also have to be able to describe it in a single sentence: Royal Pains—it’s Marcus Welby in the Hamptons.

Via.5. Half-albino peacock. Via.

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1. The Big Lebowski and Predator animated gifs by Paul Robertson.2. UPS is testing out trucks partially made out of plastic to save on fuel costs.3. Not quite as exciting as a new miniature, but there's now a card game based on the world of Smog.

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1. Blade Runner cityscape animated gif.2. From a long, somewhat rambling, but quite interesting article on the ongoing failure of Square:

it's no secret that seven out of ten game pitch documents here in The West are plastered with concept art pulled shamelessly from Deviantart.com, with asterisked captions under every tenth or eleventh image: "This art is copyright Some Talented Individual From The Internet—she or he is not our employee, though this is definitely the sort of thing we would want an artist to do; in fact, we might hire this person." I don't see anything wrong with this method. Well, in Japan, they do: You can't photograph your friend hugging a plastic statue of Colonel Sanders without a representative of Kentucky Fried Chicken theatrically weeping and groping his face at you. It's confusing and weird.So what I'm driving at is this: they say Japan is on the skids—re: games, anyway—and they say that The West is on the smooths. I tell you what—the smooths are pretty smooth, up in here. And I tell you what again—in Japan, they wouldn't use some kid's art in their pitch document. They'd have to offer the kid a lifetime contract first. So, in this manner, I present you with a hypothesis that Square-Enix has accumulated—through numerous expansions, attempted expansions, and maybe-superfluous conglomerations, so many artists that a nuclear physicist wouldn't feel wrong assuming that they were probably—and definitely—the most important members of the company.

3. Fingerprint scanner that works from several feet away. Via.

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1. Animated gifs of Kirsten Dunst reacting to Lars Von Trier declaring his Nazi sympathy at Cannes. Via.2. Threadless has a Phineas and Ferb Design Challenge.3. And speaking of t-shirt competitions, Timothy Lim (who I feature regularly) has a Transformers-themed tee up for vote at Qwertee.