I design for Tumblr in Manhattan. I “joke around” with folks in my free time.Tumblr (3.0; @petervidani)http://blog.petervidani.com/<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz2wwdsZoP1qzwfzfo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://trash.davidcole.me/post/439370019/one-of-sleepovers-earliest-projects-launched">irondavy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>One of <a href="http://www.sleepoversf.com/">Sleepover’s</a> earliest projects launched today: a redesign of <a href="http://bygonebureau.com/">The Bygone Bureau</a>. Kevin and Nick were wonderful to work with and we’re really proud of the site. Don’t miss <a href="http://bygonebureau.com/2010/03/10/editors-note-redesigned/">their write up</a> of the redesign.</p> </blockquote> <p>So good. And click on any of the articles to see how they’re displayed. Genius!</p> <p>Sleepover just released a new Tumblr theme: <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/theme/8758">Rubber Cement</a>.</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441897561http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441897561Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:05:33 -0500“I’m just laughing at these faces. They’re like my friends; they laugh, I laugh back.”<br/><br/> - <em>Meaghan with regard to a <a href="http://meaghano.com/post/441868961/more-like-cute-potato-d-d-d-d">post</a> she just wrote herself. Wow.</em>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441875907http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441875907Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:53:24 -0500“‘I saw my wife putting French’s mustard on a bologna sandwich for our 5-year-old son, and I just lost control,’ Gibson said. ‘I said things—awful things that I’m not proud of—and the two of them were clearly shaken. I can never take those words back. When I looked in the mirror and barely recognized that livid face staring back at me, I finally understood that these mustard people weren’t really my friends.’”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/man_on_internet_almost_falls_into?utm_source=onion_rss_daily">Man On Internet Almost Falls Into World Of DIY Mustard Enthusiasts</a> | The Onion</em>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441803745http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441803745Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:11:51 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxr8qhyz981qz52aeo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Having a big feature spot in the directory is really annoying, you guys.</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441668556http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441668556Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:42:27 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz4rq29fSb1qz52aeo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Ace Hotel is so cool.</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441580221http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441580221Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:14 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz4nzwVaXx1qz8q0ho1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441540806http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441540806Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:06:58 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz1jcePABg1qzy0ygo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://itsfullofstars.tumblr.com/post/441458595/via-moderation-crookedindifference-space">itsfullofstars</a>:<a href="http://moderation.tumblr.com/post/441456949/space-exploration-via-crookedindifference">moderation</a>:<a href="http://crookedindifference.tumblr.com/post/441454460/space-exploration">crookedindifference</a>:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/n22yf/2263366698/in/pool-space"><b>Space Exploration</b></a></p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441461709http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441461709Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:08:43 -0500<a href="http://code.google.com/p/tumblr-themes-tmbundle/">Ben's Tumblr Theme TextMate Bundle is up!</a>: <p>Thanks Ben Gold TV!</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441430375http://blog.petervidani.com/post/441430375Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:46:11 -0500<a href="http://www.marco.org/438103070">News flash</a>: <p><a href="http://www.marco.org/438103070">marco</a>:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li> <b>Valid point:</b> [Publisher] should consider doing it some other way because this will alienate some readers.</li> <li> <b>Invalid point:</b> [Publisher] should do it my way because all content deserves to be free/ad-free/full-RSS/single-page.</li> </ul> </blockquote>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/438169038http://blog.petervidani.com/post/438169038Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:22:37 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://blog.petervidani.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/437434539/tumblr_kz19ftvgDH1qz52ae&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>Dan Tyminski, Harley Allen, and Pat Enright - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (from <i>O Brother, Where Art Thou?</i>)</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/437434539http://blog.petervidani.com/post/437434539Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:09:29 -0500<p><ol> <li>Munch</li> <li>Shrimp</li> <li>Pee-wee</li> </ol></p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/437012612http://blog.petervidani.com/post/437012612Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:04:52 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyzuwjYSCf1qz951so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://katiebakes.tumblr.com/post/435929158/the-soviets-complained-that-otas-design-left">katiebakes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><i>The Soviets complained that Ota’s design (left) had no door; the Japanese delegation complained that the vertical line between the door and the doorframe in the Soviet design (right) made it more difficult to recognize the figure of the runner.</i></p> <p>For Ota, the most remarkable thing was not that his design won but how similar his design was to the Soviets’. They, too, had submitted a figure of a man running out a door. <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2246107">He was amazed that two design teams, working independently, would develop such similar concepts, and the coincidence convinced him of the essential rightness of the running man.</a> He came to believe he had designed not just Yukio Ota’s exit sign, not just a Japanese exit sign, but a fundamentally human exit sign, one that speaks to some primal cognitive notion of escape.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/436012779http://blog.petervidani.com/post/436012779Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:36:09 -0500<p>Beauty almost always comes from function, the one exception being the bluetooth headset.</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/435517226http://blog.petervidani.com/post/435517226Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:41:07 -0500<p>When you meet someone from Florida, know that they’ll hold their breath until you ask them if they go to Disney World every day.  You have to ask them this, or they’ll die.</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/435462124http://blog.petervidani.com/post/435462124Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:10:32 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyz3umM0Tv1qz8q0ho1_r1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://staff.tumblr.com/post/434982975/a-billion-hits">Has it been three years already?</a></p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/435020028http://blog.petervidani.com/post/435020028Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:30:09 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyxyny0ov31qz52aeo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://danielmora.tumblr.com/post/430421109/beepstreetheme">Daniel Mora</a> made a handsome theme based on <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/theme/3531">Astronaut</a>.</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/433672691http://blog.petervidani.com/post/433672691Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:23:58 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kytpou55E11qz52aeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/428691800http://blog.petervidani.com/post/428691800Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:19:02 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kysc7wGpBc1qz52aeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I put a whole pack of Juicy Fruit in my mouth on the airplane.</p> <p>Megan: You smell like a ball of sugar.</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/427260114http://blog.petervidani.com/post/427260114Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:30:27 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mUCRZzhbHH0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mUCRZzhbHH0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://log.maniacalrage.net/post/422588551/dogs-at-1000-fps-via-gruber-one-of-the-most">maniacalrage</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b>Dogs At 1000 FPS</b> (via <a href="http://daringfireball.net">gruber</a>)</p> <p>One of the most accurate YouTube descriptions ever: “It’s dogs in slow-mo catching treats. What could be better?”</p> </blockquote> <p>I wish all commercials were in slow motion.</p>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/422614811http://blog.petervidani.com/post/422614811Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:11:16 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kynhyokSmP1qz5dnuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://ems.tumblr.com/post/421828427">ems</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A close-up of Astronaut John Grunsfeld shows the reflection of Astronaut Andrew Feustel, perched on the robotic arm and taking the photo. The pair teamed together on three of the five spacewalks during Servicing Mission 4 in May 2009. [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4399423264/">source</a>]</p> </blockquote>http://blog.petervidani.com/post/422143483http://blog.petervidani.com/post/422143483Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:20:02 -0500