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	<description>Anything is possible... with brainfuel!</description>
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		<title>Jim Carrey&#8217;s and Jeff Bridges Crazy Web Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comedian and actor Jim Carrey has a pretty bizarre web site. It&#8217;s filled with crazy animations, strange sound and music, and some surprises.

Actor Jeff Bridges fills his site with interesting illustrations and writing. 

Inspired by a post on Hacker News.
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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/jim-carreys-and-jeff-bridges-crazy-web-sites</link>
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		<title>NBC Miami&#8217;s &#8220;Like&#8221; Button</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this sweet feature on the NBC Miami web site.

Whenever visitors are viewing an article they can rate it based on a number of factors &#8212; like &#8220;Laughing&#8221; or &#8220;Furious.&#8221; It&#8217;s a great way to gauge reader opinion without requiring that they leave a comment.
And &#8212; after you&#8217;ve shared your opinion, you can easily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/nbc-miamis-like-button</link>
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		<title>Designing for Social Traction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An excellent presentation that might help you encourage signups in your next social web app.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/designing-for-social-traction</link>
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		<title>LEAP Organics&#8217; Package Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These designs are just flat out amazing to me. Love the vibrant color, detail, typography, effects. Designed by Moxie Sozo for Leap Organics and scheduled to launch spring 2010. Can&#8217;t wait to see them in the wild.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/leap-organics-package-design</link>
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		<title>Ugmonk Shirts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[the Ugmonk Shop is bucking the trend and showing their t-shirts with wrinkles. They also have some really cool shirt designs. 

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/ugmonk-shirts</link>
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		<title>Font Squirrel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t been paying attention, you may have missed learning about Font Squirrel. Here at Tornado we&#8217;re big fans of the site. It is quickly becoming one of the best sources of high quality fonts on the web &#8212; and free ones, too.
They recently released @Font-Face Kits, which is a tool that allows you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/font-squirrel</link>
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		<title>AJ-Hewitt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luxury tailor AJ-Hewitt has a site that shows off their fine clothing. I rather like the muted color palette and the big photos.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/aj-hewitt</link>
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		<title>Boxee Launches New Site Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boxee is a free service you can use to stream a bunch of video sources to your television. It&#8217;s very popular, and they just recently updated their web site and I think it&#8217;s gorgeous. 

A few of the things I liked:

The way the video is at the top of the page, but mostly hidden until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/boxee-updates</link>
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		<title>The Third &amp; The Seventh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An fully-animated video showing some of the cool things you can do these days with video animation.

Hat tip: Josh Pigford.
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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/the-third-the-seventh</link>
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		<title>Engadget&#8217;s Big User Interface Features</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was checking out the Engadget blog and liked some of the ways they have the site designed. I&#8217;ve included a few screen captures below, of the areas I liked the most.

Interesting way of showing which posts are the most popular.

When you click &#8220;Submit Tip&#8221; this panel pops up with the giant headline &#8220;Boss of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/engadgets-big-user-interface-features</link>
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		<title>Fitbit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the Fitbit web site. The home page does a nice job explaining what the product does, and gives examples of the data you&#8217;ll be able to access when you use the product.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/fitbit</link>
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		<title>Awesome Illustration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an awesome design illustration from N.Design Studio I just had to post. Love the colors and the style!

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/awesome-illustration</link>
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		<title>Nice Pencil Sketch Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a sweet pencil-sketch design from the RichPurple blog. It&#8217;s simple, elegant and grabs your attention.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/nice-pencil-sketch-design</link>
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		<title>Ketchup Week Starts Now! The one week a year when you can catch up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year marks the 4th annual Ketchup Week! Originally launched here on BrainFuel, the idea came to me a few days before Christmas, in 2005. For the first two years, it was very simple and didn&#8217;t gain much publicity. Now, tools like Twitter and Facebook make it easier to get the word out about Ketchup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/ketchup-week-4th</link>
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		<title>TED 2010 Program Guide UI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found the program guide for the TED 2010 conference really interesting. They&#8217;ve managed to keep it all on one page and allow sorting by photo.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/ted-2010-program-guide-ui</link>
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		<title>Press Coffee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite coffee shops in Phoenix is Press Coffee. It&#8217;s about 12 minutes from my house (but I still don&#8217;t get there often enough). Earlier this year they asked Tornado to redesign their web site and gave us virtually complete design freedom. 
We chose to go with a dark background so that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/press-coffee</link>
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		<title>Deckstool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another site that Kent pointed me to is Deckstool. It&#8217;s a company that turns old skateboard decks into stools. Each &#8220;deckstool&#8221; is unique and numbered. Great find!
 
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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/deckstool</link>
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		<title>Pictory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kyle Neath linked to Pictory and I liked it enough to post it here. Excellent photo site about a city.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/pictory</link>
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		<title>The Swish Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kent pointed me to this web site &#8212; The Swish Life Magazine. They&#8217;ve got an awesome design that looks simple, but still contains lots of content. They also pay good attention to image quality, and design.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/the-swish-life</link>
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		<title>Wired Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another interesting magazine web site is Wired. They are also running on WordPress. The visual design here is striking: Big massive section headers and big wide gaps between content.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/wired-magazine</link>
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		<title>Macleans.ca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While checking out the WordPress VIP offerings I visited one of their portfolio sites, Macleans.ca. While there I really became attracted to the clean visual design. It&#8217;s clean and simple but has plenty of unique attributes &#8211; like the zigzag lines separating content blocks, and the big bold headlines.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/macleans-ca</link>
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		<title>Lobster.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lobster.com just redesigned (I&#8217;ve never ordered from them before) and they have been profiled over at Brand New for their cool logo.
On their site, you can order live Maine lobsters and other shellfish. I&#8217;ve got to hand it to them for using real photos which absolutely make the web site.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/lobster-com</link>
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		<title>James Hardie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I ran across the James Hardie web site today and instantly liked the design.
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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/james-hardie</link>
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		<title>Burton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I really like the graphics on the Burton web site. Check it out.
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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/burton-2</link>
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		<title>Web Browser Market Share in Tree Ring Format</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An excellent visualization method for displaying web browser popularity over time. Saw this over on Hacker News.

It&#8217;s not the best way to show data, but it&#8217;s new and interesting.
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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/web-browser-market-share-in-tree-ring-format</link>
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		<title>Grandfather Grandfather Clock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Shaler pointed me to this sweet video which he dubbed the Grandfather Grandfather Clock.
Here&#8217;s how Brian describes it: &#8220;You put your grandfather IN the grandfather clock!&#8221;

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/grandfather-grandfather-clock</link>
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		<title>The Invisible Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Some amazing photos of a man who paints himself. Via Matt Linderman.
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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/the-invisible-man</link>
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		<title>Viddler Analytics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Viddler recently launched Viddler Analytics for their business customers. The user interface is really superb and makes exploring video traffic stats fun and easy.

Some of my favorite statistics:

How many minutes of video were viewed in a time period
Attention span &#8212; time viewed on a video (fall off rate)
Bandwidth
Embeded views

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/viddler-analytics</link>
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		<title>Carsonified Illustratified</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Carsonified web site is really stellar &#8212; from both a content angle and the illustrative design style. It&#8217;s the sort of site that you just want to explore. Mostly to see the pictures. 


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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/carsonified-illustratified</link>
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		<title>Great Illustration Design from Tsevis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tsevis Visual Design, a creative agency in Greece, has worked for some big name clients and it&#8217;s easy to see why. I love how their art blends the real and the abstract in a totally interesting and creative way. Boost your creative juices and check out their amazing website portfolio.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/great-illustration-design-from-tsevis</link>
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		<title>Punched Out Font</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Punched Out Font (free on dafont.com) gives you a way to create cut-out letters which you can form into words. Perfect for your 15-minute break!
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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/punched-out-font</link>
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		<title>Starting Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the last year I&#8217;ve immersed myself in the world of startups. For years I&#8217;ve wanted to do a web application but I was always too busy. But that&#8217;s part of the lesson about startups. Despite how busy you are, you have to start.
My startup is called Minuteglass and it is quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/startup-minuteglass</link>
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		<title>Chromeography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chromeography is a site dedicated to vehicle typography. Shown in the form of beautiful photographs&#8230; hundreds of car logos, and other chrome emblems of the vehicle age.

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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/chromeography</link>
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		<title>Typekit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Typekit is a new startup designed to make it easy to embed fonts in your web sites. It&#8217;s a subscription service with annual price plans based on bandwidth. They have a free plan for testing it out, so it could be fun to experiment with some of the fonts on low-bandwidth sites.
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		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/typekit</link>
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		<title>Converse redesigns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of the guys in our office are big fans of Converse shoes and so when I saw their new web site I knew I had to share it with you all.

The entire site is made with Flash and besides the great product photography, they have some great background textures. And most of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainfuel.tv/converse-redesigns</link>
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