Wolfram Alpha is unlike any other search engine. Because of this, searches you would normally do on another standard search engine don’t always work. They’ve got a really nice example that suggests how to search, and gives you a way to see how it works. Nice job!
Comedian and actor Jim Carrey has a pretty bizarre web site. It’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.
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 — like “Laughing” or “Furious.” It’s a great way to gauge reader opinion without requiring that they leave a comment.
And — after you’ve shared your opinion, you can easily share it on Twitter or Facebook.
An excellent presentation that might help you encourage signups in your next social web app.
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’t wait to see them in the wild.
the Ugmonk Shop is bucking the trend and showing their t-shirts with wrinkles. They also have some really cool shirt designs.
If you haven’t been paying attention, you may have missed learning about Font Squirrel. Here at Tornado we’re big fans of the site. It is quickly becoming one of the best sources of high quality fonts on the web — and free ones, too.
They recently released @Font-Face Kits, which is a tool that allows you to easily use any of the fonts on Font Squirrel in your web sites. It’s a great tool for using custom fonts but preserving search optimization.
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