Topics: web

The world’s first digital art gallery (disguised as a game).

Depending on how you look at it, Dabball is an artfully addictive game that allows players to purchase great art directly from their mobile device. Or, it’s the world’s first digital art gallery that sells museum-quality artist prints by way of art-inspired dexterity games. Either way, if you’re into good design and mobile gaming, you’ll want to get your hands on Dabball. It’s totally free and you can pick it up right here.

Move over tip jar and say hello to a Like Button Tip Box

My gut reaction says this is absolutely ridiculous but it did make me smile and I wouldn’t put it past retailers. Designed by the very clever Burak Kaynak who also encourages job-seekers to capture employers’ attention via resume toilet paper. I kid you not, this portfolio is worth a look.

Hello super geeky doormat.

If you slide your feet across this doormat, it will open your door! OK, it’s not true, but still very cool. Available on Meninos, which sells plenty of super geeky products for the nerd in all of us. [via BTS]

A hilarious collection of mispelled names on Starbucks cups

Misspelled names on Starbucks cups. I’ve definitely been a victim and my hunch is you have too. Starbucks Spelling offers a collection of some of the best screw-ups and it’s pure comedy. The image below is from a guy named Kent. Man I love the internet.

Trivial activities promoted through beautiful design.

Posters for every day events. No activity in your life is too boring or mundane. The idea is to take trivial activities and promote them with posters to give them a sense of importance they ordinarily would not have. We’ve covered this before but there’s a handful of new ones and I’m feeling the itch to post a few of these around town. Participation encouraged.

A place to share inside jokes and inspiring jabber

And just when you thought inside jokes were kept, well, inside. There’s now a website for that. It’s called Bnter and I discovered it today thanks to the beauty of twitter. The folks at Bnter believe brilliant banter should be saved, and shared between family, friends, and fans. A way to virtually scrapbook precocious sayings for posterity. I say, bring it on, because if these examples from Bnter’s Hall of Fame made me seriously crack up today. And I needed it.

Why are photographs of celebrities when they were young so awesome?

The only thing more fascinating than our obsession with celebrities is seeing photographs of when they were young. And that’s exactly the theme of this new Tumblr site.  Check out how sexy Helen Mirren and Martha Stewart were back in the day! It’s a great site, though my only gripe is the lack of photographer credits. Thanks to Yewknee for the discovery.

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