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This is an amazing ad for a French energy company, Areva. In only 45 seconds, it does a wonderful job of explaining a very complicated process. You can also see what went on in making the ad too.

Hat tip to information aesthetics.

Not sure if this is a concept or a real product. These are 4 layers of darkening gray paper followed by a bright red paper on the bottom that are cut and sticky like postit notes. However, they cover a whole wall and give a beautiful digital effect. I would LOVE to have a wall of those in my office AND home! (Via David Benton)

I was reading on nytimes.com and absentmindedly double-clicked a word in the article body. Up popped a window with the definition of the word I clicked on. Turners out that every word in the article body has that feature. It's a great way to be able to expand your vocabulary when you are reading online.

With all the websites and passwords that a web worker has to manage these days, it becomes harder and harder to remember them all. When I got my first PowerBook, I started using Safari and the built in support with Keychain. I liked the security and the fact that most of the time it worked. However soon I was having to manage multiple logins for single applications, or then I would have applications that had more then just username and password that had to be remembered. Last fall I found the solution to that problem: 1Passwd.

While browsing through the Webby Awards nominee's for 2007, I found a site call My Moleskine by Fabio Iaschi that is a look inside an artist Moleskine book. It is a nominee for the “Blog - Culture/Personal” section and is a neat way to look through someone's drawings.

Take a look though the other nominee's for this year as it's a great way to see what is happening in the web design world and how other designer's are pushing the medium.

A month or so ago, I was working on a Friday afternoon from home via iChat with the video producer from my work in California. We were trying to get the video podcast up for the weekend and he was having a hard time converting it to 320px by 240px for the ipod. We are currently only using Apple's Quicktime export to iPod but it kept coming up wrong. Time after time he would try it and it was coming out as 640px x 480px. We fought with it for a while trying different options but never did get it correct. Only was the pixel size twice as bit, but the file size was much bigger then we needed.