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I was doing some Sherlock Holmes reading yesterday, and I stumbled on the rumor that Arthur Conan Doyle’s master criminal, Professor Moriarty, was based on a real life man by the name of Adam Worth. I did a bit of research (Wikipedia) and discovered that not only was this dude real, but he was a huge bad ass. Check out the article here for the full read, but basically this guy covered the full gamut of criminality, from pickpocketing to eventually creating a master criminal ring in London, and escaping from Sing Sing on a tugboat! He was eventually nicknamed “the Napoleon of the criminal world.”

Anywho, I felt like drawing last night, so I threw a quick sketch of him together, and colored it in PS. Took about an hour, minus the time up and down the stairs to grab a few beers.

Yes, that is correct. I got to dress up as a huge eagle for the AE student rush last week at the pens game. It was a sweet experience, to say the least. Pittsburgh college peeps are definitely some of the best sports fans out there. I’m gonna miss Mellon Arena!

I’m in most of the first third of the video above, and you can see me right at the end hanging with IceBurgh!

So this morning I was jumping a flight to Florida, and as per usual I had to shutdown my phone during takeoff. This, of course, was probably the first time I’d turned off my Blackberry Curve since the previous time I’ve flown. When I powered it back up, I was in for an unexpected surprise.

In my applications, their now lived an icon for Microsoft’s Bing search engine. I was sure I hadn’t added this app, and was a bit worried as to how it got there. A quick search (using google, of course) lead me to multiple forums discussing the exact same issue.

In their unending effort to force their products on users, it looks like Microsoft and Verizon are pushing this app to many of their devices. In usual MS fashion, the engine also doesn’t show up in my applications list, and cannot be removed. So much for the freedom to choose

If anyone knows any ways to remove this nuissance, other than removing the service book entry, please drop me a comment.

As you can tell by these crazy, ridiculous,

awesome

fonts, my first time with

Typekit

went rather well.

Last week, a friend of mine introduced me to Typekit. I was pretty floored. This is a HUGE step in the right direction for web design. Now that all major browsers can take advantage of the ability to link to a font, developers will have the ability to solve complex design issues while maintaining accessibility standards (without using flash, like SIFR does). I’m sure we will see more global solutions like this one for solving the legal problems with linking users to fonts they haven’t purchased in the near future.

Typekit also works with IE6, which is an honest to goodness miracle.

This is amazing. If you don’t know the amazing drink that this commercial is referencing, get your head out of your ass.

Strawberry Swing from Matt Clark on Vimeo.

This is some sick nasty animation. The alternate Coldplay video, directed by Ross Neil and Matt Clark, is definitely an eye opener.

I realize that SF is America’s sweetheart right now, despite his being a dick. Aside from that, however, his work is pretty fantastic. I’m sure you’ve all seen the recent outpouring of his outdoor work in Pittsburgh, but if you haven’t check out one of the spots below:

View Shepard Fairey Outdoor Work (Pittsburgh) in a larger map

Thanks for this one Jake

This is truly amazing. Local artist Bob Ziller put this project together prior to the G20 with Warhol’s flowers as the theme. I wish I would have known about it earlier, I want to paint some flowers!

Come on guys, why does EVERY new action cartoon need to be anime. I’d rather claw out my eyes than watch another anime cartoon that butchers the original series in question, making every badass character look like a seven year old with too much mousse. And Halo? Bungie, how could you let an amazing series like this be tarnished? This needs to be some darker animation, something more Frank Miller-esque, or like the Spawn series of old.

Whatever, I’m jaded. All I know is I’m not watching this.