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In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold. The results are fascinating! (Via BoingBoing.)

Jeffrey Milstein: Plane Spotter Extraordinaire

This video for the song “Grip” by the band zZz, produced by Xelor & Goeroe media, was recorded in one take with professional trampoline gymnasts replicating typical video effects. It’s very clever and with any luck might make them famous as OK Go.

Oh my, that’s some nice signage on the New York Times building.

The Isle of Man recently featured in the “map of the week” at OpenStreetMap.

Thanks to the the Department for Local Government & the Environment and some hard work by Nick Black and Dan Karran, amongst others, we’ve got a fairly complete open street map. Great!

It still needs a bit of work, if any locals would like to help?

I lent my Garmin ForeRunner 305 to Ade over at howies for his sub-23 minute cycling challenge. Here’s how he’s getting on with it so far. He’s managed to convince Trek to lend him their Lance Armstrong replica time trial bike, how amazing is that? Good luck, Ade!

The official Google Webmasters’ blog has a good article on the best uses of Flash, covering the search considerations designers should think about when building a Flash-heavy site.

Martin Evening, author of the seminal Adobe Photoshop for Photographers, has an incredibly detailed article on Lightroom’s new (v1.1) sharpening and noise reduction features. This is an update for his latest book, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers.

Bit late, but I thought I’d do a quick photo post to say how lovely the postcards are from Anne at ilike.org.uk. (Thanks also go to davidthedesigner for his help.)

Seriously, how ace is the “FUNLAND” one?

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. They’ve just released version 1.0, go get it. Use it alongside NicePlayer to get full-screen video on your Mac without shelling out for QuickTime Pro. If VLC’s not your bag, that is.