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Buildy seems like it might be fun, in a modern City Creator sort of way, but I haven't managed to create anything cool myself (here's my effort) and there's no good directory of player-created stuff. Have any of you been playing with it?

oooh, good's best infographics of 2009

@schill pointed to this great article on detecting photoshop manipulations in JPEGs

twitter ranks in last place on the communications medium intimacy chart

aviary is very very well done. the demo videos are pretty well put together. barrier to doing something slick on the web has gone up a lot lately.

some beautiful icons to brighten your morning

skyrails sure looks pretty, but does it actually help with visualization? i'd love some good examples of where it adds value

probably not useful in any way, but bomomo is pretty. ish

does anyone know of any good software for creating graphs like this? pc, mac or web based - whatever

bookmarking for later use - an ajax loading graphic wizard (i can never find this when i need it)

is it just me or does this 'genuine grain' just look like more noise than the 'fake' grain examples? [via nascent guru]

amazingly beautiful ad on the london underground [via coates]

omg. this is the best map visualization of public transport in the us i've ever seen. beautiful. via the cameron factor

simplebits, purveyors of fine iconery, have created a nice set of 70 2-color icons for the web. not free though