Dave Kellam

Warren Buffett is donating $37bn to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The mysterious powers of context (or time’s effect on branding).

A list of the 25 most popular nouns: time, person, year, way, day, thing, man, world, life, hand, part, child, eye, woman, place, work, week, case, point, government, company, number, group, problem, fact.

Custom Query String plugin for WordPress. Specify the number of posts that appear on each page (thanks paul).

The New Super Mario Bros. game is awesome. It has pretty much everything you look for in a Mario game: easy but challenging, lots of fun and a high replay value. Be sure to check out Matt’s excellent review.

Erik Spiekermann feels that the World Cup presentation has been an embarassment to German design. I’m inclined to agree. The logo is a mess and that mascot looks like it belongs at a three-year old’s birthday party.

Hoefler & Frere-Jones released Verlag, a family of 30 sans serifs originally created for the Guggenheim Museum.

Researchers have deciphered the majority of symbols on an ancient device used to calculate astronomical positions. The early computer, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, was pulled out of a Roman shipwreck about a hundred years ago.

Watch a kitten do battle with Frontrow on a mac. Too cute.

Ellen Lupton’s Thinking with Type should be on every designer’s bookshelf.