Reasonably interesting assessment. They really nailed the web component of the campaign, obviously. But in this case, I wonder if the inverse control is true – they used the donation screen to decide what their victory shirt design would be.

Obama Used Conversion Rate Optimization to Win

Originally I thought this poster was a Springsteen documentary, but in fact it’s for a very cool looking ‘comeback’ movie for Jean Claude Van Damme.Good stuff. Looks fun. I’ll definitely make an effort to see it. JCVD @ Apple Trailers

I put this together yesterday. Give the GOPsters a bit CHANGE.A CHANGE of LOCATION we can all believe in.

This is funny. And great, because someone took the time, and used the animated GIF format to share it. Obama-Ball (GIF)

These are beautiful. Visual gravitas mania.The next President of the United States

I’ve been meaning to post about Andrew since I ran into him near my house about a month ago. We went to school together, and back then (1998ish) I felt we were two of the few thinking about digital design outside of PageMaker jockeys making party and join-our-club flyers. My fellow Brooklynito has some badass stuff going on at the intersection of typography and performance. For those of you keeping score at home, ‘Sloat’ means ‘drainage ditch’ in Dutch. Similarly, ‘Bowery’ comes from ‘Boerderij’ in Dutch. ‘Boerderij’ means ‘farm’ in dutch. Manhattan was for grazin’ before it was for shootin’ and then gentrifyin’.Check it out:Andrew Sloat . com

The truth behind some popular TV shows via opening titles: @ glark.org

Came across this trying to upgrade my Canon S80:

CHDK Wiki

I’ve read two of this guy’s books (Body of Secrets and A Pretext for War).Very informative books (if not a little tin-foil-hatty) with nicely detailed writing. For example, Bamford uncovered the fact that the first ‘official’ US casualty in Vietnam was an NSA employee (from Body of Secrets).The big picture? NSA’s got some big compudoros that have very big orejas.Bamford Interview @ WiredJames Bamford @ WikiPediaBush Is Not Above the Law – New York TimesBamford Bio @ NY TimesJames Bamford @ Amazon

is the only time contort.com and johnmccain.com will have the same content. I was browsing the Republican candidate’s website and clicked on a photo, and voila, there was the familiar smooth lightbox animation and ‘X’ close widget I use on the ‘story’ section of my site..I sent Cabel an email making him aware of his success:

It’s a two .js set up, and you don’t have to load scriptaculous, moo, jQuery, or anything else.Easy in, easy out, and looks and works great. Here’s the info:Fancy Zoom Updated