Plushie is a pretty incredible useful looking piece of software for craftsters. Users sketch a 3D model for a plush toy (plushie/softie) and the software generates all the patterns for sewing together a plush toy. Print out the patterns and cut fabric, and begin sewing.

Via Making Time

Wired interactive map of the people, companies, and technologies spawned by the Force.

Boo on flipbook.tv

My son and I started playing with the flipbook iphone app. He takes a stop motion animation class, so I figured he'd be interested in this, and sure enough he was. This is one I did using a photo of "2 Circles" by Alexander Lieberman at the Metropolitan Museum.

Mashable lists 35 companies that are actively pursuing connections with customers via social media.

Knowledge@Wharton interviews Sunil Bharti Mittal, who started in business more than 30 years ago with $1,500 borrowed to make bicycle crankshafts. Today, he heads the $5 billion Bharti Group, whose flagship company, Bharti Airtel, is India's largest mobile phone operator. Mittal spoke on lessons learned from his experience, including the emphasis on speed as a strategy.

If you're caught between speed and perfection, always choose speed, and perfection will follow. You never wait for perfect positioning, because in business you don't have the time; especially if you're small, you can't do it.

Thanks to AK for the link.

The folks at PES do some ridiculously fun stop motion animation short films and commercials. Check out the latest Western Spaghetti and Human Skateboard.

Jay-Z responds to Oasis' Noel Gallagher at Glastonbury.

Moo starts doing full sized business cards. Spendy, but sweet.

I spend a lot of time sketching interface ideas on paper. Typically I sketch wireframes and storyboards on graph paper, then redo the final documents in OmniGraffle. But lately, I've been using paper for more than just sketching. Now, after spending time sketching ideas and working out design issues, I start to do higher fidelity drawings on paper, scan them, post them to our system. We discuss and iterate, and the process repeats until we're happy, and I spend less time pushing pixels around.

As a result of this method of working, I've been wanting my graph paper to be more suitable to the way I work and the kinds of drawings I do. So I've come up with the different types of graph paper. You see here. You'll find styles for wireframing user interfaces, story boarding interaction, and plotting values based on simple criteria using a two by two grid. We throw in a basic grid got anything else that might come up.

These pages are great for sketching, but also work well when producing high fidelity drawings. The title bar and grid lines are photo-safe, so they won't show up when you scan them into your computer. The thick black lines for boxes will show in scans and are 2px wide to match the weight of Pentel Sign Pens.

So if you're interested, find out more about Konigi Graph Paper or download these for your self.

Move over Christo, Olafur Eliasson is in town.

My son and I caught Eliasson's Waterfall installation under the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. There's a slideshow at the New York Times. We saw it on the way in to Manhattan while on the Manhattan Bridge Q, and on the way back in to Brooklyn, we saw it at night lit up from behind. Spectacular.