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I used to work with FM who is a big fan of Frank Zappa, and he kind of re-introduced me to the great Zappa again. As a kid me and my bes childhood friend used to listen to Zappa a lot. I never really understood the lyrics but somehow I really liked Zappa, maybe because of this older guy who used to tell us stories inspired by Zappa.

Anyway, as FM says, everything can be explained with a Zappa quote… and there are a lot of them. One of my favourite ones are “If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT“… worth keeping in mind as life passes by.

I always have to remind myself of checking out the Webby Awards when researching for a new website or client, the amount of inspiring stuff up there is amazing.

“With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with. Others are a testament to usability and functionality. And a handful excel across the board. To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy of praise — and perhaps a little bragging.”

Mint provides you with a really nice money tracking website. It doesn’t seem to work in the Swedish market (yet) but will keep my eyes on it.

I’m working on a project where we are about to rewamp a travesite in to something new. I’v found a lot of inspiration about travelsites in general at Luggageonline’s website. A really good resource if you’re looking for anything travel related.

I’m having a presentation about “trends on the webb” next week. Having these presentations always reuquire a lot more preperation than I have time for which lead me to try to develop some kind of way to streamline the process of finding material and ideas. Browsed yhrough clideshare and found this presentation techniques, very american but worth a browse through.

Kevin Roberts from Saatchi & Saatchi holds an inspirational talk. I’m not sure if it’s another of thoose “What I’ve learned” talks but even if I don’t really agree with all of it it’s quite inspireing, espessialy the part about having a dream. Very true.

My mate Cookie is back on www again and his excelent blog Made in England by Gentlemen is worth cheking out if you haven’t yet.

I really like the idea of color pickers, and this one from Adobe is just great. It combines all the great features you would expect and th ease of creating a new set of colors is so easy.

…to have a successfull career in advertising. Or in any other field I guess. It’s written by Digicynic and well worth a read.

A new version of Flash is on it’s way, check out some of the new features here. It’s quite amazing how far they’ve taken tha animation tools, it almost feels like cheating