Designs “as seen on TV”, the internet wondercompany’s next move, and Arnold talks botany:

1. The design world meets the land of infomercials with Make My Logo Bigger Cream!  Works on both print and web sites!  ^_^
2. Looks like Google is set to really weigh in against Facebook (the current darling) and the rest of the social networking landscape with their own OpenSocial networking API.  This should be interesting….
3. California governor Arnold Schwartzenager is quoted recently as saying about marijuana: “That is not a drug. It’s a leaf.” [via Boing Boing]

First off, don’t believe the timestamps. I’m writing this from the future and posting to the past because I was too busy being awesome last night to actually get a chance to sit and write. But continuity counts a bit with these “Three Thing” posts, so here we are.

Anyway, this is some of what caught my eye yesterday…err, today…maybe tomorrow?:

1. Two illustrators drawing dueling characters to defeat the one previously posted. It’s the Superest.
2. The Register digs into the ongoing fair-use battle between Prince and a Pennsylvania mother over her use of “Let’s Go Crazy” in a video of her kid that was pulled from YouTube. If you ever had the chance to see said offending video, you’d see it’s indeed a crazy that the symbol guy is even doing this!
3. Seriously, I’m gonna try to cut back on the OS X Leopard chatter, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to the best nuts-and-bolts review — from Ars Technica, of course.

Smart clothing, bad business, and living life on the cheap:

1. This new smart suit for rescue workers is designed to help with communications and pass along location and vitals to the command center.s problems during disaster relief.  - Disaster relief, fires, floods, car accidents, and other unfor [via Gizmodo]
2. Comcast sure seems to be handling every aspect of this whole peer-to-peer blocking issue with a heavy hand.  Case in point, the new edict to employees:  deviating from the PR talking points can cost you your job.
3. Jack Zavada shares ten tips for living beneath your means to save money.  Since I don’t see myself following many of these tips as gospel, I guess I’m just linking to it for the hell of it.

We’re dissecting politics, logos, and user interfaces:

1. This morning on Meet the Press, presidential hopeful Chris Dodd was smacked around by Tim Russert over subjects including using the FISA hold for political gain.  The more i listened to him speak, the more I wanted to curse and wretch.
2. Brand New has a little dissection of the new Holiday Inn logo.  Sad to see it go, and replaced with something not quite as appealing.
3. ThinkMac delves into a list of things they’re not quite digging in the updated Leopard UI.  Some of the things I can see, but I’m more happy with the overall changes than they are, I guess.

Lots o’ tech and business centric points:

1. John Nack has word for those upgrading to Leopard on compatibility with Adobe’s products.  The good news is the two I care most about — Photoshop and Illustrator — are in the clear.
2. Sprint Nextel is being forced to unlock phones for customers by pressure from a class action lawsuit.  Another step at a glacial pace, but maybe someday before I die I’ll be able to buy the phone I want and use the service I want without the two being inexorably linked.
3. Someone from Comcast was nice enough to have leaked their internal talking points memo for dealing with the BitTorrent debacle.  You know the management must not be too thrilled with that.