Four FFFFOUND-worthy artists I admire who post their work on Flickr:

• AARON
• _bns
• crapartist
• Jeremy Pettis

BONUS UNICORNS LINK courtesy of Typographica.

Two of my favorite peeps, Kendal and Steve are putting the engage in engaged. Huzzah. Congratulations, and Liz are in order.

Ziff Davis is changing their review scoring from a numeric scale to US-style letter grades. This also includes retroactively rescoring every existing review. Hurrah, revisionism!

Orson Welles narrates a 1972 video of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock:

(thanks Ford!)

Ah, the new hotness. Optimization, DTS audio, QT 7.4 + Leopard compatibility, MKV, subtitle and other bug fixes.

Why is this good? Perian is the secret sauce that makes QuickTime on OS X play a number of common non-QuickTime video and audio codecs and container formats. B.P. (Before Perian) was a dark period—playing video on your Mac meant using dodgy, unstable players or hacking different Intel/PPC QuickTime components from various authors/vendors. Perian also always buys the first round, gets you her phone number, listens to you complain, cures cancer, is always up for a road trip and has the best house in South Lake.

(via TUAW)

I think some people wanted this in wearable form. You can haz!

Zogby is polling Obama over Clinton in California and elsewhere, contrasting with other pollsters.

With great dismay I read today of the death of Sheldon Brown, a cycling icon whose humor, encyclopedic knowledge and grace pervaded every bit of his website. He was as much an influence of my decision to cycle across Japan, ride brakeless, and roll steel over aluminum as anyone I’ve [never] met. I only wish I could have paid a visit to Boston to correct that.