INTERESTING LINKS: Smiths : May 1st, 2009
TODAY’S FEATURED ITEMS:
I’ve talked about the brilliant Patrick Smith before (here, here, and here), and he has a new game called WINDOSILL that is, of course, amazing and beautiful. Click the image to go there. Found courtesy of Boing Boing Offworld.
Another Smith was called to my attention courtesy of the Boing Boing media empire; here’s Kevin Smith’s hilarious story of how his Superman movie didn’t get made:
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