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9 ways Star Wars can inspire you to save money.

Saving money is not just confined to our humble planet … It’s in every corner of the galaxy. May the savings be with you.

Improvised bookmarks found in used books.

A great article over at the International Herald Tribune:

There have been other great design schools, but none that matched the Bauhaus. Many of the most influential designers of the 20th century taught or studied there. Gropius and Mies van der Rohe in architecture. Marcel Breuer in furniture. Bayer in graphics. László Moholy-Nagy in film. Oskar Schlemmer in theater design. Anni Albers and Gunta Stölzl in textiles. Marianne Brandt and Wilhelm Wagenfeld in product design. The list goes on. Working alongside them were great artists like Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky. Even today, some 75 years after the Bauhaus closed, our lives wouldn’t be the same without it.

On one thing, the experts seem to agree. The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC.

That is, Mr. Obama’s site is more harmonious, with plenty of white space and a soft blue palette. Its task bar is reminiscent of the one used at Apple’s iTunes site. It signals in myriad ways that it was designed with a younger, more tech-savvy audience in mind–using branding techniques similar to the ones that have made the iPod so popular.

Full article here.