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In this showcase we’ve put together a great collection of some of the most colorful web designs out there. If you need some inspiration for any sort of design or just want to have a look at some truly great web designs, these are definitely worth having a look at !

These websites will show you a good portion of all the good design that is available out there. It’s all about trying to think a bit outside of the traditional look and using your creativity and imagination.

Enjoy!

1. Splendour in the grass – 2010

2. Forest Edge music festival

3. World design capital Helsinki 2012

4. Pieoneers

5. GO Mammoth

6. 8th Continent Soymilk

7. Silly poems

8. Xhtmlcafè

9. Carbonmade

10. Bibliofaction

11. AdaptD

12. PopCap games

13. IGC Enterprises

14. Potzytywka

15. Vacation in Supetarska Draga

16. NineFlavors

17. Veerle’s blog

18. Giraffe restaurants

19. Mikii

20. Twittground

21. Jeff Sarmiento

22. Realmac software

23. Good

24. Organic grid

25. Matt Mullenweg aka Photo Matt

26. Lebloe

27. Danny Halarewich

28. Andrea Cima Serniotti

29. Rucksack

30. Rareview

31. F5

32. ReservoirBuzz

33. The House Media

34. Colourpixel

35. Open atrium

36. Willians Fernandes

37. Getmefast

38. Getting crazy on the waltzers

39. Sitesquared

40. Huxley prairie fest

41. FeedStitch

42. Pally giraffe

43. Mooolah

44. Herbal essences

45. LePushMail

46. Radium labs

47. Revolucao etc

48. Chapolito

49. Sound and show

50. Design slurp

51. ilovecolors

52. Green Any Site

53. Gisele Jaquenod

54. Claire Baxter

55. Mooty

Those were our 55 picks. We hope you’ve found some inspiration here.

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My syndicated column today takes on the rise of President Obama’s best new Big Labor buddy, Richard Trumka — whose looming presence on the political scene I first flagged in April. As we noted last week, he’s got a combined million war chest with his labor alliance and a Marxist get-out-the-vote force behind him. When they are through, they’ll make the SEIU Purple Army’s political expenditures (and its thuggery) look like a pittance.

On a related note, the NLRB (with SEIU attorney Craig Becker recess-appointed onto the catbird’s seat) is set to launch an assault on workers’ rights to a secret ballot to remove an unwanted union. See here. Card check through the back door. Who needs the legislative front door?

And yesterday on Megyn Kelly’s show, I noted that union members can opt out of having their hard-earned dues used for political purposes. Several readers e-mailed that they had never heard of the process by which this was possible and wanted to know how they could do it. Here are your rights as a union worker. Here is a backgrounder on the permissible use of forced dues. Here’s my 1999 column on how public school teachers in Washington state challenged their union over their political dues power grab. Free speech not only means the freedom to voice your political views, but also the freedom from being forced to pay for someone else’s. U.S. Supreme Court precedent established by the D.C.-based National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation guarantees the right to full financial disclosure from a union and a right to challenge the figures in court if they disagree. Spread the word.

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Big Labor’s legacy of violence
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010

To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Milwaukee and pose as champions of the working class. Bad move. Trumka’s organizing record is a shameful reminder of the union movement’s violent and corrupt foundations.

The new Obama/AFL-CIO power alliance — underwritten with million in hard-earned worker dues — is a midterm shotgun marriage of Beltway brass knuckles and Big Labor brawn. Trumka warmed up his rhetorical muscles this past week with full-frontal attacks on former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He indignantly accused her of “getting close to calling for violence” and suggested that her criticism of Tea Party-bashing labor bosses amounted to “terrorizing” workers.

Trumka and Obama will cast Big Labor as an unassailable force for good in American history. But when it comes to terrorizing workers, Trumka knows whereof he speaks.

Meet Eddie York. He was a workingman whose story will never scroll across Obama’s teleprompter. A nonunion contractor who operated heavy equipment, York was shot to death during a strike called by the United Mine Workers 17 years ago. Workmates who tried to come to his rescue were beaten in an ensuing melee. The head of the UMW spearheading the wave of strikes at that time? Richard Trumka. Responding to concerns about violence, he shrugged to the Virginian-Pilot in September 1993: “I’m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you’re likely to get burned.” Incendiary rhetoric, anyone?

A federal jury convicted one of Trumka’s UMW captains on conspiracy and weapons charges in York’s death. According to the Washington, D.C.-based National Legal and Policy Center, which tracks Big Labor abuse, Trumka’s legal team quickly settled a million wrongful death suit filed by York’s widow just days after a judge admitted evidence in the criminal trial. An investigative report by Reader’s Digest disclosed that Trumka “did not publicly discipline or reprimand a single striker present when York was killed. In fact, all eight were helped out financially by the local.”

In Illinois, Trumka told UMW members to “kick the s**t out of every last” worker who crossed his picket lines, according to the Nashville (Ill.) News. And as the National Right to Work Foundation (pdf), the leading anti-forced unionism organization in the country, pointed out, other UMW coalfield strikes resulted in what one judge determined were “violent activities … organized, orchestrated and encouraged by the leadership of this union.”

Trumka washed off the figurative bloodstains and moved up the ranks. As AFL-CIO secretary, he notoriously refused to testify in a sordid 1999 embezzlement trial involving his labor boss brethren at the Teamsters Union. No surprise. Thugs of a feather: Trumka’s violence-promoting record echoes the riotous Teamsters strikes dating back to the 1950s, when the union organized taxicab companies to target workers with gas bombs, bottles and fists.

And now, Trumka is spearheading a Democratic Party get-out-the-vote campaign by far-left groups — publicized in the revolutionary Marxist People’s World — to “energize an army of tens of thousands who will return to their neighborhoods, churches, schools and voting booths to prevent a Republican takeover of Congress in November and begin building a new permanent coalition to fight for a progressive agenda.”

Take those as literal fighting words. The bloody consequences of compulsory unionism cannot be ignored.

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Related Labor Day weekend reading: Compulsory Unionism as a Fraternal Conceit? Free Choice for Workers: A History of the Right to Work Movement by Harry G. Hutchison, UC Davis Law Journal.

Michelle Malkin

Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones

The Samsung Epic 4G launched on Tuesday, August 31, and seemed to be well received by Sprint customers who eagerly purchased the device.  There was no doubt the Epic 4G is a very solid device based on specs, but with its expensive price tag, many questioned the popularity of the device, especially considering its similarly spec’d cousin—the Vibrant—was once priced for a penny.  Today, Samsung put those concerns to rest as it released a press release claiming the Epic 4G “became one of Sprint’s best-selling devices for first-day sales.”  Sprint doesn’t go as far to say it was the best selling device, but “one of the best” is still promising.  Unfortunately, Sprint didn’t release any official statistics on launch day sales. 

Having reviewed the Samsung Epic 4G, I know how great of a device it is and I am not surprised at all it sold as well as it did.  Even though 0 may be a little excessive for a smartphone, especially when every other high-end cell phone is offered for 9, but thankfully Amazon and Wirefly are offering the Epic for 9 on a two year contract.  As long as Sprint can keep the Epic in stock, it should have a very hot selling device on its hands. 

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Section: Gadgets / Other, Features, Originals

When it came time to write about the gadgets I have and use everyday, I was actually a bit worried that I wouldn’t too many gadgets to speak of, or too much to write about them.  I have since realized that I may actually have more than enough to write about.  So, here’s my list of gear that I use most everyday.

The gadget that gets the most use would be my 13-inch MacBook Pro (2009).  I got it to replace my previous 15-inch MacBook Pro (2006) that was on it’s last legs.  The small size made it easy to take with me to events like CES, TechCrunch Disrupt and the CEA Lineshows, as well as back and forth to class everyday.  It serves me well, doing everything I need it to for blogging, gaming and coding.  It will likely last me a bit longer than the 15-inch did, especially given the new battery, but it may eventually be joined by an iMac for a better experience in gaming and iPad coding.  I occasionally use the Logitech V470 Bluetooth mouse next to the laptop, but usually only when I’m playing StarCraft II or Team Fortress 2.

If you haven’t guessed by my last two computers, I’m a bit of an Apple fan(boy).  Next to the MacBook Pro is my iPhone 4 which I waited in line for hours to get on June 24.  I had to buy out of my T-Mobile contract on the myTouch 3G I had previously, but it was worth it.  I’ve used my iPhone 4 much more, and it’s become almost invaluable to me.  It’s much faster than the myTouch was, and there’s no constant anxiety of not having the latest and greatest I had with Android.  Not to mention the games are just so much better, and I can play them without having to miss calls which happened far to often when I was using an iPod touch in conjunction with the myTouch 3G.  With the iPhone, I’m currently using a pair of Etymotic Research hf3 in-earbuds, which I will have a review of soon.  I also at times use a pair of Apple In-earphones with Monster SureTips.

You’ll also see that I have a Nook next to my iPhone 4,  though I haven’t used it much since getting the iPhone.  It’s a wonderful device, if a bit slow, but something about it just makes me want to use it.  It could be the design, or the fact that it runs on Android.  Unfortunately for it, it might eventually get replaced by the new Kindle.

My last three gadgets are pictured below, and are my gaming consoles (minus the iPhone, of course).  I have a Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.  They’re all used fairly regularly, and will see a lot more use in the coming months as the holiday gaming season comes in full force.  Gaming is what I do a lot of the time when I’m not writing, and between the three consoles I can get most of the experiences I’d want, with the exception of a few Wii-only Nintendo games.  If they aren’t being used for gaming, the 360 and PS3 serve as media playback for Blu-rays, DVDs and Netflix.

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Section: Apple, Computers, Mobile Computers, Peripherals, Storage, Web, Web Apps, Websites

Pogoplug is one of the easiest ways to store your content online and access it anywhere.  Up until now, you could access that content from the website, or any numbers of apps for iPhone and Android.  Today Pogoplug has announced that you can access all your content more easily on the iPad with it’s newest app.

The Pogoplug iPad app does exactly what you’d expect, it lets you view all you Pogoplug content on you iPad.  The app, called PogoplugHD, is laid out very simply, with your library breakdown by media type on the left hand side, and all your content on the right.  With it, you’ll be able to stream music and movies to the iPad, as well as access Word documents and PDFs.  If you can’t wait for iOS 4.2 in November, PogoplugHD will even let you print your documents from the iPad.

Without multitasking on the iPad, the music streaming is good, but not great.  The rest of the content would make sense to access from Pogoplug, however.  When multitasking does arrive in iOS 4.2, PogoPlugHD will be even better, allowing you to stream music to your iPad no matter where you are.  Until then, it’s still a great way to access potentially terabyte of your data on a 10-inch tablet no matter where you are, provided you have Internet.

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