I’m still having a hard time admitting to myself that Apple Mail is my primary RSS reader now, and that I hardly ever open NetNewsWire any more. Still, this new theme from Antonio Carusone, based on his excellent design blog AisleOne, is very well done and a joy to use.

As you head out to vote tomorrow, remember to bring along your digital camera to take snapshots of your polling place. Not just for posterity, but also so that you can contribute to this community-driven photojournalism project, which is a collaboration between William Drenttel, AIGA and The New York Times. Read more at Design Observer.

Wow, the preeminent design blog is five years old! Party this Wednesday night in New York City; come celebrate and/or drown your post-election sorrows.

Another increment of finer typographic control for the Web: an apparently effective, server-side plug-in for WordPress that enables elegant and automatic hyphenation of words. “The end result is text that can be jusГtiГfied withГout ghastly word spacing.” Supposedly works with left-aligned blocks of text, too. It’s a step forward, but it may not be the full step forward some might hope for. Unfortunately, I don’t use WordPress so I won’t have the opportunity to put it into practice.

A whopper of a deck from the amazing Jeff Croft. This is an excellent — really, I mean excellent — primer on how to achieve superior typography in a medium that does almost everything it can to make such a thing painfully difficult. It’s conceptual and practical at once, and somehow manages to be succinctly readable while making both kinds of points. I cannot emphasize enough how useful it would be for everybody working in this medium to spend time reading every single slide. I did, and I learned a lot. After you read it, email Jeff to say thank you.

Okay I get it that no kid wants apples when they go trick-or-treating. But Tootsie Rolls don’t belong on this list.

An entertaining collection of posters that are likely unfamiliar to most of us in the States. Some of my favorites:

What I would note, though, is that they’re mostly unique — there’s no clear, identifiably ‘Asian’ set of characteristics to them.

“Apparently the ladies are getting tired of the same old Sexy Cop, Sexy Nurse, and Sexy Stewardess costumes of yesteryear.” Hilarious proposals for new alternatives. Via Thrillist.

Pretty clever riff on the “Episode IV” title. Just edges out the Alfred E. Newman parody.

If you were in grade school in the U.S. you probably remember this surprisingly durable publication for students. Amazingly, their survey of students has correctly predicted the outcome of twelve of the past thirteen elections, erring only during the three-way race in 1992 that brought Bill Clinton to office.