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staff:

colinmeloy:

I have the raddest wife & son ever.  One of their many collaborations…L

Let’s just say there has been a lot of SQUEALING from my side of the office this week.

Since its inception, Colin Meloy’s Tumblr has given me such varied and squealworthy insights into his soul as:

1. his feelings on Depeche Mode (conflicted).
2. the type of bird-themed inlay featured on what is presumably photo of his guitar (adorable).
3. and, perhaps my favorite: these scanned in pictures that his wife/Carson Ellis/Decemberists album artist extraordinaire, and son drew together in their happy little notebook. Dinosaurs! Astronauts! BLINKING EYES, people!

I think part of why this is so interesting is that Colin Meloy and The Decemberists’ music is the kind of stuff that, as JD Salinger has already said much better than I, makes you wish he was “a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

In the meantime I will be following him on Tumblr and reblogging pictures of his wife’s Moleskine.

I suggest you do the same.

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staff:

Yesterday, Amit Gupta had a great suggestion to include thumbnails on Video posts in the Dashboard:

I love Tumblr, but I almost never watch the videos people post. But I click on photos to see the bigger version all the time.

Video posts could really use a still frame to give you a peek at what’s inside.

Anyone else feel this way?

We were already doing this with videos uploaded to Tumblr.  Now we’ll also show thumbnails next to YouTube videos.

Thanks, Amit!