A veritable smorgasbord of links for you this week, dear reader. Everything from terrible corporate behaviour to useful freelancer videos to a project aiming to create a brand identity for all the US presidents.

It’s Friday, so pour yourself a coffee (or a glass of wine, it’s the 2pm for god’s sake!) and give the links below a look. Have a good weekend!

National Freelancers Day Party time!

Including our own link in the weekly digest? That’s a little indulgent, don’t you think? Well, hear us out for a minute – we’re putting on a party in Brighton, and the drinks are free. Interested? Get clicking.

Amazon flex their DRM muscles

Big story this week – Amazon decided to wipe a customers’ Kindle account for no greater crime than buying eBooks from Kindle stores in different countries. For shame!

Awesome web fonts service in beta

Typecast swept through the design community like a cool, HTML5 tidal wave. I know precisely zilch about typography but I had fun tinkering with it, so give it a try!

Videos of yesteryear

National Freelancers Day 2012 is fast approaching, so what better time to look back at all the great (and still mightily relevant) content produced last year? Here’s a bunch of videos, courtesy of the PCG.

Travis shrugged

An eminently stylish piece from writer Paul Carr on the Silicon Valley ‘cult of disruption’, and why a healthy disregard for the rules isn’t always particularly healthy.

Emergency compliment

Does what it says on the tin.

Tweets on a map

Also does what it says on the tin, and then some. Glorious data visualisation of the million most recent geotagged tweets.

Coworking’s little red book

A great effort to make sure coworkers know the proper ettiquette, and make their space of choice as productive as it can be.

Popular passwords

Rocking one of these bad boys as a password? Shame on you.

Branding the Presidents

Fantastically inventive and really rather well done project to “brand” each American president. Nice inspiration for all the designers out there. Care to take on the task for our Prime Ministers, anyone?

Photo by Moyen Brenn