Image dump #1
I’ve started messing around in Photoshop a bit just to see what I can teach myself. (That, and there was a class assignment using it once.) For lack of any better topics to write about, and perhaps to motivate myself …
I’ve started messing around in Photoshop a bit just to see what I can teach myself. (That, and there was a class assignment using it once.) For lack of any better topics to write about, and perhaps to motivate myself …
In high school, I had an obese teacher who claimed to have once been the cheerleading coach for Madonna, who had graduated from my high school some 20 years previously. For years I wrote her off as a compulsive liar–it …
Source: xkcd.com
This, my friends, is the intersection between the internet and mass media at its finest: It’s fun! It’s free! And it’s available on the internets… until Sunday. I think that’s my one lament about it, actually. It’s only up for …
How have I managed to avoid Joss Whedon productions thus far? Read more »
A friend of mine from grad school works at a company that promotes magazines. Apparently the P.R. director got approached by the editor of this magazine: It’s called Cats in Space, and I think it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve …
Sally pointed out this blog, which features strange maps and their function. I must admit I find it fascinating. This map, in particular, is a startling reminder that reality differs greatly from our perceptions thereof; this map, on the other …
Facebook has a feature that allows you to give virtual gifts to your friends. Most of these cost $1 and are pretty generic and benign–a guitar, a birthday cake, or, once, a piece of paper. On occasion, a company will …
Minor point of irritation: corporately sponsored recipes. You know, the kind that comes in those recipe books you can order with 5 proofs of purchase, or the ones on the packaging for your preprocessed food. Today, I think I lost …
So… apparently they’re making a print volume of Wikipedia now? I’m actually kind of torn on how I should feel about this. On the one hand, this almost completely contradicts everything that makes Wikipedia what it is: a triumph of …
Lore Sjöberg has just summed up the entirety of social networking in a column about Twitter: “The internet is to human interaction as Pringles are to potatoes.”