Terminal Tips: Enable “path view” in Finder via TUAW: neat tip but I think my paths would all be too long for my Finder windows… Don’t You Wish You Lived Then? (Musings on Class and Fantasy) at DeepGenre the making of: Costco at greg.org: But here's the thing about buying a 3lb jar of Skippy […]
New MacBook Pro via work. Yay! The out-of-the-box color calibration on the LED display seems not quite right though. Too cool. I’d say it has a blueish tinge but that’s not it. I’ve tried re-calibrating but can’t quite seem to get it right. (Meanwhile, the outboard display at the office is fine 1.) In a freak accident, […]
children’s drawings suck buying lesbian skateboards archiving humor “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku poems, […]
15 CSS Tricks That Must be Learned at In the Woods: looks like a round-up (return later for complete read) PTGui "Photo stitching software 360 degree Panorama image software" Alien-like Squid With “Elbows” Filmed at Drilling Site A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible's camera has captured […]
Six months ago, the F_D crew took the plunge and entered the realm of DSLR photography. We have certainly had no regrets. The Canon XTi is a great camera that produces some great pictures; certainly it has raised the bar over our older SD630 1. This is not (of course) to suggest that the camera […]
I’m in New York state as part of a secret government agency that has sent me to retrieve (extradite?) Omar Little (from The Wire). His van has been stolen and he needs some help getting out of the town but he’s also suspected of a series of crimes here. Naturally he maintains his non-involvement and […]
Apple’s Automator has been a mixed bag for me since its release in 2005 1. For renaming a wad of files, it has been great: select them, invoke Automator, and seconds later they’ve all been renamed to conform to the convention you had in mind. Exported charts from Excel too large? Pass in those files and […]
Should we resurrect the Neanderthals? by William Saletan (at Slate Magazine (via /.)) End-o’-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup at Omnivoracious: those still images from the Where The Wild Things Are film look dope. Project Palantir: Facebook Interactions Visualization at information aesthetics Customizing Your Mac: Wallpaper Fun at TheAppleBlog NASA – Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere via […]
I picked up some new headphones recently, a pair of Skullcandy INK’D earbuds after reading some great reviews and getting some great feedback from some folks I know. My review: ★★★☆☆ …moderately satisfied. The seem like a “good enough” value (speaking to the quality-to-price ratio, here). PROS: The most comfortable in-ear headphones I’ve ever tried (and […]
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