All that pink, you know? And that relentless sick-making commercialism. But now I have a better reason to dislike them ( Read more... )

Well, I feel like a perfect fool.

I have a legal, fully-licensed, I-am-not-a-pirate copy of CS4 Design Standard on my desk, which I have been avoiding for weeks now because, well, I don't even know why I've been avoiding it. But an hour ago I finally decided, self, you are being silly. You can use this software. Why not install it?So I did. Oh ( Read more... )

I kind of think everybody I know should go and play. Because (a) if you're like me, you weren't around a decade ago when the original and now-legendary Canadian Shack Challenge was happening, and therefore missed out; (b) it's the new year and Yuletide is over and many of us, whether we did Yuletide or not, are looking for a new, low-stress ( Read more... )

Obama on Mars.

I've been swearing to one and all that I'm staying away from Yuletide until I'm completely caught up with everything else I've said I'm working on. (Or else forever, whichever happens first.) But for the first time in months and months, I can almost conceive of being tempted to break that vow.

Why is your system suddenly automatically reloading pages I ask for, such that Firefox intercepts the automatic reload and asks me to authorize the reload manually? Is this happening across the system, and if so, what fresh new hell did the coders suddenly decide to unleash on us?

Happy new year, I guess. This wasn't happening yesterday.

It's beginning to look as if Release 88, and LJ's lack of response to the complaints of wrecked functionality, may be persuading a nontrivial number of people to move over to DW. If you're one of them, and we aren't already in contact over there, please do let me know so we can find each other post-migration?

If you have ever tried to draw or paint, even a little -- or at least, if you've ever wanted to do representative rather than purely abstract work -- you will not want to miss the report of this project from a team at MIT. It's a video/camera array that, to simplify things wildly, is so fast that it can capture the movement of photons through ( Read more... )

It's too awful to be as funny as it is; but on the other hand sometimes ridicule is a deadly weapon. The pepper-spraying cop meme: telling truth to power all over the internet today.

I think my favorite is the Guernica, but the classic pointillist piece whose name I'm blanking on is pretty great too.

This entry was crossposted from Dreamwidth. ( Read more... )

It's okay. No, really, it is ( Read more... )

This year the lovely people who run Yuletide are heading off some of the anxiety and argument that come up every year around eligibility of nominated fandoms by putting up a big preliminary list of things that won't qualify. This strikes me as a very good thing indeed -- it allows for decisions on everything from nominations to whether to ( Read more... )