“blackr is a bookmarklet you can put in your browser’s bookmarks bar. [It] will hide everything on the page behind a soothing black canvas except for the photo. All that remains is the picture.”
If you're using Lightroom to manage your photos, you are probably serious about your photographs. [...] if you are indeed serious, then practicing good color management is essential.
Lots of choice quotations here, but most are too long for a 255-char delicious box. Changing this prevalent perception is going to be hard; changing gaming is as hard. Lots to chew over int he coming years, really
Remarkable series of images by Chris Jordan depicting rates of consumption in America through exhaustive diagrams. Staggering when you see them in close-up.
"When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. You might call us 'infovores.'" ... We are programmed for scarcity and can't dial back when something is abundant." So that explains it.
"a superhero’s costume is constructed not of fabric, foam rubber, or adamantium but of halftone dots, Pantone color values, inked containment lines, and all the cartoonist’s sleight of hand." Michael Chabon on the escapism of costume.
"My current hypothesis is that there are at least three positions of prominence in each segment -- three ways to be number one, if you will: The First One, The Free One, and The Good One."
"Merchants can store their own products to our fulfillment centers and then, using a simple web service interface, fulfill orders for the products. That’s right – make a web service call, ship a product to a customer!"
"I went and wrote Paperclip on the plane to RailsConf last year. We’ve been using it here in various forms since and IMHO it’s *the* way to handle uploads, and finally decided that it should be released." Another handy Thoughtbot plugin.
"Flashgels.co.uk is a UK source for lighting gels pre-cut for use on portable flash guns - used for colour correction or for effect." Reasonable prices, free delivery, and they sell bungies too. I'll be picking up the Correction Pack asap.
"I've been building a Ruby MIDI generator called Archaeopteryx. It builds on code from Practical Ruby Projects to create a system for auto-generating, self-modifying music." Wonderful. Wonderful, wonderful.
"The picture transfixes us because it looks like the truth, but, looking at it, we can only imagine what that truth is: torture, execution, a scene staged for the camera?" Excellent New Yorker article by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris.
"Tourettes Machine is a firefox plugin that randomly adds swear words to your
form fields and text areas as you type." I think they really mean "Coprolalia Machine", but that's the pedant in me talking. The joys of javascript, eh?
Very impressive screencast of the forthcoming admin interface to EE 2.0. Still convinced that EE is the best off-the-shelf PHP CMS out there. I'm not the greatest fan of PHP, but EllisLab sure make it do great things - Codeigniter is also excellent.