- Ron Bigelow’s Photography Articles — It was here I learned to use Unsharp Mask, and here I learned to stop using it (I’m using High-pass Sharpening, ever since Ben mentioned it). He writes really well, though, and gave the best explanation of USM I’ve ever read, so I must dive into his other
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- What does it take to be a dad? | Ask MetaFilter — Nice – and meaty – father’s day thread from Ask MeFi
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- InVisible – Ruby on Rails Reference 1.1.2 — Another condensed reference is always useful…
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- Luke Redpath » Blog Archive » Introducing Unobtrusive Javascript for Rails — Ugh! Finally someone heads towards a solution for making the Rails Javascript helpers less horrendous. What they do is great; how they do it is ugly. This is good.
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- Visor Console [Macintoshian Achaia] — Ugh! Linked in this thread… is a terminal hack for OSX that makes your console drop down *like a console in Quake3*. Sehr cool – and I’m very tempted by it…
Tagged as: console osx quake3 shell terminal - Caching with Ruby on Rails — Mmn. Fragment caching. I knew I didn’t want page/controller caching, was dreading this… and it all looks really rather doable. Sorted!
Tagged as: cache caching performance rails ruby rubyonrailes scaling - frieze – the art of war — "The IDF’s strategy of ‘walking through walls’ involves a conception of the city as not just the site but also the very medium of warfare – a flexible, almost liquid medium that is forever contingent and in flux." – Fascinating article on why Isra
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- Sitening Blog » Blog Archive » How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently — I probably ought to get a copy of SuperDuper. It looks very good.
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- moddular | javascript loop test — Always useful to know: how long loops take in different browsers Javascript interpretations.
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- Knox College 2006 Commencement Address — Stephen Colbert on Improvisation. Some nice touches
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- Big Spanish Castle — Yowzer. Quite uncanny (and unsettling) optical illusion.
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- Settings plugin — Well, that’s about an hour’s work saved, though a brief refactor could be in order…
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