EPIC FAIL by CNN. WTF?!?
House passes healthcare reform bill, CNN relegates story to sidebar while Jenny Craig mom gets center billing (plus bigger headline and twice the column width).
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zadi reblogged spiegelman:
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Last And 9, Or The Apple App GhettoI have an entire page of Apple apps that I cannot take off my iPhone and that I never use. This makes me sad, but even worse, adds an entire page to my Home Screen.
Here’s the list and why I don’t need them.
- Voice Memos. Audio notes always sounds like something I’d be into, but in practice it never works well for me. Also, I can’t get past that icon.
- Compass. Cute parlor trick, but I have Maps. This is the most maddening app of them all. Who at Apple decided to install a tech demo on every iPhone in the world that can’t be removed? Decision must have been made while Steve was ill.
- Stocks. I don’t trade stocks, and if I did I would require more data than this app provides.
- Contacts. It’s Phone without the phone.
- YouTube. Does anyone navigate YouTube this way? Yuck.
- Clock. The only useful thing here is background alarms, and…well, that’s a subject of a different post. Come back in about a month.
- Notes. Worthless. You should be using SimpleNote.
- Calculator. I use the calculator in Convert. No, really. Two birds and all that.
- iTunes. I have never felt the urge (or had the need) to buy music on the go.
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Cool Story, Bird of the Day: A flock of some 300,000 starlings form an ominous, shape-shifting cloud in an unspecified plot of sky above Denmark.
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adobegripes reblogged mrgan:The many sliders of Photoshop CS4
Preferences > Memory Usage
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color BalanceThings to keep in mind:
- These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
- The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
- They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
- None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:
Don’t mind the special function ones like Layer Blending, however blur takes the piss I mean you can see they even faked the runner under it probably because the UI drawing code used there doesn’t support alpha transparency, fucking amature hour if you ask me.
- These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
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smarterplanet reblogged adrifting:
Will Florida be America’s shining example that 21st century rail can work?
Boy, this would be nice!
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Queens of the Stone Age - “No One Knows” [2002, Live]
Jesus. Grohl’s fills. Still so good.
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Château de Noisy, Celles, Houyet, Namur, Belgium (via missionabandoned)
Le Château de Noisy (also named Château Miranda) was built by the English architect Milner in 1866 as a summer home for the family of the Count of Liedekerke-Beaufort. The family stayed there until World War 2, when the castle was briefly occupied by the Nazi’s. In 1958, the NMBS (the Belgian railroad company) used it as a home to shelter the railroadmen’s children and wives.
Since 1991 the building is abandoned. The village of Celles tried several times to buy the castle and its ground but the family doesn’t want to take distance of the castle. The building has over 500 windows, which are almost all shattered along with several of the staircases inside. There is still a clock tower of 56 meters tall. The castle is popular amongst urban explorers.
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