Photoshop CS 4WES0ME

Adobe Photoshop CS4 will include a new feature: content aware scaling. I am geeking out.

Ah, design is becoming so democratic! Free market! Even your grandma can do it!

Proud to be a Parody

Proud American is a new docudrama (of sorts) chronicling "five powerful singular stories" magnifying "the pillars that make America a truly grand society." Directed by award-winning corporate media producer Fred Ashman, this "loving look at the American Dream" is …

You've Got Regret!

via Joey:

Google's solution to a "certain problem" is to have the user answer some math questions within a time limit at certain hours of the night, on Friday and Saturday.

But me, I get drunk and send inappropriate emails at all hours of the day.

Google proposes that …

Why so serious?

Lando Carter

Yes, I think any Star Wars jokes instantly qualify for the "nerd alert!" tag.

The structure of internet revolutions

Revolving around the ephemeral "web 2.03 and the future of the internet, Web 2.0 Expo New York wrapped up over the weekend, and already the talks are up at the blip.tv Web2Expo page. (The San Francisco talks from April are also up for viewing.) The expo runs the gamut …

oh, man, twizzlers

© mighty god king

Pillars of star creation

© Astronomy Picture of the Day

The emperor's new lipstick

Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has had some recent controversy involving her use of personal email (read: Yahoo email address) to do government work. Using personal email prevented Palin from having to disclose anything discussed in those emails, but internet …

Bon Transmissions

Bon Iver recently spent some time at the MySpace studios, recording a beautiful four-song session and an interview. Have a listen over at MySpace Transmissions or download the four-song EP for free. I've said it before, but even more here is a soft and delicate sound …

Live-blogging the LHC

Anyone wondering what today's Google logo was all about: first beams at the Large Hadron Collider. Cosmic Variance was live-blogging the startup, making for some tense internetting lasting almost 5 hours. There were no collisions today, but a full beam of protons was …

Free porn

Lockpick Pornography is now being offered in its entirety for free in PDF. Written by Joey Comeau of A Softer World fame, Lockpick Pornography is a ridiculous, fun, interesting, sensational, wild, heartbreaking of staggering genius. And it's only 121 pages, in big type, …

Best McCain Photo

Once you go black...

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naked mix #12 (9/07/08)

This mix is a seven-hour road trip, conveniently depicted by seven songs traveling from afternoon sunshine to nighttime calm. Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers begin the trip with a small bit of upbeat oldies; a two-minutes-and-forty-four-seconds …

Tuesday Lists of the Day

God loves lists,

and so should you,

so here are two:

1. Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks on My Thesis

2. Walter Benjamin's tips for writing

The king is dead! Long live the king!

Anyone using the internet a decade ago-when AOL was still relevant and adding version numbers to The Web wasn't even a thought-will surely have noticed a change in the landscape of comments. A nonexistant phenomenon at first, websites slowly opened their doors to …

POW Bros

Anyone following the McCain campaign has heard mention of his time in a Vietnam POW camp once or twice. So many times that Jared Rea mused, "You'd almost think this is Mario Bros the way McCain is hammering away on that POW block." And by "mused" I mean created a …

Viva la Google Chrome revolucion!

Google Chrome. Google's web browser to be released later today. In comic form. By Scott McCloud. And here are some more screenshots for good measure.

The edge of modern thought

I am sorry to say it has been two weeks since my last post, but happy to say those two weeks have not been entirely ill spent. Okay, one week was spent wallowing in tears as I waited for Comcast to install broadband, but the other was productive. I am happy to …

Things to say during sex

Half flow chart, half Venn diagram: Things to say during sex. For instance, Bad » Genuine » (not your partner's name) » (not your partner's gender). I wish I wasn't so familiar with the right side of the chart.