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February 29, 2004
CSS-only Filters Summary
Choose your browsers, and pick your CSS hack
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February 28, 2004
Ahoy, mateys, lower the expectations and extend the plank!
“At this point in his 1996 re-election race, Mr. Clinton was well ahead of Mr. Dole, and he never gave up the lead. President Ronald Reagan had established a double-digit lead over Walter Mondale by this point in 1984”
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Fonda, Kerry and Photo Fakery
“I’ve spent a lot of time answering questions about this in the past couple of weeks, and this time, as far as I can tell, the Internet has come as close as it gets to a correction”
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FactCheck.org, Holding Politicians Accountable
“We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players”
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Infrared basics for digital photographers
An exhaustive collection of info and links
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Errorwear
I think I want the one that says ‘Not Responding’
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NYT: “Hussein’s Regime Skimmed Billions From UN Program”
3/4 of suppliers inflated prices and paid kickbacks totalling over $2 billion ... right under the UN’s nose
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How Not to Win Customer Loyalty
Cheap haggling over phone replacement insurance cost the company thousands per month in lost business
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Dean and Trippi battle for constituency
Two grass roots organizations, but only one lawn
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February 27, 2004
Photo: The Bath Overfloweth
And that’s one confused looking birdie
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The Creatures From the Sandwich Shop - Behind the singing rodents in the Quiznos ad
Atrocious campaign, inspired by an art director starved for ideas, who got an e-mail with a silly video clip and decided to turn it into an ad campaign
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God Hates Shrimp
“Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you”
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KerryQuotes.com
“We do not need to divide America over who served and how...”
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February 26, 2004
Twin Peaks Online
“This is -- excuse me -- a DAMN fine cup of coffee”
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February 25, 2004
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Your funny Photoshop composite could get you sued
Photogs Seek Accountability For Infringed Kerry Photos
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February 24, 2004
Kos endorses Edwards
“I want someone who symbolizes the future of our party”
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The Internet has surpassed the U.S. household penetration level of cable TV
“U.S. household Internet penetration is about 67.9 percent. That compares with a 65.8 percent U.S. household penetration level for cable”
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Guys, be very careful about popping The Question at a public event
”...the woman turned away from the man, and sprinted full speed across the basketball court.”
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February 23, 2004
“Nokia executive: Camera phones will kill digital cameras in five years”
‘This year three megapixel camera phones will be introduced in South Korea’
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This is why they hate us
Reality TV comes to the Arab world
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February 22, 2004
Improved ICC Profiles for the Epson 2200
Better D-Max on the Enhanced Matte paper would be nice, please...
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Photo: Jack Frost
Very cool macro shot ... no pun intended
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The Possible Nontranferability of the Deaniacs
Deaniacs, if you vote for Nader, you’re electing Bush
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February 21, 2004
Photo: Justly Married: Aftermath
And you can buy a poster of it to support DontAmend.com’s efforts to stop the Federal Marriage Amendment
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Photo: Panda Pile
Their black and white patterns almost make it an abstract
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February 20, 2004
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“Okay, Okay, I’ll buy the Viagra!”
One man’s bizarre experiments with Viagra
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February 19, 2004
Feb. 18, 2048: “It’s time that left-handed people were compensated for their troubles...”
Such compensation won’t mean much to me, since I’ll be 89 in 2048 ... or dead from a right handed chainsaw accident
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“Well, this here’s a Movable Type town, son.”
A great story about unexpected connections from Noah
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February 18, 2004
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Wired: Blogs Pump Bucks Into Campaigns
How to turn $2000 of blog ads into $80,000 in donations in only two weeks
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February 17, 2004
Wall Street Journal to Daniel Pearl’s widow: “It is your case, not ours”
“From the Journal, all I’ve heard is the sound I’ve learned to dread the most: silence”
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I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome
These people are sometimes called ‘night owls’ or described as ‘not being morning people.’
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February 16, 2004
Photos: Noise is Beautiful
Garret uses digital artifacts to his advantage. It reminds me of Tri-X shot at about 1600 ASA.
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I married a retrosexual
“We are aware that we have lapsed into tired gender stereotypes. We don’t care. We only wish there were a third gender to clean the kitty litter.”
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February 15, 2004
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Iraqi Ulemma issue a collective fatwa against inter-Iraqi violence
It’s a fatwa against Al Qaeda’s Jihad, and their hopes of spreading sectarian violence
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February 14, 2004
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February 13, 2004
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February 12, 2004
Splitsville for Barbie and Ken; the 43 year engagement is over, all those bridal outfits were for nothing
Only in America does a major corporation issue a press release describing the breakup of two hunks of plastic
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Stunning allegations about the FBI’s Arabic desk
she was told the Arab linguists were celebrating the terrorist attacks on America, as if they were some joyous event ... ‘It’s about time they got a taste of what they’ve been giving the Middle East.’
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February 11, 2004
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February 10, 2004
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“A Heartbreaking Work of Super Pooping Genius”
Dooce says it’s not the labor that’s painful, it’s the immediate aftermath. But baby makes it all worthwhile.
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Buy 3 minutes and 3 seconds of silence for 99 cents, at iTunes!
Complete with digital rights management code to prevent you from playing the silence on any unauthorized systems
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Quicktime: ‘I Feeeel Greeeaaat!’
Like Tony the Tiger on steroids
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TV Kills
27-inch, 68-pound television set used as blunt instrument in crime of passion
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February 09, 2004
A view of the media from the ground in Iraq
“I respect the freelancers most because they operate with no support and on their own dollars”
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February 07, 2004
Photo: You, sir, are so very busted
I still think teams ought to be DQ’ed from the playoffs when their fans riot in celebration
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February 06, 2004
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First
they get Googleblatted, then
Slashdotted
“Should Google ask permission before potentially sending huge traffic loads to a single page/server?”... and what about Slashdot?
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February 05, 2004
Basecamp: Web-based Project Management, from the folks at 37signals
“Basecamp is a simple, hosted web-based service that lets designers manage projects and quickly create client/project extranets”
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February 04, 2004
Photo-Composites; Age Maps
2 photos of the same person, from different periods of time (child and adult) are spliced together
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Zeyad learns about copyright infringement, courtesy of the CPA
Damned if they didn’t comp his shots in Photoshop for a leaflet
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Who’s the second biggest campaign contributor in this election? Walmart
85% of money has gone to Republicans ... “Four years ago, it didn’t rank in the top 100”
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Clay Shirky: Exiting Deanspace
“Dean’s campaign didn’t just fail, it dissolved on contact with reality”
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February 03, 2004
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February 01, 2004
What do 6 and 7 year old kids think of classic rock anthems?
“It’s making me think about doing bad things like putting snowballs down my sister’s back”
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Joe Trippi’s Wild Ride
A revealing view from inside the Dean campaign
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