Apr
19th
Tue
19th
Hilarious.
Via the Daily What.
Apr
16th
Sat
16th
California Poppy Festival 2011, a set on Flickr.
We didn’t expect the California Poppy Festival to be your run-of-the-mill small town carnival; we expected fields of blooming poppies a la The Wizard of Oz.
We were lucky enough to ask a LASD officer a good scenic route, and he recommended a small northern route around Los Padres rather than the direct freeway. What we found were fields of blooming poppies lining the road. Although it’s not a good year for them, there were still enough to get a great photo.
Apr
14th
Thu
14th
Photoshop was programmed by monkeys and how to hack around it
I’m on the fence as to whether to like the techniques posted in this article, or whether to throw my laptop out a window because an article like this is even necessary. The fact that there is, as of now, no serious competition to Photoshop for Web work is a travesty.
Ivailo Iliev adds a great comment toward the end too:
Make your Grid in Photoshop so that it has Gridline every 1 pixels and Subdivisions is also 1. This will make it a 1×1 grid. When you turn on the grid and have “snap to grid”, it actually becomes “snap to pixel”. Very fast and easy when you need to paste, resize, etc.
Mar
31st
Thu
31st
+1 |pləs wən|
verb [trans]. irregular - To like, agree with or recommend.
ORIGIN early 21st cent. 4chan +1 Internets; later appropriated by Google to combat Facebook likes.
USAGE
Present: I +1, She +1’s
Past: I +1’d
Future: I will +1
Perfect: I am +1’ing, I have +1’d, I will have +1’d
Adverb: You are a fantastic +1’er
Imperative Joe, +1 that search result.
Declarative: +1!
Mar
22nd
Tue
22nd
The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.
Barack Obama in 2007. From Boston. Pretty interesting quote about warrantless wiretapping before that too. Via The Daily Show.
Feb
24th
Thu
24th
How’s that tea party working out for you, Wisconsin? Via Married to the Sea.
Feb
14th
Mon
14th
Our country's most important systems have the worst security
Chris Palmer writing for the EFF:
In my own private-sector security industry work, I observed a pattern: the higher the stakes, the worse the security. “Worse” usually means “more easily resolved with known techniques”. I evaluated a wide range of applications and platforms, and almost invariably found that the most important systems — those managing life, health, and money — were poorly engineered. By contrast, small startups doing something interesting but not (yet) critical would sometimes have very well-engineered systems, with entire classes of vulnerability designed away, minimal feature creep, and solid development practices reducing the risk of accidental implementation flaws. I suspect the reason for this pattern is that organizations that handle life, health, and money do not think of themselves as software engineering organizations, and so seek to minimize engineering costs. Additionally, engineering-driven companies tend to be disruptive newbies who have not yet made a big enough impact on the market to control much important information.
Fascinating.
I want them tried in the Hague.
Feb
9th
Wed
9th
One reason airport security measures frustrate travelers is that screening procedures tend to treat all passengers the same: as potential terrorists.
Delicious American hypocrisy captured in The New York Times. Liberty and freedom until it becomes inconvenient.
