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Creative Design Resume
Link via flickr. Blockquote via digg...
Without a doubt..smartest person in West Virginia
Average Rating: 3/5 (10 votes)
Kerning Fail
Average Rating: 2.22/5 (9 votes)
Spictor
In 1992, racial slurs like "Spictor" (good guy, btw) were so controversial that no one thought twice about it being published in the yearbook.
Recently, a friend/colleague was forced into early retirement for using the word "mammy" while passing a piece of paper to another colleague. I had to look it up myself, but baby boomer's and beyond know it as the following. To be fair, she is old enough to know what she was saying and she was never known for having the greatest filter in or out of the office. But also to be fair, one of her most trusted confidants (25 years and counting) is black and she spent the last 25 years serving an underprivileged, inner-city community for which she truly cared.
I say this: if her accuser really believes she meant prejudice, fine. It sucks we live in the world we live for both the accused and the accuser. But if the accuser used this slip of the tongue to end the career of the accused just because she simply didn't like her? Well, at least I have cleared my conscience...
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Oh, What a Night!
Average Rating: 2.9/5 (21 votes)
I Shot the Serif
Via digg.com...
The sun was setting just past the x-height of the horizon. Bodoni had been pressing on since daybreak, tracking was getting narrower, and he knew his bounty lay over the next hill. The bitter grit of ampersand was coating his throat, and he was thirsty for a resolution. At the top of the hill he looked out. All of Rosewood lay below him.
A pica jumped out from behind a bush, startling him.
"A bit jumpy, ain't ya Serif?" Bodoni turned to see Helvetica standing behind him, gun in hand.
"So we finally get to meet face to face." Bodoni had seen his type before. The rigid lines and smooth angles. Yea, Helvetica was easy to read, but so common he left no impression. The kind of man that lives a hard life, taken for granted. Growing up, he was probably cast away by the ladies in favor of new money, someone from a family like the Futura's or Univers's. Yes, Bodoni would have found Helvetica's appearance comic, sans the gun in his hand.
The two men locked eyes, measuring each other up. "We have rules in these here parts. You can't just run around opening up the lead on any typeface you want."
"I didn't do it, Serif." Helvetica gritted his teeth. Someone was going to see a bullet before the sun sets.
"Why don't you come along quietly? No reason to make a big display out of this."
"That won't be happening. I got a large family to feed. You take me in and I won't get a trial of fair design. And with what you've accused me of, no lawyer would take my case."
"I don't intend to take you in. You've been sentenced to the death, and I am here to watch you bleed."
"I did not shoot Caslon, and I'll be damned if your going to put my face on the murder!"
Bodoni knew he could not match Helvetica for speed. He was a legend, but at the end of the day still the same old character. No, despite his popularity Hevetica would have to die if there was to be prosperity for the Bodoni family. Guilty or not, for too long the Helvetica's had run rampant in these parts. It made it hard for another man to find a purpose. Bodoni would have to open up first. Someone was going to take a bullet, and he couldn't leave Arial as a widow, not now. Killing Helvetica was right, justified.
The Serif pulled out his revolver quick as an em dash and squeezed the trigger. He missed wide, letting out a cursive as he dropped to his left. Helvetica fell to his knees and drew fast. Bodoni took a bullet in the neck and fell backwards. He rasped for breath, reaching for the gun that lay just a few points too far from his hands.
Helvetica stared down at him, pity in his eyes. "It didn't have to be this way. I may have shot you Serif, but I did not shoot your Century."
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Master of Data
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The New Yorker's Cover By iPhone
I think these iPhones are really going to take off someday soon. Link & blockquote via newyorker.com...
Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square.
"I got a phone in the beginning of February, and I immediately got the program so I could entertain myself," says Colombo, who first published his drawings in The New Yorker in 1994. Colombo has been drawing since he was seven, but he discovered an advantage of digital drawing on a nighttime drive to Vermont. "Before, unless I had a flashlight or a miner’s hat, I could not draw in the dark." (When the sun is up, it’s a bit harder, "because of the glare on the phone," he says.) It also allows him to draw without being noticed; most pedestrians assume he’s checking his e-mail.
Average Rating: 3.21/5 (14 votes)
Windows XP On Screen Keyboard
About a month or two ago, I waterlogged my wireless keyboard (used to access a laptop that is connected to a flat screen TV) with a 1/2 a jar of pepperoncini juice. $60 later, I replaced it with a new wireless keyboard & mouse combo. 90% of the time, I can accomplish what I need to using just the mouse. It's the other 10% that got me thinking it would be great if someone where to develop an "on screen keyboard" to make things like username/password authentication less cumbersome. Little did I know, the answer was right under my nose (Windows key+U)...
On–Screen Keyboard is a utility that displays a virtual keyboard on the computer screen that allows people with mobility impairments to type data by using a pointing device or joystick. Besides providing a minimum level of functionality for some people with mobility impairments, On–Screen Keyboard can also help people who do not know how to type.
On–screen Keyboard has three typing modes you can use to type data:In On–Screen Keyboard you can also:
- In clicking mode, you can select the on-screen keys to type text.
- In scanning mode, On-Screen Keyboard continually scans the keyboard and highlights areas where you can type keyboard characters by pressing a hot key or by using a switch–input device.
- In hovering mode, you use a mouse or joystick to point to a key for a predefined period of time, and the selected character is typed automatically.
- View an enhanced keyboard that includes the numeric keypad, or a standard keyboard that does not include a numeric keypad.
- Display the keyboard with the keys in the standard layout, or in a block layout in which the keys are arranged in rectangular blocks. Block layout is especially useful in scanning mode.
- Display the U.S. standard keyboard (101 keys), the universal keyboard (102 keys), or a keyboard (106 keys) with additional Japanese language characters.
- Use Click Sound to add an audible click when you select a key.
- Use Always On Top to keep your keyboard displayed on your screen when you switch programs or windows.
Average Rating: 2.63/5 (16 votes)
Open-mindedness
Link & blockquote via QualiaSoup's YouTube channel...
A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don't to be more open-minded. music © QualiaSoup
Average Rating: 2.6/5 (10 votes)
Explosive Sledgehammers
Link & blockquote via geeked.info...
Every year on the Tuesday of Carnival (which fell on Feb 5th this year), the residents of San Juan de la Vega get together to "recreate" the great battle of their patron saint (San Juan de la Vega of cours) and the government. The story is that this Juan was a bit of a Robin Hood character and stole from the rich to give to the poor. During Carnival, there is a little bit of a recreation of the story of some thieves stealing gold, but not all making it out. The captured thieves are then offered up for a ransom that exceeds the amount of gold stolen. Money is collected, but apparently not all goes according to plan and there is the resulting battle with the government. This isn’t a small recreation though. Tons of potassium chloride and sulphur along with many thousands of people gather to set off these explosive hammers.
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