Understanding Sub-Pixel (LCD Screen) Anti-Aliased Font Rendering
The big momma Ant-Aliasing post: now I actually understand how it works.
(tags: graphic gui interface lcd macosx design tech)
Everyone Forever / Photography / Tree
Photography: pulling trees out of context, in context. I like this.
(tags: photo photography art)
Bagelturf - Aperture: 32 Ways To Speed Up Aperture
This guy really digs in [...]
Tufts is often put to shame when it comes to making these sorts of resources easily available: How am I supposed to write this Literature Review for my Thesis? What is a Lit Review? I’m sure there’s some sheet on the topic that was typed on an old IBM and has been photocopied every couple [...]
Ouch, 100k scratch race at the Encino Velodrome in Los Angeles. 100k is three hundred laps at Hellyer, as at Encino. That’s a lot of track race, buddy. Click along for photos, results, and awestruck-ness.
First, stop acting like a vitamin-deficient Adlai Stevenson.
To this political neophyte, Karl Rove seems to hit on exactly what Barack is doing wrong in these last weeks before an Iowa Caucus that Obama is potentially poised to take. Click through for mind-blowing sideline commentary from the former Deputy White House Chief of Staff at the [...]
Subpixel Anti-Aliasing Follow-Up (Quarter Life Crisis)
Anti-aliasing in the Leopard Menu Bar is absolutely worthless, this is the first (though I’m sure far from the only) piece I’ve stumbled on bemoaning that fact. Yes, I know I’m late to the game.
(tags: apple os x graphics)
Graphic Design and typography - Swiss Legacy
Oh Lord, a whole blog dedicated [...]
Rainer Brockerhoff :: Quay
If you miss the pop-up menus when holding a click on the Applications folder in your Dock, this app will fulfill your wildest dreams.
(tags: apple osx tools hack freeware application app)
Max Lerner, former editor of The Nation and a New York Post columnist (the old Post), writing in 1957 on the quiet and unfulfilled nature of Americans without a place:
A number of recent American writings indicate that the nostalgia for the small town need not be constructed as directed toward the town itself: it is [...]
Pictures from Hitchhiking Across America
And friends don’t understand why I want to do this - a transfixing journey and photos to match.
(tags: travel todo photography)
As friends well know, I promininently feature Massimo’s Vignelli beautiful work of Swiss-inspired typographic art, the Stendig Calendar, on the wall of my bedroom. In sharp black and white Helvetica and measuring three feet by four feet, it’s impressive.
Still, I’m pretty wooed by this new Pentagram calendar showcasing (I presume twelve) fonts by Matthew Carter, [...]
How To: Move a WordPress Blog to a New Hosting Account
One of these days, I’ll actually get the site I want on the domain I want.
(tags: howto tutorials wordpress blogging)
Guest List Status « The ROFLCon Blog
I am so there. Kthxbai.
(tags: conference humor internet meme lolcats)
Is it Christmas?
(tags: calendar humor rss)