December 2008
16 posts
An Etymologist's View of the World →
Watch out for ‘Cape Look Out’!
30 inspiring type treatments →
Blind Man Sees With Subconscious Eye →
“TN still has some visual abilities — he’s just not aware he has them.”
Chris Pullman: What I've Learned
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“High standards is something that has set this place apart. Even in hard times, it is important to keep hold of this core distinction, whatever it costs.”
Director Stitches 45,000 Photographs Into a Music... →
“Eschewing a video camera, he took 45,000 photographs with a Nikon D200 DSLR camera and stitched them together to create the illusion of video.”
Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye... →
“If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?” he asks.
Jeffrey Zeldman →
Understanding web design.
List of common misconceptions →
“Hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after a person dies. Rather, the skin dries and shrinks away from the bases of hairs and nails, giving the appearance of growth.”
Monopoly Repackaging →
“Monopoly, in spite being the classiest of all board games, unfortunately is packaged just as boringly and uncreatively as every other garbage board game on the shelves”
Scientists extract images directly from brain →
“Subjects were shown 400 random 10 x 10 pixel black-and-white images for a period of 12 seconds each. While the fMRI machine monitored the changes in brain activity, a computer crunched the data and learned to associate the various changes in brain activity with the different image designs.”
The Age of Mass Intelligence →
“Millions more people are going to museums, literary festivals and operas; millions more watch demanding television programmes or download serious-minded podcasts. This is a dramatic yet often unrecognised development. “When people talk and write about culture,” says Ira Glass, “it’s apocalyptic. We tell ourselves that everything is in bad shape. But the opposite is true. There’s an...
The Buzzwords of 2008 →
“Nuke The Fridge: To ruin a movie franchise; usually attributed to the arrogance of a successful producer or director. The term was coined based on a scene in the latest Indiana Jones movie, in which the hero survives a nuclear blast by hiding in a refrigerator.”
The Plagiarism Checker →
“This free plagiarism detector will find plagiarized text in homework and other essays/reports.”
The Stories Behind Hollywood Studio Logos →
Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen make the initial SKG on the bottom of the DreamWorks logo.
Typography Inspiration Showcase →
11 Words That Sound Offensive, But Aren't
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Incorrect usage in conversation: “I’m a real horehound, but I don’t have $50 to pay a prickmadam to let me do the Dicky grind in her cooter, so you’ll have to excuse me while I go crank my hand organ.” “Better not do it in the shittah. It’s infested with cockchafers.”