Courage is not the lack of fear, it is acting in spite of it.
— Mark Twain (via rulesformyunbornson)
The Many Sliders of Photoshop CS4
Preferences > Memory Usage
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color BalanceThings to keep in mind:
- These can be found in just Photoshop; I can't imagine what I'd find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here's the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
- The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
- They're all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
- None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:
Don't mind the special function ones like Layer Blending, however blur takes the piss I mean you can see they even faked the runner under it probably because the UI drawing code used there doesn't support alpha transparency, f'n amature hour if you ask me.
Chances this got fixed in CS5? Oh, wait. They rewrote sections in Adobe Air. None.
Star Wars: The Old Republic Combat →
Lots of cool gameplay shots in this video. Not too impressed with the graphics, though.
Three Hundred Eighty Ten
This one makes me want to go play with an Etch-a-Sketch.Here are some beautiful and mind-blowing HTML/Javascript experiments.
I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.
— Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust
Facebook: Privacy Enemy Number One? →
I don't normally appreciate anything written in PC Magazine, but this editorial on the privacy impact of Facebook's "like" button is pretty good.
"Indifferent" Button →
A universal "Like" button, Facebook? The Web-wide "Indifferent" button is way more useful.
I agree.
The Toilet's on Fire
Me: I can't believe I'm playing this well while trying to re-derive Boltzmann's distribution...
Daniel: My roommate just lit the toilet on fire
Me: ?
Me: On purpose or on accident?
Me: And you're still playing chess?
Me: Shouldn't you evacuate?
Daniel: He poured lighter fluid in it so it would make a funny sound.
Daniel: (it didn't).
...
Daniel: He just tried gas. Fireball + charred seat = bad
Me: I can't tell if you're laughing or crying about this...
This is What a Tweet Looks Like →
Who knew there were actually waay more than 140 characters?
Downloadable version here.
iPad OS 3.2 Stops Renewing DHCP Lease, Keeps Using IP Address →
Why Haven't Other Sites Reported This Particular Issue?Because we have good networking people and 44 iPads. Anybody else?