November 2009
22 posts
“Even if you ask for it in a nice restaurant, they aren’t going to serve you...”
– Stone Brewing CEO Greg Koch, talking about banning crap beers like Budweiser from menus in fine restaurants.
Stephen King plots The Shining sequel →
Stephen King, take note: Nobody wants to read a Shining sequel. What a terrible idea.
DC Mythbusting: Metro Map to Scale →
More Murdoch on Google
“If they were to pay everybody for everything they took from every newspaper in the world, and every magazine, they wouldn’t have any profits left.” —Rupert Murdoch on Google
I can’t believe that Murdoch is truly convinced that Google is stealing their content. Yes, Google generates some ad revenue on Google News searches. It’s likely a very small amount, though, considering that the...
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact →
Rupert Murdoch appears to be one of the most narrow-sighted people in the news biz. His constant nagging on Google News doesn’t make any sense.
The Wall Street Journal’s value is in content. The more eyeballs you get, the better it ought to be in the long run. Backroom deals aren’t going to save the newspaper business. And having WSJ as a Bing exclusive will not give it any sort of competitive...
Facebook: Publish to Fans Based on Location and... →
Huge news for people in the marketing business who use Facebook as a tool. It’s now possible to target updates to Facebook fans based on geography or language.
The 25 Best American Breweries of the Decade... →
Great list. If you haven’t tried at least one beer from each of these breweries — it’s a must.
15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee →
Inside Coke's "Freestyle" Soda Fountain →
The Accidental Hero →
Interesting story about the overnight success of Subway’s $5 footlong campaign.
Goodbye Fixie, Hello Tweed! →
Tweed-wearing hipster bike ride in DC.
The many sliders of Photoshop CS4
mrgan:
Preferences > Memory Usage
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color Balance
Things 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...
How To Use An Apostrophe →
An illustrated guide.
Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government,... →
I’m going to bet that Adobe didn’t attend the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington DC earlier this fall. If they did, they would have been reminded that developer after developer urged government to make their data open and in machine-readable format. Flash and PDF are quite the opposite, and many of them were quick to paint those technologies as major challenges to the gov 2.0 movement.
“And it came to pass that the man who sold shirts was smitten by hard times....”
– Woody Allen, on Lacoste