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Kerri Brewster
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40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects:
Mmmmmm, more Photoshop goodness, thanks to Ziked.com. Is forty not enough? Check out this earlier post for a hundred more. Surely you’ll find something that suits your mood.
A splash of color, and two great tools: Multicolr Search Lab locates photos from Flickr’s “Interesting” photo pool or Alamy Stock Photos based on color combinations you choose. Want to go the other way round? Try out the Color Palette Generator, which identifies a color palette based on an image you upload. (via lifehacker and makeuseof)
Humans aren’t rational — they rationalize.
— Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans
Language Log on "nerdview"
It is a simple problem that afflicts us all: people with any kind of technical knowledge of a domain tend to get hopelessly (and unwittingly) stuck in a frame of reference that relates to their view of the issue, and their trade’s technical parlance, not that of the ordinary humans with whom they so signally fail to engage.
(via nostrich)
PassiveAggressiveNotes.com:
“Painfully polite and hilariously hostile writings from shared spaces the world over”.
Indiana Jones and Nuke the Fridge
Jason Kottke makes an interesting observation about internet memes, using the recent (and let’s face it, stupid) “Nuke the Fridge” as an example. He notes, “I only heard it for the first time an hour ago and I’m already sick of it. Memes seem to be spreading so rapidly now on the web that they burn out before they can properly establish themselves.” Well, thank goodness for that, actually. Still, it’s a very interesting take on how the internet has changed how (and what) we communicate.
Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.
Moby-Dick
ISHMAEL: I’m existential.
AHAB: Really? Try vengeance.
ISHMAEL: I dig this dynamic. Can we drag it out for 600 pages?
(via kottke.org)