stripping and assembling

Firers, strip electric knife

strip toaster

blender

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Firefox 3 and color management

this post is important for people who use firefox 3 (and its variants like flock) as well as flickr.

Currently firefox ignores the colour profile of individual images and just tells the OS to use a generic one. What you get is a washed out desaturated image that looks nothing like the image you post processed.

I beg you to install the Color management add on so all photographs look the way they should.

thanks,

obsessive photographers everywhere.

Things inspiring me this weekend

ugh, am abit sleep deprived today.

photos by Pieter Hugo. Square photographs are THE BOMB.

Brian Blessed does snooker commentary

you might remember him from blackadder.

Oh Calamity, Oh how,how,how!
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
I could’ve farted that in!
The great steaming Pillock!

the smell of repetition

Every single one of them was bred for this. The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

After watching it, i think the NDP parade is just going to be “meh”.

a cunning plan

straits times redesign

Typography is the subtle art of arranging type glyphs. Practitioners will tell you that tiny details affect how attractive and legible your text is. Space two letters just a fraction too closely together and your eyes may simply refuse to read. I kid you not.

I quite liked the old Straits Times masthead so I was quite horrified when i got home today and found an ill-advised redesign. The blue text with that orange fullstop doesn’t work.

I want them back

There were some complaints that the old design used way too many fonts. Yea, i didn’t notice either and i didn’t care until i realised that newspapers probably had to pay somebody to use their font and that such indecision was a colossal waste of money.

Their website looks alot better. (They seem to have stolen abit from Times Online)

How are they supposed to wean people off the net and onto their print edition if they are only going to let the cooler people design the online edition?

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anyway, if you wanted to track all the newspaper redesigns in the world because you are in desperate need of a hobby then i recommend newsdesigner.com

group dynamics

the Ten Faces of Innovation is a good book to read if you have an interest in design, management and group dynamics.

It is my hope to someday work in a really creatively productive team.

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it is my firm belief that conformists contribute little to a group. Dissenters, on the other hand, benefit others and sometimes at great costs to themselves.  A little dissent must be encouraged everywhere and dissenters should always get a little protection for their trouble.

overheard

Leslie: Diarrhoea is inconvenient

Ken: No shit

Leslie: Inconvenient to spell, I mean. It must have every vowel

what have you done this weekend kenneth?

oh, i’ve been gloriously inert. but i promise to do something interesting next week.

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try looking for news on things that aren’t news worthy.