Lifehacker posted an article on how to blend layers with displacement in Photoshop. The post directs you to My Damn Channel’s You Suck at Photoshop series. ZOMGWTFBBQ! These are quite possibly the funniest tutorials I have ever seen. Check out my fave after the jump…
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer last year, Dr. Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University gave his last lecture in September of 2007. The lecture was posted to YouTube and was a phenomenal success.
Dr. Pausch passed away today leaving the world short one brilliant person. I can only hope I can face my end with as much grace, dignity, and humor.
Requiescat in pace.
via CNN
According to the Internetz, AC Milan has acquired Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho for $34 million USD from Spanish soccer powerhouse Barcelona. Although Ronaldinho’s star doesn’t shine as brightly as a few years ago, having a player with that much talent transfer to Milan is very exciting. I’m looking forward to some brilliant football in Seria A this season. Now I just need to find a way to get the games in SoFla!
Twitter is a very interesting social networking site. Create an account and post what you’re doing. IM and SMS supported. Cheers to Common Craft for creating an outstanding intro to Twitter!
via David Babylon
You wanted the car, but even the stupidly wealthy had a hard time finding a Pontiac Trans Am with built-in AI, Turbo Boost, and Super Pursuit mode. Nonetheless, this hasn’t stopped Mio from creating a KITT-themed GPS system. Now you can have KITT criticize your driving for a mere $270… without the extensive reconstructive surgery.
“In-N-Out Burger 400 yards on the left, Michael.” Sweet!
via Autoblog…
via Major Nelson… The Onion reports that citizens of Liberty City allege that the LCPD is not doing their job.
“I was buying a hot dog from a street vendor in Hove Beach yesterday when I saw someone run a red light, barrel down the sidewalk, careen into a garbage truck, exit his vehicle, steal a nearby convertible, and drive away,” one Broker resident reported. “A nearby police car didn’t even react. But when the car behind him nicked his fender, the officer shot the driver through the windshield and walked away.”
Something inside me thinks that Jonathan Swift would have loved The Onion…
I couldn’t believe it when I saw this picture, but a drunk driver fell asleep at the wheel and drove into the peloton during a bike race in Mexico. One cyclist was killed and ten others were injured. My condolences go out to those killed and injured, but I’m a little flabbergasted that the race organizers didn’t cordon the route to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Seano recently posted on a trip he and the fam took to Disney’s Cali Adventure with the usual here’s-what-we-did-check-out-pics-of-my-little-girl. As expected, he was brilliantly descriptive of his adventure (now I wanna go) and I can’t get enough pics of Tas (totally adorable). However, he launches into the nerdosphere with this little bit describing a picture of his daughter:
Sportin’ the shades. (I dropped the ‘g’ as an homage to our trip: they seem quite fond of dropping the ‘g’ from the names of various rides. While Walt Disney’s racist views are widely known, his fear of the letter ‘g’ is not common knowledge. By the way, does anyone know what the official grammatical term is for dropping a ‘g’ and replacing it with an apostrophe? I can’t find the answer anywhere! One source called it a “clipped verb”—a fine name to be sure—but its usage was ad hoc and appears not to be in common currency.)
Walt’s racism aside, pondering the term for omitting letters from words doesn’t normally cross the average person’s mind. Then again, Sean is above average. Since I’m a Google ninja, I decided to put my skills to good use. Dropping the “g” at the end of words is called… wait for it… G-dropping. Yup. I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
Sean over at Chaos Theory is pulling a Descartes and graphing politics via The Political Compass. I couldn’t help myself, so here’s my graph:
Here are where some of my peeps stand:
By the way, did you know Descartes came up with using superscripts to indicate powers, i.e., E=MC2? Thanks, René!
