Rambles at starchamber.com

I’m pleased with this: a stripped-down version of Photoshop called Photoshop Elements is available. I would have paid for it, but it came free with my new D-40 Olympus camera, so I’m doubly pleased. If it’s missing many features relative to the much more expensive Photoshop, I haven’t spotted them yet. I’m sure it IS [...]

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It’s fun to hear the voice behind the pictorial editorial voice. In this case, here’s a chance to listen to Tom Tomorrow of This Modern World fame. See what he thinks of the world. [seen on Matt Welch's blog]

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Here’s an intriguing picture story of a towboat taking an unexpected trip. The boat gets trapped against the bridge and then gets sucked underneath. You owe it to yourself to look at
the pictures.

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I love this kind of attention to detail… Typecasting is a discussion of how well movies do getting time period appropriate fonts in their onscreen typeset materials. A sample: In the movie Chocolat (set in the 1950s), we see a sign that features a font that was introduced in (quel horreur) 1978! “Perhaps the mistake [...]

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Google around long enough, and you find the most amazing things. A search for the names of my parents turned up an interview they did that I had never seen before. The interviewer was asking them about the secrets of their long (50+ years) marriage. As Long As We Both Shall Live - Sally & [...]

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