One of the World’s Most Blurred Women

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Thanks to a bizarre face-blurring algorithm that ABC is using on their HD news broadcast, Diane Sawyer looks like she's in an advertisement for Claritin.

1. If she instigated it: Diane Sawyer is 64 years old and looks damn good for her age. Perhaps she should check her vanity and be a model for gracefully aging women everywhere. Her wrinkles are a badge of honor and she has earned every one of them through her long career.


2. If ABC instigated it: what's the point of going HD? Now we have a sharp picture except for faces — and that's where we look as we watch. Just go to widescreen SD and call it a day. 'Cos your experiment in trying to hide reality isn't working. It's just freaking people out.

Idle Speculation

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

You know how when you open a stack in the Mac OS X dock, and you get this nice curvy fan of files?

Doesn't it look suspiciously like an interface that would work well on a device you hold in two hands and operate with your thumbs from the side?

Paradobe

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Hey, Adobe — paranoid much?



Watch out — 'cos I could use Photoshop to create a document THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE SOMETHING ELSE!

How to get a graphic designer drunk

Monday, January 25, 2010

When you see the swoosh, take a drink!



This is the result of a single Google search for "logo" on my lunch hour. I'm flabbergasted.

Tales of Stupidity

Monday, January 25, 2010

On Thursday night, the warnings blared on my dashboard: Tire Pressure Too Low!
I swung into the gas station to check it out. Crouched in the dark, I checked the pressure, down to about 25psi. Feeding 4 quarters into the air machine got me something like 2 minutes of air, but it didn't seem to really make any difference. I slowly drove the remaining 3 blocks home. Since I was off to LA for the weekend, I figured I'd just obsess about it for the next 3 days and deal with it on Monday.

This morning. Once again, crouched by the side of my car using up all my quarters to inflate the tires. 10 minutes went by. Then 20 minutes. My hand was cramping from holding the air hose and my ankles were buckling. Every time I checked the pressure, no change. In fact, it seemed like the pressure was getting lower. There had to be a leak. This, I thought, is going to be a long, bad day dealing with car dealers and roadside maintenance and the like.

Hmm.

What is this lever on the air hose? I pressed it.

Oh. Air is now flowing into the tire...

For the last 20 minutes I have been holding the air hose to the tire, and bleeding the air out of the tire.

Duh.