Quickies Archives - Page 4 of 4

October 10, 2008

I’m Crying on the Inside

Granted, the question is leading, but the answers given are very revealing. Now, I won't pidgeonhole all McCain-Palin supporters into this stereotype, but really?

Interviewer: [Obama's] a terrorist?

Woman: He's got the blood-lines.

Interviewer: What does that mean?

Woman: Just think about the name.

There's not really much more I can add to that.

Listen, I'm not going to tell you how to vote. That's a personal choice and I have no business doing that. But please, don't base all your opinions on one candidate or the other on soundbites, derogotory ads, or what you think you heard on the news that one time.

October 7, 2008

If you can’t afford Particular

Andrew Kramer posted another tutorial in the Meteor Crash series. The best piece of advise from the tutorial:

Now, if you don't have Particular, what you can do is go in your back yard, and get a pile of dirt together. Put it in your hand, along with a grenade... No, along with like, a small firecracker. And then... light it. And when your hand blows off, what you can do is sue the company that makes the fireworks. Take the money from the settlement, and then buy Particular... so we can do this tutorial together.

Really, he doesn't get into Particular until part 2, though.

October 3, 2008

Searching Like It’s 2001

As part of Google's 10th anniversary, it is making available a search index from 2001. Apparently due to technical reasons, this is the oldest index it could use. It is still interesting to take a look at how much the web has changed in 7 years.

[via NY Times]

September 28, 2008

The Falcon 1 Has Made It Into Space

On their fourth attempt, SpaceX has successfully launched the Falcon 1 into space, marking the first for a privately funded rocket.

September 22, 2008

All of a sudden

A direct rip from Daring Fireball, but it bears repeating:

For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street.

– Sen. Bernie Sanders (I, Vermont)

September 18, 2008

Ampers&

When my nerd side meets my design side: Typographunnies.

[via core77]

September 4, 2008

IE Must Die

A nice set of vector badges from DesignNerd Blog. The first one is very fitting as I'm still struggling to get some css and png transparency for this site working properly on IE 6.

[Thanks garamer.]

August 18, 2008

Gradient Tool

I'm not sure if Ars Technica user ppc970 is kidding or not in a Pixelmator update post. If not, it makes me very sad.

You guys don't get it. In this highly gradient-competitive web 2.0 world, the gradient tool is the most important element of any program

(Yes, I'm aware this page design uses gradients.)

August 13, 2008

This About Sums Up AT&T

Ran across this when trying to figure out how to keep "MMS Opt Out" on my account:
att_opt-out2

For the record, searching for "opt out" yields the same results.