What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk 'Til Dawn? That they're crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America's crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits - and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer.

I now seem to be able to copy text from other apps (Word, Mail, Safari) and paste into Illustrator, but when I try to copy and paste images from another app, Illustrator just pastes the last object that I copied from within Illustrator (vector or image).

Edwards uses the new layer search and filtering options to quickly isolate individual layers based on layer type, name, color, effect, mode, and attribute.

Days at Firefly, like other primitive skills gatherings, are spent learning about harvesting wild foods, permaculture, making crafts from available local plants and rocks, processing wild game/road kill using the whole animal and learning the various methods of fire starting using friction.

Curious to see how these new Coke cans print. They look great onscreen! via @thedieline

RT @Pinboard: Welcoming bit.ly to the bookmarking party: It's now a floor wax AND a dessert topping!

She's concerned that all these snippets of information, texts and posts are connections, not conversations. She says technology is letting us hide from one another.

"People can't get enough of each other — if and only if they can have each other at a distance, in amounts they can control," Turkle said in a recent TED talk she gave called "Connected, but Alone?"

Actually, this reminds me of an essay I read a long time ago about Soviet science fiction. The author — if anyone remembers where this came from — noted that most science fiction is about one of two thoughts: “if only”, or “if this goes on”. Both were subversive, from the Soviet point of view: the first implied that things could be better, the second that there was something wrong with the way things are. So stories had to be written about “if only this goes on”, extolling the wonders of being wonderful Soviets.

RT @20x200: Things to do today: Graphic Design—Now in Production on view @ Governor's Island, Building 110. Free ferry

London, reflected in puddles – beautiful work by photographer @GavinHammond

This free online computer science course is an introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science. Topics include algorithms (their design, implementation, and analysis); software development (abstraction, encapsulation, data structures, debugging, and testing); architecture of computers (low-level data representation and instruction processing); computer systems (programming languages, compilers, operating systems, and databases); and computers in the real world (networks, websites, security, forensics, and cryptography).

RT @iHerodotus: Today only, The Mutilation of the Herms, by Debra Hamel, is free on Kindle:

Wow! These are magazine covers created for a background newsstand in the movie Blade Runner.

via @deppey @delong

An small, flexible and efficient library to create and manipulate interactive documents based on data.

This macro processes an image (or several) selected in the Finder. If the image is larger than 600px wide, a new scaled copy is created that is 600px wide. But the trick is to scale both dimensions relatively, not just squash the image on the X-axis.

Isolation is a necessity, also an acute loneliness and a sense of slight rejection.

Trump: Obama Was Definitely Born In Kenya via @TPMLivewire

Locog insists the protections were essential to secure the contracts that have paid for the Olympics, but some fear the effect could be to limit the economic benefits to the capital's economy – and set a precedent for major national celebrations in future.

I thought I'd post this for people who are still bothered by this problem. I'm constantly fighting this re-appearing "glitch".
I won't get into the reasons for WHY this happens (It appears to be when there is a font conflict where both fonts are named something like "Helvetica" yet are either different types, or even come from different font house).

This problem comes from multiple master font technology, that was left behind adn is no longer supported
find & remove all mm fonts form your system
restart illustrator
find and chaneg your fonts
save the file
the problem will no longer come up on your machine
if someone else opens this file on a machgine with mm fonts in their library, saves they can infect it again

With low unemployment and solid economic growth, things are going better than ever for Germans. But a new study shows they're practically incapable of enjoying it. Not only do they find it difficult to cut loose and experience pleasure, but their "joy gene" is broken, researchers say.

What happens when all the things we based our icons on don't exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery?

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Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.

Support for "hidden" features
Within the integrated Creative Suite applications, perform asset management functions such as viewing version history or adding comments upon check-in when saving files directly from the application.

Asana is task-based software, a shared to-do list for the company. Work is assigned and completed by a potentially unending set of teams created on the fly. Asana is a Sanskrit word meaning “easeful posture.” Yoga practitioners think of it in terms of complex poses done effortlessly. “You should read a lot into the name,” Mr. Moskovitz said.

The principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research discusses the limits of intuition, and how conventional wisdom keeps being overturned as marketers apply science to data.

Younger children, he said, salivate upon seeing Level One of Zonic Fugue. In it, Zonic, the indigo-colored son of Sonic The Hedgehog, faces off against Chuckles The Echidna in a Terrordactyl sky-joust, attempting to earn the Ankle Rockets he needs to gather the five Chaos Sapphires that, when combined, form the master key that opens the Melody Dome.

To break the spirits of children 12 and up, the Ghost runs a brief demonstration of Back To Werewolf Island. The horror-action thriller, he said, will be produced in full 10.8 Omneo sound and feature new music from 40 of 2016's hottest skagcore acts, including FU3P, Dredgerous, and Frances Cobain.

Late last week VMware released VMware Fusion 4.1, an update to its virtualization package for Mac OS X that aims to play catch up to Parallels Desktop 7 in some respects and surpass it in another. The free update brings performance increases and better Lion host compatibility, as well as the ability to run non-server versions of Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 in virtual machines-something Parallels can't do.

Just released v1.1 of my Zip & Share @keyboardmaestro macro. Create age-limited zip files with @Dropbox & @Noodle_Hazel

7 facets of a good Mac backup strategy

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior.

Some of this effect is probably our expecting faster rates of change, and so any given amount of strangeness is expected to arrive sooner. But I’d guess most of this effect is that we are just less interested in the distant future.

RT @tejucole: I've long believed that apala anticipates drum and bass by a few decades. Polyrhythm drives the argument.

Original Wobble: Fuji music along the coast of west Africa been doing wobble for... oh only a few thousand years before Rusko.

Changes many preconceptions about human genome. 'rare mutations are abundant'

hipster hospitality fable RT @turnerjen: I wasn't kidding. We really picked up John Waters hitchhiking.

Researcher colorizes every 7th Pringle as a portion control marker.

regulation requires definition, and this is where things became (and have remained) extremely interesting, as committees of politicians, scientists, retailers, and lawyers navigate cultural assumptions, rhetorical sleigh-of-hand, and the current state of technology in an ongoing attempt to create a watertight, enforceable distinction between nature and artifice, at least in terms of food flavouring.

Brendan: Yeah, I’m still very good friends with him. He was the one who initially found me when I was sixteen. And I flew to L.A met with him very quickly. He hired me and he is actually one of the only two relationships that had survived IDE.

Unix and Linux keep a "last accessed" date for files and directories. You can see that date by using "ls -u filename" or "ls -du directoryname". That date can be a critical clue as we'll see in a moment, but it's so easy to lose it.

My girlfriend's karma machine is Japanese, and was quite surprised by my scary foreign face (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

HP "will refocus on product development & sales." So what were they doing before?

. Some shirts look different if you are looking at them or wearing them. Some ask you to be really close or really far

When I used the Chrome print facility with "Save as PDF" then the
result PDF file will cause Adobe Acrobat Reader to show this warning
message: The font 'LucidaGrande' contains a bad /BBox.

My system has a built in LucidaGrande font and it appear to be valid
according to the OS font reader test.

Anyone else has this?

RT @debcha: Brilliant. H&M ads vandalized with Photoshop toolbars. /via @evilrooster

RT @resnikoff: Holy shit holy shit. It's like if NYPD's mascot was Frisky, the Stop 'n' Frisk Dog. h/t @dlind

johnmc / f*

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. – Ken Kesey

U-6, total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers.

Here’s how I got started.

One of the best technical books I’ve ever read is Beginning Mac Programming by Tim Isted. Tim, it turns out, is a fantastic writer. Also, don’t be scared that the book is about Mac programming and what you want to do is iOS. Tim teaches you valuable conventions and best practices that you’ll use in iOS development too.

s it mere chance that no candidate with facial hair has won the presidency since William Howard Taft

Share messages, photos, videos, and locations with different groups: family, friends, co-workers, classmates, volunteers, and more.

Share privately

Glassboard has no privacy settings — because everything is private. It’s that easy.

And you never have to worry about the rules changing.

Would it be too much to say that America saved Eduardo Saverin? Probably. Maybe that’s just too overwrought. The Saverins were just another in a long line of immigrants who’d come to America for the opportunity it affords—the opportunity, among other things, to not have to worry that your child will be kidnapped just because you’ve become wealthy.

I've just bought an Intel D510MO - it's a Pine-trail Atom based mini-ITX board:
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=60#d510mo

“Tuition levels are at a tipping point,” Moody’s wrote, adding later, “We anticipate an ongoing bifurcation of student demand favoring the highest quality and most affordable higher education options.”

RT @bunkywu: The trailer for the documentary "Design & Thinking" actually looks decent:

a victory for capitalism in what has been for decades a government-run enterprise.

RT @LPK: Have a proclivity for capturing an idea/benefit in a word or two? LPK Verbal is looking for freelance Namers:

I'm a data journalist at NPR. I try each day to create a data visualization, or I post those I find online. Let me know if you have ideas for visualizations or find links I should share.

Shakespeare's hokey cokey.

[1] Gather the raw material

[2] Digest the material

[3] Don’t think

China now controls 95 percent of total rare-earth supply.

The top 10 in-demand freelancers are: PHP programmers, WordPress programmers, article writing, graphic design, HTML programmers, CSS, MySQL, Photoshop, Blogs and Javascript.

RT @timoreilly: Role Reversal: Why TV Is Replacing Movies As Elite Entertainment Smart thinking

So typing f_ means “find the next underscore” (on the current line). t_ means “til the next underscore,” the cursor will stop on the character before the next underscore. (You can use F and T to search backward rather than forward.)