May 2013
“I know he was there in the crowd, somewhere,” said Agent Cromwell. “I felt him.”
“Well, let’s find out,” said Jones.
Jones typed command after command into his terminal. Dozens of images flashed in rapid succession on the screen array before him, a composite of every surveillance camera in the downtown Cincinnati area. Nobody in the room saw this as an...
The Verge:
First, Google plans to automatically make your pictures better. A feature called Auto Enhance will analyze and apply tweaks to your uploaded photos. From what we’ve heard on stage, this will include simple adjustments like brightness, contrast, color correction, noise reduction, tonal distribution, and saturation, but it will also make some more intensive changes. One...
“There are few moments where we have the opportunity to win a battle against our...”
– Katie Notopoulos
Blogging => Learning Code
HELLO TUMBLRS.
I’m looking for people who:
- know at least a little bit of HTML, CSS, and/or Javascript;
- learned HTML, CSS, and/or Javascript only AFTER they started blogging;
- bonus points if your first blog was a Tumblr.
Please email me if I might interview you for like 5 minutes. This is for a thing.
ericspiegelman at gmail
April 2013
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My dad posted this on Facebook
The passing of Jonathan Winters has ignited the memory of an encounter I had with him as a child. It was 1956, and my father who was a pioneer in TV syndication represented a childrens show called Romper Room. The whole family accompanied him on a business trip to NYC where my sisters and I obtained tickets to The Tonight Show which was then starring Steve Allen. It was Tuesday night and the...
Sport Balls Replaced With Cats dot Tumblr dot com →
NOOOOOOOOOOOO →
NOT AGAIN
(KDAY is going out of busiNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)
City Hall to Disney Hall, Hyperlapsed →
Someone help me export these to Quicktime?
Silver Lake Boulevard, along the Reservoir, on... →
I’m going to make these all day long.
Tim Kazurinsky to star in Chicago production of... →
The 8-year-old Police Academy 2 fan in me is very much delighted.
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March 2013
Who's that white lady? →
Even though Greuel’s been in elected office since 2002, around most parts of South Los Angeles she’s simply known as the “white lady” running for mayor. Which by all accounts, isn’t good for her campaign.
It hadn’t occurred to me until just this moment that the feminists of Los Angeles, the ones voting for Wendy Greuel only because she is a woman (and there are many of these), are the...
Truncated transcript from today's SCOTUS argument
courtneymilan:
SCALIA: Tell me, Counsel. Gay marriage: Bad for children, or the worst for children?
COOPER: We really don’t know. Gay marriage is so new. We have no evidence. It could be that gay marriage will cause aliens to descend on this planet and eat the flesh of all children under the age of sixteen. Or maybe not. We just don’t know. We have to think of the children.
KENNEDY: This is...
Here is an example of good legal design. →
For another example of good legal design, hire Garrett Murray and read his paperwork.
felixsalmon:
September 10, 2011:
Today, The Washington Post launches Wonkblog, a new online feature combining reporting and analysis on economic and domestic policy…
“Our goal with Wonkblog is to deliver policy news in an aggressive, engaging and accessible way,” said Ezra Klein, Wonkblog editor. “We’re focused on breaking down the jargon and delivering news that helps link the effects of...
