September 2008
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“Was it Something I Said” by The...
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WatchOn The Media had a great bit about a rhetorical device called “antimetabole.” A good example of this is JFK’s “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE) →
Microsoft has now released a free stand-alone panorama autostitcher. This seems very much Matthew Brown’s handiwork…no way to confirm it though, as they don’t give any credits. Anyways, give it a try…it’s very user-friendly and has some really nice options. [via Lifehacker]
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Google: Search Like a Pirate →
WatchPortal’s “Still Alive” in dynamic typography. I really like how they used the portals in this vid, but it bothers me that they used a lo-res image of the cake. [via obienator]
“By the late 1920s, America’s business and political elite had found a way to...”
– Jeffry Kaplan, “The Gospel of Consumption”
“How come we choose from just two people for President, and fifty for Miss...”
– Alfred E. Neuman [via gtmcknight via Chirag]
WatchThis is very odd, yet interesting. The mosaic reminds me of the facial texture for skinning a character in a video game…something I once tried to do back in the original Half-Life. [via eccentric squares]
“What did they say in ‘Star Wars’? We’re going where no man has ever been? Well,...”
– Michael Zeller, a professor of physics at Yale who has been working at the Large Hadron Collider [via Gizmodo]
WatchIf you have $10, a Wii, and an internet connection: buy LostWinds. The controls put the Wii’s innovative controller to good use, the graphics and music are beautiful, and it’s a nice combination of puzzle, platformer, and adventure.
WatchThis slide show does a good job at explaining the crisis in Zimbabwe. I wonder if we’ll help them when we’re done helping Iraq. Be warned: there are a few disturbing images. [via How to Change the World]
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“A font walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hey, we don’t serve your type...”
– by David [via Typographunnies]
The Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell - Flickr Pool →
As much as I like to customize Firefox, I’ve never gotten too deep into customizing Windows or my desktop. Widgets are neat, but I just don’t always see the use of having them around until I need them…I’ve even gotten used to using Launchy in place of an icon dock. Of course, looking through this collection may change my mind.
Google Chrome →
Check out the 39 page (!) comic book describing the new browser that Google is working on.
The Hero's Journey
During a recent discussion about the storytelling concept of the hero’s journey I learned of The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler…which led me to discovering A Practical Guide To The Hero With a Thousand Faces, the seven page memo that inspired the aforementioned book…and finally The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, which...
“There are five Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the Christian, and some...”
– Gypsy Smith, an Irish evangelist [via Drawn From Still Water]