Follow along and see how to draw a monkey in four steps. I drew this happy little guy using Pixia, an awesome and free drawing program for Windows. All the anime aside, its got a powerful pen/brush, bezier/spline curves, and layer system. Note, you\’ll have to click through to the full story to see the […]
Avi Rubin, a well-known and vocal critic of electronic voting wrote up his experiences serving as an election judge in Maryland yesterday. His account is a good read and it sounds like a positive experience both for him and the folks he worked with. Over the next several hours, we all were busy checking in
You have to click through to check out the pictures! The university of Kentucky claims an Italian tv show copied their mascot. You have to hate your job when it requires you to say stuff like: “Their mascot is silent and conceptually different: He’s mute and moves along the sidelines of basketball courts,” Damerini said.
Human Factors International rounds up ten usability principles for web design. Nothing completely earth shattering. Numbers 8 and 9 more of the clients I work with need to take to heart: 8. Know user tolerances Users are impatient. Design for a 2-10 second maximum download. Reuse header graphics so they can load from cache. Avoid
Three NGO’s argue that the United States sponsored coca eradication programs in Colomiba and the rest of the Andes do not work. Coca is compartively much easier to grow than alternative cash crops – requiring much less labor. Because it is more lucrative as well, it doesn’t make sense for a poor Andean farmer to
Ran across this item on general player wages and competitiveness on the Sports Economist, an interesting looking blog but without an RSS syndication feed in sight (it uses atom). Here is a concrete example. The U.S. will produce numerous soccer superstars in the future. But they will all go to Europe unless our clubs pay
Really, why does anyone think stuff like this is a good idea? I support the EFF but making users pay for using a p2p service is stupid. First of all, the music would not go to the artists but to the labels – since artists practically sign away their life. Then, what if I don’t
I don’t know why, but with the start of each MLS season, I always have a very naive hope that this season won’t be at all like the last one. Here’s the Washington Post’s update halfway through the pre-season particularly about Freddy Adu, Convey taking a break, and some trade talk. “You can see he’s
Posted mainly because my sister works at Freddie Mac. Scott Rosenberg: Fannie, Freddie Mitch Ratcliffe has posted an intriguing analysis over at the new Red Herring, suggesting that the moves against Fannie and Freddie are part of a Bush administration political “payback”:
Found via Stupid Security, Mr. bin Laden, you’re clear to fly Insight recently learned that scenario was tested at a U.S. airport in the South during January. The result was troubling: America’s most-wanted fugitive is cleared to fly. According to airline-security documents obtained by this magazine, the name Osama bin Laden was punched into the