This is fun and interesting: Poladroid, a tiny app that creates faux-Polaroid images from any image you like. It gets a lot of the details right (10 images to a session, old-style textured frame, a pseudo-Lomo effect at the edges) and does a nice job. (Mac only)
AP: Stevens Loses Alaska Senate Race. Sweet justice. They should now throw this asshat out onto the tundra and paintball him from helicopters.
FUCK, FUCK, FUCK. FUCKITY FUCK. God dammit, now there’s a Flip MinoHD. Son of a BITCH.
CopyPaste Character – a handy reference for web design.
Change.gov, a website put up by the Obama campaign. If they use this to its fullest potential, this could be a game-changing tool for his presidency.
Apparently, Maryland has an online firearms safety training program for potential law enforcement recruits. I’m still going to take the in-person course, though.
Plainview, a full-screen web browser, with a tiny footprint. Helpful for designers like me. Very nice.
Palin’s Nightmare. HA! This is so funny, it’s criminal. This dumb broad needs to get some book learnin’, dontcha think?
14 to 42: New York City Signs. I’m a sucker for old signage. This is a magnificent historical timesuck. (via)
I’ve been looking for a good quick method for converting color images to black and white, and this article has the LAB color method I’d read about a long time ago. I just set it up as a Photoshop action for future use.