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Photoshop disasters |

You see, when a picture loves another picture very much, they get together and do something very special. Son, I’m going to use a word I’m sure you’ve heard before - they get Photoshopped together. And this is how a disaster comes into the world; it’s a beautiful thing.
From Photoshop Disasters, a site which I […]

Pogues’ Imponderables: Impondered |

David Pogue ponders a few things about the world. I decide to answer them. Wish me luck.
* Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels, but $14 a night at expensive ones?
That’s an easy one. At the core it’s price discrimination, or the art of making people pay the maximum of what people are willing to […]

John Gruber can be unfair too. |

Daring Fireball is a site I frequently read. John Gruber links to, and comments on, a lot of interesting things on Daring Fireball. Just the other day, John linked to and commented on an interesting piece in Good Magazine. The piece describes the base measurement of the metric system (the meter) in a series of […]

Improving the SXSW panel voting |

Coming up in March is the next South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference. It’s one of the biggest gatherings of new media people (meaning web folk) and it’s held in Texas. The conference time-table is filled with talks. Who gets to talk at SXSW? That gets decided by online vote. While that seems like a […]

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