Life in progress
Preview “Blow Away,” the first single off of A Fine Frenzy’s upcoming September release. I consider myself an Alison Sudol fan, but I definitely have some mixed feelings about this single. It’s a complete departure from the 2007 album and its piano-driven, melodic, jazz-inspired vibe.
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My best friend is running a marathon in December to raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Support her (she is, hands down, the most genuine, fun, caring person on the planet) and help over 800,000 Americans who are battling these blood cancers.
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A new favorite blog: TypePoster72. What’s better than a well-designed typographic poster? Especially one like this.
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@ecorrigan’s blog post from March just made my day brighter. “This is not a place you can go charging into, armed with to-do lists and rational argument and plans. You can’t take inventory and tidy up in there. It makes pieces of itself visible only when it’s ready. If you’re lucky, you might catch a glimpse in your peripheral vision every now and then. This is kind of a scary idea. That something so deep and so big and so in control is so elusive. …But the thing is, this is the essence of being human. It’s what we all have in common.”
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Finally had a chance to try Jeremy Smith’s how-to for running Internet Explorer 8, 7, and 6 concurrently, and it works flawlessly. I didn’t even receive any of the DLL errors that he cites in his post.
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News of the weird (and creepy): a girl who doesn’t age. Sixteen years old, and she still looks like a toddler. “In the long term, the idea that the aging process might somehow be manipulated raises serious questions about what human beings might do with that knowledge. ‘Clearly, that’s the science fiction aspect of it. …We can’t have continued reproduction and people who don’t age.’”
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A little Monday eye candy from Visualbox, a motion graphics shop in Argentina. Brilliantly communicates video in series of eight stills.
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This is quite possibly the most vindicated I have ever felt. In my life. “Smug early birds take note: Night owls actually have more mental stamina than those who awaken at the crack of dawn, according to new research. …After 10 hours of being awake, the early birds showed reduced activity in brain areas linked to attention span, compared with the night owls. The early risers also felt sleepier and tended to perform tasks more slowly, compared with the night owls, when their level of alertness was measured.” Via the Globe and Mail.
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Note to self (and anyone else using Wordpress): Don’t give your posts numeric slugs. It makes perfect sense, really, but you cannot have a page permalink like domain.com/2009 — or even domain.com/section/2009. It thinks it’s a blog archive and throws a little tantrum. Awesome.
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Inspired by Em (and the list I made last November, toward which I made pathetic progress). 24 things to do before I turn 25:
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From the trailer, it looks like the silver screen version of Niffenegger’s brilliant work of fiction will be more of an inspired-by adaptation than a direct translation of the book — a wise decision, IMHO. Here’s to hoping that the inserted dialog doesn’t undermine the beauty of the story.
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Thanks to DailyCandy, I now know that Richmond needs to be on my British Columbia tour route.
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Alejandro Paul is the brilliant typographer behind many of the most elegant, delightful, exquisitely-executed scripts of our time — Burgues, Feel Script, Ministry Script, Affair, and Compendium, just to name a few. (He’s also the author of the lovely “Miss/Mrs./Mr.” handwriting faces, in Veer’s Umbrella Collection, of which Mr. Sheffield is a personal favorite.) In the spirit of Feel, but with a more romantic, delicate hand, comes Adios Script. Coming soon to a website project near you…
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In case Awkward Family Photos isn’t enough to get you through Friday and into the weekend, try Cake Wrecks.
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I don’t often use Word for Mac and think to myself, Gee, what a delightful computing experience! (Usually, the sentiment is closer to, *&$#, are you ever going to finish “optimizing font menu performance”?!) But I recently upgraded to Office 2008, and I had to convert a DOC to PDF today — something I usually dread because PDFMaker fails, oh, about 90% of the time and I end up using Preview to convert to PDF and then putting in hyperlinks manually in Acrobat. Today, I thought that I’d skip PDFMaker altogether and go straight to Save As, and there, waiting to greet me, was a format of PDF. Hallelujah! Does this have anything to do with the fact that PDF finally became an open standard last year?
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