Ruby on Rails in Linux Journal

The current issue of Linux Journal is all about Ruby on Rails. Looks interesting.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/147

Couple Offered Hit Man $100 To Kill Grandkids

Apparently they weren't too crazy about the dog either.

http://www.local6.com/news/9296581/detail.html

Digital Photo Retouching Examples

Just mouse over to see the before picture:

http://www.briandilg.com/imaging/index.htm#imaging

100 Photographs that Changed the World

Some interesting photos, as you might expect:

100 Photographs that Changed the World

11 Tips for Better Candid Photography

11 Tips for Better Candid Photography

Web 2.0 Design Kit | Photoshop Lab

Nice little tutorial for doing Mac style aqua.

Web 2.0 Design Kit | Photoshop Lab

Slashdot redesign winner

Not much has changed ...

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters

Digital Camera Photographer of the Year

Digital Camera Photographer of the Year

Photo of the Year

Arabic translation

The City of Ottawa is scrambling to fix thousands of posters put up in a unique advertising campaign warning people in five languages not to smoke pot and drive.

Signs

Studio-Quality Lighting Made Easy

Studio-Quality Lighting Made Easy

This is a short article from PCPhoto magazine. All the text of the article from the magazine is there, but they didn't put in the diagrams of the various setups. It's still worth a read though.

TextMate Blog - Screencasts

Awesome little Mac editor with 2 screencasts on site: Ruby on Rails and symfony (PHP) using Textmate. I tried it last night, pretty slick. The screencasts just happen to be highlight two frameworks I am considering.

TextMate Blog Screencast

Anybody looking for cheap web hosting?

PHP5 for $9.95/month

[ DreamHost : Shared Hosting : Plan Comparison ]

Nice set of free icons

Incase you guys decide to do some development on the side or even here.

famfamfam.com: Silk Icons

Underworld 3

I think I found the newest Lichen for Underworld 3

Lichen

CSS is Worthless

Interesting Articles floating around today.

CSS is Worthless

Canon 20D vs. Nikon D70s

A professional photographer compares digital SLR cameras:
Canon 20D vs. Nikon D70s review test

Top Ten List

Top ten signs you're a fundamentalist Christian.

#9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

Here's the whole list: Top Ten List

An Event Apart NYC - Two Days of Design & Code

Anybody interested in this event? I maybe, it is more than 37 signals but it is 2 days and it is in New York instead of Chicago.

An Event Apart News: An Event Apart NYC - Two Days of Design & Code

GTD with Vim

Maybe worth a look see.

William Bartholomew - GTD with Vim Project

Greener Pasture - Amazing table-football skills

These are some insane foosball moves! Make sure you watch until the end.

Greener Pasture - Amazing table-football skills

Curves

Fundamentals of a powerful tool for improving the color and contrast of digitized photos.

Curves

Photo - Realistic

Make your digital images more convincing and lifelike with just a handful of gradients and custom shadows. Once you’re done, your pictures will look like real photo prints, you’d swear they popped out of the screen.

Photo - Realistic

StockPhotoTalk | Special Interest Blog: QuickLinks For 2006-05-25

StockPhotoTalk | Special Interest Blog: QuickLinks For 2006-05-25: "Getty Images, the largest [stock photo] agency by far with more than 30 percent of the global market, purchased iStockphoto for $50 million."

Benjamin MooreAdvertising/Design Goodness

Very cool advertising.

Benjamin MooreAdvertising/Design Goodness

Pupils perform 'alarming' feat | Metro.co.uk

Police using ultra-high sound to keep gangs away from malls. I guess dogs too.

Pupils perform 'alarming' feat | Metro.co.uk.

dpmac.com - Adobe Digital Photography Workflow

dpmac.com - Adobe Digital Photography Workflow

Free daily on-line tutorial series on Adobe products including Photoshop and Lightroom.

travelingforever.com - Ditch the Laptop for A USB Key

travelingforever.com - Ditch the Laptop for A USB Key: Travellers "can carry an entire computer's worth of software everywhere they go, and keep a personal mini computer stored on a usb key, accessible through almost any computer in the world."

This posts explains how to set up your USB Key with all the software you need, pretty much all of it free, so that you can have your computer without having to carry around your laptop. I think it's a great idea.

Cambridge in Colour - Digital Photography Tutorials

Cambridge in Colour - Digital Photography Tutorials: "- DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TUTORIALS -"

This looks interesting.

Usability and sample redesign

Maybe interested in this post (50 Redesigns preview: Sunhome.biz) if you want to trade your services for someone elses. Didn't work for me this time, but I will try again.

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