A color perception optical illusion
Should you encounter someone who doubts the importance of context in color perception, you might try whipping out this little demonstration: via John Nack on...
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Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
Lotus Notes 8.5 Mac - Bypass Installation Checks
Lotus Notes 8.5 on Mac has a wonderful little installation preflight check to prevent you from installing the software on a PPC machine. At least, that's the...
Read post →Can you read this headline?
If so, the Earth hasn't been swallowed up by a black hole... Atom-smasher sets energy-level record .
Read post →Out of the Box Experience - Mac vs PC
I had to set up a couple of new Sony VAIO laptops for a client recently, and I was amazed at the difference in the Out of Box Experience between a premium PC...
Read post →Using a 27-inch iMac as an external display
If you want a glorious desktop with two large monitors, it may make sense for you to use two 27" iMacs, with one configured in Target Display Mode. With Targ...
Read post →Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers - Navy sea lions - io9
And I, for one, welcome our new aquatic mammalian overlords... Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers - Navy sea lions - io9 .
Read post →Dr. Grordbort's Rayguns from Weta
Dr. Grordbort has made some beautiful rayguns in the past - hand made at Weta in Kiwiland, very desirable and quite expensive. They're now making some raygun...
Read post →Google Wave Invites...
Email me if you want a Google Wave invite. No, I've still got no idea what on earth Wave is all about (or //ave as Google spell it) but maybe if I invite you...
Read post →Everything You Wanted To Know About The PS3’s iView | Gizmodo Australia
Looks like the v1.0 implementation of ABC's iView for the PS3 isn't fantastic, but improvements are already in the pipeline. Everything You Wanted To Know Ab...
Read post →Does Snow Leopard Server have Greylisting enabled by default?
In trying to diagnose an issue with delayed receiving of emails on a fresh install of Snow Leopard Server, I noticed some error messages in the logs that loo...
Read post →Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal
This guy has an obsession with finding a 3D version of the Mandlebrot fractal. He's given himself some very strict parameters that the resultant equation mus...
Read post →Adobe Labs - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
I've been using Aperture for a number of years now - it was relatively easy to get into it as it's vaguely similar to iPhoto in a lot of ways. I've been hear...
Read post →Rupert Murdoch vs Google.
I've been following the story that's appeared recently where Murdoch is saying that he will effectively use robots.txt to stop Google from crawling any of hi...
Read post →You are what you eat...
Vegetables are all your body needs... International Vegetarian Union: Anatomy Model Woman | Ads of the World .
Read post →Making web pages more readable.
This is pure gold. Readability. Better than ad-block, better than click to flash. If you find a page that's worth reading, add the bookmarklet from Readabili...
Read post →Notes for installing Solaris 10
These notes won't be of too much use to anyone but me, I'm putting them here so that I can refer to them later on when I need to... Install a minimal system....
Read post →Google Knows All
At least Google knows quite a hell of a lot of stuff about YOU . Log in at the following URL and you'll be able to see just how much Google has learned about...
Read post →LOLCODE
This code snippet below is a Hello World program written in LOLCODE. HAI CAN HAS STDIO? VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!" KTHXBYE For something slightly more advanced, he...
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