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  • Project MarkdownPictPress

    I really like the Markdown plugin in WordPress, particularly the cool reference style links. As someone who still uses a plain-text email client, it’s no surprise that I’d appreciate the simple syntax of Markdown…I already use it! Still, since I can’t leave a good thing alone, I’d like it to work with my uploaded images, wrapped in fancy dropshadow boxes. […]

  • Chronicle: Delving Into Democracy’s Shadows

    From Arts & Letters Daily: The article Delving Into Democracy’s Shadow explores the books of Michael Mann, a sociology professor at UCLA. He’s the author of The Sources of Social Power, a yet-unfinished set of books that “chart the emergence of four distinct forms of power (ideological, military, economic, and political)”.

  • Why pursue Art? Sean Kernan knows!

    My buddy Jeff over at Scintus Images forwarded me this link to a graduation address by Sean Kernan. He’s a well-known photographer, though I am shamefully ignorant of such things. Anyway, Jeff said that he respected this guy a lot — “He says a lot of what I also believe in, expressed very well”. It’s long, but worth the read […]

  • Beset by Fleas!

    Recommendations are at the bottom of this post. Damnit, the house has erupted in fleas or something that leaves tiny bite marks. The cats have been scratching themselves all day, and I’m itchy too. The cats don’t go out, so it’s something that either crawled over from the outside or I brought them back with me from somewhere else. I […]

  • Desktop Manufacturing

    Wired has an article on Fab Labs. The Fab Labs, a project from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, has “about $20,000 dollars worth of equipment — a 3-D milling machine, a table-top laser cutter, a computerized system for cutting and shaping plastic and other materials, along with associated computers, software, small electronics tools and component parts.” The idea of […]

  • The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

    I’ve always been curious about how the mind works, and in theories of how things work in general, so when I found a whole book filled organized by cognitive concepts I was tempted to order it right then and there. I became aware of its existence in this article on Automaticity. Why was I looking up Automaticity? Because someone used […]