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Comic artists card gallery

Comic artists card gallery 06/29/2004 05:43 AM
Lines on Paper has a great nine-page gallery of business cards embellished by comic artist notables. Here's my fave by Dennis Worden. For more yummy comic browsing, consult the Comiclopedia (from Lambiek, which also has an illustrated history of Dutch comics).

CSS Pencils v3

CSS Pencils v3 01/17/2004 11:09 PM
an image constructed (and manipulable) using just CSS .. thumbnail of some pencil crayons .. mit CSS erstellten Bleistifte .. a small “image” .. CSS Pencils v3 .. wowed by this

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"CSS Pencils v3"

"CSS Pencils v3" 01/19/2004 07:16 AM

"CSS Pencils"

"CSS Pencils" 05/06/2004 10:19 AM

Please Take Out Your Pencils

Please Take Out Your Pencils 05/24/2004 07:55 AM
We're going to do a little personality test: when you see these new design by Vegard Thue Bjorlykke (for Afterlab), do you see: A. The sawed-off thighs and torso of an olympic gymnast B. Circus Titties C. Super Speakers If...

CSS Pencils

CSS Pencils 05/03/2004 08:11 AM

CSS Pencils v3.1: Play with this for a while, then view the source. Some people have way too much time on their hands.

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News: Comic Life adds comic book-style
tweaks to photos

News: Comic Life adds comic book-style
tweaks to photos 04/14/2005 10:27 AM
Plasq.com has released Comic Life 1.0 for Mac OS X, an application that lets users add comic book-style embellishments to their digital photos. You can add simple captions to your photos or even use them to create full-fledged comic books, according to the developer. A demo download is available, and the full version cost US$39.95 to register.

If you loved our Comic Art Effect
tutorial, check out Comic Life

If you loved our Comic Art Effect
tutorial, check out Comic Life 04/15/2005 03:55 PM
Last year we brought you the Comic Art Effect tutorial and inspired a new breed of photo-comic artists.

New on the scene is Plasq's Comic Life application which will aid you in turning your comic themed pictures into comic book pages--complete with dialog balloons, "sound" effects and captions. Very cool--very impressed.

Microsoft pencils in scaled down
Longhorn for 2006

Microsoft pencils in scaled down
Longhorn for 2006 04/13/2004 06:05 AM
Silicon.com Apr 13 2004 9:55AM GMT

Heads' college told to sharpen up

Heads' college told to sharpen up 07/24/2004 07:58 AM
The school leadership college is praised in a review but told that changes are necessary.

Kerry's Advisers Look to Sharpen Message
(AP)

Kerry's Advisers Look to Sharpen Message
(AP) 02/11/2004 08:29 PM
AP - The nomination within reach, John Kerry's advisers are discussing strategies for sharpening his message, spending his money, airing TV ads and collecting a winner's share of the 538 electoral votes in November's general election.

XBRL to Sharpen Banks' Biz Reports

XBRL to Sharpen Banks' Biz Reports 06/14/2004 12:24 AM
As Sarbanes-Oxley regulations loom, systems integration companies are urging their banking and financial services clients to use emerging Extensible Business Reporting Language-enabled software.

Motorola aims to sharpen design edge

Motorola aims to sharpen design edge 09/08/2004 02:20 PM
ChicagoBusiness.com Sep 8 2004 7:00PM GMT

Enterasys, Cisco Sharpen the IQ of the
Network Edge

Enterasys, Cisco Sharpen the IQ of the
Network Edge 09/13/2004 12:58 PM
New Enterasys and Cisco products migrate intelligence.

Clinton Urges Kerry To Sharpen His
Attack (washingtonpost.com)

Clinton Urges Kerry To Sharpen His
Attack (washingtonpost.com) 09/06/2004 09:58 PM

Motorola Aims to Sharpen Design Edge
(Reuters)

Motorola Aims to Sharpen Design Edge
(Reuters) 09/08/2004 02:27 PM
Reuters - In a 26th-floor office suite overlooking Lake Michigan, some 40 industrial designers, mechanical engineers and specialists in fields ranging from anthropology to musicology converge for their daily dance: developing mobile phones for Motorola Inc.

Cubitt Artists

Cubitt Artists 01/27/2004 10:24 AM
Cubitt Artists Created a Pink Tank .. §Š† „Š†© .. toque feminino .. [Display] .. tank .. pink

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State of the Artists

State of the Artists 04/22/2004 10:44 AM
My latest article for TheFeature.com is now online. It's about art that incorporates, and sometimes critiques, mobile technology:

"Research laboratories are the avant-garde art galleries of the 21st century. That shouldn't come as a surprise though. Art is a lens through which engineers can raise tough questions about the science fictions that they create, and we inhabit."

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Cuban artists

Cuban artists 01/07/2004 04:27 PM

One of our friends has a young Cuban lover and she goes to visit him there periodically.  This situation spurred some reflection:  "Why are there so many artists and musicians in Cuba?"The next thought "Well, why not?"In the U.S. when Johnny decides to ignore his family's advice and take up oil painting or guitar playing instead of investment banking it is a big crisis.Johnny is very likely giving up the opportunity to own real estate, send his kids to private school, and otherwise enjoy the great festival of materialism that is the United States.  In an economy with hardly any opportunity, however, why wouldn't a person choose to do art or music?

Art doesn't require a lot of capital investment.  You really just need a crayon and some paper (or scissors and paper if you were Matisse).  If human ability is equally distributed across the globe you'd therefore expect the best art to come from the poorest countries where people have no competing bourgeois job offers.  Yet paradoxically the art for which people are willing to pay the most money seems to come from advanced economies such as Germany, England, Japan, and the U.S.

For the comment section:  Why?

[I'll start by throwing out a personal opinion:  art can only touch you if the artist shares a similar social and economic environment, which is why Westerners mostly like the art that is produced in Western countries; art produced in poor countries is actually much better but we can't appreciate it because, despite heavy doses of ecotourism, we can't understand the milieu in which it was produced.]

What Artists Do When They're Bored

What Artists Do When They're Bored 01/22/2004 02:27 AM

An illustration of spam...: Can't...breathe....laughing...too...hard.

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Global Artists

Global Artists 09/07/2004 12:40 PM
Global Artists. If influential historical figures were reincarnated as artists, what works of art would they produce today? [Via Aeiou.]

A number of artists clustered together

A number of artists clustered together 07/28/2004 08:11 PM
(pod) Art, Music, Photography. Visit the gallery, listen to the radio, enjoy.

Modern Chinese Artists

Modern Chinese Artists 07/28/2004 04:03 AM
Fant astical paintings from Chinese artist Fang He. I think I like Subway Underpass Bird best for its vague sense of creepiness, though Chinese Pavilion No. 1 appeals to my love of old time sci-fi illustrations. Check out similarly whimsical Zhang Gong's cute p hallic creatures (NSFW), or peruse the large collection of artists at Courtyard-Gallery. (Related Chinese art posts here and here.)

Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers

Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers 05/02/2004 07:46 PM

MacJams artists hit the big time

MacJams artists hit the big time 03/29/2005 04:54 AM
MacJams.com, an online community for Mac music makers, has announced that two of its artist members have recently landed record contracts with two major international labels...

Firefox Team Looking for Artists

Firefox Team Looking for Artists 06/27/2004 02:24 PM

Indie artists worry

Indie artists worry 03/25/2005 11:04 AM
USA Today Mar 25 2005 3:08PM GMT

Beware of malformed MIME artists

Beware of malformed MIME artists 09/13/2004 12:41 PM
Content checking bypass ploy

New Artists For Heritage Sketch Cards

New Artists For Heritage Sketch Cards 09/06/2004 01:01 PM
The Topps site has been updated with the names of eight new artists for Star Wars Heritage: Cynthia Cummens, David Rabbitte, Dimitri Patelis, Jeff Carlisle, Jeff Johnson, Ron Randall, Tommy Lee Edwards, and William O'Neil. Click through for more information on these additions.

A Music Download Site For Artists Less
Known

A Music Download Site For Artists Less
Known 09/19/2004 09:25 PM
When the new service starts this week, eMusic will look as much like a magazine as an online music service, with an assortment of reviews, recommendations and columns. By Laurie J. Flynn, New York Times (via MyAppleMenu)

MacJams Artists Ink Record Deals

MacJams Artists Ink Record Deals 03/29/2005 09:36 AM

Mashup Artists Face the Music

Mashup Artists Face the Music 05/04/2004 05:05 AM
Mashups -- a style of music remix -- are getting more attention, thanks to David Bowie. The publicity is forcing artists to think about the form's legal nuances. By Daniel Terdiman.

Recording companies agree to pay $50M to
artists

Recording companies agree to pay $50M to
artists 05/04/2004 12:20 PM

Police Track Down Internet Con Artists

Police Track Down Internet Con Artists 06/17/2005 04:27 PM
Hankooki Jun 16 2005 10:32AM GMT

More Scam Artists Go Phishing (PC World)

More Scam Artists Go Phishing (PC World) 05/31/2004 04:02 AM
PC World - Increase in e-mail, Web site hoaxes prompts calls for change.

PowerPoint debated by artists work

PowerPoint debated by artists work 12/29/2003 07:55 PM
Peter Norvig, 46, engineering director at Google Inc., is generally credited with creating the first PowerPoint parody in 1999, when he published an online ...

Mobo drops 'homophobic' artists

Mobo drops 'homophobic' artists 09/08/2004 03:07 AM
Reggae stars Elephant Man and Vybz Kartel lose their Music of Black Origin award nominations.

Artists, Activists Demand Response

Artists, Activists Demand Response 08/28/2004 02:38 AM
Grassroots activists fight hard to connect with Governor on behalf of wrongfully imprisoned men. [PRWEB Aug 28, 2004]

Origami mini-iPod from rip-off artists
CDW

Origami mini-iPod from rip-off artists
CDW 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
From CDW comes an origami mini-iPod. A lot lamer than the other origami iPod, which is unsurprising, given that CDW are a bunch of rip-off artists (I once ordered an iPod from them, got a confirmation, and then got a phone-call telling me they were sold out the iPod at the price they'd confirmed, but could sell me one for $200 more). 760K PDF Link

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Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose

Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose 04/22/2004 06:30 AM
this Doonesbury strip and story arc .. B.Dloses his helmet .. BD lost a leg there .. B.D.'s been hit .. something

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Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall - Daily
Dose

Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall - Daily
Dose 01/28/2004 10:18 AM
Go listen to that John Kerry fellow .. October 1971 take on John Kerry .. Doonesbury strip of John Kerry .. the best comic .. Garry Trudeau .. Doonesbury .. couple .. this,

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Dashboard: Widget (In)Security

Dashboard: Widget (In)Security 06/05/2005 10:56 PM
Macworld: Dori Smith: “A new Web page documents an issue with Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger’s new Dashboard feature that, left unchecked, could potentially be exploited by malware developers, according to the page’s author. The exploit is described and demonstrated on a page called Zaptastic: Blueprint for a widget of mass destruction.”

Let's Build Another Dashboard Widget

Let's Build Another Dashboard Widget 06/17/2005 03:51 PM
Even though no real development environment exists now, there are some tricks and techniques that can be used to make Dashboard widget development easier. Andrew Anderson explores some tricks and techniques and presents a widget that uses JavaScript's XMLHttpRequest method to retrieve spelling suggestions from Google.

Dashboard widget site launched

Dashboard widget site launched 04/12/2005 08:36 PM

Thought I'd get the word out about a new site for news, tutorials, downloads, and discussion about Dashboard and Widget development. It's a free resource (AdSense-supported) I put together because I thought Dashboard could use something like this.

Check it out:

http://www.dashboardexposed.com/

Seattle Traffic Dashboard Widget

Seattle Traffic Dashboard Widget 06/05/2005 10:57 PM
Rhonabw y: “It’s completely unfancy, and doesn’t do half the nice things you’d expect a proper ‘widget’ to do really, but it’s there and available for those of us in Seattle who want to see how the traffic is doing on the bridges.”

Vote for your favorite Dashboard Widget

Vote for your favorite Dashboard Widget 06/06/2005 12:10 AM
Over at DashboardWidgets, voting is now open for their Mac mini contest. Vote for your favorite widget, and the winner gets a Mac mini. Can't decide which to vote for? Then please allow me to suggest this one....

News: Evite releases Dashboard Widget

News: Evite releases Dashboard Widget 06/22/2005 02:33 AM
Evite on Monday released a Dashboard Widget allowing its users to keep up-to-date on all of their planning needs. Evite is an Internet destination that helps users plan their social engagements. Evite features free online invitations, local hot spot recommendations, event listings, recipe suggestions and more. The Evite Widget is currently for free from Apple’s Web site.

Exclusive: interview with Mr. Sun about
the OS X Weather Dashboard widget

Exclusive: interview with Mr. Sun about
the OS X Weather Dashboard widget 06/24/2005 07:20 PM

One of my favorite Dashboard widgets is the Weather widget. It's been pretty hot and sunny for the last few weeks here in NYC so I've been seeing quite a few pictures of my favorite yellow celestial object depicted on the widget. I recently had a chance to sit down with Mr. Sun, a long-time resident of both our solar system and the blogosphere, and I asked him about his Weather widget representations. Here's a portion of our interview:

Jason: How did the Weather Dashboard widget project come about?

Mr. Sun: Funny story. I'm kicking back, combustin' some rhymes, and this spacecr aft approaches me. I'm about to throw a flare upside its flimsy-ass hull, when I notice it is sending a message out into the heliosphere.The damn thing is in Apple format, and I have Windows - so I have to download a special viewer. I finally decode the thing, and it's from Steve Jobs about an "insanely great" idea. I vaguely knew about him, because I'd been doing some advance work for Satan on how best to burn Gates for eternity. I'm a special consultant, basically. Anyway, I figured -- what the heck? So, that's how it started. Look, what network are you with again? I don't recognize you.

Jason: Is this the type of work you want to be doing at this point in
your 4.5 billion year career?

Mr. Sun: Look, I'm not going to radiate sunshine up your you-know-what. I'm struggling. Back in the day, I had a great agent -- Nicolaus. Not the brightest guy in the cosmos, but totally devoted to me. He made me feel like I was the center of the universe. I remember I worked with Frank Capra on Our Mr. Sun. Just between you and me, that guy was a little too sunny even for me -- ringing bells and angels wings -- whatever. Then, there was the "Pee-wee incident" involving an unfortunate choice I made in a public setting. I know it's no excuse, but I've warned you people to wear those glasses. I was in a slump. I started to get mean, sloppy, and pathetic. I wasn't combusting properly -- I had bad gas. So yes, I agreed to lend my likeness to the OS X weather widget. Is it where I want to be right now? No. Is it an honest gig? Yes, I think so. I've been thinking about starting a blog anyway; someone needs to let those other Sun Shadys know they are just imitating.

Jason: But do you really need any more exposure? You've got the most prime advertising position in the world -- 5 or 6 billion people a day can see you by just looking up -- what more are you looking for?

Mr. Sun: Eyeballs. Is that all you Internet types ever think about? You want to know who had a lot of eyeballs on him? Mahir. Do you want to be that guy for even one minute? I KISS YOU !!!!! You ask me how I can want more. Let me tell you a story that may help you understand. When I was younger, I watched Daedalus and his son fly just beneath me, soaring out of captivity on wings made of feathers stuck with wax to a flimsy wooden frame. Drunk with freedom, Icarus looked directly at me. I felt the panic of his watchful father, but I was mesmerized by his youthful passion. I met his gaze. He moved toward me and the rest they call myth. I made a vow that day to never stay still. Yes, I am fixed in the sky -- but not at my core. The fire that sustains me is fueled by the memory of what it took for Icarus to make his way to me, and the debt I owe for my part in his fall to earth. I can't repay that debt from 93 million miles away, but sitting on your desktop, I can at least start. I am also told the Internet is basically just one gigantic Porn Delivery Device, and I haven't had any good jacking material since the Soviets from Mir jettisoned their garbage. Did you ever say where you are from? Was it the Wall Street Journal? I'd love to have one of those stencilled sketches of me.

Jason: The photography in this shoot looks more candid than in past shoots by NASA, ground-based astronomers, or vacationing amateurs. In one photo, it looks like you're crying and in another you appear to be surrounded by a haze of marijuana smoke. Are we finally seeing the real you?

Mr. Sun: Looks can be very deceiving. In this case, however, they are not. Last year, I cried nonstop for three of your earth months. I cried because I burn anyone who comes close to me. I cried because I shine alone in the blackness of space. I cried because just once, I'd like to feel pretty and I know that will never happen. As for the haze of smoke around me, I am made of gas. If I wasn't churning gas around, you'd all be as frozen as Ted Williams head, so maybe you should think twice before demoting me from life-sustaining star to orbital stoner. Look, I've been around the block a time or two when it comes to humanity. At first, you were fearful of me. Later, you worshipped me as a god. Now, you ask me these cynical questions. Fine, no problem. I'll be around to see the cycle repeat itself a few thousand more times. I'm just a star, an ordinary star. Deal with it.

Thanks for joining us, Mr. Sun.

News: Dashboard Widget store opens

News: Dashboard Widget store opens 06/17/2005 04:34 PM
Mac OS X Tiger’s Dashboard has caused a flurry of designers and coders to make Widgets of all shapes and sizes and with a variety of applications. While Apple’s Web site offers a comprehensive listing of available Widgets, Phillip Ryu decided to open the Widget Machine to help designers sell their products. There are currently a couple of shareware Widgets on the site as well as several free Widgets.

Winner announced for Spymac Dashboard
widget contest

Winner announced for Spymac Dashboard
widget contest 06/24/2005 07:35 PM
Spymac's latest contest asked members to create a Spymac-related Dashboard widget. Entries were submitted and votes have now been cast. The lucky winner of the contest is Zweben for the Spymac Shoutbox Widget he created with SpyManiac007. Zweben will receive Stuffit Deluxe 9.0 ($79.99 value) and a one-year Wheel account ($39.99 value). Congratulations and thanks everyone who participated!

Widget Wars: Thoughts On The
Konfabulator-Dashboard Brouhaha

Widget Wars: Thoughts On The
Konfabulator-Dashboard Brouhaha 07/06/2004 10:06 AM
The Konfabulator-Dashboard issue is a public relations nightmare for Apple. The company should have seen it coming and did nothing to diffuse it. By Dennis Sellers, Macsimum (via MyAppleMenu)

widGet

widGet 04/27/2004 01:02 PM
Discontinued

It's that Serenity widget again

It's that Serenity widget again 06/17/2005 03:22 PM
My Serenity Countdown Widget finally showed up on Apple's Dashboard Widgets download site. It's pretty darn cool seeing my name on an Apple page, I have to admit. If you want it, you can grab it there, or you can...

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.2

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.2 10/31/2003 12:49 PM
A widget library without a single bit of storage per widget.

Xbae Widget Set

Xbae Widget Set 01/19/2004 04:16 PM
Xbae 4.50.5 is out

The Rocket Widget

The Rocket Widget 12/30/2004 02:12 PM

Now I'm not much of a drinker, but I do imbibe from time to time. Last night I got a wild hair and picked up a six-pack of Guinness Draught Bottles, (when I drink beer, I like to taste beer) and cracked one open when I got home. I didn't bother reading the label or anything... a good beer is a good beer, right? Pop the top and enjoy. The part of the label I did read was that you don't need a glass to get the full experience with this stuff, so bottoms up!

But when I got to the bottom of the bottle, I found something more than beer in there.

"What the ????"

A little plastic thingy that looked to be part of the filling equipment was rattling around inside. By this time I'm looking pretty closely at the label for a phone number to call and complain. (I'm not big on product liability lawsuits, but I've got to admit, the thought of a fat settlement check did cross my mind.) The label didn't really say anything about it, but did have a web address, and there I got the straight poop.

Enjoy the authentic taste of GUINNESS anytime, anywhere thanks to another clever little invention, the "rocket widget."

Once the bottle is opened, the "rocket widget" creates the famous surge and forms the signature creamy head right inside. Every time you take a drink from the bottle the "rocket widget" refreshes the surge so that you get the perfect pint taste with every sip. Ingenious.

Turns out they've had this feature in their bottled brew since 2001 (shows how often I get out!) Neat idea. And thinking back, I do remember having a bit more froth whilst sipping than I'd usually experience with a bottle of beer. I'll have to pay more attention on my next one.

CGI-Widget-FilloutForm

CGI-Widget-FilloutForm 05/12/2004 07:11 AM

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.7

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.7 06/02/2004 08:29 AM
A widget library without a single bit of storage per widget.

Widget-Meta-0.03

Widget-Meta-0.03 09/18/2004 05:15 PM

Canvas Widget 1.0.0

Canvas Widget 1.0.0 11/03/2003 04:23 AM
A canvas widget for EiffelVision2.

Widget-Meta-0.02

Widget-Meta-0.02 09/17/2004 06:35 AM

Widget-Meta-0.01

Widget-Meta-0.01 09/17/2004 12:42 AM

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.8

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.8 06/15/2004 06:42 AM
A widget library without a single bit of storage per widget.

The Tk Text Widget

The Tk Text Widget 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
The powerful text widget in the Tk toolkit offers many facilities to writers of Tcl, Perl and Python scripts.

CGI-Widget-Path-0.01

CGI-Widget-Path-0.01 01/22/2004 06:15 PM

Widget Wars

Widget Wars 09/04/2004 01:53 PM
Longhorn may be 2 years away but the battle for your desktop has already begun. Longhorn will introduce a new user interface design language called XAML.

XAML on its own would be yet another user interface markup language. But combine XAML with the compositer in Longhorn and you can imagine all kinds of really cool mini-applications being created. When someone talks about MacOS X's "Dashboard" bear in mind that Microsoft's XAML predates it in announcement and may deliver much the same thing. Widgets are essentially mini-applications but without the overhead associated with a stand alone program. All of the widget-enabling programs give users a tiny glimpse of the cool stuff one might do with Longhorn and the compositer in terms of app creation. And one can easily imagine all these widget applications eventually supporting XAML to usher in a whole new wave of desktop customization.

We here at Neowin have seen the rise of desktop customization over the past few years and widgets may be the next stage in that development, particularly when one considers the potential of Longhorn. This article below goes through the various widget enabling programs already available and explains what's cool about them.

View: Article: Widget Wars
News source: In-house

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Zero Memory Widget 0.0.6

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.6 05/18/2004 08:47 AM
A widget library without a single bit of storage per widget.

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.9

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.9 07/07/2004 08:11 AM
A widget library without a single bit of storage per widget.

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.10

Zero Memory Widget 0.0.10 07/28/2004 09:43 AM
A widget library without a single bit of storage per widget.

comic artists, sharpen your pencils

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