February 2010
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Home Hacks 2010 →
How to do… almost everything. It’s a big page. I never knew that instead of washing, you could just freeze your jeans for a week. Or that you could chill wine by adding salt to the ice bucket (which makes perfect sense now that I recall my Chemistry classes).
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Font Face
Ah, web typography. When I did my first website back in 1997, things were pretty much limited to a choice between Arial and Times New Roman. Then Microsoft introduced Verdana and a couple of others, and people found out they could get away with really small font sizes. Georgia was lovely but not for everyone, and Trebuchet… well it just replaced Arial in my mind. The fact remains, for the...
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When in doubt, wear black.
– Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-Up Men (via Lifehacker).
I have the same problem the writer of this article had: no pressure at all to dress up. Which all fine when you’re in your twenties and don’t work in a bank. But now that I’m past thirty, even though I don’t intend to...
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Toby*spark’s Live Cinema Documentary. An amazing intro to cinema as live performance (way past VJing). (via CDM)
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Pan sonic
Nearly ten years ago I got a Fuji MX-2700 as a birthday present. Despite its 2.3 megapixels and its fixed zoom lens it was as expensive back then as a decent laptop computer or a lower-midrange DSLR are now, not even accounting for inflation. Basically it was the most expensive present someone ever gave me, so I really made the most of it - the lackluster electrical appliance was my camera of...
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