The Cool Links Thread

Tamir · Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 1628 Location: Israel

The Project For Awesome is doing good work on decreasing worldsuck! It's got a neat system where the public votes on where to send all the money.

Maeniel · Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 1052 Location: Next to Waldo

TamTam - I saw that, too! The Harry Potter Alliance won last year. Smile

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Nem · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 2110 Location: England

Apparently, Adobe's CS2 stuff, while a little long in the tooth, is now free.

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

You can find the serial numbers next to the downloads - you'll need them when installing. I've loaded photoshop up and it appears to be the full thing.

Don't know how long it's been that way but... very generous move by Adobe for us amateurs anyway. Thanks Adobe!

Enjoy! Smile

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Allicat · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:00 pm Post subject:

Marvo! Thanks Nem!
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Maeniel · Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 1052 Location: Next to Waldo

This Tumblr combining Les Mis and Mean Girls is beautiful.
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Nem · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 2110 Location: England

This is pretty neat, someone stuck a hundred year old camera on top of a modern one to see what the optics were like.

http://blog.daminion.net/exciting/100-year-old-optics-hold-their-own-when-working-with-today’s-canon-5d-mark-ii/

Not bad. Not brilliant, either but not bad.

Edit: And for some reason the link doesn't work so you'll have to copy and paste it.
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Asa · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:40 am Post subject:

So he's not actually testing the photo-taking ability, only the quality of the glass? Because all that shows is that someone took good care of his camera lens. The modern camera is doing all the work, there...
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BS: "...then insist you eat a brownie."
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Tenshi · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 2594 Location: Star Stuff

For Nem:
http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/article00927.html

Seemed relevant to a recent Today thread discussion.
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Nem · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 2110 Location: England

Ooo, shiny discoveries ^_^ Potentially.
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Nem · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 2110 Location: England

https://workflowy.com/

Okay, so this is a fairly neat little thing. But why is it still laid out in A4 format? It's not like anyone's going to be printing lists that nest that far.

Oh, wait, people still centre websites regardless of whether it's suited to the information because they're still trying to do everything in tiny monitors rather than having a set of paradigms that work properly for a variety of sizes. *sigh*

Anyhoo, yes. If you organise textual info, this can be quite handy. Lists of tasks and stuff. Especially since you can tag different people with different things.
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Asa · Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:48 pm Post subject:

It's annoying that they don't have a sample to explore.
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Nem: "It's the sort of face you just know is getting ready to poke you with something sharp."
BS: "...then insist you eat a brownie."
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Think but this and all is mended...
Give me your hands if we be friends,
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Nem · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 2110 Location: England

Yeah but they've at least got some videos ^_^;

Anyhoo - Beeminder.

https://www.beeminder.com/

Quite clever. Combination of a commitment contract and tracking/graphing on quantifiable goals.

Underlying explanation:

http://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia/

You may also find interesting (linked in above)

http://blog.beeminder.com/roadwidth/

and

http://blog.beeminder.com/dial/
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