1. If your website has embedded audio or video set to autoplay, it is by default NSFW no matter what the content is. Don't do it. No matter how tempted you are to "set the stage" for your readers' "immersive" experience, reflect on the fact that they may be a) someplace or sometime wherewhen this is not appropriate, b) using an older/slower ( Read more... )

Turning up all kinds of fun trivia:

Chalk.

More chalk.

Still more chalk (NSFW if you zoom any farther).

That started out as serious research - what do the White Cliffs actually look like in relation to the harbor? ( doesn't everyone need to know this at some point? )

(BTW to those who are just coming along, please feel free to continue to respond to it, it's not like it's time-sensitive or anything ( Read more... )

I'm working on a couple of big messy serious polls, but in the meantime here's a test poll b/c I'm not really familiar with the interface, and this is actually relevant geeky data that I should have inquired about years ago but never got round to it (relevant for me assessing what size graphics are optimal for a majority of readers ( Read more... )

(And please people, if you don't know, don't speculate! It doesn't help. Really.) All information may be contained on the internets, but finding it is another matter. My cooling fan abruptly started making that old-style loud computer fan noise, and that's not something I'm nostalgic for to say the least, plus I don't really want to have it burn ( Read more... )

Anyone know if it's possible to convert Bryce .obp files to something importable into Poser? I have Carrara 1, Hexagon 1, and Hexagon 2 that I haven't got round to installing yet - is there a way to extract the relevant geometry with any of those, or a free/cheap utility to convert the Bryce geometry into .obj or .3ds out there?

So I get up this morning, turn on the coffee, blunder out to the computer to check the email and - well, you know how sometimes cats have little "difficulties" with the litter box, and small turds that stick to their fur and then drop off elsewhere? This morning there were two, one on my desk chair, and...one sitting in the middle of my keyboard. ( Read more... )

wherein Photoshop means "any pixel-based layers-capable image editing program," except when it doesn't--Okay, there seems to be enough interest to warrant doing this so here's the first installment. Hopefully it will be helpful, and not the reverse! (And sartorias, nobody is too stupid to do graphics, particularly not anyone who can tack up a horse ( Read more... )

Okay, how many people would be interested in a couple of "Rough Guide" tutorials to Photoshoppery? where "Photoshoppery" is the generic idiom for "image-editing" - I ask this, because I started working on an explanation of Alpha Channels (and what a stupid name THAT is, if you ask me, which they didn't) for nenya and realized that it was a lot more ( Read more... )

Anyone got a copy of Eovia's Hexagon 1.0 (WIN) that they're not using and would be willing to sell me for circa $30?