February 2010
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A/S/Labour?
Twitter spam is no laughing matter - but this direct message from a Cardiff AM made me LOL… Posted via email from foomandoonian’s halfblog | Comment »
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MyPaint, a simple open-source painting app
I’ve been looking for an open-source equivalent to Project Dogwaffle or Corel Painter for a while, and today I finally found MyPaint. The app is very simple, offering many preset natural media brushes, with the ability to customise and add your own. Naturally, these respond to the pressure sensitivity of a Wacom tablet pen, or similar. It supports layers (but seems to lack a dedicated window...
Pixen →
Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It’s designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it’s…
MultiMarkdown →
“I wrote MultiMarkdown in order to leverage Markdown’s syntax, but to extend it to work with complete documents that could ultimately be converted from text into other formats, including complete…
Scrivener →
Word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. It won’t try to tell you how to write - it just makes all the tools you…
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3ds Max vs. Blender: Revealing results of a CG...
via cgenie.com
It’s clear from the pie chart that 3ds Max is the giant in the market here, with Maya (also an Autodesk product) the next big player. If you scroll down the article, what really stands out is that both of these packages consistently rank the lowest in user satisfaction.
I was surprised to see that Lightwave has such a small share. I’ve always had a soft spot for it,...
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Angle of Attack
Digging through old folders on a HD, I found this render of a spacecraft hitting atmos. I love the design of this ship, so I remember leaving the rear section in the composition deliberately. With hindsight I really should have left it out. This would have been rendered in Lightwave 3D, and worked on further in Photoshop. Background plate was probably a NASA image, with a CG starfield...
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Hin Chua: After the Fall
worldwidewebber:
I’m a big fan of photos that focus on the man made rather than pictures of people, these photos by Hin Chua have an eeriness about them that nods to some kind of post-apocalyptic world, well one that didn’t include a big explosion. Enjoy.
More works at www.hinius.net
(via booooooom)
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Conversationlist: A conversational approach to...
To be a little more specific, a “conversationlist” is a Twitter list of the people that you talk to (and about) on Twitter. The list is automatically updated daily, so that it always reflects the people that you are paying attention to right now. If you @reply (or @mention) someone, they’re added to your list. If you stop talking to that person, they drop off your list. via...
Win the ugliest MacBook Pro ever #officeformac
Microsoft are running a competition on Twitter to win a garish (custom-colour) MacBook Pro. I’d never want to be seen in public using one of these things, especially not with the Office:Mac 2008 branding on. Ugh. Posted via email from foomandoonian’s halfblog | Comment »
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AIGA symbol signs
The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.
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The Very Ancient Mariners →
Early humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected. That is the startling implication of discoveries made the last two summers on the Greek island of Crete. Stone tools found there, archaeologists say, are at least 130,000 years old, which is considered strong evidence for the earliest known seafaring in the Mediterranean...
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If this website took a shower, this is what it would sing:
(codeorgan.com)
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“I don’t like most of the stuff that passes for stone tools nowadays, and it’s...”
– Andy Rooney’s Homo Erectus Ancestor
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Open source, open world
Focus has a great infographic about open source. And not just in software, but culture, business, government, hardware, education, science, medicine and other areas. This would be a great basis for a website.
See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from foomandoonian’s halfblog | Comment »
Security Expert Releases New Linux Distribution... →
Dr. Jahangiri, the world renowned security expert and the brain-child behind the Live Hacking CD, has made it freely available to the public to encourage IT professionals and others to enhance their knowledge and to prepare for the malicious activities of the unscrupulous hacker.
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Value in obscurity
Once a group reaches a certain size, each participant starts to feel anonymous again, and the person they’re following — who once seemed proximal, like a friend — now seems larger than life and remote. […] Maybe we should be designing tools that reward obscurity — that encourage us to remain in the shadows. Or what if they warned us when our social circles became unsustainably...
Cafu Engine →
The Cafu Engine is an all-purpose, modern 3D graphics engine and game development kit, feature complete to get you started quickly.
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10/10 Steam: talks, exhibitions, trails,...
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SteamHero_Programme.pdf (1260 KB)
Steampunk: the first museum exhibition of Steampunk art This has been the most popular exhibition ever mounted by the Museum, attracting many visitors, especially in its final weeks (it will end on 21 February). The ‘10/10’ day will be an opportunity to visit it in the evening,...