WTF

Dear Mr. President (and Rummy, Condi, Cheney, et al):

On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a nuclear missile launch facility, and began beating the silo cover with hammers, in an attempt to take the Minuteman III missile off-line.

Would you please explain how we spend half a trillion (that is trillion with a 'T') dollars saving the world from evildoers with WMDs, yet an elite team of three fucking old guys in clown suits manage to gain access to a 300 kiloton nucyaler weapon with a pair of bolt cutters?

What the fuck, cowboy?

Good God

In fact, you must go to YouTube and watch all of sharpeworld's videos. Unbelievable. What is up with this guy? Burn victim?

Hairdressuh

This terrifies me for several reasons:

• I think she is serious
• I don't understand her wardrobe
• There is an audience
• She obviously rehearsed the facial expressions

Problem

There appears to be a rather serious problem with the combination of MacOS 10.4.6 and Photoshop (CS) 9.01. Something about this combination is causing printing errors, specifically color relationships are skewed enough to introduce strange spikes in blues or banding in reds and yellows, particularly flesh tones.

I noticed this last week. While printing some photos dominated by flesh tones, I was getting terrible banding. This was particularly confusing, as I had printed these photos before, and I was printing on Velvet Fine art, a paper with a fairly wide gamut. I dismissed the problem as something stupid I had done; printing on Innova FibaPrint paper with Epson's Premium Glossy profile worked around the problem.

But it turns out that this is a real issue; the Adobe forums have a few hundred messages [registration required] on the topic, including confirmation from Adobe people.

"I'm reinstalling 9 on my production machine, and I'd advise anyone printing to an Epson or HP printer to do the same until this gets sorted."

This from Bruce Fraser, who really knows his shit. This problem likely won't be resolved until the next Apple OS update. Given the imminent release of 10.4.7, the fix might have to wait until 10.4.8 (or later). So if you are running MacOS and haven't yet upgraded to Photoshop 9.01, don't.

Yikes

While I always enjoy getting fan mail,

"i am in love with your photo 'spoon'. i find, to my surprise that i am more physically moved by this photo than by any other image. i cant seem to get enough of this picture. i wonder if you have more with this model? so pretty!

im not a thief, but i would like to put it on my computer in 'my pictures' to gaze at after everyone else has gone to sleep at night..."

...I must admit that this freaked me out a little. I think she is talking about this photo. I think I like the fork better.

Quiz

The Hitler vs. Coulter Quiz.

Prez

"Mr. Bush acknowledged that many people in Europe disagreed with his decision to invade Iraq. But he lashed back, pointing out that the United States provides more money than any other nation for fighting H.I.V. in Africa and was dedicated to promoting democracy around the world."

Compelling logic from my President. He'll answer the next question with a "your mother" joke.

Prez

"Mr. Bush acknowledged that many people in Europe disagreed with his decision to invade Iraq. But he lashed back, pointing out that the United States provides more money than any other nation for fighting H.I.V. in Africa and was dedicated to promoting democracy around the world."

Compelling logic from my President. He'll answer the next question with a "your mother" joke.

Flock

I just updated to the newest version of Flock -- holy crap.  Given the number of things it configured on installation (import settings from Firefox, integrating with Flickr, blogger, del.icio.us, and LiveJournal, etc...), I can't believe how easy it was.

I'm going to try it out for a while.

Shake

What the fuck is up with Gothamist's obsession with the Shake Shack?

They mention it far, far more than any other restaurant. I really, really don't care whether or not there is a line. Really.

Calendar

When did Google Calendar start supporting Safari? I missed that.

Moron

Touché, and touché.

NYU

"I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru."

Ze

The 6/15 zefrank show was pretty funny.