I was researching some old patterns for a project I’m working on, and I stumbled across this awesome resource for vintage wallpaper. Based in New York City, Secondhand Rose boasts “more than 1000 original vintage wallpaper patterns…1940’s florals, L’art Deco geometrics, novelties from the 1950’s, 1960’s Op Art, 1970’s Mylars… Largest collection in the world.”
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
The latest addition to Google’s awesome Google Earth software is, well… Sky. I don’t think it’s officially called “Google Sky”, but it might as well be, and it’s freaking awesome.
If you happen to lack a high-powered telescope, or perhaps an observatory, in your backyard, the newest version of Google Earth allows you to browse the heavens above, with constellation overlays, a moving Moon, planets, and the best of Hubble’s big shiny eye in the sky.
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Having released iLife ‘08 with updated versions of almost all the programs, many people have become angry at the apparent lack of features in iMovie ‘08. Where is my timeline? How do I reduce audio levels? How do I mix sound?
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For a while I was really into the “Left Behind” series, the Christian fiction epic chronicling the ultimate battle between Good & Evil during the end of days. With names like “Rayford” and “Buck” and “Nicolae Carpathia”, the names were as cheesy as they could come, and with “high-tech” terminology like “downloading” “electronic mail” via “data modem”, the dialogue is sometimes in the same area. It was interesting nonetheless for a variety of reasons, and God bless America, they’ve come out with a video game in the same vein.
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