http://www.mcfrazer.com Ne te quaesiveris extra Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:54:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Associated PressBy MITCH STACYCLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69. http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/iconic-daredevil-evel-knievel-dies-at-69-2/ I can be a little particular about some things. Long story short, I did not like the way the official Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts printed so I reformatted them using OmniOutliner. Posting them here in case someone else shares my issues. Zip file includes OmniOutliner, PDF, and tab delimited versions. >>Download "Adobe Photoshop ... http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-cheatsheet/ After upgrading my OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette a few months ago, I noticed it loading really slowly. Upon inspection, I found that it was abnormally large and subsequently found the icons to be the culprits. I finally got around to modifying the icons in Illustrator and exported them as PNGs with ... http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/omnigraffle-wireframe-palette-modified/ // Instantiate a Panel from markup YAHOO.namespace("mcfrazer.container"); function init() { // Instantiate a Panel from markup YAHOO.mcfrazer.container.img1_big = new YAHOO.widget.Panel("img1_big", { modal:true, underlay:"shadow", width:"400px", xy:[200,0], visible:false, constraintoviewport:true, effect:{effect:YAHOO.widget.ContainerEffect.FADE,duration:0.35} } ); YAHOO.mcfrazer.container.img1_big.render(); YAHOO.util.Event.addListener("img1", "click", YAHOO.mcfrazer.container.img1_big.show, YAHOO.mcfrazer.container.img1_big, true); YAHOO.util.Event.addListener("img1_big", "click", YAHOO.mcfrazer.container.img1_big.hide, YAHOO.mcfrazer.container.img1_big, true); } YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(window, "load", init); The Omni Group makes tools that just beg to be used. One of my biggest ... http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/omnigraffle-resources/ Probably the most poignant statement in this article by Wired Magazine is "Welcome to Web War one."Long story short, protesting something via good-old-fashioned rioting is so passe. If rioting typically involves looting, what is going on beneath the guise of the bot-net attacks?Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in ... http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/welcome-to-web-war-one-2/ Interesting perspective on the use of LSD (and drugs in general). From and article, "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?, in Wired Magazine":http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015 When Kevin Herbert has a particularly intractable programming problem, or finds himself pondering a big career decision, he deploys a powerful mind expanding tool -- LSD-25. I will leave it ... http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/72/ Susan Anton, a New York University anthropologist and co-author of the Leakey work, said she expects anti-evolution proponents to seize on the new research, but said it would be a mistake to try to use the new work to show flaws in evolution theory. "This is not questioning the idea at ... http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/fossils-challenge-old-evolution-theory/ After I stumbled upon Demetri Martin, I realized how much I love comedy stuff. I was going to say that I realized how much I love to laugh but that sounds very pathetic. Anyway, my best friend from high school just got a new LCD TV with a built-in HD tuner. ... http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/good-times/ [Study] Research on Faith “Faith as Ultimate Concern” by Paul TillichSummary by Meghan Ramsay (QCC, 2004)Source: SUNY Suffolk According to Tillich, “faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.” The Ultimate Concern is that which demands complete surrender of the person who faithfully accepts the Ultimate. ... http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/study-research-on-faith/ Jump to: Anticipation Autonomy Color Blindness Consistency Defaults Efficiency of the User Explorable Interfaces Fitts' Law Human-Interface Objects Latency Reduction Learnability Limit Tradeoffs Metaphors Protect the User's Work Readability Track State Visible Interfaces Thefollowing principles are fundamental to the design and implementationof effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments orthe web. Of late, many web applications have reflected a lack ofunderstanding of many ... http://www.mcfrazer.com/posts/first-principles-of-interaction-design-2/