Year: 2006

Have you ever noticed how vector shapes in a pdf file tend to look bitmappy? This makes no sense, because vector shapes should be super smooth. Here we will get to the bottom of this problem. Here are the things…

In December I bought a used vertical file cabinet at a thrift store for ten dollars. What a find! It was literally an answer to a prayer (the filing cabinets we looked at other places were $75 and up). The…

mmmmhmmmm looks like a herd of animals, and one of them is sticking its head out to see what’s going on.

CNN reports that the new largest prime number was discovered on January 4, 2006. It is 9.1 million digits long. (thanks Tom for the link) If you were to print this number out on 8.5×11″ sheets of paper, one-sided with…

There’s this clever “KERN” sweatshirt being sold on veer.com. You unzip the sweatshirt to demonstrate how kerning works. neat. I want to make a shirt that says “LEADING” and pants that also say “LEADING.” To demonstrate how leading works, you…

McDonald’s current tray liner promotes their new Arch Card. It very cutely lists what all the things the Arch Card can be. Some are very nice like “grandpa’s morning coffee” or “my night away from the kitchen.” And then some…

Metra conductors are on their feet all day long. Yet the majority of them are quite… thick. How is that? They walk and walk all day long. They should be in prime shape, right? It’s because they are doing the…

You can now export your Yahoo Address Book into a vCard format that can be used for the Address Book in Mac OS X. Some people suggest that you export the Yahoo Address Book as LDIF format, but the thing…