xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
14th July 2003

Magical Macintosh Key Sequences

“All the magic key sequences to make your Mac do various things… There’s [also] a knowledge-base article that lists all the keys supported by Mac OS X that came out last December.”

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14th July 2003

Does colour exist?

“We think of colour as an objective thing: Red is red and can’t be seen in any other way. But this is not so. The colour we perceive depends on things like the words we have in our language (our culture) to describe it, the other colours surrounding it and what the brain is expecting to see.”

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14th July 2003

Big talents in minicomics

“Taken together as a group, St. Louisans Kevin Huizenga, Ted May and Dan Zettwoch might not exactly be on par with the Justice League. No fantastic powers in their arsenal. No supernatural tricks up their collective sleeve. But this crew is definitely something special: A trio of close friends who, individually, have staked out a growing place in the world of alternative-comics artists.”

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14th July 2003

The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps

And that’s exactly what it is. “mcwetboy.net is a place where Jonathan Crowe puts projects of his that are independent and impersonal enough to warrant a separate identity from his personal site at mcwetboy.com.”

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