Date: January 2015
It's never too late to get into wrestling, and WWE is the best place to start for any newbie. I'd make some additions to the 'advanced studies' section, though: indie promotions and puroresu (which the AV Club has lately highlighted) are where the craft lives and breathes. #link
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Icons are just the beginning of the tiny details that aid our understanding of an interaction with all sorts of things, from reading news stories to browsing websites to navigating spaces; the list goes on. #link
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Where to draw the line between art and artist? It's a complex set of negotiations, that's for sure, and even that much is troubling for people who have a fairly monochrome view of the world. See also: How to be a fan of problematic things #link
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The Xmas break, as it was, was decent enough, though I didn’t recharge as much as hoped. I certainly didn’t get my 2014 heavy music round-up finished like I planned, but I’m almost there.
The new speakers for my desktop are helping. I got these from Logitech, cheap but stylish and with a surprisingly rich low end, on a par with my old mini system. It even beefs up the tinny sound of my Steepletone turntable, which is a definite plus. But what it also means is that I can play stuff in the background while I’m doing other things and not have to deep-listen with headphones, which can get pretty exhausting when it comes to the dense and difficult music I like (it’s even worse with the stuff I don’t).
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Quick and dirty web-based colour conversions between hex, RGB, CMYK, Pantone, etc. Hardly for pros with calibrated monitors, books full of Pantone swatches and whatnot but not everyone has access to such expensive resources. #link
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Quite a nifty resource for free fonts here. Filing this for future reference. #link
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Definitive proof that the vast majority of Irish society are morons. No Crunch Creams? No Viscounts? Zero credibility. #link
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I'd wanted to see Cobra ever since that amazing cover art on the video store shelf, and when I finally did a few years ago I wasn't too disappointed. Of course it's pretty distasteful if you take it as anything but a cop-as-vigilante fantasy. #link
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