Skip-load of tips from Computer Arts on how to make nice designs.
We approached 17 leading designers working in print, video and on the web, to obtain their words of wisdom on every stage of the design process, from ideas and planning, through to best practice and software skills, and finally putting the finishing touches on [...]

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Well this is a lesson on how not to do a podcast.
Step one make a big announcement about your podcast, then fail to deliver
Step two release your podcast in Windows Media format (really WTF were you thinking)
Step three realise this needs to be in mp3 format but don’t allow subscriptions
I like forbidden planet and I’ve [...]

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This little kit would make my life that shade nicer. I tend to forget who I lend books to, so as well as being decorative and fiddling entertainment this library kit would actually be practical.
Look, just writing your name in a book is nothing like as much fun, alright? Now about your overdue fine …

MojoLondon: [...]

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A company purchased the whole town of Cheshire Ohio making it a ghost town.
It’s a pretty strange occurrence for an entire town to be wiped off the map in the span of two or three years. That’s what makes the case of this Gallia County hamlet so noteworthy. Cheshire, a town located just upriver from [...]

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A site that was itself abandoned in 2003, it contains a few pictures and some background information on the sparse sites visited, it’s worth a visit despite the meagre contents. Most of the pictures are of the outsides of the buildings.
I wonder what the law is in America, in England you can enter abandoned buildings [...]

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Abandoned sites in the North West of the US, Oragon specifically. Some nice shots of mines which I imagine to be some of the environmentally most dangerous places to explore and photograph.
It’s pretty interesting stuff, I’m always amazed at the shift that occured into the first couple of decades of the twentieth century that led [...]

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Yet more knitting related posts, from knitty. Knit yourself a pet Nautiloid!

For almost 500 million years, nautiloids [see below] were the coolest kids around. They ate trilobites, had shells in a variety of fantastical shapes, and ranged from bite-size to 12 feet long.
Every scary prehistoric beast should be made into a huggable toy, and I [...]

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Come September your Windows install might be given 30 days to live if Microsoft determines that it’s ‘non-genuine’.
“in the fall, having the latest WGA will become mandatory and if its not installed, Windows will give a 30 day warning and when the 30 days is up and WGA isn’t installed, Windows will stop working, so [...]

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