You can tell lately that school's about to start at the University of Minnesota. All the frats have their signs up for Rush Week, construction projects are nearing completion, and all the lawns on-campus are getting mowed this week. Plus there's a bunch of confused-looking kids running around trying to find things.
Coffman Union: almost done. 1024x600(132k)
In just four weeks, they'll all be parking in my neighborhood while they go to class.
The river flats.
The parking lot,
used by the construction
workers, is grassy again.1600x1200(363k) - Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuilt Court of Appeals, in Mattel v. MCA (PDF), finishes the opinion with
The parties are advised to chill.
Found this and a bunch of other fine commentary about trademarks at The Trademark Blog. - The Principles of Newspeak
[Any word] could be negative by adding the affix un-, or could be strengthened by the affix plus-, or, for still greater emphasis doubleplus-. Thus, for example, uncold meant
It's all part of the Newspeak Dictionary.[Reed]warm
while pluscold and doublepluscold meant, respectively,very cold
andsuperlatively cold
. - Quartz anti-aliasing: Jaggies be gone! but at what price? At the price of readability. Blegh. On Mac OS 9, I typically have anti-aliasing set to kick in at about 18 points, if at all. And when CodeWarrior Pro 7 would change the setting every time you ran it, I resorted to hex-editing the binary to fix it. It was that annoying to me. If I wanted blurry text, I wouldn't buy good monitors. [zeldman]
- Tat's the Way Mac Heads Like It. Apple-inspired tattoos people have gotten. He's working from a very small sample, I'm betting. [boing boing]