Fun with Photoshop
>The website fark.com has a photoshop contest every now and then. Some of them are great.I like this one : Here is the link for all of them:
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McSweeney’s Lists
>From Dave Eggers and his type of folks, their internet magazine is called McSweeneysIt contains an unsung, yet hilarious group of lists.Here is a list of my favorite listsOne of my favorites is:Implausible ClaimsMade by Vanilla Ice in His 1990 No. 1 Hit “Ice Ice Baby.”
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It’s not easy looking hard while eating a cupcake
Funny video from Saturday Night Live.Chronicles of Narnia raphttp://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0
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PhotoStory – Ken Burns-ify your photos
>The first link of the day is from Microsoft, of all places. A fun little app that lets you go all Ken Burns on your pictures.Download the app, import pictures, record voice-over narration, zoom in and out on your pictures, choose your music, and you’re done.It is called PhotoStory 3 Download hereReferred by lifehacker
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Book Review – Freakonomics – Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
> Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow $25.95 Freakonomics, immensely popular and critically acclaimed, promises to help us see through the eyes of the most interesting economist today: Steven Levittt. Despite being marketed as a surprisingly interesting book about the normally dull field of economics (as its title suggests), this…
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Book Review: Fool’s Paradise – Stewart Justman
> Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology, by Stewart Justman. Ivan R. Dee, September, 2005. $27.50 You have heard of Dr. Phil, you probably have friends who have adopted the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, you may have even nodded blandly upon hearing that Men are from Mars and Women are from…
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Book review: My Freshman Year – Rebekah Nathan
> My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, by Rebekah Nathan. Cornell, September 2005, $24 While the “Ivory Tower” of higher education in American is often faulted for being out of touch with the country around it, it is an open secret among academics that many are similarly out of touch…
