Category Archives: Web

cute

By Reinette | Published: July 14, 2010
Me: How do I look? Him: Cute! Me: Excellent. Just what every girl wants to hear. Him: Also that they’re special and unique and beautiful and you’ve never met any woman like them. They all want to hear that, too. Me: You’re lucky I like you. Him: I know. Only somebody as unique as you [...]
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PSA

By Reinette | Published: June 16, 2010
This is a public service announcement: please do not hack Drupal core. It’s like sawing off a unicorn’s horn to test for poison. SO draconian! SO unnecessary! My friends: keep the unicorn alive! It will willingly dip its horn into your drinks; you just have to ask. And it will even (eventually) have baby unicorns, [...]
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piracy, and why I might do it (again)

By Reinette | Published: April 7, 2010
A friend of mine sent me to an awesome video a few weeks ago, showing Adobe’s “Content-aware fill“, a new feature in Photoshop CS5, part of the much-hyped upcoming release of Adobe Creative Suite 5. A brief summary: wow. I’ll admit it, I’m excited. I’ve been a Photoshop user since forever. I mean, back in [...]
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Normativity

By Reinette | Published: March 18, 2010
The other day on Twitter I made some flippant comment about a web design that featured a slim attractive white couple. It got me thinking. That website was publicizing an affordable homes program, and was clearly aimed at young families and lower-income, frugal apiring-middle-class folks buying their first home and getting their first mortgage. I [...]
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