If..Else Log

Efficient and yet strangely terrifying.

Stuart has a tutorial on using QuickSilver and Paparazzi to quickly grab screenshots of webpages.

Some things to note if you're following the tutorial:

• Make sure QS' advanced features option is turned on
• Enable the "Open URL With" via the action preferences panel
• Make sure that the Safari module is installed

These are all mentioned in the comments but I had overlooked them upon my first read.

Realtime¹ photos of the sun.

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So if you're looking for information on school or college loan consolidations, where do you turn to? How about advice on auto insurance quotes or maybe teleconference services.

Well, according to this list of the 50 most expensive adwords, apparently marketers believe the answer is Google Adsense. Clearly, education is highly valued by the loans and insurance industry…

Jeremy Cowart has showcased some of his lovely cover art and photography in his flickr collection.

Great stuff.

Artistic Mafia are running a contest to design a halloween themed T-Shirt.

Their gallery also contains a lovely selection of canvas and poster prints with a big tilt towards clean designs. I quite like this design.

There's a post on Creative Review about the recent fake front cover of The London News.

The London News is an afternoon publication by Rupert Murdoch's News International competiting in the hotly contested free newspaper market. As with the other free newspapers such as Metro and The London Lite, the publication is supported via a variety of ads. However, in a bid to gather a greater advertising cut, The London News makes use of ad-sponsored cover wraps which enclose the actual newspaper. The problem in this instance is the actual ad campaign. Plastered across the front page was a poster shot depicting "the Assasination of George Bush"; as a subject matter, it couldn't be any more deceptive. Whilst I imagine they were compensated quite comfortably for the campaign, I can't help feeling that they've shot themselves in the foot by allowing this to go through.

The backbone of any newspaper is it's credibility; by allowing the boundaries between news and marketing to blur, The London News has given the impression that it's willing to sacrifice it's credibility as a serious paper for the sake of commercial interests. A dangerous precedent to set and a warning shot for the future of journalism.

This rather sexy looking laptop demoed at the Ceatec tech fair also doubles up as turn-table. Personally, it looks more like a electric hob and the ergonomics of the touch-sensitive keyboard is debatable but it's good to see laptops veering away from the usual cheap plastic look.

MIT lab makes Physics on a whiteboard fun. Excellent stuff.

[via James via email]

So you suddenly find that you need a speaker for your PC. What do you use? Yes the correct answer is that you open up your hard drive and modify it as a custom speaker. And of course, you use it to playback the beginning to Pulp Fiction. Viva User Generated Content!