2007: Seven Things We Should Pretend Never Happened
So many memorable things happened in 2007. We’d better start hiding the evidence, now.
Seriously, there’s a whole lot of shit that went on this year that we’d rather not have to explain to our children and grandchildren. Let’s do our best to destroy every record of it. If that fails and if you’re, in fact, reading this in the year 2107, we’ll do our best to put it into context. But, really, you had to be there.
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WhatsItsColor: Find the complementary and primary color
Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image’s primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.
Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image.
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Altered Books
Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This site is a chronicle of a very specific set of collaborations between the artists listed…working on the titles listed…
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We regret the following:
Once again, The Year in Media Errors and Corrections.
Correction of the year:
“Following the portrait of Tony and Cherie Blair published on 21 April in the Independent Saturday magazine, Ms Blair’s representatives have told us that she was friendly with but never had a relationship with Carole Caplin of the type suggested in the article. They want to make it clear, which we are happy to do, that Ms Blair “has never shared a shower with Ms Caplin, was not introduced to spirit guides or primal wrestling by Ms Caplin (or anyone else), and did not have her diary masterminded by Ms Caplin.”
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The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007
50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007.
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Death of a Browser, End of an Era
RIP Netscape browser, 1994-2007. AOL, who acquired the groundbreaking browser as part of a $4.2 billion deal in 1998, announced the end today. Good-bye or good riddance?
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James Bond stamps to be launched
The centenary of the birth of James Bond creator Ian Fleming is to be marked next month with six extra-long UK stamps, Royal Mail has said.
Each stamp has been lengthened to show a number of different Bond novel covers, with first-class stamps featuring Casino Royale and Dr No.
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New Jersey to block sex offenders from internet, computer use
A new law in New Jersey gives authorities the right to take away computer and internet access from convicted sex offenders, regardless of whether computers or the internet played a role in their crime. Snip from Ars Technica:
According to one of the law’s backers, state Senator John Girgenti, the law makes it easier for sex offenders to stay on the straight and narrow, “reducing the risk of them being tempted to be a repeat offender.”
Bill S1979 gives the state broad authority to regulate a sex offender’s computer and Internet usage so long as the person remains on parole. And the law is tough: anyone who uses a computer to help commit sex crimes will be prohibited from using computers or the Internet at all. The State Parole Board may also impose restrictions at its discretion on offenders even if they did not use computers to plan their crimes.
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