“There are weapons that are simply thoughts — ideas, prejudices — to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.”
— Rod Serling

>> The Rod Serling Conference at Ithaca College

I love the implications of this. Adobe has just announced that they’re launching a free Web-based version of Photoshop Express, the stripped-down poor man’s version of Photoshop.

While it’ll no doubt have its limitations, I’m stoked by the ability to do on-the-fly digital photo tweaks (cropping, sizing, levels adjustments, some filters) from anywhere with a Web connection.

Any day a good tool becomes Web-based is a good day.

Written forty years ago in 1968, a Mechanix Illustrated article predicting what life would be like in 2008.

The writer got it pretty close, only he forgot the part about tossing out a tweet from your cell phone as your air-cushion car glides along the smooth plastic road at 250 miles per hour.

By the way, is it gonna be Someday soon?

Last night’s sunset, shot from White Point. I couldn’t help from tripping on the orange sword blade on the horizon, and noticing the placement of the sun on it. Look closely.

And for the vertical-minded, I simply HAD to crop this photo to give you same vibe on the y-axis. Which, now that I look at it, uses the same math found in this painting, only it’s flipped vertically.

• If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills…
• If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains…
• If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles…
• If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it…
• If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time…
• If you can overlook when people take things out on you when, through no fault of yours, something goes wrong…
• If you can take criticism and blame without resentment…
• If you can face the world without lies and deceit…
• If you can conquer tension without medical help…
• If you can relax without liquor…
• If you can sleep without the aid of drugs…
• If you can do all these things…

…then you’re probably the family dog.

(via iwiggins)

Still shown today in biochemistry classes at MIT, the following free-love-era 1971 Stanford short film uses the art of dance to illustrate protein synthesis. Far out, man.

From the Pirate Trail in Rancho Palos Verdes. A few feet beyond the pups is a vertical drop into the canyon. A point of no return.