[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Ask Dave Podcast: Automate Changes to Multiple Files in Photoshop
- [Adobe Creative Suite 4 Learning Center | Layers Magazine - Dave Cross]
In this video, Dave goes over how to turn a bunch of TIFF files into jepgs – automatically.
- Mobile Phones As Remote Controls
- Below is a list of nearly a dozen "remote control" apps that have caught our interest. We're sure you can think of more. Feel free to add your favorite remote control app to comments section to round out this resource.
[Some apps can also act as remote controls for your computer. -L]
- Justice Ginsburg Says Nine Women on Supreme Court Would Be Enough
- [ABA Journal Top Stories]
…Ginsburg and retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor appeared at a women’s conference in California, where they were interviewed by ABC’s Diane Sawyer, ABC News reports. O'Connor said she attended a recent Supreme Court argument and she found that having three women justices was "dazzling." "How many women would be enough?" Sawyer asked. "Nine," Ginsburg replied, as the audience laughed and applauded. "There have been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?"…
- Maybe we should just call this ‘The Fox Election’
- This is just about the endpoint of the campaign that Fox has been waging for the past two years — beginning the day after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008. Think about it:
– …Without Fox's endless promotions of the various Tea Party events …the "movement" would have been nothing, a brief blip on the screen.
– Congressional Republicans managed to maintain their discipline in uniformly voting "No" on every Obama proposal that came down the pike because Fox was [watching them]…
[Almost every Republican candidate] has gotten lots of free airtime on Fox to promote their campaign. Their opponents — not at all. And what's been interesting is how these candidates have been able to use Fox to get airtime while refusing to speak to their local reporters at all.
…we don't really have a Republican Party anymore. It's now a wholly owned subsidiary of Fox News.
- BREAKING NEWS! Arizona Voter Identification Law Unconstitutional as Preempted by National Voter Registration Act
- [ImmigrationProf Blog]
- HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business
- [Mashable! - Jolie O'Dell]
- My Lawyer for Android can help you in a car accident
- [AndGeeks]
…helpful for people in all states. … if you just run My Lawyer after you get into an accident, you’ll probably be well off. …
The app actually gathers your location when you start it, so when you click on the Your Legal Rights option it will bring you right to your state’s laws…
…click Collect Accident Info, and you’ll have a screen where you can enter the other person’s personal information. Additionally, you can take photos of the accident right from the app, as well as take notes. It will leave you with a comprehensive account of the incident, which will come in handy when the insurance company starts to ask you questions.
[Wowsers, and it's free. Note to ACLU and/or Nolo Press: please make an app to help people protect their free speech and other rights. -L]
- How to turn data into money
- [FlowingData - Nathan Yau]
Pete Warden describes how to make a living working with data. Essentially, do something more with the data than plopping it front of people. There's a small niche (for now) as data provider. Demand is much higher for storyteller.
- In Which We Learn That It Is Unwise to Drink and Handle Snakes
- [PLoS Blogs - Emily Anthes]
[Quotes amusing paper on an 1852 drunk zookeeper incident. -L]
- FDA Warns Homeopathic Product Is Not Just Water
- The labeling requirements are almost Orwellian. They need to list ingredients – even the ones that are not actually in the preparation because they have been diluted past the point where there is likely to be a single molecule left. … So homeopaths essentially have to make up multiple fictions to put on the label of homeopathic products — in the name of consumer information.
It might seem reasonable not to require safety testing, since most homeopathic preparations have “little or no active ingredients.” …
However, the loose regulations allow anything to be sold as a “homeopathic” remedy … homeopaths can make up new products … write them down in a supplement, and they are magically approved by the FDA.
[Read on. Dangerous and inconsistent amounts of belladonna in teething tablets. -L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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