I have posted two quick and dirty reveiws of a couple of books I finished last week.
They are both on LibraryThing. One is a review of Philip Roth’s Professor of Desire and the other review is of Andre Schiffrin’s The Business of Books.
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Famous Finds
Here’s a neat list maintained by a small lending library in Maine. It lists famous people and their favorite book(s). Some of the people are even quoted and expound as to why they picked what they did.
I’ve always wondered what you could learn about somebody if you could study their TBR pile, but this is pretty fun too. Some folks picked some heavy stuff, but I was surprised by a few such as General Colin Powell’s first pick.
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PhotoShop online
Adobe has announced that they will be offering a free online-based stripped down version of PhotoShop by year’s end.
Here’s the scoop. It’ll be interesting to see what features they offer for free and if/how they tie it into the desktop app.
So far SnipShot has met my basic needs for an online photo editor. Though I’m sure there are plenty of good alternatives out there.
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Font finds
Through an amazing web of links and referals I wound up at an old thread on Cameron Moll’s blog from August of last year.
The subject of the post is “Typefaces no one gets fired for using”. If you’re in the market for new fonts or some variations on some old favorites, check out all of the recommendations left by the commentors. Lots of good rec’s.
Of course, it’s almost as fun to guess what kind of project these folks must be working on to recommend some of the more “display” (i.e. outlandish) fonts.
