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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Masks
I’ve been playing around with Core Graphics/Quartz 2D image masks. They’re pretty neat, but a little obscure. Today I want to share a few things I wish I’d know when I started working with them.
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Definition Theatre
girl·friend (noun) 1: A woman who hasn’t yet realized that she doesn’t like you. Editorial note to friends and family: Just kidding, everyone.
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Self-Reliance
Our Fearless Leader was speechifying a few months ago, and he offered up this gem: It was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, who said the role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do better … Continue reading
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Metadata
Today’s project is another of those oddballs: I’m not really sure it will be interesting to anyone else, and I’m far from confident that I implemented it optimally, but it did solve a real-world problem that cropped up in one … Continue reading
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Plus Ça Change
Consider this: A conservative estimate is that about sixty-five or seventy per cent of the entire wealth of the United States is owned by two per cent of the people. Sixty-eight per cent of the whole people living in the … Continue reading
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Explainers
Over at NRO, Jonah Goldberg’s got a piece up on “Clinton Nostalgia”. Clinton, a political prodigy of the first order, loved the human side of politics. He listened to the hoi polloi more than he listened to the Harvard faculty. … Continue reading
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