Playlist for a crisp, cool autumn day

October 10th, 2007
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iPod Another generated playlist, this time not by Odysseus, my trusty 2nd generation iPod, but by Winamp running on my desktop. In any event, it’s a crisp, overcast, cool autumn day, and nothing goes together with that quite like a good music set.

Enjoy!

01. Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart (2:39)
02. Interpol - Obstacle 1 (4:11)
03. OK Go - Here It Goes Again (2:59)
04. The Heads (Feat. Johnette Napolitano) - Damage I’ve Done (4:43)
05. Violent Femmes - Kiss Off (2:56)
06. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum (5:26)
07. Editors - An End Has A Start (3:43)
08. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole (3:31)
09. New Order - Crystal (4:20)
10. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great (6:25)
11. Fischerspooner - Just Let Go (4:14)
12. Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty (3:49)
13. Quietdrive - Time After Time (3:04)
14. Weezer - Say It Ain’t So (4:18)
15. Garbage - Queer (4:36)
16. The Smiths - Unhappy Birthday (2:45)
17. Radiohead - Paranoid Android (6:23)
18. Evanescence - Going Under (3:34)
19. The Graveyard School - Sentimental (3:07)
20. Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me (3:06)
21. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights (4:26)
22. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (3:41)
23. New Order - 60 MPH (4:35)
24. Alison Moyet - Nobody’s Diary (4:31)
25. Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange (3:39)
26. Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (5:48)
27. The Church - Under The Milky Way (4:58)
28. LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations (4:59)
29. A3 - Woke Up This Morning (5:16)
30. Seether - Broken -featuring Amy Lee (4:18)
31. Bat For Lashes - Prescilla (3:34)
32. Modest Mouse - Bukowski (4:14)
33. Radiohead - Karma Police (4:21)
34. Morrissey - First of the Gang to Die (3:40)
35. New Order - Krafty (4:35)
36. The Killers - Mr. Brightside (3:42)
37. Modest Mouse - The Good Times Are Killing Me (4:16)
38. R.E.M. - Half A World Away (3:28)
39. Catherine Wheel - Judy Staring At The Sun (3:57)
40. Five For Fighting - Superman (3:45)

Alternate Photoshop logos and other nonsense

October 9th, 2007
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Apparently the Photoshop family of products now has a new logo, separate from the Adobe brand. As you can see, the new logo doesn’t exactly fit in with Adobe’s current scheme of icons or identities. No one is sure why they went with a speech bubble with a hole in it (other than it’s supposed to mimic a P, but you don’t really get that at first glance). It’s sort of nonsensical. Well, leave it to me to come up with some new suggestions for Adobe.

Those of us familiar with Photoshop know that there are a myriad of menus. And we also know that with each new version of Photoshop (and all the other sub-versions of Photoshop) it’s inevitable that either something gets added to the menus or the menus get changed. Why not use this as a positive selling point? See what’s on the menu!

As much as I love Photoshop (I’ve been using it since version 2.5), it always seems like a cat and mouse game between Adobe and its users. Times that I have worked in a corporate environments with IT departments, it seems we never really upgrade to the latest version until maybe a month or two before a new version comes out. I’m sure this is pretty standard with a lot of applications, as IT departments want to be sure there are no surprises, are notoriously understaffed, and in general don’t like to upgrade software. So why not turn it into a game? There are countless users still on the CS2 version, so why not rub it in? Tag. You’re it!

Now that we’ve covered sensible (if not unplausible) replacements for the new Photoshop logo, why not explore nonsense? We love nonsense. Yes. Yes we do. We also like pie. Yes. Yes we do. More pie, please!

Photoshop adds flair and accents to photos and other projects. ¡Olé!

UPDATE:
It was brought to my attention that the new Photoshop logo and tagline are suspiciously like the Bravo cable network’s own logo and tagline. See for yourself. Perhaps Adobe should have had the legal department give it a second look before approving it.