Creative Community Bulletin 23 May 2010 Through 05 June 2010

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 23 May 2010 through 05 June 2010:

  • Arizona Elementary School Will Whiten Faces of Its Own Students On A Mural Because Racists Yelled at It – Un-fucking-believable!

    An Arizona ele­men­tary school mur­al fea­tur­ing the faces of kids who attend the school has been the sub­ject of con­stant day­time drive-by racist scream­ing, from adults, as well as a radio talk-show cam­paign (by an actu­al city coun­cil­man, who has an AM talk-radio show) to remove the black stu­den­t’s face, and now the school prin­ci­pal has ordered the faces of the Latino and Black stu­dents to be changed to Caucasian skin.

  • Comic Book Publishers Strike Back at Unauthorized Comics Site – The lawyers weren’t kid­ding around
  • From Minority Report to Apple Patents, This Is the Future of UI | Only 5 Years Away, Says TED – What’s the future of user inter­faces like? In a mat­ter of 20 years, it will all be about ges­tur­al inter­faces applied to the real world. Something like Minority Report, basi­cal­ly. And we’ve seen Apple explor­ing this con­cept before, with patents sur­fac­ing here and there show­ing how the engi­neers at Cupertino are indeed con­sid­er­ing gesture-based UIs to manip­u­late objects in a 3D space.
  • What Alka-Seltzer mixed with water looks like in space – Ever won­dered what an Alka-Seltzer tablet looks like hit­ting a bub­ble of water in space? Me nei­ther, but this video is real­ly cool:
  • New Phishing Scam is Sophisticated, Fools Gmail Users – Replace the fav­i­con with the Gmail fav­i­con, the title with “Gmail: Email from Google”, and the page with a Gmail login look-a-like. This can all be done with just a lit­tle bit of Javascript that takes place instantly.
  • Windows Key Keyboard Shortcuts – Pressing the key in com­bi­na­tion with oth­er keys allows invok­ing many com­mon func­tions through the key­board. What Windows key com­bi­na­tions (“short­cuts”) are avail­able and active in a giv­en Windows ses­sion depends on many fac­tors, includ­ing acces­si­bil­i­ty options, the type of the ses­sion (reg­u­lar or Terminal Services), the Windows ver­sion, the pres­ence of spe­cif­ic soft­ware such as IntelliType, and oth­ers. The External links sec­tion below pro­vides a list of Microsoft arti­cles with more details.
  • The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts – Windows 7 adds loads of great short­cuts for switch­ing between apps, mov­ing win­dows around your screen, mov­ing them to anoth­er mon­i­tor alto­geth­er, and much more. Here’s a quick-reference mas­ter list of the best new Windows 7 shortcuts.
  • IRON BABY | Cute, Well-Done Iron Man 2 Parody –
  • NBC – Sources said sev­er­al large media com­pa­nies, includ­ing Time Warner and NBC Universal, told Apple they won’t retool their exten­sive video libraries to accom­mo­date the iPad, argu­ing that such a refor­mat­ting would be expen­sive and not worth it because Flash dom­i­nates the Web.
  • New Tattoo Blog Seeking Bloggers – I have put the basic struc­ture in place, but now I need some­one to expand the con­tent, writ­ing at least a cou­ple of posts week­ly and adding more inter­nal pages too. If you are pas­sion­ate about tat­toos and want to write about the top­ic get in touch and we’ll dis­cuss the gig. You can reach me on daniel@​dailyblogtips.​com.