I just got this via an email and I couldn’t agree more.

Former LCC film student Bob Murawski won an Academy Award for co-editing “The Hurt Locker.”In this video, Bob Murawski thanks a number of people including former faculty member Bill Blanchard.

This makes me very proud of our institution and how we help change lives forever. How many other lives are we changing which do not make the red carpet in Hollywood?

http://oscar.go.com/video/index?playlistId=167479&clipId=253263

Here is the movie trailer of “The Hurt Locker.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxSDZc8etg

I hear what you’re asking, “Wow, Ok, so CS5 will be announced on April 12. What kind of goodies can we expect to see?” Well, here’s a couple of neat features called Content-Aware-Delete and Content-Aware-Fill. Personally, I think it gets really impressive at around the 4:20 mark when the presenter fills in the white space in his vacation photo.

Enjoy.

Source: creativebits

I just stumbled onto a post by Jean-Baptiste Jung over at Cats Who Code listing fifteen web sites that developers should know. I knew about most of them (not because I’m smart but because I have no life and spend most of each day wasting away online) and a couple of them are almost useless but there’s a couple gems in the list too.

• ColorCombos
• LIpsum
• What the font?
• ConvertIcon
• BgPatterns
• HTML Encoder
• Xenocode Browsers
• Test Everything
• Sprite Generator
• Buttonator
• Load Impact
• IconFinder
• TypeTester
• CSS Tidy
• Contact Forms Generators

Source: Cats Who Code

Adobe announced Creative Suite 5 will be launched on April 12, 2010. Check out the countdown and the sneak peek videos.

Source: creativebits – mac design community

Our buddy Chris over at CSS Tricks has a nice post about Pseudo Class Selectors. Most of you know (or had BETTER know) about :link, :hover, :active, and :visited but there are quite a few more. :focus, :target, :enabled, :checked are some more you may have heard of but :not(S), :nth-last-of-type(N) are a couple that I bet you’re not familiar with.

Head on over to Chris’s web site and take a look.

Source: CSS-Tricks

And it’s not even April yet…

Unbeknownst to most users, Google’s Chrome Web browser is powered by a distributed array of goats. In order to prevent the creatures from clogging the tubes, Google uses teleportation to move them between endpoints on the network. A hidden feature in Chrome’s task manager allows users to see the total number of goats that are actively being teleported for each running browser tab. In Chrome’s task manager, right-click the task table—check the “Goats Teleported” item in the context menu.

This feature is useful for determining if your computer is suffering from a goat overload—an overwhelmingly rapid influx of teleported goats. Several users reported incidents of goat overload in the Chrome bug tracker earlier this year, but Google has largely mitigated the problem via a few additional optimizations. If you or somebody you love has been afflicted by goat overload, the Goat Trauma Foundation is available to provide assistance. If the problem is persistent or frequently recurring, you may need to obtain a chupacabra or…

Source: ars technica

I just stumbled onto this post at the BBC. Today is the 25th birthday of the dot com TLD. Who new it’s been so long? Here’s just the first few paragraphs from the much longer and in depth article on the BBC website. Apparently in the Queen’s English dot com is one word…

The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March – the 25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered.

In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books with an internet address ending in dotcom.

That same year another five companies jumped on a very slow bandwagon.

It took until 1997, well into the internet boom, before the one millionth dotcom was registered.

Other tibits:

• 21m domain names registered between 1985 and 2000
• 57m domain names registered between 2000 and 2010

Source: BBC

This is just cool. Folks who are taking (or have taken) ARTS229 know all about label tags. Or should I say, they better! Anyway, this is neat trick of sliding the label from the input tag out to where we’re used to seeing them. I haven’t tried this yet myself but I thought someone might want to play with it. Click here to see the demo and here to read the post.

I’d never heard of CSS Karma but it looks like a neat place with lots of info.

Source: CSS Karma

I found this at Scientific American and thought it was interesting:

No, you have not had one grappa too many. These images of the Leaning Tower are actually identical, but the tower on the right looks more lopsided because the human visual system treats the two images as one scene. Our brains have learned that two tall objects in our view will usually rise at the same angle but converge toward the top—think of standing at the base of neighboring skyscrapers. Because these towers are parallel, they do not converge, so the visual system thinks they must be rising at different angles, as demonstrated by this year’s winner of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest, sponsored by the Neural Correlate Society.

Source: Scientific American

I’ve talked about footers in class before but Smiley Cat has a post about what are the elements that make up a great footer design? Here’s a sample of the list. I didn’t feel like typing in the whole thing so you’ll have to visit the site to read the rest…

• Site Map
• Site Map Link
• Legal Links and Copyright Information
• Contact Information
• Contact Form
• Newsletter Signup Form
• Search Form
• Social Media Buttons

Source: Smiley Cat