This one caugh my eye

I like the marionette/big brother feeling this illustration has.

Do you know your Optima from your Adobe Calson Pro?

Play this game to find out! It's 34 multiple choice font recognition questions. And it's randomly resorted each time.

I scored 27/34 after a practice round.

Borrowing from or perhaps 'bloggerizing' my friends

My friend Lisa posted this headline last week from the New York Times Web site. This is no ordinary headline.
MTV launched a new reality show Monday called "The Paper." It's about a high school journalism class and the four students bidding for editor.

A proud moment

I'm taking a moment to feel humbled that I work with such amazing people.

Published at IdahoStatesman.com: Idaho Statesman a 2008 Pulitzer finalist for breaking news

The Idaho Statesman was named a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the Larry Craig scandal that began with his arrest and guilty plea in an airport restroom last August.

This is the first time the Statesman has been a finalist in its 141-year history. The McClatchy Co. has won more than 50 of journalism's most prestigious prize.

The Washington Post won the 2008 Breaking News Reporting award for its coverage of the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. The New York Times was also named a Pulitzer finalist in this category. Read the full story.

Free Photoshop?

Adobe launched Photoshop Express a free online version of Photoshop.

It comes with 2 GB of space to upload and share you photos, kind of like Flickr and Photobucket. And a free version of the program you can use online with Adobe Flash Player 9.

I saw this and though: Oh crap! Why did I buy the $700+ version last fall when I invested in the Creative Suite?

But then I took the Test Drive.

It's great for someone who wants to brush up the family digitals before printing them on a home photo printer or add some cheezy filter to their MySpace default ... but it is clearly not a designer's tool. It has options such as "sharpen image" in which you can select from about six values of sharpness. Kind of you run-of-the-mill photo touch-up program. But it will give Grandpa a free way to crop and rotate and share the renunion pics.