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Designer unknown (UK edition) There’s nothing about this cover that I don’t like. The Guardian review glows; I’ll have to keep my eye out for this when it’s released in the States. And by the way, just so that you don’t pick this up and think it’s actually a self-help title, the American edition will …

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Windows only: Free utility PDFill can create, update and merge existing PDF files for free. Yesterday we posted Combine PDFs for Mac, and PDFill does the equivalent job on Windows, plus more. PDFill can also split or reorder PDF pages, encrypt/decrypt PDF’s, rotate and crop, add image or text watermarks, and convert images to PDFs …

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“I started to think that NC-17 movies perhaps shared a common visual string in their marketing materials — dark and provocative… I started with R and pulled up the top five movies’ posters. Less provocative but very dark. I moved on to PG-13’s five. Not provocative at all but dark nonetheless. PG’s five? Much friendlier …

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Making the baby girl happy. Best Use Of My Art Ever

How many more times will someone suggest this book in the comments section of this blog?  I like this book and I think it offers a real contribution.  Nonetheless I feel no need to suggest it in the comments sections of other peoples’ blogs. I do not treat this book as foundational because of personal …

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Superman #7Superman #7

As a reader pointed out recently, the latest issue of Mad contains a three-page article that Sarah and I provided the artwork for. This includes the two-page spread of doom which I’ve mentioned here several times before, and which put my hand in a wrist brace for a period of time after I finished working …

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Mark Frauenfelder: The wonderful Mitch O’Connell has designed a set of stitching patterns for Jenny Hart’s Sublime Stitching. They look great! Link (Via Craft) Previously on Boing Boing: • Interview with artist Mitch O’Connell Mitch O’Connell’s Sublime Stitching patterns

Mark Frauenfelder: Someone created the obligatory animated GIF based on the photo of Homer Simson and the aroused Pagan deity I posted yesterday. Link (Thanks, minifig!) Animated Homer tosses donut onto Pagan deity

I’ve often said that one of the best ways to find out what you really want is to start with what you don’t want. I’d like to explore this theme a little further in this posting. There is something about asking for what we want that attracts a lot of negativity in our present-day culture. …

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