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Some signs your page layout software and/or documentation is poorly designed

  1. The phrase “as if these changes weren’t confusing enough” appears in the official Scribus docs wiki.
  2. After searching the manual, online docs and wiki for 30 minutes, there’s no evidence of a keyboard shortcut to resize text.
  3. The Scribus readme tells you to install Ghostscript first. On Windows, the readme only appears after installation. HAHAHAHA
  4. Scrollbars appear in panels, but panels can't be resized. Broken by design.
  5. Next-paragraph styles? Maybe when the dev team will be very bored! HAHAHAHA
  6. Anchored items in text? HAHAHAHA
  7. Copy by dragging? Not ctrl/mod-drag, like everything else, but right-click drag. Oh, and it usually crashes Scribus.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

But seriously, I shouldn’t complain. It’s free! And dockable panels are finally coming, a mere seven years after the feature request.

Open source rocks!

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§129 · November 27, 2011 · Blog · (No comments) ·

But “Ron Mexico” is still OK

Deadspin: That List Of “Words You Can’t Text In Pakistan” Is Actually The List Of Things You Can’t Put On NFL Jerseys.

There’s a document circulating today that allegedly contains the list of words that the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) wants banned from text messages. A few tipsters forwarded it our way after noticing that the list included phrases like “Rae Carruth,” “Neon Deon,” and “He Hate Me,”—all things that would be strange to text in a casual conversation in Pakistan because they all have a lot to do with the NFL.

Out of curiosity, we pulled up the infamous list of the more than 1,100 words that the NFL Shop once banned from use on personalized jerseys, and lo: It’s exactly the same as the list that’s been passed around for Pakistan’s censorship. This hypothetically presents a terrible conundrum for Pakistan’s biggest Deion Sanders fan.

 

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§124 · November 22, 2011 · Shares · (No comments) ·

How to convert promoters into detractors in three easy words

  1. Non-consensual
  2. Irreversible
  3. Opt-out

Reasons why I left Google+

I’ve removed my Google+ profile, not because they added chat. Not even because chat subsequently, and without my permission, loaded all my circles into my GTalk contacts, which I’d just spent (and now wasted) an hour cleaning up a couple weeks ago.

I removed it for the same reason I killed off my Facebook profile: I am so over non-consensual, irreversible changes to services, changes that are opt-out instead of opt-in and delivered without warning.

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§108 · November 22, 2011 · Blog · (No comments) ·

52 weeks, 52 rayguns

Raygun52 – The Armory.

My name is [REDACTED - will henceforth be recognized as ‘Bishop’] and I am writing on behalf of [REDACTED - will hencefoth be recognized as ‘The Company’]. With the recent passage of the 2257 United Sea of Tranquility Arms Control Act, The Company is no longer permitted to contract designers to concept its weaponry. The USoT public has unfortunately decreed that visually pleasing weaponry is to be frowned upon. However, with the recent discovery of limited time travel and the USoT’s failure to regulate it, we are able to seek help from your time. The Company asks that you create a public forum to collect original concepts for our energy-based weaponry. Without attractive arms, The Company has had a difficult time fulfilling military and civilian arms contracts. We expect that the USoT will pass time travel regulatory measures in one year, at which point I will likely no longer be permitted to collect submissions from the public forum you create. In order to keep time transmissions to a minimum, we ask that you, Alex Griendling, handle day-to-day operations of the forum. While we cannot directly reward you and your fellow designers for your collective efforts, know that any descendents of said designers will be aptly compensated in 2258.

 

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§104 · November 22, 2011 · Shares · (No comments) ·

Actual. hobbit. houses.

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The last time out they built the Hobbit holes and structures like most movie sets. They were temporary, not functional past the time the crew needed them to work. This time out they made a deal with the landowner to make this site an official and long lasting attraction for fans of the movies.

Forty-Four Hobbit holes were built to be permanent, with retaining walls, waterproofed roofs, etc. The stone bridge was constructed with a steel superstructure covered with real stone cladding. The Green Dragon is the most impressive of them all because it was built with a functioning fireplace, plumbing, water pipes and the works.

Hennah said the plans were to actually turn The Green Dragon into a real, working pub, but that’s all on the landowners at this point, I believe. I can picture many a geek wedding happening in Matamata, vows under the Party Tree and reception at The Green Dragon. Ah, geek love!

While they did remove a lot of set dressing meaning props like chairs, ladders and various odds and ends the Hobbit holes will remain and all can be entered safely. They even left the curtains in the windows.

Take anything AICN with half a grain of salt, but if this is true, actual hobbit houses.

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§100 · November 22, 2011 · Shares · (No comments) ·

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