Mr. Speaker

Talented people. God I hate them. How dare they sit around making our meagre accomplishments look meagre? Well, they dare. They dare.

Case in point: Graffiti Wall for Facebook. It provides you with a skeleton tool set - a colour picker, a brush size selector, an opacity selector, and 152592 pixels on which to use them…Not much you can do with that, right?

Well, let me tell you, people… are… freaks. Yeah thanks guys. Way to take the fun out of it.

So what can one do if one is filled with artistic desire, yet has the drawing skills of Ken Done? Is the answer to take a drawing class at the local TAFE, read up on techniques, watch instructional YouTube videos, and practice 1 hour everyday?
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Ahh, Three-Letter Acronyms: Time savers, confusion makers, sources of eternal annoyance. TLAs make managers feel competent, and let imaginative people enter rude words on high-score tables. But what makes a great TLA? What makes one stick? Why does BPM roll off the tongue, while QWJ makes you feel a bit sick? In an effort to find out, I have undertaken an exhaustive, or at least quite tiring, exploration into the TLA.
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Awwww yeeeeaahh booooooyyy… APEC Sound System in full effect - Asia-Pacific Economic Crew gunna rock it! A week of Sydney tour dates, culminating in a massive heads-of-state break-off in full gang colours. Should be awesome!

As part of the tour Mix-Master Johnny H has organised for a banging sound system to be set up throughout the city.

They haven’t started cranking tunes out yet - though apparently there was some freakin’ loud glitch-noise samples pumping out earlier - hopefully a sign of things to come!
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Here’s a helpful little mouse-wielding tip for all you Windows users out there (Oops, “mouse” and “Windows” - there goes my geek cred.)… Did you know that you can vertically select text in some programs? Well you can, with the power of ALT + mouse!

Selecting text with a mouse is a very important computer-user skill, that enables you to capture parts of a paragraph or sentence for use in other applications.

But what if, right, you wanted to extract just the messages from the text below, and paste them somewhere else:
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Possession of low-voltage consumer electronics. A love of very noisy things. A do-it-yourself aesthetic - Do you possess these items and/or attributes? Then come join the Circuit Bending hoedown! It’s disturbing and easy! Here’s the how and why (no, actually, the how and what)…

Circuit Bending is the art of messing with the electronics inside of stuff that makes noise, in order to make new and more useful random noise. The goal is to augment gadgets, kids toys, guitar pedals and cheap synths with new knobs, buttons, switches and “body contacts” that boldly go where no manufacturer would ever be bothered going.
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3 years without even a mention of Star Wars on this nerdy blog.

That is pretty impressive.