I’m sure everyone has seen this already, but that’s not going to stop me from reposting it.
For any fans of Natalie Portman, including her exquisite role as the flirtatious brainiac, Marty, in Beautiful Girls (1996), you’ll enjoy this profane, but hilarious SNL skit (presumably written by Andy Samberg—the genius behind Lazy Sunday).

Take a look at the paintings and sketchbook of Vincent Hui over at hardsponge.com. Some amazingly impressive work.

This may be a relatively old story (as it was originally posted nearly a month ago), but none of my friends or colleagues mentioned it to me so, I assume, there’s some of you out there that didn’t know either.

Flickr has been beta-testing videos and has finally launched Flickr Video. For the initial release, Flickr Pro members can share up to 90-second clips on their account. I suspect that, soon, it’ll be available to non-Pro accountholders and the 90s quota will be increased. For more information, take a look at the below links.

Ever want to be able to reference personalized information each time a user visits your Flash? Before Flash MX, you needed to use PHP cookies. But Macromedia/Adobe created Flash Cookies called SharedObjects to make this easier for you. I’m not kidding! It’s like two lines of code to save and retrieve locally-stored data each time a user browses the site.

Case and point, try entering your name and age to the Flash below. Then click “Store” and either click the “Refresh” button, refresh your browser or hit F5.

If you’ve been dissatisfied with Adobe Illustrator CS2/3 Live Trace, or event CorelDRAW X4 Power Trace, you probably rely on an old version of of Adobe Streamline or, even worse, farm the work out to unreliable Indian companies for small change. Read the rest of this entry »