While Adobe Illustrator is the preferred tool by most designers for illustrating and drawing digitally, Photoshop can also be used for some types of illustration. This post includes a selection of tutorials that cover the process of drawing various objects in Photoshop. Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Ba...

I had finally had it with my car’s gutless wonder of a 1.8L 4 banger engine.  I needed something with more pep!  I really got tired of having a decent, albeit 14 year old car, that was capable of 0-60 in the time it takes to cook a chuck roast! So I searched around and found an engine I ...

Times are tough. Library funding is down, library use is up, and people are asking more and more questions demanding more and more time from their public library staff. In response to these increasing demands on library resources, Library Development staff at the Washington State Library have been c...

As you all know, St. Patrick’s Day is coming. Here are a few gift ideas for your sweetheart or… yourself! photo courtesy of emilyelizabethjewelry.com Keep your luck close to you on St. Patrick’s Day (and beyond!) with the Lucky Clover Lariat by Emily Elizabeth Jewelry. The four-lea...

Have any shoes that smell not so fresh?  Drop this deodorizing basketball in your shoe to reduce odor and moisture!  Comes in a set of two and you can choose from golf, soccer, and baseball styles in an ocean breeze scent, or the basketball in pine scent. $8 at FredFlare...

The actual central Democratic party apparatus introduced a wacky prank last week to stick it to farty ol’ Rush Limbaugh: they’d come up with a funny slogan about Rush being weird and place it on a billboard in Rush’s hometown. Then Rush would see it all the time and feel embarrasse...

Another guest post from that Realtor extraordinaire north of the border, Larry Yatkowsky on a cool tool to turn your blog posts to something you, or a friend, can hold in your hand (no, this has nothing to do with his How’s Your Blog Hanging post– a paper version of your illuminating blo...

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on the subject of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous thrift: -flaunting expense or thrift, some ponderings on same by the very smart barry over at 3stylelife -the case against thrift (from salon) and conspicuous thrift (from the la times) (both via nubby twiglet) myself? well, i’ve always...

lhttp://kwout.com/cutout/u/a5/8s/2uk_bor_rou_sha.jpg Business Lecturing Anyone on Moral Issues March 8th, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Religious Fundamentalism http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/... Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim - Americas, World - The Independent via kwout...