I'm getting married October 31st, 2008. Contact me for more details.

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If you didn't hear, Nine Inch Nails are giving away their new album in various non-DRM formats under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license. You can get it on The Slip website for zero dollars and zero cents. It's the same style as Year Zero from what I can tell so far.

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For future reference, the NYTimes.com Art Director says (search for "Visual Consistency") they hand code their site. It still uses a loose DTD and table-based layout, but at least they aren't using DreamWeaver.

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I, like most designers, have been using Photoshop for years. I watched as they added Save For Web (which became Save For Web and Devices) and layer styles. One thing that I have always loved about Photoshop is that I can sample a color and copy the hex value out of the color picker. One thing that has always pissed me off about Photoshop is that not all color picker windows allow copy / paste hex values. Specifically, the matte in Save For Web and the various color pickers for layer styles lack this.

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Over the past several weeks, I've been working on a little project. I registered the domain several years ago, but it was only recently that I finally coded enough of a library to make pumping out a site idea fairly painlessly. I just launched the site today, so there isn't any real content. However, I plan on posting at least twice this week, then on a close to weekly basis after that. The site is: VodkaBuzz.

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