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Offshore Oil Strike board game from BP (1970)

Each player has “Hazard” cards to deal with; here are some of the risks BP thought to include:—”Accident. Rig shuts down while replacement of key personnel takes place. Miss one turn.”—”Fire breaks out. Pay $2,500,000 for repairs.”—”Hit High-Pressure Gas—Rig Damaged. Specialists called in.”—”Blow-Out! Rig Damaged. Repairs cost $2,000,000”—”Drill pipe breaks. Pay $500,000 for replacement.”—”Strike High Pressure Gas. Platform Destroyed.” —”Blow-Out! Rig Damaged. Oil Slick Clean-Up costs. Pay $1,000,000.”

Offshore Oil Strike board game from BP (1970)

Each player has “Hazard” cards to deal with; here are some of the risks BP thought to include:
—”Accident. Rig shuts down while replacement of key personnel takes place. Miss one turn.”
—”Fire breaks out. Pay $2,500,000 for repairs.”
—”Hit High-Pressure Gas—Rig Damaged. Specialists called in.”
—”Blow-Out! Rig Damaged. Repairs cost $2,000,000”
—”Drill pipe breaks. Pay $500,000 for replacement.”
—”Strike High Pressure Gas. Platform Destroyed.” 
—”Blow-Out! Rig Damaged. Oil Slick Clean-Up costs. Pay $1,000,000.”

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jacob:

I think this is like the 3rd time I’ve had my mind blown by discovering this feature in Photoshop, only to have my heart broken seconds later once I realize it actually copies this: color="#a8aa92"

jacob:

I think this is like the 3rd time I’ve had my mind blown by discovering this feature in Photoshop, only to have my heart broken seconds later once I realize it actually copies this: color="#a8aa92"

reblogged from jacob, posted by jacob
Feb 06
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This Is Hilarious, You Should Watch It of the Day: “Some people ask ‘hey, why do you have a Wynonna Judd poster in your store?’ And to them I say: ‘have you forgot the name of the store?’”

Ugly Furniture.

[whythatsdelightful.]

reblogged from thedailywhat, posted by thedailywhat
Feb 04
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Buy This: “Gun Comb” from 25togo.
What could possibly go right?

Buy This:Gun Comb” from 25togo.

What could possibly go right?

reblogged from thedailywhat, posted by thedailywhat
Jan 31
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Image on the left was the original promotional copy. The image on the right is what Apple is now showing off. (via  Official: No Flash On iPad – Hulu Seen In Tears)

Image on the left was the original promotional copy. The image on the right is what Apple is now showing off. (via Official: No Flash On iPad – Hulu Seen In Tears)

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Why so serious? :)

Why so serious? :)

reblogged from baubauhaus, posted by baubauhaus
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The many sliders of Photoshop CS4

Preferences > Memory Usage

Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast

Filters

Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)

Layer Blending

Layer Style

Threshold

Color Balance

Things to keep in mind:

  1. These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
  2. The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
  3. They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
  4. None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:

Don’t mind the special function ones like Layer Blending, however blur takes the piss I mean you can see they even faked the runner under it probably because the UI drawing code used there doesn’t support alpha transparency, fucking amature hour if you ask me.

reblogged from adobegripes, posted by mrgan
Oct 05
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