I pulled a lot of old files off of Dropbox today

Frankly, I got tired of them annoying me with the 'you're out of space, upgrade' messages when I have a terabyte of OneDrive storage with my Microsoft 365 subscription that more than meets my needs. So I pulled almost all of it off, even deleted the deleted files permanently, leaving one several-kilobyte-not-megabyte-big file, and it's still saying over half my 7.25 GB storage is taken up. 🤷‍♀️

Anyway, I found this...one of the early designs for this blog had this logo I designed using a superhero-generator tool I don't remember the name of and am not sure even exists today. I do not have an inner dominatrix, I promise. I just liked the costume, although of course Edna Mode would say, 'No capes!'

How bizarre

Art School Tells Students to Buy Pictureless $180 Art History Book

What is this, October!? According to a blog post published by a disgruntled parent of a student, the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) is forcing students to buy an art history book for $180 — which wouldn’t be unheard of, but the catch is that the publishers of this book didn’t get any of the image rights for the artwork it includes. To reiterate, that’s an art history survey without any pictures. WTF?

Instead of having pictures of artwork, the book, Global Visual and Material Culture: Prehistory to 1800 (so named for the course it goes with), instead just has placeholders with instructions to see a digital version for the actual image. It’s like a website with only broken image links.

A really neat idea for a search engine

TinEye is a search engine in beta that allows you to upload a picture and it will find other instances of that image for you. For example, I put in the Argentinian flag image and came up with 42 hits.

Thanks to Kathy Evans of Purdue for this one.