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Tironius posted this story Thursday, January 24, 2008

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Finder’s Cover Flow tries to put icons perceptually on the same plane by clipping away transparency. Intriguing. In the picture above, one can see that the transparent circular cancellation [1>1. Cancellation: On mail, a cancellation (or cancel for short) is a postal marking applied to a postage stamp or postal stationery indicating that the item has been used. — Wikipedia] has been cut off, indicated by the blue arrow. With Apple, it’s all about the little things.

Read more of “Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Creating Icons”

In Cover Flow view, the Finder positions icons so that they appear to be on the same plane. To do this, the Finder begins examining an icon at the bottom edge, looking for pixels that are opaque enough to use for alignment. If there is significant transparency in the lower area of your icon, the Finder ignores the transparent pixels in favor of the first opaque pixel it finds. The Finder uses the opaque pixel to determine the icon’s alignment with respect to the plane and may clip the transparent pixels below it.

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Original Articles

Articles from jury duty in San Francisco, trannies on bus rides, to Korean prostitutes, every original article and cartoon written at The Pounders is found here.

The Shadowy Underside of Korea

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The Cat Came Back

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Blogger Kurippi get’s his comeuppance when a sexploit goes awry in Korea.

K-Line Colamite

“I got on and sat my beautiful glutes in a row of two unused seats facing forward, taking the window seat. It’s a good thing, too, because a perfectly poundable Asian pussy rested its lips on the seat next to me.”

10,010% Success

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Night With BG

So I looks around, to see if it’s clear.
Then I says, “damn girl, it’s gettin hot in here.”
I pull down my draws, unfold my lollypop,
Lean in and whisper, “I’ll tell you when to stop.”

Set to Warren G’s ‘Regulate,’ blogger Bang Ganger sets the defiling of a woman’s body to rhyme.

Trip to N Korea

The DMZ itself is infested with landmines and anyone trying to make it across would not make it very far. Covered in guard towers on both sides, you often find yourself being watched by N Korean soldiers.

Pounders blogger Kurippi visits the border of North-South Korea, trips and falls into communism.

‘Pounder’ Redefined

At The Big Word Project — to match what we do in real life — we have redefined the word “pounder.”