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longcat is...
Am counting the days before twitter switches to new twitter. The company has been running a dumb campaign where they make it look like you have a choice of whether to keep the old twitter interface or switch to a new and improved interface. If you say, in effect (by not clicking the upgrade button they dangle in front of you every day), "No, I really don't give a shit about your new look and prefer the old, simple dumb one you've always had, because, I mean, how much design do you need to post 140 character squibs?", it won't matter at all, because at some point they'll just change you over to new twitter.
Just migrate people to your new platform, jeez. Don't pretend like it's a tantalizing lifestyle option.
norman rockwell: that looks 'shopped
Ken Johnson of the New York Times drew the short straw and had to cover the Brooklyn Museum's Norman Rockwell show. Possibly Rockwell fan Dave Hickey wasn't available to do a freelance story. In any case, the article gives us a fascinating glimpse at Rockwell's working process, as seen in the following photos. His painting style isn't nearly as inert and schmaltzy as people think, and it turns out he is a hitherto-unappreciated forerunner of the dark arts of Photoshop:
