Cushty Corporation

There’s a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS5 : the ‘Content-Aware Fill’.

This new tool achieves in seconds what would previously have taken hours , and considerable Photoshop skills. Now you can do it in a couple of clicks. Take a look at this demo to see how easy it is to make fake pictures.

Who’d have thought it? The Prime Minister wants to help save BBC6 Music no less? anyone would think there’s an election looming…..oh, wait a minute…..

Nice to see some big time support for BBC6 Music

Multi Links is a pretty nifty Firefox addon….plus the developers have a cool logo.

It allows the user to draw a rectangle on the screen to open all links contained within that rectangle on release. This can be very helpful to open links  lists, all threads on a forum page, linked photos in a single blogpost or forum at once.

The Weakerthans. Are ace.

The have a new live DVD / album out “Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre”

Strangely the bands website doesn’t seem to have been updated with this momentous news? so I thought I’d post it here on my own high hit rate site (yeah , right). Anway, everyone should take a listen to the Weakerthans.

This is nuts: It takes around 6 tonnes of wild fish to reduce to 1 tonne of fishmeal, and then anything from 1.5 to 3 tonnes of meal to produce 1 tonne of farmed salmon. Comprende? we catch and kill 6 tonnes of wild fish to turn it in to 1 tonne of fishmeal…to then feed to other fish…to then kill and eat.

“Farmed fish are fed oils and meal made from other fish: close to a third of the catch from the world’s fisheries is used for non-food products, with the majority being converted into fishmeal and fish oil.” (read more)

Now, I like a salmon steak as much as anyone, but if this is the main way we have of producing ‘farmed’ fish, then something is sadly wrong don’t you think?

Bluefin Tuna and Scuba Diver

This is very worrying. “A proposal to ban the export of Atlantic Bluefin tuna, which is a sushi mainstay in Japan, has been rejected by a UN wildlife meeting. Stocks have fallen by about 85% since the industrial fishing era began”

This quote says it all ” The market for this fish is just too lucrative… for enough governments to support a truly sustainable future for the fish ”

Read more from BBC News

If you want to offer some support for our oceans take a look here: http://endoftheline.com/campaign/