Web: Multiple Homepages in Firefox

How to set up multiple homepages in Firefox:

If there’s more than one site you always visit after starting up Firefox, you can set your homepage to open several tabs of different web sites at once automatically.

[via Lifehacker]

Categories: Web, Firefox

Art: Newly Discovered Works By Jackson Pollock

From CNN:

The son of a New York photographer says he has discovered 32 unrecorded works by the late American abstract painter Jackson Pollock. If determined to be authentic, the cache could be worth millions of dollars.

Alex Matter, son of Herbert Matter - a close friend of Pollock's - announced in a statement Tuesday that he found a package of 22 of the artist's signature drip paintings on drawing board paper and 10 other works consisting of enamel drawings and unfinished paintings in 2003, all preserved in a storage space belonging to his father, who died in 1984.

[via guinn9]

Category: Art

Quotes: Begin Anywhere

From Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto:

John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

Category: Quotes

Art: Glass Paperweight (1960)

I made a purchase yesterday to add to my small collection:

Beautiful art glass paperweight made in 1960 from very thick, crystal clear glass, holding in sommerso, the most beautiful combination of colors in a twisted, swirled free form pattern within. A few scattered, variable size bubbles add to the suspended optics of the pattern. Best description of shape is that of a rectangular pillow which has been fluffed and plumped. 4-1/2" x 3-1/8" x 2-1/4". Signed what appears to say "Jerusalem," and 1-31-60.

The definition of sommerso from 20th Century Glass:

This is a glass coated with a thick layer of colourless transparent glass, or with a glass which has a colour different from the one of the backing. It consists of a layer of coloured glass with the inclusion of air bubbles and gold leaf, more rarely with the subsequent application of rods in Pulegoso glass, coated with a colourless transparent layer about one inch thick. Many Muranese glass factories extensively took up this technique with very considerable results.

Category: Art