The Woodwork

A beta of QOOP’s website that allows flickr printing is up:

Flickr the Book, from jurvetson

I’ll have to try it out sometime.

Bridge to Terabithia from HarperTrophy

In light of it being Banned Books Week, I went back to the ALA’s list of most challenged books in the last decade and I was surprised to see Bridge to Terabithia made the top 10. This book was first published in 1977 and was one of my favorite books growing [...]

This article merges two favorites of mine—politics and gratuitous references to Apple:

The public’s reluctance to contribute much more than the cost of two iPods [$600] to the administration’s attempt to offer citizens “a further stake in building a free and prosperous Iraq” has been seized on by critics as evidence of growing ambivalence over that [...]

Hugh Symond’s photo gallery of pictures taken from a camera phone make me wonder if camera phones are the next Holga.

I sent Caitlin this article and she said:
“Microsoft and Verizon—I sense evil…No more toys for you I guess.”

Palm, Windows, and Verizon, from Palm, Inc

Hehe, she’s right.

Ryan found an wonderful set of wildlife photography on the message boards which he mentioned in his blog. You must check this out:

Africa Chapter 1
Africa Chapter 2
Africa Chapter 3

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The beta 6 of AOL Instant Messenger, a.k.a. “Triton” has been released today. You can download Triton here.
The big new [...]

Last week, Bill, our resident Canon guy, mentioned that Tim Burton was working on a new stop-motion animated movie called Corpse Bride using Canon digital still cameras. The attention to detail and imagination in motion animation never ceases to amaze us.
Mark Jen sent me this article confirming the use of Canon digital still cameras and [...]

Okay because Apple upped my iDisk quotas, I’m putting up my OSCON talk there temporarily. Caitlin finished producing this talk last month, but I haven’t seen it because I can’t stand the sound of my own voice.
production Silver Keys Studiovideo source HD and Keynotesize 104.8MBrun time 50 minutes, 32 secondsformat H.264 (Quicktime 7 required to [...]

Canon has an EF-S lens series, which is roughly like Nikon’s DX lenses except they won’t mount on their full-frame or film cameras.1

EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
EF-S 17-85MM f4-5.6 IS USM

For comparison, here is Nikon’s DX line:

12-24mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor
10.5mm f/2.8G ED AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor
17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor
18-70mm f3.5-4.5G [...]