Overheard today:
J: “I have this hilarious but really debilitating hardware problem.â€
R: “I know these pills I got from Mexico that will fix you right up!â€
Aperture 1.1 out
Aperture 1.1 was released as a free update today. If you own Aperture, see Software Update. (My comments about it are here.)
In my original review of Aperture, the only real complaint I had was the price, which was too close to PhaseOne CaptureOne. I felt that Apple should undercut them like Final Cut Pro did to Avid. Well, if you own Aperture 1.0 like I do, you can get a $200 coupon good for future Apple Store purchases (Academic users get a $100 one).
By the way, this also means a $200 price drop to Aperture to $300 from $500.
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A difference of one letter
Redgee likes to joke that his relatives are all in jail or the military. He told me a few months ago that he heard from them that they are being told to gear up for a war in Iran. Now with a recent New Yorker article I read, this rumor is getting some play in the public discourse.
I don’t think it’s going to happen. But since we are gearing up for midterm elections, it is about time for the Republicans to start another war.
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CA-50 is dead to me
Today is the day of the California 50 special election.
The purpose of the special election, like that of the one that will occur in Delay’s district, is based on the premise that Republicans are more likely to vote when voter turnout is low. After all, what is the purpose in Governor Schwarzenegger wasting resources on an election after the last debacle with the midterms so close, especially after the last debacle?
It has some significance to me because even though most of PacBeach is not part of CA-50, the part I live in, the rich, conservative part, falls just within it. (By the way, special kudos to GovTrack for a creative use of GoogleMaps.)
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Minikiss
Blake just sent me this article about a dispute between two all-dwarf KISS tribute bans over who owns the concept.
Blake’s subject title was “I love the world.â€
Truely.
Cloaking myth with math
In light of my last post, I thought I’d bring up that while those people’s bashing of Caitlin was ill founded, they are expressing an underlying problem that exists in any endeavor based on technology or science.
Too often, people use technical mumbo jumbo to cover a basic lie.
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The industry doth protest too much, methinks
Caitlin’s new (incomplete) website design seems to have hit a nerve.
It’s a fun read made funnier by the fact that nobody answers the poster’s simple question, which is basically: “Is this stuff true, or false advertising?â€
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Plaxo eCards adds borders
It looks like another point release of Plaxo came out. Again, I forgot what was in this release, but one feature I want to highlight is the new borders on the Plaxo eCards site.
Picturewall
I recently purchased a picturewall in order to add some accents to my otherwise boring apartment. It’s been on my to do list forever and now that I own a couch, hanging up some “fotografs,” as Caitlin puts it, was my next priority.
A quick run to Costco today allowed me to add a few photos.
DX smackdown
Someone on flickr decided to engage in a smackdown of the APS-C format.
The problem with these is that they often parrot experts who don’t really remember their history. I’m sure when these experts were young pups, they defended their 35mm film cameras against the old codgers doing medium or full-frame photography. They miss the reality that they’ve become the old codgers themselves.
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