Saw that Cal has a badge tag from the Web 1.0 Summit today, which bills itself as a whole heck of a lot more fun than Web 2.0.
I would have loved to give a talk on the value proposition of B2B applications of push technologies.
Too bad they didn’t have the facilities for projection. I could have made some kick ass slides using the single pixel gif trick.
I’m sorry I missed it.
Former Fox news correspondent, David Shuster explains how Fox distorted the news to right editorially. While this is normally so obvious that it doesn’t deserve mention, there was an interesting quote from him:
“Editorially, I had issues with story selection,” Shuster went on. “But the bigger issue was that there wasn’t a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up. Management would either look the other way or just wouldn’t care to take a closer look. I had serious issues with that.”
In November, DxO just announced they will be releasing DxO Optics Pro 3.5.
Maybe a bit of history is in order.
DxO started with DxO Analyzer package used by magazines and websites in order to evaluate the quality of lenses and cameras. Taking some shots of specialized targets at specific distances and camera settings, reviewers to analyze quantitatively things camera design compromises such as image sharpness, ISO noise, vignetting, chromatic abberation, and spherical distortion.
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In Kenneth Woodward’s Op-Ed in the New York Times, he talks about Intelligent Design, which is an attempt to get creationism taught in public schools by stating evolution is “just a theory.” The premise of his argument is that science and religion need not conflict.
Well, duh!
He undercuts counter argument by engaging in a reverse ad hominem: mounting his high horse as “a religious believer who recognizes evolution and does not think intelligent design theory belongs in any school’s science curriculum.”
Hmm, I’m all that and a scientist to boot.
A beta of QOOP’s website that allows flickr printing is up:
I’ll have to try it out sometime.
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 up. A quick net search told me it was challenged (and banned) because of offensive language and satanism.
What a laugh!
The only thing satanic about this book is the number of reviews on Amazon. Since the “satanic worship” done in the book is a bunch of children play acting Narnia, one of the most pro-Christian fantasy pieces of all time, the irony is stunning.Continue reading
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 country.
The English are funny.
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.”
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:
