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
For comparison, here is Nikon’s DX line:
Bad AIM beta defaults
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The AIM Beta a.k.a. “Triton” has been out for a while and one thing I’ve noticed that bugs me is that the default AIM message is unreadable in iChat.
AIM beta-iChat issues, originally uploaded by tychay.
Showing the rendered source
When working with highly dynamic websites, one problem is the view-source doesn’t show the dynamic content that was generated. What you want is a snapshot of the DOM at the time.
I decided to whip one up into my AJAX debugging framework after which Joseph suggested that it be a bookmarklet instead.
Identity 2.0
Identity 2.0, uploaded by tychay.
Joseph mentioned that Dick Hardt has posted his excellent Identity 2.0 presentation he gave as OSCON.
This is a great presentation with a excellent use of Lawrence Lessig simplicity combined with some of the new text effects in Keynote to emphasize it.
It is very easy to get the repetition/refrain that Dick uses for effect using Keynote. You simply put all the slides in an outline under the first slide of the string. Then option-drag the slide to the points in the talk you need it.
If he had more time, he could have used to new auto-build feature of Keynote to transition the slides automatically. But then again, it was somewhat amusing to see him tap away.
Lots of great ideas worthy of theft. 🙂
I promise to post my talk soon. I need bandwidth. I’m not rich like Dick.
Jon Stewart Emmy Speech
John Stewart’s two things uploaded by tychay.
Dru pointed me to an excellent Jon Stewart presentation of an award at the Emmy’s.
It’s quintessential Daily Show. He definitely wouldn’t have gotten away with this on CBS two years ago.
Another interesting thing is to see that the liberal blog linked got the video from a right-wing blog. It’s amusing to note that the amount of peer pressue that accompanies the vitriol in these right wing blogs—Ad hominems have more weight than logic, and if you aren’t a hard to the right you are barraged with threats of excommunication.
I wonder what will happen now that it is no longer “in” to be an idiotic right winger? Looks like we’re getting as fed up with this as we were with Political Correctness.
(The quality of the video sucks shit because it is transcoded from Windows Media. Some people have no pride in their piracy.)
Just what the country needs right now: more tax cuts
A bill for hurricane relief passed the house at 422 to 0. This is all well and good, but tax breaks aren’t an efficient way of distributing goods to the needy. Economically, the only difference between giving a tax break for hurricane-related charitable donations and just raising taxes and giving the money directly is the fact that in the former case you can tax future generations through deficit spending. What ever happened to just giving them aid? I’m confused.
Is the problem really the lack of funds? After all, we are burning food aid from Great Britain and sending ice trucks in the wrong direction, it sounds like the problem has been due to too little logistics and too much red-tape.
Of course, I don’t know what a rich person can do with things like food and water. But a tax cut…
Guess what the South needs is more corporate welfare programs.
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Bad Design Kills
It makes sense that with business internet and insta-companies that people would looking to have instant original logos (and on the cheap).
That’s why it is so fascinating when BoingBoing pointed out a fascinating site that catalogs stolen logo designs by one such online logo design services.
Wow! talk about blatant. My favorite has to be the Ernst & Youngrip off, for so many reasons that I can’t begin to name it. It actually has me scratching my head wondering how a company like this is allowed to stay in business. If anything is cause for a lynching by a bunch of pencil-wielding design geeks, this has got to be it.
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Dell DJ Ditty
Dell DJ Ditty, originally uploaded by tychay.
Dell is about to introduce the long-awaited (I’m sure) DJ Ditty (purchase).
An eyesore and an eight month turnaround to copy a device consisting of generic components. Is this what “player-hater”, Robert Enderle, meant when he said, “Historically staid companies like Gateway, HP, Acer, and even Dell are much more aggressive on design today, often surpassing Apple, which was preeminent in this area in the 90s.” Enderle singing a dirge for Apple: Seventh time’s the charm Rob!
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Since when did being a geek mean being moron?
A simulation of large-scale structure
formation, from University of Chicago Center for Cosmological Physics.
formation, from University of Chicago Center for Cosmological Physics.
This Wired article is a wonderful example about how unpractical our country’s basic math education is.
The reporter wastes the first page on his idiot attempt to find a truly random playlist. A little knowledge is a highly dangerous thing. After learning that computer generated random numbers are not truly random, he assumes that this is why he sometimes gets his Rolling Stones songs clumped together.
The limitations of pseudorandomness is a serious issue in statistical physics (Monte Carlo simulations) and theoretical physics (modeling). In some cases, poor psuedorandom number generators have allowed people break encryption algorithms.
But even the most primitive random number generator causing a problem with your iPod playlist? C’mon!
One difficult issue when looking at maps of the large scale structure of the universe is that our eyes detect spurious filaments (chains of galactic structures) that aren’t there, even though such things have been found to exist.
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Talk Like A Pirate
Talk Like a Pirate, originally from this download site.
Ahoy!
Just before I went ta check what crawled out of the bunghole, me buxom beauty has told me that, it be International Talk like a Pirate Day.
Almost everyone I mentioned it ta at work be walked the plank. The only non-lubber left on the crew be the swashbuckler Redgee, who be a bit rusty on his pirate-speak. I found him this here translation dictionary.