“Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism. A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; to show slavish, blind obedience…” —Rocky Anderson, Mayor […]
Someone from Taiwan told me their sister isn’t digging some guy because he’s Asian and she’s not into Asians. This, of course, reminded me of “Yellow Fever.” What’s weird about that mockumentary is that it isn’t about “Yellow Fever” since that’s when a white guy is digging some East Asian girl. What do you call […]
Am I the only person in the world who simply thinks that the Katie Couric thing was just a pretty good retouching job? (Some people say that this isn’t retouched and then go into a spirited defense involving anamorphic film. Haha you guys are funny! I bet you believe that those girls on the magazine […]
This movie is simply amazing. To understand why, you still have to know what “light painting” is. Basically, the concept is to take your camera and put it on a tripod and set it on bulb exposure. You open the shutter, then take a lighter, matches, or a flashlight and paint the scene (or doodle), […]
Question: Hey, my friend at Y! vertical search is looking for a decent memcached library in PHP but he says apparently too many of them. I haven’t even looked at the problem since I’ve never hit that sort of load with my session store yet. Any suggestions of one library/code snippet in particular? Something quick […]
Reid Stott, an unapologetic Canon photographer, quotes: “Canon is the only D-SLR brand to own and manufacture the sensor, processor and lenses in house.” How come when I read that I think to myself the days when Apple was the only personal computer brand to have their own design (industrial, chipset, architecture, protocols), software operating […]
Photokina is coming and the pre-announcements are coming with it. Today it’s Nikon’s turn. I thought I’d pick out one camera to mention: The Nikon Coolpix S10. It’s only one of many Nikon compact cameras with Vibration Reduction built in. The other cameras are the thin, periscope style S7c and the more standard compact L5. […]
Engadget scooped the next Canon Rebel (Canon 400D dSLR) that everyone has been speculated would be released for Photokina. If the specifications are true, I’ll have to eat a little humble pie. I was predicting the 9 point AF system (as Nikon has switched to the CAM1000 11 point AF system with the D80), but […]
Mike Johnston points out a Michael Reichmann review of the Panasonic L1. Here is a one line summary of the review: Michael Reichmann says he should love Panasonic and the L1 design in particular and then tears the camera a new asshole. I’m not surprised about the review. Reichmann’s “full frame” snobbery has been peeking […]
A number of places have been doing a Mac Pro vs. Dell comparison. Digg summarizes: Despite an earlier (and possibly biased) report proving the Mac Pro’s price advantage, both Macworld and The Inquirer have also agreed that the Mac Pro is unquestionably cheaper than a similarly-configured Dell. Jeez, when was the last time this happened? […]