Concerning the recent Hamden v. Rumsefeld decision: “I’ve got to say that this decision is a decisive victory in the war to spark ridiculous right wing commentary.” —Andrew, from a comment “Guantanamo Treatment Illegal, Says SCOTUS”
There’s a discussion on Nikkor about Nikon teleconverters.
There was some discussion via e-mail about Warren Buffett’s recent donation to the William and Melinda Gates foundation. I don’t want to concentrate on that, except to state the inevitability of a man like him donating money on the sure-bet charity created by one of his favorite bridge buddies. Oh yeah, before we go all […]
What could be more stereotypical “Republican” than this? When things start going wrong, don’t blame the strategy, blame the troops.
A long time ago, someone asked for a hypothetical D200 wishlist feature, I asked for simply one: in-camera vibration reduction. Whatever you call it, this one recent gift from the video world has revolutionized photography by reducing the need for monopods and tripods. A recent article when Gary “saw the light” about image stabilization in […]
I received a request on Flickr a couple days ago: you mentioned taking 3 exposures in one of your shots (a stream in big basin) and combining them together in photoshop. how do you do that? I can only assume he meant this one: Redwoods and West Berry Creek Big Basin State Park, Santa Cruz […]
An interesting thread came up in Flickr TechTalk on digiscoping.
PoisonedMinds has a breakdown of time spent on modern web design. click image for larger view
A while back I decided to choose between subscribing to Gizmodo and Engadget, because they’re very similar and I’m not that gadget-obsessed. First I removed both hoping friends would forward me the interesting stuff. That didn’t happen because I guess I’m a really big know-it-all jerk. I then picked Gizmodo, but switched to Engadget because […]
Listening to NPR on the way to work, the program was about job prospects for high school graduates. The first person interviewed was a kid who was selling Cutco knives for Vector Marketing. I’m sure Mark will get a kick out of that. Though I was spared the opportunity of thinking selling knives was cool, […]