Posted in Cartoons, Politics on Oct 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Copyright Andy Singer: www.andysinger.com
Note: I thought this was particularly timely given that we have an election coming right up in the US.
Posted in Stories, Tech Stuff on Oct 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Tetris: From Russia with Love is a fantastic BBC documentary on the history of the Tetris game and the history of how it was eventually licensed by Nintendo. This 1 hour documentary is well worth watching, don’t start it unless you have an hour to kill as it’s hard to stop, just like the Tetris [...]
Posted in People, Photographers on Oct 29th, 2006 No Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. Brad and his wife Karin are artists who live near us and who I’ve come to know and respect. Brad studied painting at Yale with Josef Albers and has been around the painting, printmaking, and photography world for a long time; he has a long view on it which is refreshing in this [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff on Oct 23rd, 2006 1 Comment »
Animated Knots is a great site for learning how to tie knots of all kinds. You can run continuous animation slow or fast or step through the process of each of dozens of useful knots. Great stuff.
(Source Cool Tools.)
Posted in Food, Objects, Our Place on Oct 23rd, 2006 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I’m standing here cooking my morning oatmeal and while I’m zoning out stirring it I’m watching an arc of intense sunlight move across the butcher block table. I can see that the light will eventually strike the salt and pepper shakers so I let the oatmeal simmer while I set up camera and [...]
Posted in Landscape, Our Place on Oct 23rd, 2006 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The past few mornings it’s been cold enough so that we’ve had to make fires in the wood stove. This transition from early to late fall comes with cooler weather and a different kind of light and color. Greens have turned to reds and then to yellows and most soft maples are bare. [...]
Posted in Photographers on Oct 21st, 2006 No Comments »
The Guardian
Royal Arcade, Melbourne
Velco is an excellent Australian photographer who’s work with light and blur is outstanding.
The Andante Bar
NGV, St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Posted in Ideas on Oct 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
Fascinating time lapse map on who controlled the Middle East when.
Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans…the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.
(Source kottke.org remaindered links.)
Posted in Photo Resources, Photo Sites on Oct 19th, 2006 No Comments »
PicLens is an extension for Safari (Macintosh web browser) that allows the full-screen display of photographs on major photo sharing web sites. It’s quite useful and beautifully designed and free. It’s in beta now but I’m using it with no problems at all. If you’re a Mac user who’s also a photographer and you use [...]
Posted in Ideas on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Wally Wallington shows how to move extremely heavy things without motorized technology: This Man can Move Anything.
Great stuff and it certainly looks like he’s worked out how Stonehenge was erected.
Posted in Macintosh on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Straight Dope on the IPod’s Birth: “The magical music player wasn’t plucked from a stone by Steve Jobs. Here’s the story of how a team of designers and engineers produced Apple’s groundbreaking gadget. Commentary by Leander Kahney.”
(Source Wired News.)
Posted in Tech Stuff on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
It’s a Shipping Container. No, It’s a Data Center in a Box.: “Sun Microsystems has developed a novel ‘data center in a box’ in an effort to transform the economics of corporate computing.”
(Source NYT > Technology.)
Posted in Humor, People, Politics on Oct 14th, 2006 No Comments »
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart asks What is President Bush’s job?
Source: Dirk Foch
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Oct 13th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The north window in my home office faces up into a dense forest of maples, oaks, choke cherries, ashes, and a few shagbark hickories. This wonderful aggregate of tree shapes and leaf types makes a great scrim to see early morning light through.
Posted in People on Oct 13th, 2006 2 Comments »
Waterbury, Connecticut. Our granddaughter Erin’s school had their open house last night and Erin was eager to tell grandma all about the finer details of “kindygarten” while ma, pa, and grandpa looked on.
“Grandma, they have a whole new class this year that none of us have ever heard of before, it’s called SCIENCE.”
Posted in Social Software on Oct 13th, 2006 4 Comments »
Unthirsty uses google maps and user submissions to map happy hours (places to drink). Yet another experiment in community-driven online information.
Posted in Ideas on Oct 13th, 2006 5 Comments »
The Handwriting Is on the Wall
The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it’s threatening to finish off longhand.
As a person with both dyslexia and dysgraphia, I can’t complain. Handwriting is not one of my strong suits nor has it every allowed me to express the complexity of my thinking. Not that it should die [...]
Posted in Objects, Photographers on Oct 13th, 2006 No Comments »
Kevin Tiell’s photographs of pinballs show a macro view of a Vegas-like intimate world. The colors, shallow depth of field and its resulting bokeh, and his great sense of composition make these images fascinating.
(Source kottke.org remaindered links.)
Posted in Politics on Oct 11th, 2006 No Comments »
After I posted my rant on the flag, a Dutch friend showed me this editorial comment:
Olbermann demands an end to Bush’s lies.
Absolutely fantastic. Oh, I wish I’d seen this live, it would have made me hopeful. Thanks Kees.
Source: Cornelis G. van Leijenhorst
Posted in Objects, Places, Politics on Oct 11th, 2006 8 Comments »
New York City. I feel so badly about what the leadership of my country is doing in the world and at home these days that I’m reluctant to express any nationalistic pride. I grew up hearing Spiro Agnew (Nixon’s VP) saying “love it or leave it” and now we have Bush’s “you’re either with us [...]
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