Posted in Ideas, Politics, Tech Stuff on Nov 30th, 2006 No Comments »
For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate: “The debate is centered on whether cheap laptops are the best way to improve education in the developing world.”
(Source NYT > Business.)
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Nov 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Pikeo is a new photo sharing web site that’s more mult-lingual than flickr and incorporates maps more elegantly.
I wonder if any social photo sharing site get traction with flickr having so many users worldwide? This site looks beautiful but users seem to care less about beauty and more about community. Time will tell.
(Source TechCrunch.)
Posted in Ideas, Music, People, Video on Nov 29th, 2006 No Comments »
The Buddhist teacher Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche has a fantastic music video on youTube.
The visual imagery coupled with his words and the background music makes an excellent music video. Watch it a few times, there’s great synchronicity between the images and words.
Source: Leavenworth Jackson
Posted in Photographers on Nov 29th, 2006 No Comments »
A British photographer on flickr called Yellowhammer has a wonderful series shooting through what looks like old glass. The images are protected so I can’t share one here but it’s worth checking out as a slideshow.
Posted in Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Nov 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Kevin Kelly has a nice post about Photostamps (being able to use your own images on real postage stamps).
Photostamps
20 stamps, 39 cents
$18
Available from Stamps.com
Two other sites offer a similar service for the same price. They offer mild design differences in the bar coded postage area.
PictureItPostage
Zazzle
(Source Cool Tools.)
Posted in Social Software on Nov 26th, 2006 1 Comment »
The Spam Farms of the Social Web is Niall Kennedy’s investigation into how social bookmark aggregation sites and blogs with commenting enabled are being abused by spammers.
As one who is on the receiving end of comment spam daily this is a fascinating read.
(Source Daring Fireball Linked List.)
Posted in Music, People on Nov 24th, 2006 7 Comments »
Last week we went to see Laura Love and Jen Todd at The Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling, New York. It was one of the better concerts I’ve been to in a long time and even my wife Anne, who’s quite jaded about these kinds of things had a great time and loved the [...]
Posted in Photo Printing, Photographers on Nov 19th, 2006 3 Comments »
Richard Lohmann is a professional photographer who does monochromatic work with medium format cameras and film and prints with an inkjet printer using carbon pigment inks.
His work is fantastic but it’s his printing process that caught my attention. He uses a high end ink jet printer but he fills his own cartridges with his own [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Nov 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We have an old volunteer apple tree in our backyard that a friend pruned and saved when we bought our place many years ago. I do my best to keep it happy with pruning and spike fertilizer but no matter what I do it will never produce great eating apples, it’s just not [...]
Posted in Drumming, Music, Video on Nov 18th, 2006 3 Comments »
Lasse Gjertsen doesn’t play drums or piano but he’s diced up and reassembled small chunks of sound and video into a wonderful composition.
Watch it a few times to pick up on the small stuff. Great.
Note: Scott James, I’m thinkin’ about you on this one.
Posted in Ideas, Video on Nov 18th, 2006 4 Comments »
Ben Saunders has posted a link to a Speedflying movie that is mind blowing: two French extreme skiers parasail and ski down various faces of the Eiger in Switzerland, including the famous (and terrifying) north face. There are two video links at the site, watch them both for a taste of what extreme skiing is [...]
Posted in Social Software on Nov 18th, 2006 No Comments »
BuzzFeed looks like a bit more than digg.com in that it’s aimed at social trends, not anything that’s popular. They track sites and then editorialize content to comment on trends. This seems like a more mature and possibly interesting tracking service than digg which relies on users voting and commenting to create buzz. [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Nov 15th, 2006 2 Comments »
Apple Teams Up With Six Airlines to Deliver iPod Integration: “Apple is teaming up with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM and United to deliver the first seamless integration between iPod and in-flight entertainment systems. These six airlines will begin offering their passengers iPod seat connections which power and charge their iPods during flight and [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Stories on Nov 12th, 2006 No Comments »
Jim Lehrer spoke of his time in the Marines at the dedication of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia, on the 231st anniversary of the corps.
Transcript
Audio (QuickTime)
Lehrer is a wonderful writer, speaker, and personality and he’s as close as anyone is to the “Walter Cronkite” of today. Given that I watch [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Gear on Nov 8th, 2006 4 Comments »
I’ve been looking for a new CF card reader for a while and I finally decided to order the SanDisk Extreme USB 2.0 Card Reader only to find out it was out of stock at B &H. It finally came in, I got it and I’m very pleased.
On my old G4 PowerBook I had a [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Nov 6th, 2006 No Comments »
The MacTech 25: The 25 most influential people in the Mac technical community.
Read this list for a wonderful history of Macintosh tech stuff, old and new.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Printing on Nov 6th, 2006 6 Comments »
New York City. One of the areas I went to Photo Plus Expo to research was pigment ink inkjet printers for making archival prints. My first round of research (documented here) led me to the Canon i9900 printer which I have and love. But, as I knew, dye inks are less archival than pigment inks [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Nov 5th, 2006 6 Comments »
New York City. The light was waning and just as I left the Seagram Building (built by Mies van der Rohe on the right here) I turned and caught the Citicorp tower (Hugh Stubbins) lit up by the setting sun. Because this part of the city is packed with glass boxes forming canyons, it’s [...]
Posted in Food, Ideas on Nov 5th, 2006 No Comments »
My flickr contact Sarah posted a photo and simple explanation on skinning tomatoes: “Stab the skins and then pour boiling water over them, empty it and fill the bowl with cold water. The skins then fall off the tomatoes with no effort at all, hurrah!”
“Second tip - don’t do too many at a time, as [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Nov 5th, 2006 3 Comments »
New York City. I walked from Grand Central Station (42nd St.) up Park Ave. toward 54th St. and I was in a canyon of spectacular glass boxes which were doing amazing things with the diminishing light as the sun set. I realize that each of these buildings is a complex "machine" and a container for [...]
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