Posted in Flowers, Places on May 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Desert Garden (informally known as the "cactus garden") is one of the largest and oldest collections of cacti and succulents in the world. This place is the garden equivalent of the bar scene in Star Wars. This particular plant was plentiful and almost every outcropping of it had these small yellow [...]
Posted in People, Politics on May 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Video: Al Gore with Charlie Rose. 57-minute video of Al Gore and Charlie Rose courtesy of the Charlie Rose Show and Google Video. This is a must see. Make the time, watch the whole thing. Gore has finally hit his stride. (Source kottke.org.)
Posted in Ideas, Politics on May 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
Andrew Sullivan on “Verschärfte Vernehmung” (enhanced interrogation): Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I’m not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended [...]
Posted in Flowers, Places on May 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Desert Garden (informally known as the "cactus garden") is one of the largest and oldest collections of cacti and succulents in the world. This place is the garden equivalent of the bar scene in Star Wars. These prickly cacti were growing out of an outcropping of volcanic rock, undoubtedly brought in [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on May 29th, 2007 5 Comments »
Every Good Domain Is Taken. Here’s Why. Niall Kennedy on the apparently lucrative business of domain name squatting. A simple site targeting wedding shoes earns Han’s business about $9,100 a year. Not bad for a $8 domain purchase and what he reports and about $7 in maintenance costs per year. This is absolutely amazing. I [...]
Posted in Ideas on May 29th, 2007 2 Comments »
Hacking My Kid’s Brain: How a Child’s Neurons Were Rewired: “An effort to recalibrate the brain of a child suffering from sensory processing disorder using light, sound and motion therapy is successful.” (Source Wired News.)
Posted in People, Places on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Climber collects Everest rubbish: “A Japanese mountaineer leads an expedition to the Mount Everest to retrieve tons of rubbish.” All of the documentaries I’ve seen on Everest show an amazing amount of trash up high on the mountain, the worst being hundreds of oxygen cylinders. (Source BBC News | World | UK Edition.)
Posted in Ideas, Photography on May 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
3 Magazines Are Accused of Retouching Celebrity Photos to Excess: “Men’s Fitness, Us Weekly and In Touch defended themselves against accusations last week that they had doctored their covers.” (Source NYT > Business.)
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh on May 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Digital Domain: Apple’s Lesson for Sony’s Stores: Just Connect: “Apple has made retail seem ridiculously easy. But why hasn’t the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out?” It’s not just the stores [stupid], it’s the gear. Apple not only has great stores, the stores hold great stuff. Sony used to have it [...]
Posted in My mother, People, Places on May 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
Santa Monica, California. My mother wanted not just lobster, but Maine Lobster for her 92nd birthday. Good thing the fish place we like to go to had it. One glass of Chardonnay and she was "farschnoschket" (Yiddish for blasted) and she ripped into her lobster, then almost fell asleep. I got her home and she [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places on May 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Bull’s Bridge, Connecticut. Bull’s Bridge* (behind Mamen) is one of the oldest covered bridges in Connecticut and the Housatonic River, which runs under it drops in a series of falls and rapids that Mamen is "shooting" here. We’d driven by this spot on our way to the Metro North train to New York and decided [...]
Posted in Movies on May 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
The Bourne Ultimatum is coming, August 3rd. This series is a great combination of Bond, Terminator, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Mission Impossible, and more. Great cinematography, music and roller-coaster fun. I’m gonna finally see this one in a theater with a good sound system and big screen. Yeah!
Posted in People, Photographers, Places on May 26th, 2007 No Comments »
One of my favorite flickr photographers, Claude Renault has done it again and produced a masterpiece. Wow.
Posted in Macintosh, My mother, People, Politics on May 25th, 2007 4 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. Tomorrow my mother will be 92 and one of the things she wanted for her birthday was a new “uber-geek” t-shirt. What better t-shirt for a die-hard Mac user than a DF* classic. None of her contemporaries know that the heck it means but any serious Mac user who sees her will. [...]
Posted in Macintosh on May 25th, 2007 No Comments »
NoteList looks like it might be a useful competitor to Yojimbo and xPad. I’ve got to try it out. (Source MacMinute.)
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers on May 24th, 2007 7 Comments »
The new site not so green has posted a number of my aerial images with corresponding google earth screen shots. Wow, nice to see my images on another site and of course, terrible to see the processing I did of those images. Maybe I’d better revisit them at some point…
Posted in Tech Stuff on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
A Programming Language Like Playing With Blocks: “Scratch is like a multimedia sandbox, where children 8 and up are welcomed as media producers.” Wow, Rocky’s Boots, Logo, Chipwits, and now Scratch. Cool. Wish I had time to dig in again… (Source NYT > Technology.)
Posted in Our Place, People, Photo Gear on May 22nd, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. A few weeks ago my good friend Mamen (left) came to visit and we had a great time. After we dropped by Mecca (B&H Photo) in New York, she decided that the Canon EF 70-200 f/4 IS L was the lens for her. It just so happened that Scott, one of our UPS [...]
Posted in Humor, Video on May 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
This is fantastic. I have to say that Graham handled himself amazingly well and Allen didn’t get to do much of what he hoped to. (Source Your Daily Awesome.)
Posted in Ideas on May 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents. Interesting. No wonder the world is so messed up. Wonder what Christopher Hitchens would say about this? His new book: God Is Not Great gives us a bit of a clue. (Source kottke.org.)
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