Posted in Food, Ideas on Dec 17th, 2007 5 Comments »
I came across The Wednesday Chef while looking at her review of a no knead bread recipe. As an old clay wedger it’s not like I don’t like kneading, I do, but I thought this “kneadless” bread recipe might be worth an experiment or two. I have yet to try it.
Here’s the original recipe in [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software, Photo Printing on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Printing on Leopard with Lightroom 1.3.1
Update from Adobe on printing from Lightroom essentially telling everyone to check to see if your printer drivers are Leopard compatible.
For what it’s worth, I found that the current driver for my Canon Pixma Pro 9000 is both Tiger and Leopard compatible and should work fine with Lightroom when I [...]
Posted in Photo Resources on Dec 17th, 2007 4 Comments »
Reuters Pictures of the Year, 2007
I get so immersed in my little world of landscape and macro photography that I forget that there’s a big world of photojournalism out there. These are amazing images, not just technically, but emotionally and that’s exactly what photojournalism is all about.
[via kottke.org]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Dec 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
Free Rice is a vocabulary game. For each word you get right they’ll donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.
Dang, where the heck do they find all these words?!
[via Amy Mindell]
Posted in Movies, Video on Dec 15th, 2007 6 Comments »
Trailer for the documentary Steep on big mountain extreme skiing. Yowza.
Posted in Social Software on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Google Develops Wikipedia Rival
Google’s system is called “Knol” and each entry will be called a “knowledge unit.” Google is hoping that users will write authoritative entries and that a user’s entry will stand alone, unlike Wikipedia in which each entry is edited by many people. So, on Wikipedia if I wrote an entry on “dyslexia” [...]
Posted in Movies on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Horton Hears a Who is coming in March. Looks great.
Posted in Cartoons, Ideas, Video on Dec 12th, 2007 No Comments »
What can I say, searching YouTube can lead to many things and it amazes me what people dredge up from the past. This is another relic of the 1960’s, a bit earlier than Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Ideas, Video on Dec 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show was my favorite cartoon shows, period. Nothing came close to the imagination of Jay Ward and it wasn’t just one cartoon, it had segments like a variety show: Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairy Tails, Aesop & Son, Borris and Natasha, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody’s Improbable History, Mr. Know-It-All, and more.
This [...]
Posted in Humor, Ideas, Video on Dec 11th, 2007 3 Comments »
Fantastic. I never would have thought this would have worked, in many ways it works better than the original of them standing there.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Ideas, Video on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
TED Talks: Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice
This is an incredible talk, well worth taking the time to listen carefully to.
[via Daring Fireball Linked List]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Reading on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Raw Vision: The world’s only international magazine of outsider art, art brut, contemporary folk art.
Raw Vision remains the world’s only international journal of the art of the ‘unknown geniuses’ who are the creators of Outsider Art. Untrained, unschooled and uninfluenced by the art world, the work of these artists continues to stun and amaze. They [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Politics, Video on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
You don’t have to agree with any of Chomsky’s ideas to see the fact that the way the media chooses people to go on the air has nothing to do with trying to represent all sides of an issue, everything to do with conventionality, concision, and possibly representing a particular viewpoint.
There’s no doubt that Jim [...]
Posted in Opinion, Politics on Dec 9th, 2007 6 Comments »
The Washington Post reports: Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002
With one known exception, no formal objections were raised by the lawmakers briefed about the harsh methods during the two years in which waterboarding was employed, from 2002 to 2003, said Democrats and Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter. The lawmakers who held oversight roles [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Travel on Dec 8th, 2007 No Comments »
How Four Airlines Plan to Connect Fliers to the Web
American, Alaska, Jet Blue, and Virgin have weighed in. So far, it looks like American and Alaska get it (open wifi access for any device) and the others don’t. No doubt, United, my airline of choice will go with something stupid.
Posted in Politics, Video on Dec 7th, 2007 3 Comments »
YouTube has a great service called You Choose ‘08 where you can watch video on each candidate speaking about all of the major issues.
This is incredible, one of the most useful tools I’ve found on the net for comparing what these folks have said and are saying.
Posted in Ideas on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia
“We found that dyslexics who succeed had overcome an awful lot in their lives by developing compensatory skills,” Professor Logan said in an interview. “If you tell your friends and acquaintances that you plan to start a business, you’ll hear over and over, ‘It won’t work. It can’t be done.’ But [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff, Travel on Dec 7th, 2007 6 Comments »
Some Airlines to Offer In-Flight Internet Service
If they handle it anything like the way some airports are handling their terminal wifi coverage it will no doubt be bad. I’m absolutely amazed that big airports like JFK and LAX don’t have free wifi access in every terminal. If Portland and other “hip” airports can do it, [...]
Posted in Photo Editing Software, Photo Resources on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Tourist Remover looks like an interesting online service for taking unwanted “tourists” or cars or anything out of a photograph.
Frankly, I just like the name. I’d like to “run it” on this place during leaf season in the fall, get rid of all those drive by “peepers.”
[via Cool Tools]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Resources on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
If the Copy Is an Artwork, Then What’s the Original?
Since the late 1970s, when Richard Prince became known as a pioneer of appropriation art — photographing other photographs, usually from magazine ads, then enlarging and exhibiting them in galleries — the question has always hovered just outside the frames: What do the photographers who took [...]
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