Richard’s Notes

Lighthearted fun from the Muppets.

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Webware is a useful site if for no other reason it lists most of the best web-based applications. It’s interesting to consider how many web-based applications we’re using, or, better put, how many internet-based applications we’re using because there’s a difference, or better put, how many applications we’re using that in some way deal with [...]

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Judith Jamison Announces Retirement
Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, announced on Thursday that she would retire in 2011. She plans to maintain her connection to the company, which she joined as a dancer in 1965, as artistic director emerita.
Appointed just weeks after the death of Alvin Ailey, the troupe’s founder, [...]

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File has a great collection of Night Aerial Photography by Jason Hawkes.
The shots at dusk are killer. Actually, all of the shots are killer. Killer!
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Buddy Miles, Hendrix Drummer, Dies
I saw Hendrix, Miles, and Billy Cox at The Hollywood Bowl and they were so good, the second band, The Allman Brothers almost didn’t come on. It was historic.

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Wow, we really have come a long way. This machine mimics human imbalance better than I do. And, it won’t need ibuprofen tomorrow.
[via Gizmodo]

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Juan Cole has written a fantastic essay for Salon: Obama should be proud to be named Hussein.
This is a must-read, not only for those who would think to link “Hussein” with Sadam Hussein but also for those of us who know better.

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Crayon Physics Deluxe looks like Rocky’s Boots on steroids. Wow, we’ve come a long way.
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The editing, the music, the whole thing works to show off all the great capabilities of this gadget. This makes me want to get an iPod touch, immediately!

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Six months ago a friend loaned us a DVD of the German movie Mostly Martha. Being dyslexic I’m not a huge fan of foreign films with English subtitles, I just can’t keep up and that can wreck the movie for me. There are exceptions, the most notable being Cinema Paradiso which I’ve watched many times [...]

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Network Solutions, ICANN Sued Over Domain Front Running
I just experienced this the other day and it really pissed me off.
I used the whois lookup field at Network Solutions to look up a domain I was thinking of registering. The domain was available and Network solutions popped me onto a page with all sorts of upsell [...]

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Gary Kamiya at Salon has written an exceptional article that goes where few have dared to go before: It’s OK to vote for Obama because he’s black.
Excellent writing tackling a sensitive topic with clarity, dignity and grace. Wow, made me tear up.

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Aperture World Tour
Beginning in March, Apple takes Aperture 2 on tour around the world. Join us and enjoy a close look at the next generation of Apple’s powerful photo editing and management software.
Even though I’ve effectively moved to Lightroom I think I’ll go. Hey, a free day in New York with a bunch of other [...]

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Waterbury, Connecticut. This is my granddaughter Erin’s cousin Meghan who’s a little over a year old. Yesterday at Erin’s 7th birthday party Meghan knew she had all of the adults in her pocket and played it well.

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Getty Images to Sell Itself for $2.4 Billion
Getty Images, the world’s biggest pictures and video distributor, agreed Monday to sell itself to the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion including debt.
Oh boy, Microsoft has the bettman Archive and now this one will no doubt be snapped up by someone else. Gad, media [...]

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Waterbury, Connecticut. Warming up with some hot sauce for the challenge of shooting my granddaughter Erin’s 7th birthday party.

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Stretch
New Preston, Connecticut. Anne and I get to yoga class early so we can begin the process of calming down, breathing more steadily, and stretching to better take advantage of the poses and vinyasas our teacher takes us through. Simply lying on one’s back and stretching one’s hamstrings, feet, and toes can do wonders.
Another view [...]

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A wooden IT’S OK in a “limited” edition of 1 million.
The concept is great, the video is great, the whole thing is genius. I don’t want one but my word, people are buying them.
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I find it amazing that something this silly makes belly laugh. Maybe part of it is the disconnect of watching Japanese TV. Caitlin, let me here your thoughts on this.
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HBO is doing a mini-series on John Adams starring Paul Giametti and Laura Linney. Looks fantastic. Dang, wish we had HBO.
Watch the preview, this looks like an incredible look at pre-Revolutionary America. I love seeing how things might have looked in earlier times, it enriches my sense of history.
[via Longboard]

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