Posted in Ideas, Stories on Jun 30th, 2008 4 Comments »
Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch? When I was in high school a friend and I used to volunteer to be in experiments conducted by professors and grad students at the UCLA psychology deparment. These were generally quick and easy ways to earn $5 and in a few hours we had enough [...]
Posted in Landscape, Places on Jun 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My friend Zarinna called again this morning to tell me the fog and morning mist on the Shepaug Reservoir was incredible. We had a thunderstorm last night and it dawned hot, perfect for morning evaporation and burnoff. By the time I got coffee made, got gear packed up and drove over I’d missed [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jun 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Google and Creator of ‘Family Guy’ Strike a Deal Google, which calls the distribution service the Google Content Network, until now has only dabbled in distributing original content. In May, it announced a deal with The Washington Post to distribute real estate listings from the newspaper’s Web site in a similar manner. I guess it [...]
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Jun 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I decided to see if I could stand six feet away from this tube feeder for long enough for birds to ignore me and come in and eat. It took two minutes for this chickadee to swoop in and pick up a seed.
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Save Polaroid On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned. This site is [...]
Posted in Yoga on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. Most Saturday mornings I try to get a few shots of my wife Anne warming up before our yoga class. Nothing formal, no one else in the room, just practice for me and she’s a willing, unselfconscious subject. Most of the time I throw these shots out, occasionally I keep a few [...]
Posted in Flowers, Our Place on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I feel like this daisy looks: wilted in the humidity. It’s hard to find the energy to get out and shoot when the dog days come, and it’s not even August yet.
Posted in Photo Resources on Jun 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
Natalie Norton demonstrates How to Reduce Camera Shake. Useful. [via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
This is a 50 minute documentary on the history of Google, their technology, and the various things they’re working on including the various controversies about stored personal information, public access to information, and more. It’s quite well done and worth watching. Note: toward the end at about 44:20 the interviewer asks Vint Cerf a question [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Politics on Jun 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
A Conversation With Barack Obama I post this because the image, taken by Peter Yang, shows Obama sitting at a couple of (15″?) MacBook Pros. Now, if he’s got files and folders on his desktop arranged like a penis we’re trouble. Oh, right, that was a windows machine. Whew, no Mac users keep that many [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Politics, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Laptop Searches in Airports Draw Fire at Senate Hearing Russ Feingold: “If you asked most Americans whether the government has the right to look through their luggage for contraband when they are returning from an overseas trip, they would tell you ‘yes, the government has that right,’ ” Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, said [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Tech Stuff on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
State of the Art: When Your Camera Knows Where You Are When I first read about this wifi card I thought it was a gimmick but the last part of this article, on geotragging is brilliant. Wireless transfer is not for DSLRs that make huge RAW files but the geotagging does sound like it would [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Video on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Canon EOS Rebel XSi Commercial Watch the commercial, then watch the making of it behind the scenes. Great use of still photography in a commerical with lots of movement and emotion. [via Inside Lightroom]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Resources on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
flickr has teamed up with the Library of Congress, the Powerhouse Museum Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and Bibliothèque de Toulouse to start building a public archive of photographs called flickr Commons. Unlike private collections like Getty Images or The Bettman Archive, flickr Commons is open for anyone for any use. There are [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jun 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Apple Portables: Reducing cable strain on your MagSafe power adapter Wow, more than you’ll ever want to know about how to wrap cable and take care of your MacBook or MacBook Pro power adapter. Good stuff actually. [via Scott James]
Posted in Places, Video on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
A group of surfers ride the ocean swells as they enter the mouth of the Amazon River. The ride lasts fifteen minutes. Amazing. Narrated slide show: River Run Movie: Pororoca – the longest wave ever [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Online service lets blind surf the Internet from any computer, anywhere This is a fantastic service and no doubt will be useful for people who can see but can’t read. I urge you to watch the entire video to see how it works.
Posted in People on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
The Big Picture has another great photo set: USA Olympic Diving Trials Talk about stopping action. Wow, these are great shots.
Posted in Humor, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 25th, 2008 9 Comments »
The Website is Down Oh my god, this is incredible. I’m speechless, it’s an instant classic. David, you need to watch this immediately! [via Derek Powazek]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
At Google, Slow Growth in News Site I use Google New and have since it started. I realize it’s far from perfect but that I like is the aggregation of different viewpoints on the same story all lumped together in one list, like this: Israel closes Gaza after rockets (all 1,045 news articles) at the [...]
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