Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Feb 25th, 2010 No Comments »
NY Times Lens: Syria Changes, to a Point Ed Kashi’s images of daily life in modern Syria are incredible. Do you like going to Syria? It’s a funny thing. I do like the idea of going there. There are moments where I actually like being there. But in general, I find it to be a [...]
Posted in Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers on Feb 24th, 2010 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My friend Zarinna had a bowl full of these flowers floating in water. What a great idea and the water made for a great "armature" to hold the flowers upright for shooting. Hellebore on wikipedia.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Resources, Tech Stuff on Feb 24th, 2010 No Comments »
ND Filters, Top to Bottom Aaron Bieber explains neutral density filters: what they are, how they work, and why one might want to use them. Clear and excellent.
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software on Feb 21st, 2010 3 Comments »
ClickToFlash Steve Jobs hates Adobe Flash and doesn’t want it on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad but that’s besides the point. I’ve been noticing that my computer has gotten increasingly unstable as my workday goes on. Later in the day (like now) typically the computer was running hot, fan on, Safari running slow and [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Ways into Shakespeare’s Othello English teacher Sabrina Broadbent leads a masterclass on Shakespeare, using her expertise to engage a group of Year 10 students. Let me state up front, I’m a poor reader, was a poor student, hated Shakespeare, and at this point in my life I’m as cynical as ever about education. But, I [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Insight I first learned about Insight through this post at Signal to Noise: “Smart” pasting at The New Yorker site. If you copy text from a site that has Insight installed, when you paste it the paste will include a link back to the original post. That link is easily deleted if you don’t want [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music on Feb 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Playing musical instruments may improve reading Learning to play a musical instrument could help to improve children’s reading and their ability to listen in noisy classrooms, according to new research. “Our eyes and ears take in millions of bits of information every second and it is not possible for the brain to process all of [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People on Feb 20th, 2010 8 Comments »
‘Family Guy,’ Palin and the Limits of Laughter This is an excellent piece by New York Times writer Dave Itzkoff. Andrea Fay Friedman has her act together as does Gail Williamson, executive director of the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles: “Within ‘Family Guy,’ the character was fully included, well-rounded, dynamic, not dealing with stereotypical [...]
Posted in People, Photographers on Feb 19th, 2010 7 Comments »
Markus Schwarze has some incredible images both on flickr and on his own photo site which is excellent: Markus Schwarze – Picture of the Day. Not only is his photography first rate but his presentation with text and graphical elements is excellent.
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, People on Feb 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Frugan Living Excellent collection of ideas for living cheaply off the waste of others. It helps that the author, Fairfax is an attractive woman. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Feb 19th, 2010 10 Comments »
Bill Gates gives a well constructed and clear talk on how climate change and energy innovation fits into his work on global poverty and then goes further to discuss an idea he has for nuclear power. Fascinating, well worth watching.
Posted in Travel on Feb 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Booking a flight the frugal way Matt Gross takes us through a process of researching and buying a plane ticket. In the process we learn about some great sites for doing this kind of research.
Posted in iPad, Opinion, Social Software on Feb 16th, 2010 6 Comments »
Turf War at the New York Times: Who Will Control the iPad? The New York Times has never gotten it right, ever. They have the best news in the business and the best brand and they cannot seem to figure out how to get money out of users. It’s simple: do what Salon does. Charge [...]
Posted in Ideas on Feb 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Rock Groups Steven Strogatz has a great column in The New York times on arranging rocks (or any objects) in patterns to better visualize arithmetic. I’ve been coming back to this particular column the past week and enjoying scanning and rescanning it. I’m still a mathaphobe but I do like patterns so thinking of arithmetic [...]
Posted in Ideas, Yoga on Feb 16th, 2010 2 Comments »
India inmates do yoga to reduce their jail sentences Practice yoga for three months, cut jail time by 15 days. Makes perfect sense. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff, Tools on Feb 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Nuance buys up MacSpeech This is interesting news, speech to text is useful for many people including people with various kinds of disabilities.
Posted in Creativity, Ideas on Feb 12th, 2010 No Comments »
Overcoming Creative Block This is a brilliant collection of all types of ideas from thinking directly about it to cooking to sketching to going on vacation, sitting in cafes, listening to music, taking long showers. Great post, great ideas. [via Kottke.com]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 12th, 2010 6 Comments »
Facebook Login John Gruber and many others have commented about this in the past day and I’d let it pass me by if I hadn’t seen examples of it first hand in people I know. Read Gruber’s post and the link to ReadWriteWeb’s initial post: Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login and the [...]
Posted in Social Software, Travel on Feb 12th, 2010 5 Comments »
Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall Or, a rolling facebook page. Even if all students are doing is chatting, emailing, and posting to their facebook pages and a few are doing school work, that’s better than being bored and getting rowdy. A wifi bus is a good thing and I only wish MTA [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPhone, People, Tech Stuff on Feb 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
Meet the guys behind Pocket God This is an interesting development story: two guys make a quick and dirty iPhone game app, it’s not very good, users post terrible reviews and give them feedback on how to make it better. The two developers take the feedback and release version 2 quickly, incorporating many of the [...]
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