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Montreal, does get snow in early december, kinda like this:

Compare this from TFA to this on Flickr, same times.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12693492@N04/1339024810/ --> Woz and Sjobs

http://ndn.newsweek.com/media/36/microsoft-bill-gates-technology-company-BZ04-wide-horizontal.jpg --> MS

RSS feeds for the photographer geek:
Strobist http://www.strobist.com/
Off-camera lighting, and possibly the geekiest popular photography blog around. Give this site a serious look.

Joe McNally http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/
National Geographic shooter, photojournalist extraordinaire. Less about the mechanics than Strobist.

Flash Flavor http://www.flashflavor.com/
Insights from a very popular wedding shooter.

The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
A blog attempting to fill the shoes of LIFE.

Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
The Library of Congress has been putting their archives on Flickr. Some are slightly dull, but it's an interesting exposure to first half of the 20th century.

These all link to the main site, where you should hopefully be able to find the RSS feed.

Learning electronics is easier with a project that means something to you. I'm into photography, so I learned by building a sound trigger for my camera for high speed photography.

You can get kits containing the components you need here: http://www.hiviz.com/

And use them to make pictures like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernieandjude/2578082432/

The kit comes with instructions and a circuit diagram. All else you need is a book like Starting Electronics by Keith Brindley to help you interpret the diagram.

I can't understand why we're not massively building wind farms in the great plane states of the US.

We are! Drive US Route 40 across the country, and look at those huge things in Texas and Oklahoma. No idea how much transmission loss there must be to get this electricity back to civilization.

Besides the plane states, the largest wind installations are in mountain passes of the high deserts of California, see the San Gorgonio pass with 4,000 windmills that barely produce the electricity at peak wind that a single nuclear power plant does.

I can't understand why we're not massively building wind farms in the great plane states of the US.

We are! Drive US Route 40 across the country, and look at those huge things in Texas and Oklahoma. No idea how much transmission loss there must be to get this electricity back to civilization.

Besides the plane states, the largest wind installations are in mountain passes of the high deserts of California, see the San Gorgonio pass with 4,000 windmills that barely produce the electricity at peak wind that a single nuclear power plant does.

Here you go:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30138272@N00/2582123050
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=EQIdL0wRhnc&feature=related

I have one bumper sticker (actually, a bumper magnet) on my car: "Worst President Ever".

Last week, I walked out of the supermarket (accompanied by my six-year-old son), I found this note on my windshield.

I suppose this must be an example of tolerant conservative thinking?

Flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/processing/
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/generative/

Individuals:
http://flickr.com/photos/joshuadavis/ || joshuadavis.com
http://flickr.com/photos/flight404/ || flight404.com

Many others to be found here:
maxalot.com
http://www.maxalot.com/xpsf/xpsif_all.shtml
http://www.bridgesmathart.org/art-exhibits/jmm08/index.html

References:
Art in the Digital Age

Flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/processing/
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/generative/

Individuals:
http://flickr.com/photos/joshuadavis/ || joshuadavis.com
http://flickr.com/photos/flight404/ || flight404.com

Many others to be found here:
maxalot.com
http://www.maxalot.com/xpsf/xpsif_all.shtml
http://www.bridgesmathart.org/art-exhibits/jmm08/index.html

References:
Art in the Digital Age

Flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/processing/
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/generative/

Individuals:
http://flickr.com/photos/joshuadavis/ || joshuadavis.com
http://flickr.com/photos/flight404/ || flight404.com

Many others to be found here:
maxalot.com
http://www.maxalot.com/xpsf/xpsif_all.shtml
http://www.bridgesmathart.org/art-exhibits/jmm08/index.html

References:
Art in the Digital Age

Flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/processing/
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/generative/

Individuals:
http://flickr.com/photos/joshuadavis/ || joshuadavis.com
http://flickr.com/photos/flight404/ || flight404.com

Many others to be found here:
maxalot.com
http://www.maxalot.com/xpsf/xpsif_all.shtml
http://www.bridgesmathart.org/art-exhibits/jmm08/index.html

References:
Art in the Digital Age

Go for the good stuff:

http://flickr.com/photos/devinmoore/sets/72157601859714574/

(gratuitous plug)

Sometimes using a VCR is better than using a computer.

Thanks for finding another reason to illegally clear the Amazon. (Cash crops already being a major driver.)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2239/1801128557_043a923ea2.jpg

It's easier to be funny when you have a clue.

I've got five Macs. My daily driver is an 8GB, 8-core Intel Mac Pro. My carry along a is loaded dual-core Macbook pro. Both are typically running linux, windows, and OSX all at once. I write graphics software for a living. Powerful graphics software, written at the metal level. I'm all for multicore/multiprocessor at the OS level; the easier, the better, and likewise, multi-machine for even bigger jobs. However, this does not change the fact that Apple is mostly doing iPhone work, and that not adding obvious consumer-level goodies to OS X will cost them dearly -- which they don't care about, because -- wait for it -- they're all about the iPhone now. I meant the post to be funny, all right, but only because it's true.

The very idea that low level improvements and bugfixes precludes feature addition at the GUI/high level is absurd, and if anyone at Apple had half a brain focused on the Mac, they'd never have said anything like that, or even implied it.

OS "features" can be as simple as adding a nice set of programs to the stable. Things like a decent personal finance manager. Wouldn't affect system stability one whit, but it'd increase the value of the Mac to the first time buyer by quite a bit. How about a nice, basic paint program? Or a set of kids coloring books / tools? A basic expert system? Lots of middle to high end users could use one, and heck, they're not that difficult to write. I wrote one in python that, minus the knowledge base, isn't even 10k and you'd be blinking amazed at how much it knows about rocks and minerals, and how well it can generalize and leap to conclusions. How about including a language teacher? How about a finder with a decent feature set? Something like... Pathfinder - buy it, maybe tweak it, and ship it. That would be @#$%^&*$ awesome. Heck, I'd probably pee right down my leg if they simply shipped a working, color version of midnight commander (a findery thing for shellfolk.)

See where I'm going here? Put an expert programmer in a corner, say "make a COOL one of these apps" and leave them be. In a year, if you don't have something really cool, the programmer should be shot. Total investment, one programmer's salary. Put ten programmers to ten tasks, watch em decently, and in a year, you'd have ten new selling points that had ZERO to do with OS stability, etc. Or just reach out the the Mac community and buy a few things, again, there are tons of them out there and I can assure you that many of them could be had for what amounts to peanuts. And also as we know, Apple's got more than peanuts in its pocket, and dropping a few million on programmers and/or acquisitions isn't a problem if they simply want to. So when they say "no features for you", what they're telling you is, "we're not going to exert ourselves on your behalf." They're not saying why... but just wake up and smell the iPhone marketing, man.

Here's one of those tests:
http://flickr.com/photos/nitot/2410514595/sizes/o/

Oh the huge-manatee! http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/1362599_02bcdea730.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2562443765_e341d48a40_o.jpg

It was an interesting purchase decision for the buyer in the current energy climate.

* it's just not practical to strap 2 kids, a wife and a bag full of groceries on top of it Where's your sense of adventure???? :o) http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwpingu/2512050427/

I've dropped my phone hard at least once a month for the past 14 months. It set me back about $800 so I try to take good care of it, but sh!t happens, and when it does, plastic bounces. It doesn't shatter like glass. Go ahead, read the comments at the flickr page. They illustrate the point nicely:

All you iPhone fans are just alike. You brag about how durable your glass phone is until you break it. Then you're crying because of the $200 repair bill... Funny how the 3G iPhone casing is no longer aluminum and now made out of this "inferior" material as well. Perhaps they should have replaced it with glass since glass is SOOO durable.

Reminds me a lot of the Davis Centre of the University of Waterloo, which was designed to look and feel like being in a computer. there's lots of cool photos on flickr showing it, and a neat panorama of the inside.

Reminds me a lot of the Davis Centre of the University of Waterloo, which was designed to look and feel like being in a computer. there's lots of cool photos on flickr showing it, and a neat panorama of the inside.

That's why it is so important to argue the case for and against every law, before it becomes law. It's easy to write an introduction saying 'this is to stop terrorists', but much harder to frame the law so that it only applies to terrorism cases.

I'd say move! I left Blighty for Switzerland a few months ago, and have a whole new perspective now that I'm the foreigner. Generally great, but jeez, sometimes the Swiss make you feel like an outsider!

Full story.

Sorry. Izabael already taken. There's nothing more depressing than seeing the most attractive woman in the world who only dates men 50 years older than herself.

You can have wireless, you just have to try harder.

Have you seen Kevin Mitnick's business card?

Here is a little taste of what you can expect in NYC. This was just one day. I'm sure you can find many more if you like... http://www.flickr.com/photos/neoliminal/sets/72157600350750369/

Enjoy.

or if it still looks like this.

Fuck you, I'll download Japanese Guaver models like Miri Hanai while hosting ranked Gears of War matches if I want. And I'll scream ridiculous racial slurs, some of which I'm sure to misunderstand and thus use incorrectly, in the voice of a 12 year old british boy while doing it!

Now that's just epic fail on your part...

At least try and get your internet memes sorted out... kthxbye.

np: Karl Moestl - Believer (Defusion Bassdrumrocker Edition)

One exception: Speakeasy, who lied to me during pre-sales chat, stating I could use 100% of my bandwidth 100% of the time, and that they don't regulate their connections at all -- ultimatley called me up and told me if I didn't download less than 100G a month, that they would terminate me.

They then had the gall to try to silence me with a threat of an early termination fee, and took many months to properly pay me back for the pre-paid month of service that I didn't get.

They are assholes. They should burn. But Patriot.Net? Capu.Net? Silcon.com? All great ISPs that let you do what you want.

One exception: Speakeasy, who lied to me during pre-sales chat, stating I could use 100% of my bandwidth 100% of the time, and that they don't regulate their connections at all -- ultimatley called me up and told me if I didn't download less than 100G a month, that they would terminate me.

They then had the gall to try to silence me with a threat of an early termination fee, and took many months to properly pay me back for the pre-paid month of service that I didn't get.

They are assholes. They should burn. But Patriot.Net? Capu.Net? Silcon.com? All great ISPs that let you do what you want.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmcnicholas/2199035401/

...now after they screwed up they try to hide it. Check out this leaked photo. Poor dude!

Sadly, by the time the plane came around for a third pass the damage had been done and the modern world had begun to affect the tribe.

Goatse!

"Marketing" is killing entertainment in this country (perhaps the world). I'm seriously at a loss to try to think of something that someone hasn't tried to attach marketing to. The earth the sky, the water, the very air we breath.

I turn on the TV, I'm assaulted by ads, I browse the web, I'm assaulted by ads, I drive my car, I have at least two advertisements in my field of view at all times, I sit at home with my doors locked they call me on the phone or knock on the door. If I pay to watch a movie without commercials I see product placement that goes beyond just happenstance within the story.

I'm so inundated with marketing I only watch 1 TV show now, use an IRiver instead of the radio, and I visit a select few websites on a regular bases. None of those website attempts to inflict the ever sophisticated back door pop-ups or the ever annoying flash hanging over the article tactic. (thought they may link to them)

Taken at the rally:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwalton/2528963840/

Digital imaging equipment doesn't see the world in colour. In a digital camera light causes electric charge to build up in photoelectric elements (CMOS or CCD) inside the camera. Lots of light makes lots of charge, less light makes less charge. In other words, an image that the camera sees is translated into brightness values - black, grey and white to you and me.

To turn this back into a colour image you need to take more than one photo, and place a filter over the top of the camera so that only light at certain wavelengths is seen.

If you do this for red, green and blue light then you get three different black and white images like this:

red green blue

If you combine these together using a program like Photoshop or GIMP you get a a false colour composite. You can then tweak this to make it look how you want it.

Does it look like you'd really see it? I guess it depends on the person, but it's close enough for most of us.

* Note that I'm only guessing that the above Phoenix images were taken using red, green and blue filters - I have no information about them - but they seem to be pretty close.

Some SSD love from Toshiba from CES 2008: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2179248913/in/set-72157603667187312/

Most likely you miss this one!

You can see a few of the first photos here! (Not a trap)

Somehow or another (there are a lot of different and sometimes contradictory mechanisms at play) most people associate "chickens" (and eating chickens) with an enormously different set of concepts and moral ideals than they do wild birds of all sorts -- especially the big pretty ones like herons and such, but somewhat for any bird outside. Even pigeons and seagulls fare better, I think.

Random vaguely-offtopical bonus link: Polish chicken!

Video games, they claim, spark "positive social traits, such as creativity."

How would this compare to dancing with another person?

For socially adept, happy, creative people, dance with another human, not a video game. Like these people here, here, here, and here.

Yes, it would mean you'd have to stop playing with your Wii ... for at least a little while.

Video games, they claim, spark "positive social traits, such as creativity."

How would this compare to dancing with another person?

For socially adept, happy, creative people, dance with another human, not a video game. Like these people here, here, here, and here.

Yes, it would mean you'd have to stop playing with your Wii ... for at least a little while.

Video games, they claim, spark "positive social traits, such as creativity."

How would this compare to dancing with another person?

For socially adept, happy, creative people, dance with another human, not a video game. Like these people here, here, here, and here.

Yes, it would mean you'd have to stop playing with your Wii ... for at least a little while.