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wow, laser-etched nori!

Microsoft security guy (pic is from another attendee at the press junket).

To be fair, though, that's 1700mm for medium format.

One of my favorites is still the Nikon 1200-1700mm f/5.6-f/8.

As someone who raises hermit crabs*, I can relate. Those things can be insanely creepy when viewed close up. And I’ve always said that the difference between cockroaches and lobsters is merely a question of scale.

*It’s primarily my girlfriend’s project, but still.

Here you go: http://flickr.com/photos/ioerror/tags/roboexotica/

Abstinence is for losers, period.

Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/roboexotica/

Video:
http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/10/roboexo tica-2006-in-vienna/ ..and more:
http://tinynibbles.com/violetblue.html

Areas that Yahoo works for me:

* Start Page. My Yahoo isn't bad, but I actually use their main page - although I only see it once or twice a day, it's a surprisingly good design.
* Yahoo News is my favorite news page on the internet. Google News isn't bad, but it's just an aggregator - Yahoo at has quality feeds (Associated Press, Reuters) - and they actually host their own content.
* The new webmail (that they purchased Oddpost to get, and is a full-function email client in your browser) is absolutely fantastic. It's good enough that I pay for it ($19 per year gets you no advertising on the site or in your outgoing email plus more space than I'll ever use). Server-side mailbox rules are fantastic - and I never have to configure another email client, or worry about backing up my mail when I change computers.
* Address book. It's super-complete (has fields for every IM service, for example) and it integrates with email and Yahoo Maps.
* Yahoo Maps is still better than Google Maps. They did a recent update that surpasses Google for the flash, but Yahoo still has Google beaten in a very important area for me - printability. Have you ever tried *printing* a Google map? It doesn't! Yahoo's map directions print very nicely!

Their acquired properties:

* Bookmarks. I wouldn't be able to manage my bookmarks without them.
* Photos. It's a photographer's paradise - for both hosting and browsing photos.

I also have the Yahoo Toolbar installed in Firefox, configured with icons set pointing to most of the above. The areas that Yahoo does *not* work for me are:

* RSS reader. Google Reader is far superior to any of the RSS solutions offered by Yahoo.
* Finance. They've lost me to MorningStar. I still occasionally check Yahoo Finance for their news feeds, but MorningStar has better portfolio tools (and I have a subscription to them anyway).
* Search. Google is still better. For popular things, Yahoo is just as competent, but Google is better for those hard-to-find and obscure searches.

Put it this way: losing Google would be a minor inconvenience, but losing Yahoo would break the internet for me. Although bear in mind that I've been using the internet (and Yahoo) since around '94 - long before Google was around.

It's only peripherally relevant, but here are some guys shooting I Am Legend in Columbus Circle. The guys herding people away from where they were setting up shooting were pretty polite, and didn't seem to care that I was taking pictures of them.

The bit about The Bean is pretty odd, but when you think about it, you can't photograph currently-copyrighted paintings and such in a museum and use them for commercial purposes. The thing that surprises me is that the city bought the work, but the artist retains the copyright on it, which seems like an incredibly strange deal. Chicago really struck a pretty bum deal.

Thankfully many of us have spent dozens of hours practising zombie destruction in computer games like dead rising and are well-versed in their destruction.

Everyone knows the best way to kill zombies is with a keyboard and a Sega Dreamcast strapped to your back.

(Coincidentally, I actually did dress up as a character from Typing of the Dead for Halloween)

You are right about the happiness thing. I'll be happy when housing contractors are out of my life, but that's a different story.

"There just isn't enough tax money out there to give every citizen best-in-class medical care, even if you thought it were ethical to use tax money to do so."
That's very true. The cost of keeping an old person alive for another 6 weeks is often greater than the cost of saving 1,000 lives (of, say, premature babies). There are all kinds of issues to work out, but I think simply giving 0 care to people who can't pay it ignores the problem, and creates many more problems; problems that likely exceed the scope of this conversation. (For example, being carjacked and shot to death because someone needed money for an operation. Contrived example? Yes. Has it happened? I bet. Do I come up with shitty examples? Usually, but if you have imagination, you can hopefully think of a better one. :))

Lucent.. hahahahaha..... At least you didn't have MCI or C&W.

348 pages? I'm a bit ADHD and PDF-hating for that. Got something closer to THIS? (Well, maybe not, but that link is interesting -- check out the others.) I believe you though; we just still spend A LOT on military, and that money could go elsewhere.

I guess... I'd like to live in a world where charity isn't necesary. Wouldn't that be nice? I'd also like sugar faries and gumdrop lanes...<sigh>

Like a mathematician, I can define more problems than solutions.

You are right about the happiness thing. I'll be happy when housing contractors are out of my life, but that's a different story.

"There just isn't enough tax money out there to give every citizen best-in-class medical care, even if you thought it were ethical to use tax money to do so."
That's very true. The cost of keeping an old person alive for another 6 weeks is often greater than the cost of saving 1,000 lives (of, say, premature babies). There are all kinds of issues to work out, but I think simply giving 0 care to people who can't pay it ignores the problem, and creates many more problems; problems that likely exceed the scope of this conversation. (For example, being carjacked and shot to death because someone needed money for an operation. Contrived example? Yes. Has it happened? I bet. Do I come up with shitty examples? Usually, but if you have imagination, you can hopefully think of a better one. :))

Lucent.. hahahahaha..... At least you didn't have MCI or C&W.

348 pages? I'm a bit ADHD and PDF-hating for that. Got something closer to THIS? (Well, maybe not, but that link is interesting -- check out the others.) I believe you though; we just still spend A LOT on military, and that money could go elsewhere.

I guess... I'd like to live in a world where charity isn't necesary. Wouldn't that be nice? I'd also like sugar faries and gumdrop lanes...<sigh>

Like a mathematician, I can define more problems than solutions.

If you're honestly worried about the strap breaking on your Wiimote, check out this quick how-to on flickr. Just use some heavy duty fly fishing line to reinforce it.

I pretty much realized how I dont have to answer to your kind when I learned that every Slashdot Christian who posts a huffy OMG J00 HATE CHRISTIANS AD-HOMINEM!!!1 message looks like this.

Is that the wife of a man who continuously posts FUD on Slashdot?

Is that you on the left?

I hope you get cancer dude. Skin cancer to be precise. With skin cancer you and your FUD will never make it to CNN.

And you love CNN, right?

Is that the wife of a man who continuously posts FUD on Slashdot?

Is that you on the left?

I hope you get cancer dude. Skin cancer to be precise. With skin cancer you and your FUD will never make it to CNN.

And you love CNN, right?

There was a time when I wanted to add to the "debate." I actively engaged you, humored you- even as my respect for your kind and your idiotic beliefs whithered, I would at least make a show of patronizing you. All the while I suffered through your huffy, self-righteous 'OMG AD-HOMINEM!!1' posts. As I wondered what kind of people would sport such an ugly persecution complex, I realized that most of them look like a lot this.

The 360 would have had to sell in the 700k+ range to have any chance of breaking out of its sales rut. So far the 360 is tracking just under the first Xbox's first year sales - some months higher, some lower.

4.5 million 360s worldwide as of October:

http://static.flickr.com/108/313180999_44f2d9c7dd_ o.png

At Frys a couple days ago there were two enormous stacks of 360s out in the console area(and who knows how many more in the back) and other people are saying the same thing about their local BestBuys. So it looks like Microsoft is trying to flood the retail stores in an attempt to be able to claim some shipped console number near 10 million. Can't be a smart move since there are going to be piles of 360s sitting around for the next few months and they are going to have to undership next quarter and any little benefit they get from claiming higher shipment numbers now will be offset with the reciprocal low shipment news next quarter.

Aha! You'd think that, but take a look at this.

Intriguing, no? Also, the Windows taskbar is situated just underneath the Apple menu bar, and is itself behind a Mac window, which further suggests that they're doing more than just superimposing everything but the background. They're messing directly with the GUI APIs.

so I just went to search.yahoo.com after eons and what do I see on the top of the page

"Use Yahoo! to search from Firefox
Just select "Yahoo!" from the search box drop-down menu in your browser"

screenshot

So Yahoo seems to be advertising its own search service more than anything else. Huh...who'd have though a search company advertising their own search service - the horror. They are hardly pushing it - that'd be forcing you to download IE7 with the yahoo toolbar bundled and blocking dedicated FF+typically Google users like me.

Utter bs. Must be a slow news day.

A working link:
http://static.flickr.com/103/294929001_b67b0b5225_ o_d.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=294929001& context=set-72157594292367584&size=o

Via boingboing
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/14/weird_screens hot_of_.html

That's nothing, I've got 436 petabytes here!

How's this for size? ATLAS calorimeter, the tunnel, one of the tubes, the "crab", the hole, and the cavern. Bonus: They do have retina scanners!

How's this for size? ATLAS calorimeter, the tunnel, one of the tubes, the "crab", the hole, and the cavern. Bonus: They do have retina scanners!

How's this for size? ATLAS calorimeter, the tunnel, one of the tubes, the "crab", the hole, and the cavern. Bonus: They do have retina scanners!

How's this for size? ATLAS calorimeter, the tunnel, one of the tubes, the "crab", the hole, and the cavern. Bonus: They do have retina scanners!

How's this for size? ATLAS calorimeter, the tunnel, one of the tubes, the "crab", the hole, and the cavern. Bonus: They do have retina scanners!

How's this for size? ATLAS calorimeter, the tunnel, one of the tubes, the "crab", the hole, and the cavern. Bonus: They do have retina scanners!

How's this for size? ATLAS calorimeter, the tunnel, one of the tubes, the "crab", the hole, and the cavern. Bonus: They do have retina scanners!

Forgot to add, here's a link to her Flickr acct:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/leahculver/

I'm not a stalker or nothin, just wanted to post that before I go back to hiding in the bushes with my binoculars.....

Does anyone know what kind of switches it uses?

http://static.flickr.com/51/151575397_47393fd3e6_m .jpg

KFG

If you spell it correctly you get 799,730 hits instead of a lousy 1400. Cameraphone is the largest category on Flickr AFAIK.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cameraphone&s=int

'cos someone's doing it

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=camerphone&s=int

Here just view it for yourself:

Gears of War
1280x720 to up-scaled to 1920x1080 won't hurt the individual frames unless the game is running at greater the 30fps at 720p, then it's possible to notice tearing at 1080p you wouldn't have seen at 720p.

http://static.flickr.com/107/298916653_4f98a2c78f_ o.jpg

1280x720p scaled down to 480p and then displayed at the same size as the 720p. Since you TV isn't going to shrink.

http://static.flickr.com/110/298920837_b955360eb8_ o.jpg

Can you tell a difference? I sure as hell can.

Here just view it for yourself:

Gears of War
1280x720 to up-scaled to 1920x1080 won't hurt the individual frames unless the game is running at greater the 30fps at 720p, then it's possible to notice tearing at 1080p you wouldn't have seen at 720p.

http://static.flickr.com/107/298916653_4f98a2c78f_ o.jpg

1280x720p scaled down to 480p and then displayed at the same size as the 720p. Since you TV isn't going to shrink.

http://static.flickr.com/110/298920837_b955360eb8_ o.jpg

Can you tell a difference? I sure as hell can.

It's all crap so far. However, if you're really that interested, This is the flickr account I made in ten minutes of browsing my photos folder on my HD.

I've been accumulating books for years. I think the best ones are the down to earth programming ones -- Code Complete, The Practice of Programming, Programming Pearls, and the like.

I have a photo on Flickr that I like to look at when I feel stupid.

There are a few more books at work, but most of these have served me well at various times. Apart from the BEEP protocol book, that was a total waste.

Perhaps they were referring to these edgy Ubuntu Logos??! (warning: naked humans)

Perhaps they were referring to these edgy Ubuntu Logos??! (warning: naked humans)

children first
captcha: nonsense

A guy who went to Best Buy and wanted to order a Zune, actually took it home right away and posted his pictures online. He did get an unexplained system error though.

Artist can do this sort of thing also. I went to an art show this weekend ans saw a xylophone controlled by a camera. It played when people walked in front of it. (picture video). I think that this sort of thing is pretty interesting and I am looking forward to the next things that are thought up. I also tend to believe that the most interesting things are thought up by individuals. Large corporation do ok making things but individuals are, maybe, a little freer to take ideas to an extreme and not worry about appealing to millions to recoup an investment.

This is me karma whoring. I caught two shows of the Adrian Belew Power Trio last week in Solana Beach and Long Beach. This gave excellent ops for me to indulge my burgeoning photography bug so I've posted learnings, thoughts, and pictures from Tuesday and Wednesday.

This is me karma whoring. I caught two shows of the Adrian Belew Power Trio last week in Solana Beach and Long Beach. This gave excellent ops for me to indulge my burgeoning photography bug so I've posted learnings, thoughts, and pictures from Tuesday and Wednesday.

Forgot the link to the photo's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/incalabria/sets/72157 594365218510/

It's a mix of Olympus C3000Z (2001) and Canon Eos 350d (2004) with crappy kit lens first and very nice Sigma lens (2005) later.

maybe there's some way you could come up with a shell script that would parse Flickr's URLs and download the full-resolution photos

"Maybe"?

Flickr is one of the most open and programmable sites out there. Check out http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ -- absolutely everything you can do at Flickr, you can do programatically.

There are thousands of third party utilities that operate over Flickr photos, including many that will download all your photos along with all the metadata. There's even a perl module for it, Net::Flickr::Backup.

You can find a very good discussion on the flickr group, utata:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/utata/discuss/7215759 4355879087/

I submitted this story 1 week ago. Old news.