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Thursday, June 27, 2002


iPHOTO FROM APPLE APPEARS

to be the gold standard when it comes to easily moving photos from camera to computer and manipulating the files in all manner of ways until you're content. Does anyone know of a single Windows application that is roughly comparable to iPhoto? That will be part of the solution to these things:

Digital photography the Lomography way?. Though I'm far, far from being an "artiste" of a photographer, I want to do neat things with my camera. I want to capture some moments, some feelings, try some odd things. It's like hacking with light. I see the kinds of things done with the Lomo cameras, warm and... [0xDECAFBAD]

5:20:22 PM     Comments[]


GUYS WITH BIG HANDS HAVE

trouble holding some of these tiny cameras steady. A day will come when someone will begin to plot photo quality against camera size and weight. This won't be a function of optics, but of handling! It will be interesting to see how this form factor from Sony is received.

The tiny Sony DSC-U10. Sony has today announced their smallest and lightest digital camera the DSC-U10. This tiny 1.3 megapixel digital camera weighs in at just 118 g (4.2 oz) fully loaded, has a fixed focal length lens, one inch... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

5:05:35 PM     Comments[]


LESS TIME WITH CORPORATE-SPEAK & SPIN

and a little more time understanding the lemonade stand and some of these companies/executives would be in far better shape.

Learn to Speak Corporatese. You can make sense of financial statements -- and even enjoy it! [The Motley Fool]

4:58:11 PM     Comments[]


YOU COULD PAPER A WALL WITH THIS THING!

Mapping the Spam [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

4:54:08 PM     Comments[]


I'M WANTING TO PHOTOBLOG
Cloud status: 41% of 40MB free - time to get serious about the move.

Nice new photoblog at brilliant corners [jenett.radio]

4:49:50 PM     Comments[]


TO SWITCH OR NOT TO SWITCH
Read Walter Mossberg's notions last week & this week

PowerBook runner-up in Worth Magazine's laptop category [MacCentral]

4:41:50 PM     Comments[]


...AND THE WORLD WILL BEAT A PATH TO YOUR DOOR

Wow -- someone's already using the new theme -- thanks Robert! [jenett.radio]

How do I find all of the various "edits" that have been done to my #home template? There are comments and the XML Coffee Mug and links to posts by categories and a search engine and... Well, you get the picture! How do I map all of those features to a new theme?

4:23:38 PM     Comments[]


INDEED HE DID

HEY! Didn't Dave Winer have this idea first? [InstaPundit]

4:18:51 PM     Comments[]


A WEBLOG BUILT WITH CITYDESK

WebSite Update [StronglyTyped - Richard Caetano's weblog on software development]

4:14:22 PM     Comments[]


PUTTING YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE

11:43:41 AM     Comments[]


MONTAGE AS ART, MONTAGE AS FRAUD

Every Montage Tells Another Story. Ever since the dawn of photography, people have manipulated images. But digital media has transformed the art of montage into a brand-new genre. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]

9:50:23 AM     Comments[]


LET'S HEAR IT FOR RANDOM TESTING

WorldCom's accounting secrets unfolded in a routine spot-check by an internal auditor at the request of its new CEO. [Wall Street Journal]

9:42:59 AM     Comments[]


Confucius. "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

9:40:47 AM     Comments[]


SPITTING IN YOUR PAINT
Cheaper and works just as well

Australian Primitive Finds an Unforgettable Signature. Australia's most popular painter has vigorously embraced modernity by using invisible identification labels based on his personal DNA code as guarantees of authenticity. By John Shaw. [New York Times: Arts]

9:38:51 AM     Comments[]


Latin Proverb. "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

9:32:22 AM     Comments[]


LOST BY WHOM?
Answer: Liberal judges who believe they sit at the center of the universe

In 1984, several liberal members of the Supreme Court, including Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens and William Brennan, said references like ``In God We Trust,'' which appears on United States currency and coins, were protected from the Establishment Clause because their religious significance had been lost through rote repetition.

The dissenting judge in today's ruling, Ferdinand F. Fernandez, 63, who was appointed to the bench in 1989 by President Bush's father, expressed concerns that ruling could also be applied to other expressions of patriotism. ``We will soon find ourselves prohibited from using our album of patriotic songs in many public settings,'' he wrote. ```God Bless America' and `America the Beautiful' will be gone for sure, and while the first and second stanzas of `The Star-Spangled Banner' will still be permissible, we will be precluded from straying into the third.''  [New York Times]

9:30:05 AM     Comments[]


Aristotle. "We are what we repeatedly do." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

9:23:29 AM     Comments[]


THIS SUITS MY MOOD THIS MORNING

HOW TO AIR BIN LADEN TAPES: Reader Craig Demel has some advice:

Since the last couple tapes have been devoid of any references to
post-December events, bin Laden is probably dead, and what we're
seeing is greatest-hits footage, in a transparent attempt to convince
us he's not.

So my idea for news organizations trying to decide how or whether
to air new tapes which surface is, air them, then say, "Oh, we've
also got a _new_ videotape from the Three Stooges", then show
Larry, Moe, and Curly slapping each other and yelping and growling.

Ah, a wise guy, eh? Why I oughta. . . [InstaPundit]

9:11:50 AM     Comments[]


AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ORIGINS OF THE USA

and the history at the time our founders debated this country's "belief system," is essential to interpretting its key founding documents. The notion that "all of this" can't evaporate in the blink of an eye is the height of arrogance. What this country was founded to be and what many, if not most, of us were born into is citizenship in a country with very specific beliefs. Each one is left to decide whether they want to be a citizen of that country.

I guess people who don't believe in the Great Turtle in the Sky are going to be outcast and forgotten. [Scobleizer Radio Weblog]

9:03:04 AM     Comments[]


ASSUMING HE WASN'T BOMBED INTO THE HEREAFTER

at Tora Bora, it certainly would boost morale and reinvigorate the USA's drive to find Osama and some of his closest friends in a mountain hideout right about now.

Kunar Mountains May Be al-Qaida Base. About 100 U.S. soldiers, accompanied by 50 Afghan fighters, are scouring the rugged mountains in an area where a former Taliban official says Osama bin Laden maintained several hide-outs. [AP World News]

8:44:48 AM     Comments[]


AN INTERESTING PROJECT
Also, read Gutenberg by John Man

Gutenberg from Print to Digital. Nick will like this one. Project puts Gutenberg Bible in online form will give scholars the ability to browse the pages of the book that revolutionized printing. [meryl's notes]

8:39:34 AM     Comments[]


IMPROVING YOUR WEBLOG
Use Mark's tips and these

Day 14: Adding titles to links. What with weblogs being all about links, you would think more people would know about the title attribute, but I rarely see it. For those who don't know, all links can have a title, specified by the title attribute of the tag. This is in addition to whatever link text you specify. The title of a link generally shows up as a tooltip in visual browsers, but it can be presented in non-visual browsers as well. Not all links should have titles. If the link text is the name of an article, don't add a title; the link text itself is descriptive enough. But if you read the link text by itself, out of context, and can't figure out what it points to, add a title. [dive into mark]

8:20:06 AM     Comments[]


A POST FROM YESTERDAY'S BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY DISCUSSION BOARD

Berkshire Hathaway. "When the Bubble has burst, there will -- really -- be some people IN JAIL..." [The Motley Fool]

12:20:33 AM     Comments[]


SO MANY YEARS OF DISTORTING THE FOUNDERS' VIEWS
Leads to flawed conclusions stacked upon one another

Of Course. The Volokh Conspiracy is all over the 9th Circuit decision on the Pledge of Allegiance. Read eveything posted today. It's... [Dailypundit]

12:14:51 AM     Comments[]


MAKING MONEY WITH A WEBLOG - PART VI
See Part V here

If you're one of the schemers trying to make money from Web content, you'll want to follow this site: PAID: The Economics of Content. It's a blog-style listing of stories and columns related to the whole How Do We Get Some Coin world. NYC tech writer/editor Rafat Ali is the man behind the curtain. Looks damned good so far. (Via J.D. Lasica.) [Ken Layne]

12:07:43 AM     Comments[]


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