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 Saturday, 18 December 2004
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X-ray scanners digital film safe
The International Imaging Association (i3a) has issued a press release in which they detail tests carried out by themselves in conjunction with SanDisk and the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to discover the effect of Airport X-Ray Scanners on digital film (flash storage). The results were that none of these such scanners nor walk-through or hand-held metal detectors had any effect at all on the content of flash storage.
[Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Tantalizing clues in pictures of Saturn's moons
Bright streaks on the surface of Dione have long been believed to be ice--but they might be something else entirely.
Photos: Full moons over Saturn
[Via CNET News.com]
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Conductor Frederick Fennell has died
Born July 2, 1914; died December 7, 2004
[Via Gramophone - News]
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Cuba places torture billboards in front of US diplomatic HQ
Xeni Jardin:
Rough translation from the Spanish language original:
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba unfolded two gigantic billboards on Friday in front of the United States diplomatic headquarters in the island, with photographs of the tortures in the Abu Ghraib prison of Iraq and the word "Fascistas" together with a Nazi swastika.
The images were put up after Cuba demanded that the United States Interests Section in Cuba take down a Christmas billboard with a shining ornament that says "75," in allusion to the dissidents imprisoned by the Cuban government in 2003. The billboards unfolded by Cuba show Iraqi prisoners bleeding and hooded during torture by soldiers in Abu Ghraib with a caption that says "Made in Usa" in the middle of the high-traffic Malecón of Havana.
Link (Thanks, Ned Sublette)
Update: More info in English: Link
[Via Boing Boing]
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