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Book Reviews

Monday, August 30, 2004

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Why Most Landscapes Suck: "[The] distinction between a great photograph and a mediocre one is that a mediocre one diminishes its subject, while a great one moves us more than a casual encounter with the thing it depicts." [via Digicamera.net]

Non-Windows users should rejoice quietly -- Comment()
The polluted Internet: "I've spent a significant amount of time in New Delhi - which was, until a few years ago, one of the most polluted cities on the planet - and I've seen the effects of all those toxic fumes. [...] Forgive my analogy, but that's pretty much the state of the Internet today: more polluted than ever, and getting worse. [...] The tiny 5 per cent of the world that's leftover and running something other than Microsoft, well, their owners have reason to rejoice. Those of you who use Linux/Gnome/Kde or X Windows on BSD, or the incredibly cute Mac OS X desktop... or Amiga or Atari or whatever, please keep quiet. For all intents and purposes, we've slipped under the radar. Let's keep it that way." [The Register]

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Longhorn: It's What's for Dinner: "In short, Longhorn is starting to look less like Tiger than another Apple OS effort: Copland, the ill-starred mid-'90s development campaign that let Windows 95 seize the marketing initiative. Is it time to turn the tables?"

What are you listening to? -- Comment()
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music shows (or rather plays) what all those music types actually are: acid jazz, epic, tribal, coldwave, speed garage, hardstep etc. The descriptions are to the point: "This kind of music is best meant for late-night coffee houses and alternative culture eateries where [...] a crowd of intellectuals wearing dark-brimmed glassed are listening to some guy in a turtle neck reciting crappy poetry like a bunch of pretentious post-ginsbergian beatnicks."