ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors (9)
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ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors ABC News has a disturbing report (complete with a video of the incident) where one of their producers, Asa Eslocker, was arrested on a public street while attempting to take pictures of Democratic Senators leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver.An as of yet unnamed Denver police sergeant literally pushes Eslocker into the street and then has him ...
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Atherton said:
Police harassment of media photographers makes an appearance at the DNC in Denver.
Google Earth Shows Cows Magnetic? Really? (7)
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For the past couple of days I've been seeing the reports of a scientific study about cows conducted using Google Earth. The results from this study sound like a hoax. German scientists studied hundreds of herds from around the Earth found in Google Earth, they say that cows seem to align themselves with the magnetic north when lying or grazing. See Los Angeles Times story. This study was actually published in the proceedings for the ...
Nikon D90 plus hands-on preview (15)
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Pre-Photokina: After a steady trickle of leaks and rumors Nikon has announced the successor to its popular D80 middleweight digital SLR in the shape of the D90. The D90 looks very similar, but underneath it's a completely new camera that's inherited advanced features from further up the line and user-friendly features from the D40/D60 range. Oh, and it's the world's first digital SLR with a movie mode. Oher features of note include a new 12.3 ...
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Thomas Stromberg said:
First SLR that records video (720p HDTV). =) I bet it's possible to add this to the D300 via firmware update, but they won't!
Nikon D90 Video, from You-Know-Who (3)
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UPDATE: This whole D90 video thing broke really fast last night, and a very interesting discussion has started in the comments as to what this video really is. Is is a commercial? Is it a behind-the-scenes thing? Is it underground? Well, yes, to all of the above. More background, and your comments, after the jump at the bottom of the post.Now I know why Chase Jarvis has been grinning like an idiot for the last ...
26 August, 2008 - Canon 50D Announced (3)
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Canon EOS D50 Canon has announced today the EOS 50D. (News of the camera was leaked a couple of days ago by Canon China – wonder which Canon sales office's turn it will be to leak next time). This camera is a step-up from but not a short term replacement for the 40D, which was introduced just a year ago this week. I wouldn't call it simply a coat of fresh paint since it does ...
Minnesota Public Radio on More Photographer Harassment (8)
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MPR: Convention Beat: A choice of weapons"He's known on the Flickr photo website as Guy Flâneur, the alias under which he publishes his photos. He kicked of an extensive discussion of public photography on the site here.He was taking these pictures on the street outside Travelers, he said, when a security guard came out and told him to stop pointing a camera at the building. The photographer declined, but a few minutes later two St. ...
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More on increasing photographer harassment from Thomas Hawk.
Mythbusters Will "Prove" Moon Landing Wasn't a Hoax [It's A Conspiracy] (16)
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A week from today the Mythbusters say they're going to tackle "one of the biggest myths of all": that the moon landing was a hoax. Um, isn't it the other way around? Waaay more people seem to think we took a tin can, loaded it up with rocket fuel and successfully shot ourselves to the moon and back. I'm not sure how showing how crappy your own fake moon landing looks proves anything, nor does ...
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Greg said:
Yes, I will be. Until I can see some proof, I won't but it. If we have been there before, why can't we go again? I drove to my new job one time, now I can do it without google maps. It is logical. The moon is hard to miss.
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Win said:
Greg will be watching
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Ryan said:
Wish I could watch this...
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dknowles said:
Too bad Mythbusters is sanctioned by the U.S. government to advocate their propaganda machine.
A First Look at USB 3.0 [Usb 3.0] (19)
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Now that Intel's brought together the world in a harmonious USB 3.0 standard, here's a first look at the new connectors brought to us by MaximumPC. Ten times faster than the old USB spec, USB 3.0 can transfer a 27GB file in just 70 seconds. Plus, with more "lanes" of data within the connector, new USB will be able to simultaneously send and receive information—that might not sound like much, but the old USB couldn't ...
CEO of ng:moco on the iPhone As a Dominant Gaming Platform (2)
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This 40-minute talk by Neil Young, CEO of ng:moco, makes a compelling case for the iPhone as the industry’s next dominant gaming platform. The address took place at iPhoneDevCamp 2 in San Francisco earlier this month. It’s a bit long, but definitely worth a watch if you’re an iPhone gamer or game developer: Neil Young > iPhone is greater than… from Dom Sagolla on Vimeo.
Photographing Icons – They Matter – TWIP (8)
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Last week, Wall Arch in Arches National Park, Utah collapsed. This is one of those places photographers loved to visit. I personally made images there four times. I distinctly remember one of my associates remarking to me that photographing such places was a waste of time. He said “been there – done that – everyone has that picture.” Oh really? Well not anymore. Nobody will ever again take that picture. The opportunity is gone for ...
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Jesse said:
I often think something similar on a smaller scale. Sometimes, I see an empty lot or a stand of trees and think to myself that this will someday be a condo or a strip mall. I then think, "I should take a picture for a before and after collage." Do I do it? No. :-/
8 August, 2008 - Tripping Over Nikon's Shoe Laces (2)
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Yesterday Nikon announced several new Coolpix cameras. Many were pleased to learn more about the P6000, which had been rumoured for some weeks. The concept appears good, challenging the Canon G9, and adding a few neat wrinkles of its own. A likely worthy entry by Nikon, potentially aimed at serious photographers looking for a competent pocket camera with raw capability. Unfortunately it turns out, as noted here yesterday, that the P6000 has crippled raw capability. ...
Dodge & Burn in LAB Mode - TWIP (5)
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Photo by Scott Bourne If you ever worked in a wet darkroom, you know about dodging and burning. Dodging makes photos lighter and burning makes them darker. Photoshop’s DODGE and BURN tools do the same thing. However, most photographers don’t know that dodging and burning in RGB or sRGB mode, the two most popular photo color spaces, can cause your image’s colors to shift. To avoid these color shifts, consider a switch of your image ...
Wordles Comparing Recent Speeches by Barack Obama and John McCain (13)
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I went to the site Real Clear Politics where they collect transcripts of political speeches. I took the last speech they had transcribed by Barack Obama and the last speech they had transcribed from John McCain and pasted both speeches into separate Wordles. The above image is what came out. The top wordle comes from Barack Obama's recent Townhall speech in Elkhart, Indiana. The bottom wordle comes from John McCain's speech in Jackson, Ohio. You ...
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Suchita said:
Ok.. you need to know that @wordle.net, the size of words in wordle depends up on the number of times it appears in input text.. can you see now why am I sharing it here?
Delta to add WiFi to all domestic planes in 2009 (18)
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Filed under: Transportation, WirelessIn a move that's making us re-think our frequent flyer habits, Delta has announced that it will install Wi-Fi on its entire domestic fleet of more than 330 mainline aircraft by the first half od 2009. The Aircell Gogo service will run $9.95 or $12.95 for trips under or over three hours, respectively, and will allow connection of any WiFi device, although we have to think it'll shutter certain open-port services like ...
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Pat said:
AT last now if only there was room in a seat to use your laptop!
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Brian Newby said:
Very very very cool!
Wordle Spam Tag Cloud (7)
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I just went into my Junk Email Folder on Mac Mail and opened up the last 100 spam email messages that I've received. I then took the texts from these 100 emails and pasted them into Wordle to make a tag cloud. The above image was my result. Click here for a larger view.
Merlin Mann Reviews aTV Flash Version 3.2 (1)
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I happened to be listing to the live netcast of MacBreak Weekly today when the subject of the Apple TV and aTV came up. Both Merlin Mann and Leo Laporte spoke highly of the 3.2 update. Merlin Mann wrote a nice little review over at 43 Folders covering the new aTV features you get with the 3.2 update. He even goes on to say that he had considered moving over to a Mac Mini until ...
