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Friday June 30, 2006
Thursday June 29, 2006
Wednesday June 28, 2006
David Schonauer's Summer Reading List - PopPhoto - June 2006
[via rebecca's pocket]The Editor of American Photo on the best photo books this summer ¶
Tuesday June 27, 2006
World Hum's Top 30 Travel Books
[via marginalrevolution]I preferred the Marsh Arabs to Arabian Sands... ¶
Monday June 26, 2006
Saturday June 24, 2006
Friday June 23, 2006
Thursday June 22, 2006
Wednesday June 21, 2006
The destruction of Beijing’s "hutongs"
Beijing's historic layout, which dates back six hundred years to the time of the Ming Dynasty, consists of hutongs, narrow alleyways that run in a maze-like fashion around the centre of the city. A third of the hutongs have been destroyed in the last three years... ¶
Olive branch solves a Bronze Age mystery
Minoan civilization emerged a century earlier than previously believed. ¶
Sunday June 18, 2006
Saturday June 17, 2006
Wednesday June 14, 2006
Tuesday June 13, 2006
New glacier theory on Stonehenge
Open University geologists say the stones were moved to Salisbury Plain by glaciers, not by Bronze Age man. ¶
Monday June 12, 2006
The Viele map of Manhattan
[via kottke]What Manhattan looked like before it was "filled in, paved over, dug up and forested with skyscrapers".
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Self-guided walking tours
Including San Francisco, downtown Los Angeles, the Chicago Loop, Oxford University, and Paris. ¶
Depressed men suffer in silence, says research
51 per cent of British men feel down, stressed, depressed or anxious at least once a month, while more than one in five (21 per cent) feel that way every day or a few times a week ¶
The Top Ten Truths About the Digital Ecosystem
10. Images are king...
1. Omnipresent distractions increase the need for inner peace. ¶
Sunday June 11, 2006
The Conservative Nanny State
How US conservatives rely on a range of “nanny state” policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. ¶
Saturday June 10, 2006
Keep dangerous palms trees off the street, Torbay council told
"Having palm trees is a little bit like keeping tigers" says a Liberal Democrat. ¶
Friday June 9, 2006
Road rage drivers apparently suffer from "intermittent explosive disorder"
The main symptoms of the disorder are frequent outbursts that are way out of proportion to the situation... sounds more like they suffer from immaturity to me... ¶
Tuesday June 6, 2006
Monday June 5, 2006
Barbie dolls are superficial and bland and are unlikely to be confused with sizzling steaks
said Canada's Supreme Court last Friday. ¶
Sunday June 4, 2006
Apple nixes off-shore support in India
Great news if true - I have had to deal with Apple 'support' in India three or four times and they were appalling each time -
"Your power supply is not working but we won't repair it as it might not be a hardware problem"
"You'll need to buy AppleCare if you want us to repair your Powerbook, would you like to buy AppleCare?" "No, I don't need AppleCare" "You need to buy AppleCare if you want Apple to fix your computer" "Do you mean that you're refusing to repair my machine even though it's under warranty?" "Oh."
They can't cope if you don't follow their script and frankly it's clear that they don't care if they can't/won't help with your problem. ¶We are not entirely human, germ gene experts argue
"There are some estimates that say 90 percent of the cells on our body are actually bacteria... We're entirely dependent on this microbial population for our well-being" ¶
Have you ever been to a retail store and seen this sign on the register: "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt"?
The sign is a security device that's targeted at employee theft... ¶
Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Robert F Kennedy Jr. says yes: whether stolen or not, a lot of pretty strange things seem to happen come election time in America... ¶
Saturday June 3, 2006
New Yorker writer Bill Buford becomes a kitchen bitch for Mario Batali
, and survives to tell the tale in Heat [via megnut] ¶Bosses in love with claptrap and blinded by ideologies
If doctors were as cavalier with the evidence [as bosses are], a lot of their patients would be dead and many medics would be behind bars - the Observer reviews [and loves - "what bids fair to be one of the management books of the year"] Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense ¶
The Register's guide to buying HD TV in the UK
So let's look at the big questions. Do you need an HDTV? Well no, not really - not yet, anyway. ¶
Working the Lines in your Photography
- followed by Using Horizontal Lines and Using Vertical Lines.Basic summary: keep your vertical lines vertical and your horizontal lines horizontal - that's what your viewfinder' grid is for.
You did get a camera with a viewfinder grid, didn't you?? ¶Friday June 2, 2006
