December 2007
Safe Travel - No more Li Ion Batteries →
Here’s the deal: the FAA has decided that as of Jan 1, 2008 (tomorrow), Li Ion batteries cannot be packed in checked bags at all. You are allowed to have 2 loose batteries, in plastic bags, in a carry on. Batteries that are installed in a device are exempt. This won’t really matter to anyone who isn’t say, a professional photographer. We need to have loads of spare batteries all...
Tied Up in Knots: Science News Online, Dec. 22,... →
Who knew, the mathematics of knots.
“Don’t ever buy a Palm device.”
– Could Tech Support Undo Palm?
evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product... →
Read All About It - WSJ.com →
Fascinating piece by the soon-to-leave managing editor of the WSJ on the state of the newspaper industry. Largely optimistic, it provides some great insights.
In Bush's Final Year, The Agenda Gets Greener -... →
Part of a series on President Bush’s final year in office. Interesting and well written.
The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto | The New... →
Multimedia piece on the assassination of Bhutto. Not amazingly well done, but has some unique photos.
Camera of the Year 2007: Nikon D300 - -... →
www.splicedmango.com - →
My website design group.
Must be Christmas…
Seems like there’s been a few uplifting stories recently about the state of the media business. Kinda nice.
“Jonathan Yardley’s fine biography, Ring, tells us that Lardner was earning...”
– Moneyball: Comparing sportswriters’ and jocks’ salaries. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
News Corp. Agrees to Sell 8 TV Stations for $1.1... →
Huh. The opposite of the trend in media that we’ve been seeing - and from News Corp.
Stewart and Colbert to Return Without Writers -... →
Spliced Mango – begins?
Lots of projects coming in right now. Trying to come up with a design for Spliced Mango – our new web design group. Have to get a proposal done soon – already too late for today on the East Coast, but should be good for Monday – hopefully. More details if/when it all actually happens.
“Photography is finally escaping any dependence on what is in front of a lens,...”
– Is Photography Dead? | Newsweek Entertainment | Newsweek.com
“The number of journalists killed worldwide spiked to the highest number in more...”
– Killings of Journalists Hit a High In 2007 - washingtonpost.com
Leopard's 3D dock
All over the internet people are complaining about the new dock in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). They claim that the new 3D look is too confusing, too ugly, nor realistic enough, or some such. I’ve been using Leopard since it came out, and I can’t understand what the problem is. The ‘new’ dock is really not the different from the old one. The UI is the same. The graphic look,...
Behind the Lens with Jasin Boland - -... →
PopPhoto.com’s Zach Honig interviews motion picture stills photographer Jasin Boland as part of the Behind the Lens question & answer series.
“Bailey estimates that the next-gen iPhone will launch sometime during the second...”
– AppleInsider | Second-gen iPhone in final phase; Apple TV update planned - report
The 20 Ugliest College Campuses in the USA - A... →
“Whichever of those conditions produced it, this concentration of silica is...”
– DailyTech - Mars Rover Spirit Makes Important Find on Mars
“I want to have my shoots in their own folder. Sometimes I might have 3 or 4...”
– LightroomNews » Blog Archive » Import by date. A change of heart.
“The pastime has begun with what should have been done...”
– How would the world look with those CIA tapes intact? - By Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
“…an Israeli Cabinet member compared the reactions to the NIE report to those...”
– How Israel sees the NIE report. - By Shmuel Rosner - Slate Magazine
“According to the former agent, waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah got him to talk in...”
– CIA Agent: Waterboarding Was OK’d - TIME
MyOrangeSpace - Connect to the 'Cuse. -... →
It’s like a facebook, but only for Syracuse University. It’s been around for several weeks now and still has less than 300 members. It’s sort of a shame – the site design is really good. But the reason for failure is obvious: who really wants another, smaller, facebook?
“A Timeline
Tuesday, December 11, 2007; Page A01
Thursday: The CIA...”
– A Timeline - washingtonpost.com
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The Daily Orange →
I just finished working here. I’m done. A year as photo editor, went by… I thinking quickly. Sorta. Kinda. It was quite a bit of fun. Here’s what I accomplished: Brought the photo dept. into a 21rst century by implementing Lightroom and helping to redesign the network/server side to ensure that backups actually happened. We went to a haphazard just-throw-things-where-ever file system...
War Photographer Revealed - PopPhotoDecember 2007 →
Great account of being an embedded war photographer in Iraq. Complete with photo galleries.
byjoeybaker.com →
my website.
first tumblr post
This is my first tumblr post.
