February 2012
20 posts
Lighting Tips →
As a general note, when I compose a scene I like to think of the potential photograph as a game: I attribute a plus, neutral or minus to various elements in a scene. My goal is to eliminate the minuses and accentuate the positives. The neutrals are just there because they have to be there. I use my shooting position, focal length and shooting angle as my variables to get all of the best pluses...
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Writers I Read: Marco Arment →
Since text can flow around other page elements and can be infinitely messed with, publishers have crammed a lot of distracting elements into their text layouts, and have often laid things out in a way that isn’t comfortable for some (or many) people to read.
Since text is so easy to skim and is so often browsed while multitasking in a busy personal-computer environment, people have grown...
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“Teleologically, the most important part of the body has to be the parathyroid...”
– @nosugrefneb
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“From the crane on Tower 1 from the 90th floor http://t.co/RRCVhVEO”
– @WTCProgress
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“Groundhog Day stories should include proper cooking instructions to avoid...”
– @FakeAPStylebook
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NASA Blue Marble 2012 Image of Earth
Large prints of this creative-commons-licensed image are available on SmugMug. Thanks, NASA.
January 2012
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“Filled my new hummingbird feeders with red food liquid, and had an awful...”
– @xeni
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Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis... →
Grand Rounds →
Grand Rounds — a collection of links from medical blogs — is hosted this week at USA Today.
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Sleep No More One-On-One with Malcolm →
At Sleep No More, the interrogation by Malcolm the detective was one of my three “one-on-ones”.
kathrynyu:
We ran out the side door of the detective’s office, down the dark hallway, and he pushed me into a room filled with boxes of dirt and tiny grave markers. At this point, he suddenly stopped.
We walked with my arm in his arm, down the length of the room, past the tiny...
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“Numbers are crunchy.”
– @Mickipedia
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“What’s the word for doing all of your grocery shopping at Walgreens...”
– @bailey
“For years, when Apple was down, they were held up as proof that making the best...”
– Daring Fireball
Canon 100mm f/2 →
But wait: the 100mm f/2 has no IS, but it’s two stops faster than the f/4 L lens that costs over twice as much and isn’t quite as sharp. 1/60 at f/2 is the same as 1/15 at f/4, the fastest f/stop of the 70-200mm f/4 IS at 100mm, or only a one-stop advantage for the IS lens.
Since the 5D Mark II sees more blur due to its higher resolution, I’ll take away a half stop, leaving this f/2...
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“Some Downsides of Social Media for Doctors http://t.co/YKZID68c”
– @doctorwes
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“‘Blue Marble 2012’: NASA’s ‘Most Amazing’ High Def...”
– @nprnews
“In response to the questions about how Renal artery stenosis protects against...”
– J. Charles Jennette, MD Brinkhous Distinguished Professor and Chair Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The @Lytro camera: “Here’s what this photo looks like if you take two steps to the left.” (The data is all there.) http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=410311906
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Jawbone Up still unavailable? Alas. http://jawbone.com/up/buy
Boy, does chatting with people with “white coat hypertension” WHILE you’re checking their blood pressure make a difference.
20 - 30 points less!
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Why is it that no third party iPhone apps post to Google+? (Did I overlook them? There’s a working API, right?)
The best United States wall map →
David Imus worked alone on his map seven days a week for two full years. Nearly 6,000 hours in total. It would be prohibitively expensive just to outsource that much work. But Imus—a 35-year veteran of cartography who’s designed every kind of map for every kind of client—did it all by himself. He used a computer (not a pencil and paper), but absolutely nothing was left to computer-assisted...
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Deadwood, South Dakota Wikipedia Entry →
Possible spoilers follow.
Another saloon was the Gem Variety Theater, opened April 7, 1877 by Al Swearengen who also controlled the opium trade in the town. The saloon was destroyed by a fire and rebuilt in 1879. It burned down again in 1899, causing Swearengen to leave the town.
The town attained notoriety for the murder of Wild Bill Hickok, and Mount Moriah Cemetery remains the final...