D90 | D-MOVIE
“Special site for Nikon’s next-generation D-SLR, the D90. This features detailed product information and a variety of sample images, as well as movies captured with the D90’s new innovative movie function, D-Movie.”
The first digital SLR to shoot movies. And they’re pretty impressive movies, considering it’s a dSLR and not a dedicated video camera.
Tags: camera, nikon, movies, photography, video
bradandgeo: ‘cognitive surplus’ and the church…
“And when people come out of this stupor, what you find is people not wanting a passive, received religion, but a spirituality that they are a part of, or as the article says, an ‘architecture of participation’. And this is ironic because this is exactly the same shift that needed to happen 2000 years ago – the shift from one priest to the ‘priesthood of all believers’; the shift from a few select leaders to a plurality of ‘gifts’ making up the body as a whole.”
This certainly engaged my gray matter…
Tags: church, gtd, surplus, thought, time
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China’s totalitarian games – The Boston Globe
Jeff Jacoby sums up why I did my best to boycott watching this year’s Olympic Games. (I confess I failed due to having nowhere else to go while the missus watched the various sporting contests. (Sheesh, as if “rhythmic gymnastics”, aka, dancing with a hula hoop, is really a sport.) )
Tags: liberty, olympics, opinion, politics
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The Eternal Value of Privacy
“Supporters of wholesale government surveillance are fond of saying that only the guilty should be worried about spying. Let’s put that spurious argument out to pasture once and for all. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.”
Definite food for thought. This stood out to me:
“A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their cause. Of course being watched in your own home was unreasonable. Watching at all was an act so unseemly as to be inconceivable among gentlemen in their day. You watched convicted criminals, not free citizens. You ruled your own home. It’s intrinsic to the concept of liberty.”
Tags: liberty, politics, privacy
Glassdoor.com – Company Ratings, Reviews, and Salaries
Employees can post reviews of the companies they work for, as well as salary histories. The thought is that you can research places you may want to go work to get a realistic expectation of what it’s like. I haven’t delved in to Glassdoor.com, but I can see the potential for it to become one massive bitch session for unhappy employees.
Tags: career, employee, employer, job, occupation
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Doc Searls Weblog ยท Is Yahoo a better search engine than Google?
Doc Searls runs some search tests on his old blog, and learns that Yahoo’s consistently coming up with better results than Google.
Tags: google, search, yahoo
Breaking Bad Spending Habits
Good common sense advice that too many of us these days don’t use. One way I’ve changed my book buying habit is to buy books when they hit the sale rack at Barnes & Noble, or if new, at Costco where they’re deeply discounted. I’m also utilizing BookMooch a lot more.
Tags: finance, money
The myth of the white minority – The Boston Globe
Jeff Jacoby’s latest. As our impending adoption of a “Hispanic” baby looms closer (truthfully, any moment now), my wife and I found this fascinating.
Tags: opinion, politics, race
i.engadget.com – Engadget for your iPhone or iPod touch – Engadget
“So far in 2008, the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch account for some 95.8% of all mobile views on the site. We’re not even kidding.” So they decided to optimize the popular gadget/technology web site for the iPhone/iPod touch.
Tags: gadget, iphone, ipod, technology, web site
Commuter Flights Grounded Thanks To Bumbling TSA Inspector – Aero-News Network: The Aviation and Aerospace World’s Daily/Real-Time News and Information Service
“This was an extraordinarily dangerous incident, folks. The TSA has neither the mandate nor the knowledge to inspect any aircraft for any reason.” Craig Hockenberry sums it up pretty well on Twitter: “So when the TSA actually causes a plane to crash, will we still put up with their s**t?”
Tags: aircraft, flying, security, tsa
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Death Star over San Francisco // Current
“Imperial Fleet Week SF.” Pretty nifty video splicing, especially of the scenes with the Death Star just hanging in the sky.
Tags: fun, star wars, video
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Tweet Scan
Real-time search of the Twitter public timeline.
Tags: search, twitter
TapeDeck. ▸▸ The tape recorder…fast-forwarded to Mac OS X.
“TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. It’s just like your old analog tape recorder, only better. A lot better.”
Tags: audio, mac, recording, software
Don’t Check Your Valuables — Matt Mullenweg
I always carry my camera and computer gear on to the plane. Always.
Tags: travel, tips
Dissolving Paper Shampoo | Uncrate
“Forget packing the tiny travel bottle on your next trip and instead opt for some Dissolving Paper Shampoo ($13). The mint-scented paper shampoo comes in packs of 30 inside a convenient plastic travel case…”
Tags: hygiene, soap, travel
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BustedTees – Schematics of the Death Star Poster
Made me laugh out loud. I’m open to someone gifting this to me…
Tags: poster, star wars, wishlist
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iChat’s contact list goes on an iChat Pro diet
A just-in-case link, should I decide to switch from Adium back to iChat. (Easy, built-in chat transcript viewing is what keeps me on Adium. I use it at once a week…)
Tags: adium, ichat, im, instant message
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MyFox Atlanta | ‘Cheesus?’: Woman Finds Jesus In Bag of Cheetos
Two things I found telling from the article:
“The pastor of Kirkwood United Methodist Church does not see anything theologically special about the Cheeto, but thinks some good could come from it. Pastor David Bennett says, ‘If people can find Jesus, somehow, in each of us like she’s found in this object, that would be a wonderful thing.’
“Kelly doesn’t plan to sell the Cheeto and will keep it in a safe deposit box.”
The pastor calls it. And if I were Kelly, I’d have eaten it. Photographed it, sure. Shared the photo with my friends, posted it to Flickr, whatever. But I’d have eaten “Cheesus”. It’s just a Cheeto. And Cheetos are yummy…
Tags: cheeto, food, jesus
Neuromarketing » Please Your Guests by Fooling Them
The gist: more expensive wine isn’t necessarily better. Unlike, say, a real drink like scotch…
Tags: wine
The 10 Best Kitchen Implements For Fighting Off a Ninja
I think I’d go with the cutting board and the frying pan. Those just seem the best way to go all melee on that sneaky little ninja’s hide.
Tags: kitchen, utensils, ninja
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Number of Men In the United States Who Will Die In 2008 As A Result Of…
Interesting graphic.
Tags: death, graphic, men
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