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July 24th, 2010 | 
Author: That was the mantra when I went to college. That’s how you get the pictures that you’re looking for: f8 is an aperture setting on the lens. It gave you sufficient depth of field to compensate for any focusing errors: autofocus cameras were only beginning to appear on the scene and didn’t become widespread until a decade later.
Being there is the hardest part. The right place at the right time. Luck and instincts are two things you can’t learn.
Ian Martens, photographer with the Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald nailed is yesterday. He was at the Lethbridge airport watching Capt. Brian Bews practice his routine for the Alberta International Airshow when something went wrong and Capt. Bews’ CF-18 Hornet crashed. The pilot is ok, but the plane was destroyed: Read the rest of this entry »
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This is cool. Somebody did MRI scans of an assortment of fruits and vegetables, then joined the slices together into an animated image so you can “fly” through it. I like brocolli the best:
There are more here.
UPDATE: Whoops. No American IP addresses involved. I misread the IP addresses of my backup service.
Get bent, ya bastards! Scum-sucking pieces of filth. I’ve changed my password on my gmail account, so you can leave my friends alone. None of them are dumb enough to think that I sent that crap that you hijacked my account for. You may no be aware of it, but Google has a nice tool that lists the last number of accesses to an account. With IP addresses:
But, all good things must come to an end, I guess.
Noted weirdo Prince tells the Daily Mirror that “The internet’s completely over”.
The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it. The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.
Oh, yes and his new CD won’t be available anywhere online. 
h/t to Xeni at BoingBoing.
During World War II, all sorts of austerity measures were enacted to maximize resources available to the war effort: all sorts of things (gasoline and meat to name two) were rationed to ensure the supply for the military. I remember rummaging in a cabinet at my Grandparents’ cottage and i found an old change-purse stuffed full of blue cardboard “coins”. I remember Dad telling me that they were meat ration tokens from teh War. His parents were very good about not wasting anything during that period and forever after.
To promote these programs, the propaganda was relentless: posters, newspaper advertisements, billboards, even celebrities in movies made mention of rationing or buying war bonds to help pay for the campaign:
Whew. That was a bit of a pain. I’ve started moving my domains to a new hosting company, starting with this one. Please let me know if you spot any weirdness. Beyond the usual. 
I’m now using FatCow out of the US. Partly for pricing ($66 unlimited space and bandwidth), but also because they run entirely on wind power. 
Let me tell you, that if I ever do this again and try to do it manually … shoot me. Ugh.