(via Basecamp Next’s caching hardware - (37signals))
This is what 864GB of RAM looks like. $12,000.
"I can’t work a computer, I don’t know what an email is, I can’t, I have never sent a fax and I’ve never even sent a text message. I have a big problem, I can’t write so I don’t keep anything. I am the most disorganised person, I am ashamed to say, in the world.’"
— Harry Redknapp tells court: I write like a two-year-old - ESPN Soccernet
Inauguration Day 1969
Incoming President Richard M. Nixon and outgoing President Lyndon Johnson meet in the White House on Nixon’s inauguration day, 1/20/1969
The Big Stick on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Yashica Mat 124
Kodak Ektar 100…
I was out with Tim Castlen and Bryan Vana taking pictures a couple weeks ago. We split up and wandered around several blocks in Dundalk. I took a picture of this house and moved on. About 15 minutes later, Tim, by himself, was about to take a shot of the same scene, when he was confronted by some guy with a stick. He wasn’t the owner of the house, but wanted to know why Tim was taking pictures of houses. The guy didn’t seem to understand his (our) fascination with big back-lit American flags :) I think Bryan said he got a picture of this place too, when he happened by.
Anyway, there was a woman who walked out of the house and sort of came to Tim’s rescue. She explained to her stick wielding neighbor that it wasn’t Tim who took the picture, but some other guy with a backpack (me). The guy with the stick said something like “how many guys can there be out here with cameras taking pictures?” Luckily, it didn’t go beyond that. The guy thought Tim should knock on every person’s door at 10PM to ask if it was ok to take pictures in the neighborhood, which would be an interesting approach, but one we decided not to adopt.
Tim was pretty cool about the whole situation, considering there was at least some threat of violence. I don’t think I would have been so cool under the same circumstances. We decided to stick closer together for the rest of the evening. So unfortunately Tim didn’t get his shot, but we stayed out for quite a while longer and hopefully all got some interesting pictures. Unfortunately we were also confronted two more times by guys who didn’t understand why we were doing what we were doing.
This was the most active night, in terms of confrontation, I think I’ve ever had while out shooting. Luckily there are actually not that many conflicts, considering how much shooting we all do and how much paranoia there is. I thought once we got Osama bin Laden, everything would be ok again. I guess not.
Love this shot.
The story scares me though. I think I need to find myself some photographer that are bigger than me. I wouldn’t fare too well if confronted with a stick.
GOING STREAKING From solstice to solstice, this six month long exposure compresses time from the 21st of June till the 21st of December, 2011, into a single point of view. Dubbed a solargraph, the unconventional picture was recorded with a pinhole camera made from a drink can lined with a piece of photographic paper. Fixed to a single spot for the entire exposure, the simple camera continuously records the Sun’s path each day as a glowing trail burned into the photosensitive paper. In this case, the spot was chosen to look out over the domes and radio telescope of the University of Hertfordshire’s Bayfordbury Observatory. Dark gaps in the daily arcs are caused by cloud cover, whereas continuous bright tracks record glorious spells of sunny weather. (Photo: Regina Valkenborgh via NASA APOD)
"While the left is less unhinged in its critique, it is just as likely to miss the screen for the pixels."
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Andrew Sullivan: How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics - The Daily Beast
I’ll leave the political arguments in this to someone else, but I like this analogy. I just hope it doesn’t become more prominent than “the forest for the trees.”
Interest based advertising.mp4 (by googleprivacy)
Filing in the “good-to-know” folder.
