I am starting to play with a variety of effects to manipulate some of the photographs I am taking with my new camera. I have created four modified versions of the original below. The modified pictures can be found here.
I would love to get comments from folks, either here, or on flickr, telling me which one they like best.
For those of you who are addicted to the mayhem and destruction of Mythbusters, Buster is a beloved, if unfortunate, member of the cast.
Well, Buster may be out of a job.
Apparently, a guy in Minneapolis managed to prove not one, but two myths in a single 10-12 second period [here]. Namely:
Mr. Savage and Mr. Hyneman, give this damn lucky person an award!
I am starting to play with Gimp and some of the photos I have been taking with the new camera.
This is my favourite mod so far. I call it Altar of the Everyday.
Dave Sifry and his team have been very good to me. You know, bite the hand, etc.
But I got up from my afternoon siesta, and found this,
And when I finally did get a copy of the page…
Ouch.
Wonder what a Technorati Monster looks like….
UPDATE, 17:19 Jan 19 2007: Technorati sites are back up. Good to see it.
Chatting with a friend in Australia, and I came up with this gem: “my code is like a tank”.
It’s slow, but built to withstand any sort of shit and abuse. I was describing the code that underlies GrabPERF. It was built to be ignored for long periods of time, performing a lot of self-maintenance.
I am no photo geek, but we finally buckled down and bought a real digital camera: the Kodak Z612.
And here is the first picture out of the camera.
Technorati tags: Kodak Z612, Flickr, digital photography, camera
I have had to disable the Digg measurements in GrabPERF as a number of the monitoring locations have been blocked by the Digg firewall.
I spent my entire life escaping from Golden. It’s a much different place, 20 years and one massive ski resort development later.
But, as you got on the Trans-Canada Highway to leave, hopefully for the last time as a 25 year-old grad school dropout, you looked over your left shoulder, and saw this.
[Photo: raarky]
An eerie beauty…the sterotypical vanishing point, where man gives up control to the wilderness he has carved a town from, where the land rises, and swallows your ego.
It’s always funny when somewhat tech-savvy folks purposely make their bandwidth bills higher than they need to be.
Here’s TechCrunch’s HTTP header response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:02:23 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 PHP/5.2.0-8 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8 X-Pingback: http://www.techcrunch.com/xmlrpc.php Status: 200 OK Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Port80 Software’s Compression Checker gives us some idea how much bandwidth Mr. Arrington, et al. could save just by activating this little feature, which comes baked into Apache 2.2.x.
Turn. On. Mod_deflate.
Ok, now that I have your attention…
Nissan has a test program in Japan that is placing receivers in cars to alert drivers when children wearing special RFID/WiFi bracelets are in the area. This is supposedly for the protection of the children. [here]
Do you see a few problems with this, mainly due to the naivete of the implementation?
Pedophiles can’t live near schools or parks, or other places where children gather. Now they will not be able to buy Nissan vehicles, for it could be used as a hunting rather than tracking tool.
The tracking bracelet idea sounds good on paper, but it is extremely naive, and likely will never appear in the US, or any other half-sane nation.