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Monday March 31, 2008
Sunday March 30, 2008
Saturday March 29, 2008
Condoleezza Rice hails Obama's race speech 'as important for the United States'
what I would like understood as a black American is that black Americans loved and had faith in this country even when this country didn't love and have faith in them, and that's our legacy ¶
Friday March 28, 2008
Mysterious discrepancies in grain prices baffle experts
Economists say there should not be two prices for one thing at the same place and time... ¶
Wednesday March 26, 2008
Tuesday March 25, 2008
Monday March 24, 2008
One woman's war
Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner travelled to Baghdad in 2003 as a freelance reporter determined to get behind the front lines of the war in Iraq. ¶
Sunday March 23, 2008
Friday March 21, 2008
Is a photograph of something a derivative work?
Photographs of other objects are not derivative works of those objects... a photograph of an object is not "based on" that object: it is a mere depiction of it. If your photograph of something is a derivative work, then your photo infringes on the rights of the copyright holder of whatever you photographed. So if a photo is not by definition a derivative work, then the copyright of the photographed object is not affected by your taking a photo of it. So the argument that you can't take a picture of something 'for copyright reasons' is not true, at least in the US of A. ¶
Thursday March 20, 2008
The Ten Legal Commandments of Photography
Most of the reasons people give you why you can't take pictures are wrong, surprise surprise surprise. ¶
Wednesday March 19, 2008
A City That Sat on Its Treasures, but Didn’t See Them
Chandigarh throws out Corbusier's furniture as junk, finds out too late it was valuable junk. ¶
Aperture Faux Xprocess Primer
How to mimic cross processing using Aperture - works surprisingly well. ¶
Thursday March 13, 2008
Aperture 2.0: the Ars Technica review
Reasonably positive - overall much better than Aperture 1.x, but still missing some pretty significant tools [i.e. curves]. ¶
Wednesday March 12, 2008
The Daily Mash - I'LL BE JUST FINE, SAYS PLANET
The planet, based 93 million miles from the Sun, said it was 'sick and tired' of being drawn into arguments about human behaviour ¶
Tuesday March 11, 2008
East and West: Seeing the world through different lenses
Americans are more zoom... East Asians are more panoramic ¶
Sunday March 9, 2008
Wednesday March 5, 2008
The Daily Mash - DIANA JURY ASKS CORONER: WHY ARE WE HERE?
After hearing two hours of detailed evidence about Diana's affair with surgeon Hasnat Khan, the 12 men and women at the High Courts of Justice interrupted proceedings to ask if they could go back to the bit about the car crash... ¶
Monday March 3, 2008
Sunday March 2, 2008
Saturday March 1, 2008