Hometown pride
If anyone’s watching ESPN’s “50 States in 50 Days” feature, here’s the schedule conveniently sorted by state.
Archive of entries posted on July 2005
Evo-Devo for amateurs
Need a little evolutionary biology to start your weekend? Go here. Complete with pictures! Seriously, that’s as good a short course as you’re gonna find on the internets. From bacteria to William Jennings Bryan in 25-30 brief paragraphs.
Loathsome
In early June, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan ordered the release of the additional photographs, part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union to determine the extent of abuse at American military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. NYT …
Plame Affair Timeline
When FactCheck.org keeps to its mission of factual reporting, it’s not bad. Here’s a timeline of what has happened in the Wilson-Plame-Rove-Novak-Miller-Cooper imbroglio so far. It’s a fast way to get up to speed, and it’s got pertinent links and sources.
Hi-Res photos in PowerPoint
Any PowerPoint creators out there? You can place hi-res images in it. Exported images in older versions of PowerPoint, including 97, 2000, and XP, were limited to the computer screen resolution, usually 72 or 96 dots per inch. PowerPoint 2003, on the other hand, allows users to customize image resolution to higher values, said Chun-Shan …
Demographics
Does it strike anyone else as odd that scattered among all the beer and ED commercials on ESPN there’s the occasional 30-second spot for Metamucil?
New reference sites
The Eastman House and the International Center of Photography are working to put together “one of the largest freely accessible databases of masterwork photography anywhere on the Web.” It’s called Photomuse, and when it’s done it looks like it will be a highly usable reference work. The creators say the goal is to organize the …
“Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream”
Here’s a dream I wish would come true. I met a pretty girl who worked in radio and knew somebody who knew how to fix my long-dead TEAC A-5300 reel-to-reel tape deck. When we got it back from her friend, all the photographs I’ve taken over the past 25 years had magically been transformed into …
Potter 6
I finished it. It was good. I feel like readers must have when they read that Holmes had gone over the cliff at Reichenbach Falls. NO! It’s a darned good thing that, unlike Conan Doyle, Ms. Rowling is already planning the next book. Now I can revert to feeling like Dickens fans in the 19th …
A Late Review of Baseball’s All Star Game
This perfectly encapsulates my feelings about Fox and its (in)ability to broadcast baseball.