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Photography

Dust in the wind

… and from there onto your CCD.  What to do?


I came across a good CCD cleaning tutorial on Luminous Landscape.

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Life Weird

MIA?

Been a little overwhelmed at work but I’m digging out.  Let me just say that mail order prescriptions is a really *^&!y idea.  My life has been screwed up for three weeks because of those idiots.


How to blow off some steam?  Penguin baseball.



Why three links?  I dunno.  You can hit the penguins farther with the last one though, so that must be worth something.  DeEtte got 1200.2!

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Gear Tech

But what if we need you again?

Well folks, the guy who invented ctrl+alt_del is retiring.  The good news, we can still use his stuff.  David J. Bradley is retiring from IBM after more than twenty-eight years of service.  More on the inventor, David J. Bradley.

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Weird

I see dead people

It’s morbid, but is it helpful?  The Clark County Coroner in Nevada has started posting pictures of unidentified dead bodies on its web site.  Sure, it’s creepy, but they have solved 3 times the number of cold cases this year.

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Web

Virus Alert!!!

If your virus software is not up to date, update it now.  If you’re not running anti-virus software, buy some now.  It’s like car insurance, it’s just part of the cost of being on the Internet.


This new attack is estimated to be the most virulent since Nimda in 2001.  Full details of the current virus threat can be found here:



 


 

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Photography

Oooo… pretty pictures!

Here’s some great photography, voted the best pictures of 2003 by the readers of… well… something (the root URL doesn’t have much, the page just states “These photos were voted by readers as the best images of year…”).

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Weird

Guess who’s playing my birthday party?

Would I lose your respect if I told you they work for peanuts?


(How much respect do I loose (sic) for leaning too heavily on my spell checker?  Hey Steve: ;p)

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Weird

Would you like fries with that?

It’s amazing what becomes interesting if you’re important… I don’t think anyone would come to my web site to read a transcript of me trying to order ribs.  President Bush ordering ribs, however, is amusing for some unknown reason.


Thanks Doug for brightening my day.

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Life

We are animals…

We must never forget we are animals, barely restrained by the society we live in.  When our society turns a blind eye, the animal breaks loose.


Without Sanctuary is a collection of photo postcards taken at lynchings (hangings) in America’s not-too-distant past.  This book is a grim, and often gruesome reminder of the beast that lurks just below the surface of mankind.


I encourage you to visit the Without Sanctuary page at Musarium to watch the flash presentation of some of the book, narrated by the book’s author.  Be advised that many of the images are graphic and disturbing.


I’d like to thank Steve for providing this link to a disturbing part of American history, a part that should never be forgotten.

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Weird

Badgers? We don’t need no stinkin’ badgers!

Ah…er…um… no words come to mind.  Go to Badger Badger Badger to see for yourself.


(Thanks to Dennis, a plus number one fan of Engrish, for the link).


UPDATE!!!


The directors cut is out!