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05/09/08 // Link:
Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot… If you’re using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera you’ve got hardware in hand that can support advanced features like RAW images. Canon Hacker’s Development Kit (CHDK) is a firmware enhancement that supports an impressive array of Canon digital …continue reading »
04/23/08 // Link:
Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Him… Me know. Me have problem. Me love cookies. Me tend to get out of control when me see cookies. Me know it not natural to react so strongly to cookies, but me have weakness. Me know me do wrong. Me …continue reading »
03/28/08 // Link:
Six-Word Travel Memoirs Condense your entire thoughts on a life of travel into six words… a writer’s nightmare, an editor’s dream. My personal favorite: All my stuff is in storage.continue reading »
03/25/08 // Link:
How to Fake Cross-Processing in Photosh… Nice guide to reviving some old film techniques using photoshop.continue reading »
03/11/08 // Link:
Man, 101, to Run London Marathon And you thought you were in good shape. A 101-year-old man has his sights on the London Marathon in a bid to become the world’s oldest competitive runner. Working plumber Buster Martin ran Sunday’s Roding Valley half marathon in Essex …continue reading »
02/28/08 // Link:
Fuel Efficiency: The Opel T1 Got 377mpg… Stick that in your hybrid and smoke it. I looked into hybrids a bit and realized the gas mileage isn’t much better than traditional engines, the key to hybrid’s success is, to my mind, best explained by the sense of …continue reading »
02/26/08 // Link:
Debunking ‘Third-World’ Myths A fantastic talk by Hans Rosling from the TED conference archives. Rosling does a nice job of debunks some myths about the so-called “developing world.” But really what carries the point home is the stunning animation software developed by Rosling’s …continue reading »
02/20/08 // Link:
Tom Coates on the One Laptop Per Child … By far the best piece of writing on the One Laptop Per Child project that I’ve run across (my own included). I’ve been following this project for over a year now (partly because of my job at Wired, but also …continue reading »
02/15/08 // Link:
A Data Point on Every Block This is a fantastic interview with Adrian Holovaty, who’s something of a personal hero. His new venture, a hyper-local news site by the name of EveryBlock, is absolutely stunning in the amount of data to puts at your fingertips. Unfortunately …continue reading »
02/15/08 // Link:
Skull-A-Day I never pretended that my photo of the day project was original, but I never realized how many people have some kind of __________ of the day thing going on. It’s something like the phenomena that happens when you buy …continue reading »
02/12/08 // Link:
Ralf Potts on the Banality That is ‘Eat… Travel writer Rolf Potts has a excellent and brutal piece skewering Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling travel book, Eat, Pray, Love which a friend of mine described as “the most nauseating, narcissistic, bucket of crap I’ve ever suffered though.” And not that …continue reading »
02/12/08 // Link:
The Amazing and True Story of Charles F… The amazing and true story of Charles Fawcett, who died in London on February 3 at the age of 92. His unlikely — some would say unbelievable — life seems to have been a healthy mix of careless lunacy and …continue reading »
02/10/08 // Link:
The Ancient Indus Valley This is great site for anyone interested in seeing what south Asia looked like circa 1900-1920. Actually it’s a good bit more than that, but since I happen to be writing about that area, at that time, that’s what I’ve …continue reading »
02/08/08 // Link:
Huntington Beach, CA Now Officially ‘Su… Thanks to a recent court settlement, the city of Huntington Beach CA (near where I grew up) can officially call itself “Surf City USA.” The dispute arose when the city became aware that of a surf shop owner in Santa …continue reading »
02/08/08 // Link:
Woman Does Own Caesarean Section to Giv… This isn’t exactly breaking news, but it’s so incredibly shocking I think it bears repeating. Ines Ramirez, of sourthern Mexico is the only woman known to have performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself: The sun had set hours ago. The …continue reading »

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