Although I’ve never heard of it before, the Charlie Rose show features interviews with several impressive photographers, and they’re all available for $1 download at Google Video.
tvshow:Charlie_Rose photographer - Google Video
The foundation (RED) utilizes stylish designer clothing and giant corporate sponsorship to help fund AIDS workers in Africa. The concept is brilliantly simple: brand the project and sell it on everything, which 50% of profits going to the cause.
Pointed out to me by Elissa of Dystopian Visions.
Emoticon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The creator of the original ASCII emoticons :-) and :-(, with a specific suggestion that they be used to express emotion, was Scott Fahlman; the text of his original proposal, posted to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general board on September 19, 1982 (11:44), was considered lost for a [...]
Chicago Public Library allows you to download audiobooks with your library card!
I love living in the future.
Naoto Hattori
Genpets.com - Bioengineered Buddies!
From the FAQ:
Genpets Online Support - FAQ’s
Are Genpets Real?
Genpets are living, breathing mammals. Bio-Genica is a Bioengineering Company that has combined, and modified existing DNA to create the Genpets lineup. Genpets are flesh and blood just like any other animal.
Genpets are packaged like toys though.
Genpets are designed to be sold on [...]
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop CS2
A tags-based system would be really useful in cases like this, where I’ve found a document related to HDR work which I’d like to come back to frequently. Ah, well. At least I have a working search engine now.
Exploit and Click - The fuss over the photographer who makes kids cry. By Jim Lewis
It turns out that Greenberg doesn’t just hang around her studio waiting for one of her toddler subjects to melt down: She induces the tantrum, by, say, giving the child a lollipop, and then suddenly taking it away.
An interesting article [...]
jr-worldwi.de: Photography : Pentax dSLRs can be used extremely easily for IR photography!!
Woot : One Day, One Deal
From a few days ago, forwarded to me by one of my loving friends:
Wizards of the Toast
When we were kids, we’d sooner have died than gone a day without toast. Before we’d even scraped the crust from our eyes, we’d dash into the kitchen and beg our mother for toast, [...]