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The Views Pools on flickr.com
Some people might look at my pictures, particularly those who are in the 400 views group and say, “so! Anyone can get to 400 views by climbing the Views bracket groups.” For the uninitiated, these are pools of pictures that start with 25 then go to 50, 100, and every hundred after that. The point…
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Shameless Promotion
Some of my favorite photos:
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Interestingness
flickr has a top-secret formula, on par with Google’s PageRank, that ranks how interesting your pictures are. Since the top 500 appear each day on flickr.com/Explore, they don’t want people to know the secret or they may game the system. Here are my top 10 most “interesting” pictures in suspense (reverse) order. See if you…
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Ten Best Flickr Mashups
Webmonkey has run a special on the ten best flickr mashups. What is a mashup with respect to flickr? I only know of mashups as songs where different groups put their songs together to create something new such as Jay-Z and Linkin Park. Basically, since flickr has opened up their API (as has Google with…
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My GIMP Wishlist
What GIMP needs to implement for me to stop using Adobe. (Thus saving myself and others $600+) RAW Support (preferably the new standard of DNG) 16bit File Editing XMP Tag support Panorama Tool Adjustment layers Number 1 is important for those of us who wish to capture the camera’s RAW data and then losslessly manipulate…
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What a small world!
Months ago, I discovered one of the more creative photographers on flickr. Zannah takes pictures of her anime figurines in various locations as if they were real. (Think the “roaming gnome” from travelocity) Here are some of my favorites: One Two When I was browsing through techn0manc3r’s page, I clicked on usr-bin-girl and saw that…
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Yay for Monkeys!
The title of this post is, of course, a play on words. The company Ximian has developed Mono, an open source competitor to MS’s .NET. Mono is spanish (and probably latin) for monkey. The reason I’m excited is that according to Gnomedesktop.org , Fedora Core 5 will have mono! This means we’ll get great new…
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Merry Christmas!
This was one of the best Christmas celebrations either in spite of or because it was so simple. I got some really great gifts including: Final Fantasy 6: Grand Finale – this CD has some AWESOME symphonic recordings of the best songs of FF6 Fantastic Plastic Machine: Les Plus – a great remix CD of…
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Art and its role in Culture
Reading a post from Miss Izzy is like watching a Simpsons episode. The beginning has nothing to do with the end, but serves only to set up the source of conflict. While reading Sunday Digression, she moved to a topic I feel pretty strongly about, the value of art in culture. She writes: If you…
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Reasons you shouldn’t use Linux
My wife asked me a poignant question a couple of weeks ago, “If Linux is SOOO awesome, why don’t you stop using Windows?” I told her that I couldn’t play civ4. “I thought you said it was ready for use and equal to Windows,” she continued. And I realized, there are probably some others who…
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Linux Screenshots
Here are some of the latest screenshots I’ve taken of my main Linux desktop and how to do the same for yourself. Click on the screenshot to be taken to the fullsize picture. I finally listened and provided a low-res picture here instead of resizing the large one, thus a faster download time for those…