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I took the camera out a little bit yesterday to see if I could get a better understanding of how all the aspects of photo composition affect each other.
This one turned out okay:

I also took the camera out to the balcony at night and played around with exposure times.

I was using a prime lens, so […]

I have movies and players on both of the warring high definition media formats, so I really don’t care who “wins.” That said, supporters on both sides of the card have been spreading a ridiculous amount of misinformation and skewed perspective. Here are some of them, and my thought on each:

HD-DVD drives are […]

This fellow believes that the popularity of 24 is responsible for the current boom of serialized television program and the seemingly all-out change in the television landscape.
I disagree. The Lynch and Sorkin stuff both came before it (as well as the whole concept of serialization), as well two of HBO’s most popular dramas, the […]

I’ll admit that I had to get a Playstation 3 this holiday season, but not for games. There are a fair amount of movies that I wanted to see on the Blu-ray high definition video format, but there was no way that I was going to pay ~$1000 for a compatible player. I mean, […]

A big stir was created earlier this morning by start-up icon Jason Calacanis, when he revealed that he’d heard rumblings of top digg users being paid by PR firms to submit/promote certain stories. In Calacanis’ digg-style revamp of Netscape, he lured top users of social networking sites and paid them to act as “Navigators” […]

I am not a great photographer (or even a capable one, for that matter), but the profession/hobby has always intrigued me. Spurred by my usual fleeting motivation (I’m-great-and-can-do-anything-with-a-little-practice), I ordered a Canon Digital Rebel XTi (or 400D for the rest of the world). Over the weekend, it arrived.

My purchase was for the camera […]

Starting today, the New York Times will include digg, facebook, and newsvine quick-submit buttons on most of the paper’s online stories. These stories could always be submitted manually by social news posters, but as Techcrunch’s Natalia Del Conte writes, “the capability to do it directly from the story means that The Times is paying […]

Robert Scoble hates partial text rss feeds, and so do I. RSS is still a rather foreign concept to many casual internet users (at least the ones I know), and partial text feeds pose enough of an annoyance for many people to just give up and say “why bother.”

We are in the middle of […]

Some great stories involving the Nintendo Wii have surfaced in the last few days. Like Steven Colbert, “I gots me one,” and it is disarmingly fun. But onto the news…
Bob Somers has rigged up a Wii remote/Wiimote hack that allows you to use the device on a PC as a drum machine. […]

The forthcoming Apple mobile phone, dubbed the “iPhone” by the press and fanboy nation, has long been the object of much speculation. Rumors have started to heat up in the last week or so, culminating with Kevin Rose spilling what details he knows about the project. According to Rose, the phone will come […]

I’d been following the James Kim story since engadget first posted a notice that he was missing last Thursday.  Since then, Digg has featured over 30 updates detailing the search for Kim and his family on its front page. With great sadness, it was reported this afternoon that Kim’s body was found in the Oregon wilderness.  […]

Everyone needs to be watching Studio 60.  That’s is all.