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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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The Look of Kodak Movies: Panasonic GH5 II Review
If there were to buy a brand new camera in 2021, I'm not sure it would be the Panasonic GH5 II. And that's not at all to say that the Panasonic GH5 II is a bad camera. In fact, it's probably one of the best Micro Four Thirds cameras on the market. But instead, I think the proble…
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Is Polaroid Actually Real Film? Comparing Polaroid, Instax, and Zink
Instant film is fun in so many different ways. You can shoot a photo of someone and give them the print. You can capture fun memories with it at parties. And you can just plain out have fun while shooting with it. But it's not all created equal. In fact, some instant film is bet…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Three Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon
Kate Winslet Says 'Some Very Cool Ideas' Now Exist for 'Mare of Easttown' Season 2. Quoting Han Solo: "I got a bad feeling about this." [indiewire.com] Juliette Kayyem: Flying is not a right and unvaccinated people should be on the no-fly list. "While flying, vaccinated people s…
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Time Lapse of the Changing Seasons of Denmark
In a series of four short time lapse films, Casper Rolsted captures the changing of the seasons in Denmark, from summer (top) all the way through to spring (bottom). I’ve gotta say, the springtime video in particular put a smile on my face — all those flowers emergin…
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Size Comparison: The Largest Black Hole in the Universe
Black holes are the largest single objects in the universe, many times larger than even the biggest stars, and have no upper limit to their size. But practically, how big is the biggest, heaviest black hole in the universe? (A: More massive than the entire Milky Way.) The lar…
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Can’t Find a New Fuji Camera? We Found a Bunch of Refurbished Ones
Fujifilm cameras are very hot in demand right now. For the record, they came out with some real bangers in the past two years. The XT4, GFX100s, and X100s are only three of those cameras. We rated each one of them very well. My personal favorite is the Fujifilm X Pro 3. And even…
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Engineering – The GitHub Blog (Feed)
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GitHub Availability Report: July 2021
In July, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. Please follow our status page for real time updates. To learn more about what we’re working on, check out the GitHub engineering blog.
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The Walking Dead: American Pedestrian Fatalities on the Rise
In the last decade, the number of pedestrians hit by cars in the United States has increased by almost 50%, even as that rate has decreased in Europe and other wealthy nations (“thanks primarily to new street and crosswalk designs, implemented in the belief that most road deat…
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Two Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Narrative nonfiction master Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City, The Splendid and the Vile) is coming out with his first work of fiction, an audiobook-only novella called No One Goes Alone. [nytimes.com] There are three different types of fun. "Type 2 fun is miserable while…
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This App Identifies Birds by Their Songs
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recently added the ability to identify birds from hearing their birdsong to their Merlin Bird ID app — a “Shazam for bird songs” as Fast Company says. You just start recording with your phone and the app starts telling you the birds it’s…
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The Taj Mahal Brings Out the Ugly Side of Photography
Like most photographers, I was thrilled to be visiting the Taj Mahal. The night before, I cleaned up my Fujifilm XT2, ensured I powered up my batteries, and cleared my SD Card. I woke up at 4:30 am, the warm Indian heat burning my body. I took a coffee from the small store outsi…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Do not intercept native browser scroll. Never. Nobody can get it right. No, not even you. Not even Apple.
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Misframe (Feed)
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Morning Pages
Morning pages are a tool invented by Julia Cameron and introduced to me through a Tim Ferriss video. From Cameron’s website: Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. *There is no wrong way to do Morning Page…
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The Compact Camera Deserves Much Better Than What We Have Now
For years now, I've wanted a good compact camera. And I don't just mean fixed lens cameras and point-and-shoot cameras. I'm specifically talking about something compact. If we're discussing good point and shoots, there are lots. Everything worth discussing has an APS-C sensor or…
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Net Creator
There’s so much content produced these days that you can spend all of your free time passively consuming podcasts, blog posts, videos, and newsletters and still have plenty of other stuff to consume. It’s easy to be lazy and consume all the time, but in the long term I think…
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Interconnected (Feed)
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Wireless wires and hardware APIs
The high point of home automation was hi-fi separates in the 80s/90s. (The concept should be modernised for the 2020s.) You got an amplifier. Into that you plugged in all the other components: tape deck, radio, vinyl turntable. Eventually a CD player, maybe the TV is an input t…
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How to Shoot Better Portraits with Your APS-C Camera
The world loves to hate on APS-C cameras. But I think that hate is often misplaced and wrong. APS-C cameras can do a wonderful job with image quality. More importantly, they're usually some of the leading options for press photographers. Because you folks were curious about this…
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Three Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
The diamond-water paradox in economics. We need water to live so it's more valuable but diamonds are more expensive. Why is that? [npr.org] Flying toasters in CSS. [bryanbraun.com] Mark Rober built a robot that can set up dominos really quickly. [youtube.com] --- Note: Q…
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