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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Canon’s Next Macro Lens Reportedly an RF 90mm STM, Not an L
Canon has some wonderful lenses on the market. Examples such as the 85mm, the 70-200mm, and the 100-400mm have long been favorites among photographers. While there are a plethora of options for landscape, portrait, wedding and sports photographers, Canon has limited lenses for t…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Blitheday
Turned out to be yummy Thirteen years ago, I wrote this defense of QR codes, which friends were calling "robot barf."
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Lego’s biggest set ever is coming out soon: the...
Lego’s biggest set ever is coming out soon: the 12,060-piece Sagrada Família. $800. It will take as long to build as the actual cathedral — you may not live to see it finished.
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The Best Fall Travel Photography Destinations of 2026
One of the best travel photography seasons has been fall. Crowds often reduce, prices of hotels and flights may fall, and the light turns warmer and more dramatic as the season shifts. However, with the state of global travel itself, with wars and an ongoing genocide, which can…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Magnifying glass leaning to the right means Find. Leaning to the left? Zoom #Icons
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What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage...
What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.”
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What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage...
What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.”
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QIVIKA Launches AI-Powered Smartphone Telescope For Bird Photographers
Bird photography is a genre that needs additional gear to work with. In this case, a good telescope is a great start for many. Not only does it help spot the bird, but it also helps study its behavior. QIVIKA is one of the few companies that has created a compact optical telesco…
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The Go Blog (Feed)
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Platform-independent SIMD in Go
The Go Blog Platform-independent SIMD in Go David Chase and Junyang Shao 24 September 2026 Go 1.26 and 1.27 include experimental APIs for Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. SIMD is a native feature of many modern CPUs tha…
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Scans of City Textures
Using a handheld scanner, designer/illustrator Noah Nolet captures textures from surfaces in cities around the world, including Tokyo, LA, Paris, Kyoto, NYC, and Berlin. On his website, he offers city packs of hundreds of scans for sale and free sample packs as…
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Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the...
Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the Greek ships that set out for Troy were from and what they may have looked like. “No Homeric ship survives. What we have are pictures: a handful of painted sherds of the twelfth century BC…”
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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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The summer of ’26
It was the autumnal equinox a few days ago. For a moment our planet was balanced perfectly, with everyone experience twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days will get shorter and the nights will get longer until the winter…
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Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at...
Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at building dams? (A: Yes, duh.)
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The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Brad Pitt...
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Brad Pitt returns as Booth, the character he played in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but 8 years later. Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, directed by David Fincher.
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Trace is a daily puzzle game where you build a “recipe”...
Trace is a daily puzzle game where you build a “recipe” of up to 4 steps to turn a starting set of numbers into another set of numbers.
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Jo Ann Chaus Delivers Photographs That Force You to Slow Down
When I look at the photos of Jo Ann Chaus, I'm sort of transported to a fantasy land of sorts involving a time now long lost. Her obsession with color and what appears to be a love of something almost around the Mad Men era speaks to a romantic side of us that's rooted more in o…
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The lessons four Islamic polymaths — al-Biruni, Alhazen,...
The lessons four Islamic polymaths — al-Biruni, Alhazen, Avicenna and al-Khwarizmi — hold for students today: “breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way”.
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50 Songs That Explain America. “The songs were chosen on...
50 Songs That Explain America. “The songs were chosen on the basis that they told me something, sonically or lyrically or emotionally or vibrationally, about America and the idea of America.”
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The 🔥🔥🔥 New Social App: NPR Podcasts Comments Section on Spotify
{Ira Glass voice} On this week’s episode of This American Life, the story of middle schoolers too young for social media chatting in the comments section of NPR’s podcasts on Spotify. From the transcript: And it was just, like, gibberish. There was a bunch of new commen…
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How to rescue an orphaned baby elephant. “The baby...
How to rescue an orphaned baby elephant. “The baby elephant needs a mother to run to. And the fact is that the mother is a 30-year-old Nigerian man right now.”
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Leica Expands iPhone Ecosystem With LUX Grip, New Gallery and McCurry Filter
Leica has created some fantastic accessories for the photography community. From flash units to camera straps, bags, and even film stock, Leica has a varied range of items in store for its users. As part of their growing lineup, especially for phone photographers, Leica is now l…
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Jimbōchō Book Town
I visited Jimbōchō today, a neighborhood that’s home to more than 100 used bookstores. Many sell only Japanese books, but some of them have books in English or sell magazines, posters, or visual books that are interesting to browse no matter what language you speak. I vis…
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: I consumed 31% more electricity this month. Should the finger point up because the consumption went up, or down because it’s not good news for me? #Icon #Report #ThumbsDown
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Robert Eggers is doing Romeo & Juliet. “When it comes to...
Robert Eggers is doing Romeo & Juliet. “When it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Elizabethan English (aka early modern English), with lines straight from the play.”
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Why Manual Focus? The Guide for Photographers Only Shooting Digital
Autofocus does a great job; but it's a tool that should really only be used sparingly. As a high-functioning blind man, I can attest to the idea that manually focusing a lens will make you compose a scene differently as well as make you rethink how you're making the photograph.…
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Nikon Z5 II C Review: They Made Another Street Photography Camera
The Nikon Z5 II C is a fantastic camera in so many different ways mostly because of the form factor. The influencers will tell you that it's not a real camera because there is no viewfinder, but truthfully, you don't really need one if you know how to zone focus for street photo…
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