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The Best Street Photography Cameras Older Than 10 Years
Street photographers have some wonderful options that they can work with. From full frame options to great APS-C and MFT sensors, there are plenty of options one can work with. If you are looking for models that were introduced over the past decade, here are some cameras that yo…
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Waxy.org (Feed)
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Teen Vogue on focus gaming apps as digital third spaces
On-Together: Virtual Co-Working sits at the bottom of your desktop while you work with others via Aftermath #
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Starlog is back after 17 years
with my old friend Annalee Newitz as editor-in-chief! #
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to...
Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to remind you that The Art of Star Wars: Andor is coming out in about a week. Looks great.
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Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice?...
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated. Halley’s Comet came around in 1066 and it’s likely Eilmer of Malmesbury saw a different comet in 1018, not Halley’s in 989.
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Texturing 3D models in real-time with oil painting
if you like that, he did followups on dynamic lighting and shaders for 3D objects with oil-painted textures #
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The Pudding’s early history of U.S. restaurant dining
don’t miss the interactive map of 5,000 historical menus pulled from the NYPL’s Buttolph collection #
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How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans...
How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People. No surprise: it became much more negative, less affirming/protective and more skeptical/restrictive.
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Lifts in Film : a collection of movie & TV scenes...
Lifts in Film: a collection of movie & TV scenes featuring elevators, including Speed, The Shining, Drive, Mad Men, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Silence of the Lambs, and many more.
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Thypoch Simera 28mm f1.4 Review: The Best Reason To Ditch Your Smartphone Camera
Modern smartphones have turned too many people into lazy photographers. Lazy because you just slouch wherever you are and use your phone camera to indifferently snap an interesting scene in front of you. The reliance on the phone to create something half-interesting has resulted…
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Gerrymandle is a daily game where you “draw electoral...
Gerrymandle is a daily game where you “draw electoral district lines to win more seats than your opponents and win the election”.
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Kelly Hayes interviews Rebecca Solnit . “There is...
Kelly Hayes interviews Rebecca Solnit. “There is no rewind button on history. Once people have power & agency, and have seen what it’s like to have rights, voting rights, reproductive rights, they’re not interested in going back. And we’re the majority.”
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Is Leica About to Drop Its Most Wallet-Friendly M Camera in Years?
Leica is known for creating fabulous cameras that can stand the test of time. The M series has been loved by professional photographers, and it continues to be an important addition for many. It now appears that the company is expanding the M11 series, with a new model that can…
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Cow Trip: A Retired Dad Agrees to Rescue a Baby Cow
This is one of those videos that you start watching and then can’t really stop until you’ve finished. Cow Trip tells the story of an effort to save a baby cow by driving it (and another baby cow rescue) in a not-huge SUV 600 miles from Vermont to a sanctuary in Maryland.…
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Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions . “What’s...
Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions. “What’s different about the XP is that they’ve actually borrowed some of the same technology used by SpaceX, incorporating it as well as a whole slew of other safety features that are basically non-existent.”
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How We’ll Fight the Platform War Against Big AI ....
How We’ll Fight the Platform War Against Big AI. “Here are some of the proven tactics that have helped shift the balance of power in prior tech reckonings…”
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Neewer Q120 Flash Review: A Great Flash for Aspiring Photographers
I remember when we reviewed one of Neewer's first products: a set of ND filters that were really cheap. Photographers got really interested in those. And from there, the company has grown quite a bit. So when they contacted us to tell us about a slew of new stuff including the N…
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The Trick to Make Your Landscape Photography Stand Out
One of the artistic ways that you can go ahead and make your landscape photography stand out from all the rest is to find a way to turn them into paintings; well, not literally but finding a way to get that look is one fantastic one of doing things. You may ask yourself, "Why no…
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Tamron Breaks Barriers With Its 4.1x Zoom Lens for RF and Z Users
Tamron has been a brand known for its iconic all-round zoom lenses. The company has introduced some wonderful lenses, for both full frame and APS-C models, which has earned praises from people. Tamron is now introducing a new new wide angle zoom lens, that will be of help for bo…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Draftday
The NBA draft is tonight, and will be hugely interesting for fans, because this year's class coming out of college is unusually thick with talent. But what's happening with trades is more interesting to me right now. The Miami Heat just traded most of its team and some valuable…
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Canon’s Beloved EOS RP Earns Its RIP After Years of Glory
Canon's reign has been quite an impressive one. The company is the most sought-after in the market, with many young and professional photographers swearing by their cameras. While the DSLR range is more or less discontinued, it appears the same fate has fallen on the initial mir…
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Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who...
Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who still needs to hear this in June 2026 but: the US is in the middle of a “rolling coup” by ultra-conservatives who are “well along the path of destroying our democracy”.
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Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs...
Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs and trucks have resulted in more pedestrian deaths in the US over the past two decades.
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Legibility of Effort
Nolen Royalty on how LLMs have changed the signals we use to gauge human effort #
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Where Apple Mail hides ‘All Sent’ in Tahoe
My wife’s Mac laptop has ‘All Sent’ listed under ‘Favorites’ in the left panel of her Apple Mail app. Everywhere my Big AIs and I looked online, however, we didn’t see a way to add it, until ChatGPT suggested I mouse over the Favorites heading to see what appears. Th…
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Room Tone
For each of their on-camera interviews with filmmakers, actors, critics, and other film nerds, Criterion records 30 seconds of “room tone” that is used to cut the footage into a seamless video. When trying to explain what room tone is to someone unfamiliar with the concept…
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Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops...
Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times. “The reason I pulled you over, that light back there, you peeled out.”
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4 x 3
I’m enjoying this Connections variant made by Hank Green, the scoring provides some additional challenge #
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VSCO One Is the System Professional Photographers Didn’t Know They Were Missing
Professional photographers are spoiled for choices today. From Capture One to Lightroom, they have plenty of apps that can help them push them closer to achieving their vision. VSCO is one platform that provides this and much more. Today, the company has announced VSCO One, a pl…
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Some Great Deals on Tech Stuff
Amazon is doing their Prime Day sale again this summer and for those with Prime memberships, it’s a chance to upgrade some tech items at rarely seen prices. Here are a few items I’ve got my eye on: The AirPods Pro 3 are still my daily headphones; I really do love them…
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Brexit vote: 10 years on . “‘Absolute...
Brexit vote: 10 years on. “‘Absolute nightmare, shambles, and still is to this day,’ says Tony Rutherford a decade after he voted leave to save the British fishing industry.”
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Is Viltrox Making a New Camera To Beat Kodak?
Viltrox is one of the few third-party lens manufacturers from China who have seen immense fame. The company's portfolio is diverse, further helping young and serious photographers get the best of their vision. While the company has not yet dabbled with cameras, it appears that i…
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Plane Lands/Takes Off In Only 20 Feet
I posted a video earlier today of a Super Cub airplane landing on the side of a mountain. Super Cubs are ideal for that undertaking because of their low stall speed and short take-off and landing distances. But I had no idea you could land and take off in one in the space of 20…
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I love this playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player...
I love this playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player made by Dunstan Orchard and Kristina Dutton. Despite their virtuality, the buttons are delightfully clicky and the attention to detail is impressive.
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Step into a virtual Criterion Closet . “A walk-in...
Step into a virtual Criterion Closet. “A walk-in closet of 1,327 real Criterion editions, shelved in spine-number order — exactly as a true collector keeps them. Look around, read the spines, and pull any one off the shelf to inspect the case.”
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Is the Panasonic S5 II Still a Good Camera in 2026?
In the Phoblographer's revisiting of various cameras that we've reviewed before in the past, I'm now addressing the Panasonic S5 II. When the Panasonic S1II E was launched, it seemed as if the S5 II's days were numbered. Afterall, I reviewed it in 2023 and knew just how capable…
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