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Nikon D700!

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All I want for Christmas 4th of July is a D700. Anyone want to by a used D300? Read all about it at Nikonimaging, NikonUSA or DPreview.

Gay Auto-Replace?

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For those not into track and field, this weekend Tyson Gay set an American record in the 100 meters. Apparently certain news organizations have systems that automatically replace Gay with the more PC term homosexual. This is not always a good thing. Sometimes there is humor in progress

Running the Numbers

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Amazing Photos by Chris Jordan.

From the site

Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.

This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.

~chris jordan, Seattle, 2007

Link from PhotoNetCast

George Carlin RIP

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A peek at the man courtesy of Google. His 2006 HBO special (NSFW )

Slow Motion Punches?

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Very bizarre

More than a 1000 words

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I ran across this story at core77. A wired video takes a look at how the movie More than a 1000 words was filmed. Looks very cool. Now I just need to figure out where I can see the movie.

The 99K House

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Take a look at this architecture competition in the gulf region. Some great designs for under 100K. I wonder how some of them would work in the midwest? Some of them seem like they would make very nice summer houses. Below is the winner and some of the finalists. The web site has the full pdfs for the finalist. Scrolling required unless you have a 30″ monitor.

Musical VW Golf Commercial

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Entertaining

$1,000 to quit Zappos

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Very interesting idea.

Comedy Central comes to Hulu!

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If you have never looked at Hulu here are couple more reasons. Who needs Tivo when you can stream full shows in 480P whenever you want. Check on Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and much more at Hulu.com

Crazy Time-Lapse of Hanoi Traffic

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Hanoi crazy night traffic from v!Nc3sl4s on Vimeo.

via LaughingSquid

Cool chart. Interesting results

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NYTimes has a really cool chart of how people voted in the battle of Obama versus Clinton. I never really thought of it as a race issue because the vocal folks in the tech space seem to be white males for Obama. The chart says otherwise. Go see the chart for other stats

FireFox 3

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IF you haven’t already downloaded FireFox 3 you really need to go check it out. Click here for the link. Why is it better? I will let Walt explain.

I will die in 2050?

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How long will you be around?

Cisco Holographic Video Conferencing

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Cisco On-Stage TelePresence Holographic Video Conferencing. Very cool future tech. Just watch the video.