links for 2005-09-01
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Information to help Independent Photographers.
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links for 2005-08-31
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As if we couldn’t get enough Stargate SG-1 here’s some great cartoons by Leah Rosenthal.
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News and insight for sporting goods and outdoor business professionals
Goodbye Rio.
Ars Technica is reporting that RIO is abandoning the MP3 player business. For consumers this means less choice as to which players you can buy. For Apple it means more market share.
Ars Technica: “So much for first-mover advantage. D&M Holdings, Inc., owner of the Rio digital music player brand, has decided to pull out of the digital music player market. Citing shrinking market share and the need to free up cash for other parts of the business, D&M will stop manufacturing Rios by the end of September. D&M will continue to honor warranties and maintain current service levels “without compromise.”
The Diamond Rio was the first MP3 player to hit the market when it debuted in 1998.”
Flying Spaghetti Monster Takes On Kansas School Board
Kansas.com: “Move over, Darwin. Stand aside, Intelligent Design.The idea that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world is demanding equal time in Kansas biology classrooms.
In his corner are three moderate state school board members and a prominent Topeka attorney. They say this concept makes about as much sense as proposed science standards, favored by the board’s religious conservative majority, that encourage schools to criticize evolution while they teach it.
Bobby Henderson of Corvallis, Ore., created the tongue-in-cheek deity and an accompanying mythology on the origin of mankind to satirize the Kansas Board of Education’s ongoing flap over evolutionary theory.
…Although invisible, the spaghetti monster is generally depicted as a giant wad of pasta with two eyestalks flanked by a pair of meatballs.
Spaghetti monsterism, or “pastafarianism,” boasts a cosmology as bizarre as its deity.
According to its creed, the monster created the world starting with a mountain, trees and a midget, and continues to guide human affairs with his “noodly appendage.” Heaven is depicted as having a stripper factory and a beer volcano.
True pastafarians are expected to dress in pirate regalia, in keeping with their founder’s discovery of a statistical correlation between global warming and the decline in the number of pirates since the 1800s.”
The Last Word
This will be the only post I’m going to make addressing a topic which I commented on that has been picked up by several sites. No, I’m not going to link to it*.
It’s sad how people let their desire to find wrong doing and maliciousness cloud their common sense.
*I’m not sure what the author of the post’s motives were in phrasing things as he did but it seems it was a deliberate attempt to draw attention to himself and start a cacophony in order to garner attention whether consciously or subconsciously.
Something Funny
Backup Brain: “Kim pointed me towards When the Graphic Artists Get Bored. I was fine until I saw the pandas.”
OMG. It’s hilarious!!
links for 2005-08-25
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Created in Fractal Painter 5, Starbucks new menu graphics take the cake.
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Top Notch Designer Ryan Church creates some of the most stunning representations.
Open Mouth Insert Foot
Dave Winer does it again.
Scripting News: “I really dislike Safari, I so don’t care for their choice of sites to feature and the feeds they chose are all the predictable ones. Where’s the Home icon.”
Come Dave. Let REAL Mac users show you what a Mac can do.