March 2007

Witness to History.

San Francisco banned plastic shopping bags today, and I was here to witness history. Imagine what would happen if Baltimore banned them too? The Official Bird of Baltimore would face extinction.

Posted on March 28, 2007 2:56 PM | link to this entry

Spamera

Make a camera out of a can of Spam. I have too many projects already, but this is cool.

Posted on March 27, 2007 1:54 AM | link to this entry

Shorpy, the 100-year-old photo blog

Shorpy calls itself the 100-year-old photo blog. A new picture each day, all from an age long past, all beautiful in their own way. (via)

Posted on March 22, 2007 8:16 AM | link to this entry

Magnetic Ribbons

Seen last week on one of those magnetic ribbons people seem to love to plaster on the bumpers of their cars:

Just Pretend/It's All OK

Posted on March 21, 2007 8:08 PM | link to this entry

Parallels Problem

WHOA. I almost freaked out there... I just installed the new build of Parallels (3188) and when I installed the Parallels Tools suite after booting into Windows, the whole thing went black. There is no mention of this on the Parallels site, but I found a solution here: Essentially, boot Windows into Safe Mode and then install Parallels Tools. *whew*.

Posted on March 19, 2007 1:16 PM | link to this entry

Third RJD2 Album Review

Ouch, a 3.7. Pitchfork spears RJD2's new album, something I had high hopes for, unfortunately. On the heels of DJ Shadow's dismal new album, this is a dark time for my favorite genre of music.

Posted on March 9, 2007 3:34 PM | link to this entry

Humbucker Music, Orange amps

Huh, who knew that Orange amps are still being made, and are available here in the states? They're pricy as hell, but I bet that thing makes one fat sound. And orange tolex makes one heck of a statement.

Posted on March 8, 2007 8:21 AM | link to this entry

Automatically add music from MP3blogs

Here's a way to go out and download music from MP3blogs, put it in folders and add it to iTunes automatically. I stopped looking through MP3blogs months ago because I found it too damned time-consuming to organize, catalog, and tag the new music, even though I've found fantastic new music online. Maybe I'll try this.

Posted on March 6, 2007 11:43 PM | link to this entry

Referrer logs.

Curiously, a quick glance at the referrer logs for my other site shows I'm getting crawled by Microsoft a LOT, somebody at American Airlines is really interested in my old weblog, and someone at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution went through a good portion of my site. However, I believe the asshats who were posting my pictures on their MySpace pages are not stealing my bandwidth anymore.

Posted on March 5, 2007 4:43 PM | link to this entry

O'Reilly HDR Booklet

O'Reilly is selling a $7.99 PDF booklet which explains how to build High Dynamic Range photos. When the Software Fairy delivers my shiny new copy of the CS2 suite, I'm switching over to RAW format and trying this process out. Of course, that means I have to get out and take more pictures, something I've been very lax about for the past couple of months... (via)

Posted on March 2, 2007 8:24 AM | link to this entry

Props to Morphine

Excellent listening for this cloudy, gray weather we're enjoying: Morphine's Cure For Pain.