The Photographer’s Right – A Downloadable Flyer – Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography.
Author: lhl
I finished Fast Food Nation this morning. Even though I was familiar with many of the topics discussed, taken as a whole, it was quite a read, and if you haven’t yet, I would wholeheartedly recommend it. I also found the afterword and notes sections extremely interesting.
Just got back from a midnight screening of The Animatrix. Good stuff, including some interesting pieces by the Cowboy Bebop and Aeon Flux guys. A very wide range of animation styles (digged the wild rotoscoping in the Kid’s Story). Would definitely recommend catching it in the theater if you can, apparently it will be appearing in very limited release.
Via JesseR: Bill Nye the Science Guy will be at UCLA tomorrow! 3-6PM, free and open to the public, and free food.
Picked up a 35mm f/2.0 and 50mm f/1.8 prime this morning. Hooray, handheld shooting in streetlight has just become that much easier.
Ever get that feeling when you stand up real quick and it seems like all your blood isn’t quite making it to your head and you get sorta dizzy?
Anyway, when you’re feeling like that just in general, it’s a good idea to try to go to sleep early. At least you’ll be up bright and early, so you can enjoy the nice ‘pit in your stomach’ feeling.
Last bit of autobiographica: I swung by McDonald’s last night for the first time in months. I ate a quarter-pounder combo while reading Fast Food Nation. I think this counts as my first literal cheese sandwich post.
“The FBI has been reading my diary” – A student is mistakenly targeted as an investigation blurs the line between local and federal law enforcement.
What’s particularly ridiculous is the gestapo tactics used (surprise, surprise – I mean, sig heil!), and well, the sheer incompetence of it all. They brought in the student because of a blog entry entitled “Somebody Hacked the Gibson.” No wonder cybercrime is such a huge problem; 90% of the brownshirts are morons who know more about bullying than technology.
Oh, and these “FBI” officers? Actually Chapel Hill Police officers. Where are the laws to protect us from them?
Pastry – A scalable, decentralized, self-organizing and fault-tolerant substrate for peer-to-peer applications. Project of Antony Rowstron @ Microsoft Research. See also: FreePastry, an OSS implementation (Java, BSD-like license).
Twist is in:
Ahh, deriving a certain satisfaction about this whole SCO mess. (Cringely summarizes – better than a soap opera!)