BurningbirdThis is the slow dissolving, long lasting stuff edition: Photography is dead. From Erwins Home: The essence of film-based photography is not only the fact that the mechanism of capturing an image and fixing it in a silver halide grain structure creates a final picture that can hardly be altered. The fundamental issue here is the fact […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Missouri folks: rest of you close your eyes Missourinet posts a note that Lorna Domke from the Department of Conservation is starting a weblog. One of her first stories is on Pickle Springs. (Remember when I wrote on Pickle Springs? Back, when I used to have a life?) Ms. Domke does need to find her […]
Philipp Lenssen posted on the new Google News commenting feature, where people can submit comments for news items that show up at news.google.com. The folks of Google describe this procedure, as soliciting commentary from those people ‘involved’: We’ll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s almost 8pm, the air conditioner has been on for seven hours solid, and it’s still close to 85 in my room. You can feel the heat pulse through the wall, which is a little unnerving. I can’t even imagine what it’s like for people without air conditioning. I’ve also […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Susan Kitchens points out that the number of women in the freshmen class at Caltech has increased from 28.5 last year to 37 percent this year. That’s a significant rise, even though it doesn’t match other tech colleges (42 to 47 percent), or colleges in general (with 57 percent women). […]