Archive for January, 2010
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-30
A few photos from the GF1 of @josepharthur at @rickshawstopsf on Tuesday: http://gen-o.com/shorturl/jasr #
The Formula For Perfect Parallel Parking…fun, but no help to this parker. -More at http://npr.org/122880263 #
These coaches' challenges seem like a bad idea! #
I feel like I felt in 2006 while rooting for Zidane in the World Cup final, hoping Favre can [...]
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Responses to Salinger
Over at the New Republic, Gish Jen asks, Why Do People Love Catcher in the Rye?
Meanwhile, the New Yorker’s Book Bench blog has collected remembrances and responses from several people, including Wes Anderson, Dave Eggers, and Joshua Feriss. The New Yorker’s Lillian Ross has also unearthed some photos she took of Salinger during the 1960s.
James Barron, [...]
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
News from New York bookstores
Vanishing New York collects some news on a shake-up in Manhattan bookstores: Biography Bookshop in the West Village, which you might know because it’s across the street from Magnolia, is moving. Left Bank Books, which has a wonderful selection of collectible and signed editions. Finally, Skyline Books in Chelsea is closing.
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Why the iPad buzz doesn’t matter
A lot of people are saying a lot of things about the iPad. It’s revolutionary! It’s too compromised to be useful! It lacks important features like a phone, multitasking, camera, Flash support, etc. What’s certain to me is that the reactions—pro and con—are pretty much meaningless right now. I was trying to think last night [...]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
How to recover erased .RW2 and other RAW files from SDHC cards
I recently lost all my GF1 photos from my SDHC card. After shooting about 70 photos, I put the card in a USB reader and it appeared to be empty on my computer. There are several free programs that will recover JPEG images from cameras’ memory cards, but recover RAW files—especially those from non-Canon/Nikon cameras—can [...]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Reactions to the iPad
Adam Gopnik and other New Yorker staffers responded to Apple’s iPad announcement.
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-23
RT @EliseBlackwell: Ted Genoways on the contemporary lit mag landscape: http://tinyurl.com/ycs79gd #
Now Curt Schilling is going to kill the healthcare bill?! Hasn't he done enough damage already? http://s.nyt.com/u/rFH #
Took the GF1 to a show by @josepharthur earlier this week. Photos here: http://gen-o.com/shorturl/jasr #
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Joseph Arthur at Rickshaw Stop or the GF1 and concert photography
I took my GF1 to a show by Joseph Arthur earlier this week, and although the noise at 1600 ISO is considerably higher than that of any dSLR, it held up reasonably well. I also tested out Panasonic’s EVF live viewfinder for the first time. Unfortunately, it is small, low resolution, and not particularly good. [...]
