Today Nancy Scola introduced me to a delightfully quirky character named Carl Malamud in her June 13, 2010 article entitled “Washinton’s IT Guy” in The American Prospect. So impressed was I by her description that I visited Mr. Malamud’s website Public.Resource.Org where I found a link to this video. In this amusing and informative presentation, [...]
This presentation at TED is well worth the twenty minutes or so it takes to watch it. It is refreshing to see an approach to staying healthy that is based on adding something to your diet rather than taking something away from it. Many thanks to my friend Tim Miller for pointing me to this [...]
Reading things online used to be a real problem. It isn’t any more thanks to this tool from Arc90 Labs. Readability – Installation Video for Firefox, Safari & Chrome from Arc90 on Vimeo. I’ve been using this tool for a number of months now and find it incredibly useful. While the video describes how to [...]
This Frontline video from 2006 shows the impact of Methamphetamine use in this country. This additional site was designed to aid in helping family members and loved ones of Meth Addicts understand the effects of Meth and How to Avoid becoming part of the problem. Please take a moment and READ and THINK.
Mike has come a long way since I gave him his first digital camera soon after Connor was born on May 1, 2005. Here is an example of some of his experiments with HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. I find them both artistic and pleasing, worthy to me of being made into a coffee table [...]
The visitors have gone. Recycling to do. Stockings no longer hung. Crumpled wrapping paper in plastic bags everywhere. Managed to enjoy ourselves amidst and despite the stresses of the season wrapped as they were in a whirlwind schedule nobody could control. Ate, drank, sang, laughed, talked together. Exchanged gifts as seen on TV. Played with [...]
Just sharing Gina Trapani’s excellent video illustrating Google Wave. Thanks, Gina. I’m enjoying experimenting with Google Wave but at this stage having trouble finding playmates for this new toy.
If you still haven’t decided what to pack in your sleigh for me this Christmas, here’s a little project I’m sure I would enjoy completing. I could retire Deep Thought to duties associated with my HDTV and hand over the chore of controlling the stars to the new Supreme Combo.
Something about the simplicity of this video really appeals to me. It does a good job of simulating how daughters and sons learn to cook from watching their fathers and mothers. Learning to cook is more about trying things than it is about following a recipe. As I typed the first sentence of this paragraph, [...]
Thanks to my following Leo LaPorte on Twitter, I discovered this excellent resource today. And because it’s the season of giving and I’m feeling generous, I want to share it with you. StartHere from ASMP dpBestflow on Vimeo. Another digital photography resource that I’ve used for a long time is Digital Photography Review. The various [...]