January 2009
5 posts
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Finally
According to our new (if all goes as planned) CIA Director and former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta:
“We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don’t. There is no middle ground.”
Maybe it’s just me but it almost feels like the last 8 years were just one long blurry night of binge drinking. The...
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FFFFound WordPress Plugin
I’ve re-written my AP Photo plugin to pull in photos from the “everyone” feed on the image bookmarking site FFFFound!. It works essentially the same, just add some styling and perhaps a nice javascript image zoom for a neat little web gallery of interesting pics (see it in action in my sidebar). Thumbnails are added as list items which then link to the full rez photos.
Download the free Plugin...
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Hi-Rez AP/AFP Photos
I’ve been messing around recently with an RSS feed from Scripting News that includes hi resolution images from the Associated Press as enclosures. These are some amazing images of current events from around the world and I have a script setup to automatically download them and replace old ones within a local folder that I point to for a photo screensaver.
It’s a fascinating way to visually see...
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Lights In The Sky
I’ve been a fan of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for a while now so I wasn’t that surprised by the announcement that he was releasing over 400 gigs worth of HD video of the NIN Lights in the sky Tour.
The video from recent shows in Victoria, Portland and Sacramento is all raw footage waiting for the community to edit and re-release as clips or full DVDs.
Well done Trent, I don’t want to...
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Exactly
Nice job boss:
“As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers … faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake.”