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« November 2006 • Main • January 2007 »

• Science Made Stupid
  An abridged online version of Tom Weller’s funny (and Hugo-award-winning) book, now out of print.
  (tags: fun humour education science)
• How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer
  What empowers amateurs impoverishes professionals: photojournalists are being pushed aside as the media grabs free content from the Internet.
  (tags: elreg photography copyright journalism)

• The Most Dangerous Roads in the World
  From muddy Russian highways to, well, a whole lot of precipice-hugging mountain roads.
  (tags: travel roads tibet siberia bolivia china)
• The Right to Bear SLRs
  Rent-a-cops try to interfere with photographers taking pictures in public places, even though there’s no legal basis to do so.
  (tags: law photography civiliberties wired)
• Do You Need More Megapixels?
  Generally speaking, no. A larger sensor takes better shots than a small sensor with more megapixels.
  (tags: cameras photography wired)

• Fellowship of the Ring: HD vs. DVD
  Comparing the picture quality of the HD and DVD versions. Holy crap.
  (tags: lotr tolkien movies dvd hdtv)

• An ‘extremely credible witness’
  Maclean’s reviews the strange decline and fall of Myriam Bédard.
  (tags: canadianpolitics)
• The development hell of ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’
  The idea that they could do a movie of the classic John Kennedy Toole novel is one thing, but casting WILL FERRELL as Ignatius J. Reilly?! Yeesh.
  (tags: books film movies slate)

• The Website at the End of the Universe
  An SF community site and blog.
  (tags: blogs sf)

« November 2006 • Main • January 2007 »

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