Photo Quotes has quotes from well-known photographers about their work and what makes it special. In addition, sample images from these photographers. A nice compilation.
Pixelnhance has a new version that makes it easier to adjust the maximum dynamic range in an image than before (simply double-click on the histogram). Pixelnhance is altogether a very nice image editing software that is particularly ideal as a complement to iPhoto.
Dark humor against software patents - a witty idea. Especially the example patent from Canon with the violation by a one-line shell script is quite something. Thanks to Industrial Technology & Witchcraft for the link.
Found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
Pentagon Considers Secret Program to Manipulate Public Opinion in Allied Countries - yeah, great strategy. OK, you could actually change your behavior so that it's acceptable to allied countries - after all, that would be the basis of friendship as people usually understand it. But the Americans prefer to deceive their friends, manipulate them, and if necessary put them under pressure. Nice new (old) world...
Found at Telepolis News.
Möllemann will sich im Januar erklären - wow, that's what I call delaying tactics of the highest order. Found at tagesschau im Internet.
For Python hackers: check out Psyco and Pyrex. Very interesting ways to speed up Python code when you're working heavily with arrays or numbers and can't make progress with the usual methods (like a better algorithm, for example).
Psyco is a form of just-in-time compiler for Python, but it includes rudimentary type inference — it determines at the time of code analysis what values can actually arrive. This of course helps primarily in areas where specializations are included in this compiler. Current focus areas are arrays and lists of basic types, especially numbers, and arithmetic expressions.
Pyrex is something completely different, but no less exciting. Pyrex is its own language that is very closely modeled on Python, but combined with C. This makes creating Python extensions much easier than with C or C++ alone, because you program in a way familiar to Python users, but can work with C type declarations.
Merz rails against union power - Merz is really not quite of this world. The call for union members with CDU party membership to leave the union is truly absurd - without a union, these people would be at the mercy of their employers, who also happen to carry CDU party books. That's quite a strategy.
I personally think all union members with CDU party membership should leave the CDU instead.
Found at tagesschau on the internet.
6/2/02: How to create a directory in Radio's Outliner - I don't know exactly what it's for yet, but I think I'll use it. Somehow it's cool, even though I don't know exactly why. Hmm - I often feel that way about David Winer's ideas for Radio, it must be my fault
Found at Scripting News.
more viruses. From News.com: Email viruses doubled in 2002. And this, with MS's supposed new focus on "security". Oh well. Good thing that other virus-free solutions are coming along :-).
[via Abort, Retry, Fail?] Yep, looks like Microsoft really succeeded in their security focus - especially IE and OE should be burned, blown up and pulled out of reality. Please.
But it won't happen, I fear. Instead of that they will produce even more shit and name it .NET and even more stuff will go bozo.
Gefunden bei Abort, Retry, Fail?.
Unix interactive: New paths to insolvency - wow, that's practically local news (I'm sitting in Münster)! Well, except that Unix interactive existed, I can't say anything else about the place ... [via Dotcomtod]
Found at Dotcomtod.