Ma.gnolia: Duncan Davidson's Bookmarks

Measuring ink cartridge life in the real world | Printerville

duncandavidson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:44:12 PDT

Rick LePage takes on the issue of measuring ink consumption in printers. It's a really tough issue.

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Printerville First look: Epson R2880

duncandavidson — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:36:03 PDT

A great first look at the new 2880 printer from Epson from Printerville.

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Tags: printer, photography

Avoiding Camera Noise Signatures - Instructables - DIY, How To, photography, science

duncandavidson — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:00:16 PDT

If you take enough images with your digital camera, they can all be compared together and a unique signature can be determined.

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Tags: photography, photogeek

diesel sweeties: Why Parents Can't Stop Talking about Babies

duncandavidson — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:17:24 PDT

Diesel Sweeties gets to the bottom of why new parents are all blabby about their kids non stop.

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Tags: humor

HP Calculators on the iPhone

duncandavidson — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:38:23 PDT

A set of classic HP calculators for the iPhone. I can't wait to put these bad boys on.

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Tags: iphone, calculator

Damn Interesting » Operation Pastorius

duncandavidson — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:05:15 PDT

Story of Operation Pastorius, 8 Nazi's landed in the US to commit acts of terror who instead were apprehended by the actions of their commander to turn himself and his comrades in.

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Tags: world war 2, history

AF microadjustment for the 1Ds mark III and 1D Mk3

duncandavidson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:09:20 PDT

A simple procedure to calibrate the autofocus for different lenses on a 1D Mk3 or 1Ds Mk3. I'll be trying it out later.

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Tags: photography

Buzz Aldrin's Roadmap To Mars

duncandavidson — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:02:14 PDT

First hand account of Buzz's thoughts on Earth/Mars Cycler orbits.

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Tags: space, exploration, travel

Damn Interesting » The Martian Express

duncandavidson — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:50:19 PDT

In this article, Damn Interesting talks about how Buzz Aldrin figured out how to set up a fairly sustainable Mars/Earth transfer system. Very cool.

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Tags: space, exploration, travel

Vincent Laforet's Commuting Photos

duncandavidson — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:37:26 PDT

Great photos using tilt-shift techniques by Vincent Laforet

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Tags: photography

Ten Thousand Cents

duncandavidson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:00:36 PDT

ten thousand cents is a digital artwork that creates representation of $100 bill. using custom drawing tool, thousands individuals working in isolation from one another painted tiny part the bill without knowledge overall task.

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Tags: crowdsourcing, art

Dodge and Burn - Lightroom 2 beta vs Aperture 2.1

duncandavidson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:37:31 PDT

More information comparing the dodge and burn tools in Lightroom versus Aperture.

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Tags: software, photography, photogeek, digital darkroom

Sol Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X

duncandavidson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:33:25 PDT

Mac OS X Dashboard widget making it handy to figure out when dusk and dawn are.

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Tags: photogeek, sunrise, sunset

Why the Sky is Blue

duncandavidson — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:12:52 PDT

An article describing why the sky is blue. And here I thought it was because of water vapor all along.

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Tags: science, physics

xkcd on Snopes

duncandavidson — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:36:54 PDT

xkcd takes on Snopes, humorously of course.

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Tags: cartoom, comic, snopes, urban legend

1080p Does Matter - Here's When (Screen Size vs. Viewing Distance vs. Resolution)

duncandavidson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:30:56 PDT

A nice analysis of when various resolutions of TV matter at which viewing distances.

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Tags: video

To the Letter Born - Obama's Typography

duncandavidson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:51:51 PDT

A NY Times article looking at how the Obama campaign is using typography.

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Tags: typography, graphic design

Mike Clark goes Macro

duncandavidson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:45:12 PDT

Mike Clark has always wanted to try macro photography, so he finally broke down and bought a new lens. Here's one of his first photos.

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Tags: photography, photo

A Photo Editor - Where are all the goddam photos?

duncandavidson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:40:59 PDT

Rob Haggart takes a brutal look at the business equation of photography comparing old school to Internet. A great snip: "Oh, you may have noticed the smallest part of creating a magazine every month is the fees and expenses paid to all the contributors. Are you ready to do something about it yet?"

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Tags: photography, business, business model

Slow Motion Water Balloon Throwing on Vimeo

duncandavidson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:26:58 PDT

Water balloons hitting people at 500 Frames Per Second. Very cool.

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Tags: video, concept

Change We Can Believe In

duncandavidson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:38:47 PDT

The new coinage that will be rolling out in the UK starting this year is beautiful. American currency, by comparison, is fugly.

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Tags: design, uk

Lightroom 2.0 Beta Is Out - Inside Lightroom

duncandavidson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:25:04 PDT

My blog post over on Inside Lightroom about the release of the Lightroom 2.0 Beta.

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Tags: lightroom, digital darkroom, adobe, inside lightroom

Lightroom Journal: Lightroom 2 beta Available

duncandavidson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:50:00 PDT

The first beta of Lightroom 2 has hit the streets, right after Aperture 2.1.

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Tags: photography, digital darkroom

How to Copyright your Photographs

duncandavidson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:12:34 PDT

Peter Krogh on his procedures for copyrighting photographic work.

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Tags: copyright, photography

What Every American Should Know About the Middle East

duncandavidson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:44:14 PDT

A quick primer on the non-so-subtle differences in the what it means to be Arab and Islam as well a look at how Arabs are related to Jews and Christians.

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Tags: politics, religion, middle east