Scott Rosenberg has an excellent and alternative take on Fahrenheit/911. Moore may bend the truth sometimes as does “the other side” but it’s the fact that he’s rebelling against the presidency in the US that’s important. He’s commiting “lese majeste”.
When the throne holds an ignorant, incompetent, profligate pretender, lese majeste becomes a patriotic duty.
Just yards from where I took yesterday’s photo This is a photo taken through the tall windows there. If I knew more about architecture and history I could probably tell you all about the origins of the Abbey and the style of windows pictured here, but I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader!
Ohmygod! It would seem that there are problems with the new Pringles Dippers being advertised on TV with duck billed platypusses (is that right? platypussies maybe? Ah, thanks Kevin for this!) swimming behind several beautiful and not-fat young people. I’m not suggesting that eating Pringles will make you fat, but there’s even less chance of it happening with the dippers as there’s less in the box! Good luck trying to fit a dipper+dip into your mouth too. Maybe a little too big for a single dip?
Some people just hate the advert!
And finally, check ateed.com for the music to the ad. It’s loaded via a flash animation so I couldn’t download the music. Maybe someone going through a proxy can get the URL?
Zend in the clowns? is a lengthly article about the history of PHP. *phew*
Mark points at Digital Black & White | Dynamic Artwork which explains several ways of converting colour images to black and white. I personally use the greyscale tool, or the saturation tool, and afterwards i[ the contrast using “Curves”.
Not withstanding the feel of B/W anyway, it’s great if you’ve shot a load of photos with the wrong white balance setting! 🙂
This is a good, short tutorial on cleaning up your CSS. I’ll have a read of it later when I want to edit my blog template again!
question: how to avoid someone beating you up?
When you’re working your camera on the street what can you do if someone doesn’t like you taking their photo?
Andy Williams offers his opinion that it’s legal to take photos of people in a public place. If you want to publish commercially you need a model release. That’s in the States. It’s probably quite similar here.
A quick Google search unearthed this and of course this. The former link is a long article about photography and the law in France. It’s an enlightening look through the ages and a frightening look into the commercial world of tv rights and copyright.
The saying that the street belongs to all no longer holds true.
If you go to www.itsyourmoney.ie as the radio advert recommends you’ll be redirected to the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority website.
Some good info there, if a little general and basic. I like their reports however.
Jay Rayner, food critic and apologist spoke to Ray D’Arcy on TodayFM a short while ago to sell his book and Apologist website. This started a flood of apologies from listeners, some funny, some serious.
Today’s picture was taken in Timoleague Abbey, Co. Cork. I’ve passed by the Abbey hundreds of times over the years but I can’t remember ever venturing into it.
There’s a sketch of the Abbey drawn by my Uncle at home and it’s hardly changed in the almost 30 years since it was drawn!