This is a nice effect and described well too. Check out the demo! He has another slideshow too! Cool!
Photography
Tips for Traveling with a Digital Camera
Common sense tips from Shirley. When I travel I tend to bring along as much memory as possible, batteries and a charger, and if I get the opportunity, I’ll burn my photos onto several CDs, carrying one on my person/hand luggage and another in stowed luggage. But that’s just paranoid me!
General
Free Software People in Car Accident
As reported here, there has been a car accident outside Paris. Richard Stallman was in the car but was dropped off in the city before the accident. Hans Bakker was killed in the car accident. It’s a sad day for him and and his family. Read the link above for updated news.
Photography
Digital Camera Myths
Megapixel Myths is an introduction of digital cameras, probably useful for someone new to the genre and looking for a new camera. This Megapixel Myths site is a lot more involved – the author goes over many aspects of digital vs film photography, including the costs of each.. Let’s look at two scenarios to see how the cost of digital and traditional photography balance out over the first year. Notice that I said cost, not value. Cost is the total amount of money you spend. Value is what you receive in return. Cost is empirical; value is subjective. My camera […]
Photography
Up The Tree
While the girls ate sandwiches and drank tea I wandered off with my camera..
Humour
Stand up and be counted: Edinburgh's 50 best jokes
The Independent lists the 50 best jokes at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. Considering Bono’s appearance at the Labour Party Conference yesterday I thought this was appropriate: How many members of U2 does it take to change a light bulb? Just Bono… he holds it and the world revolves around him. (thanks Donal for sending those on!)
Linux
Linux.ie – a Wiki?
In a heated discussion about the grand vision that people have for the Irish Linux Users Group, Justin Mason suggested (sorry! no link, the archive is broken again!) that we use a Wiki to keep the information on the site current and uptodate. He outlined his own ideas and suggestions in his post, How to have turn a stale project site into a useful Wiki and it’s not a bad idea at all! I’m in favour of it, who’s with me? Why use a wiki? Niall Sheridan writes: >> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:50 +0000, Niall Walsh wrote: >> [snippage] […]
Web
Wikalong Firefox Extension
Wikalong makes taking notes about websites easier. I’m sure I came across a Javascript/DOM version of this somewhere. Hmm. (via Jeremy who’s discussing A9 doing something very similar!)
Photography
(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know about Sharpening in Photoshop but Were Afraid to Ask
This lengthy articlegoes into detail about sharpening using PS. It translates to The GIMP, but the dialogs are very different.