Quick links

• Clever bailout commentary
• An interesting history of Shinseki
• Media entraps cops! -He might have opened up a mighty can of perjury worms. These scandals only seem to happen to the special teams, never to the regular copy.
  
• The Big Picture - photography
  

Link of the day

Old-Picture.com - very cool.

From yesterday's photo shoot

At the zoo

I'll be doing a more formal gallery soon, but here are some samples of my visit to the zoo with Mike and Erin.

Links to the sound of impacting bugs

For some reasons bumblebees have been smacking into my office window for the past hour. Here's some links for your reading while I'm uploading...

• Night Photography Tutorial
• Linq tutorial videos
• AskTheBuilder.com is a handy site
• I should probably be more outraged about this, but Planned Parenthood took a donation (later revealed to be a politically motivated prank) specifically for abortions for black women. All a part of the grand evolution I suppose
• The last doughboy - an era is ending and we're not seeing it.
• Free bricks to anyone in Atlanta
  

Rockspoloitation on Saint Patrick's Day

They needed some photos for their site, and I took quite a few. I finally got a chance to shoot in daylight which made quite a difference.

Tuesday link roundup

• A guide to night photography
• JumpUp.com
• Samantha Powers resigns...
• Southern Baptists Fight Climate Change - if only we can get Nascar and Fox News on the bandwagon the Left will declare Global Warming a hoax
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  Anonymous Philanthropist Donates 200 Human Kidneys To Hospital
  
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  In The Know: How Can We Make The War In Iraq More Eco-Friendly?
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  Mysterious Traveler Entrances Town With Utopian Vision Of The Future

Saturday links

• Deputy dumps man out of wheelchair - man then gets ahold of courthouse videotape, it reaches the media, and now that deputy is charged.
• Danish media reprints controversial cartoons, and show far more courage than American media outlets.
• Drunken Orgies Tainted System says Florida prison boss.
• Police Chief accused of improper chats retires - this is interesting. The police department in question was famous for find people trying to entice minors. Relevant quote

  Lindsey said Murray used his city-owned computer to chat online with women during an ongoing investigation into local massage parlors used as fronts for prostitution.
  All the department's computers, except for one used for the continuing Internet child sexual predator sting operation, are monitored by a keystroke program.

  
  Why would the only machine in the department that produces intentional evidence NOT have the keylogger installed?
  

• Tax me more fund raises little revenue
• The law and economics of pirates
• An aerial photo of San Francisco in the age of Earthquakes
• Fake cops rob family - this will be a growing problem I fear.

Most of these factor info my coming law enforcement meldown/feedback mismatch post I'm going to write one of these days...

Self Portrait at the Dawn of Man

Two random shots from my little Canon

Random Photo

From my visit to the Commuter Art Gallery

Friday morning rapid fire

• The rules on using the names Mohamed and Jesus
• How to hold a digital camera
• This collection of anti-drug commercials. It certainly makes me never want to cook.
• Film Noir Lighting
• The marines and laser guns, it has the memorable line - "Photoshop can quickly solve all engineering challenges."

DC photos finally uploaded

I finally got around to posting them, they're all from my small Canon.

The rest of the Chicago photos

I've finished processing the pictures from my small Canon camera from the Chicago trip. I wasn't able to bring the big Nikon into the event, so this gallery consists of the road photos and the non-closeups of the Crossroads Guitar Festival.

As you might guess from the quantity of photos, there was a long wait outside Buddy Guy's nightclub.

Check out the gallery.

And the best photo site is...

Lost America - Night photography of the abandoned West. Absolutely brilliant. This makes it to the BlogRoll.

We arrive in Chicago without incident

Driving exclusively at night resembles time travel. The vulgarity in the car reached new heights and several new terms were coined, none of which can be shared on this family blog.

Quick link round up

• Long range acoustic devices
• The Agitator has a list of questions that should be asked of all presidential candidates, well worth reading
• Ward Churchill has been fired.
• Black straw lighting from the Strobist and Lighting Mods.
  

Great minds think alike

I do some Googleing, and find out that someone else has taken cool pictures of the old Pullman railroad yards as well. It's good stuff.

A milestone

I just found out today that someone wants to pay for some of my art photos! I've been a "professional" (been paid for it) photographer for awhile, now I'll be a real artist! I think I'll shop for a beret and a narcissistic attitude on Amazon.

Saturday link roundup

• A nice how-to on HDR photography
• Survivorman is blogging again!
• The greatest living American you've never heard of.
• The world's stupidest Fatwas, my favorite -

  Many Muslims believe that unmarried men and women should not work alone together—a stricture that can pose problems in today’s global economy. So one Islamic scholar came up with a novel solution: If a woman were to breast-feed her male colleague five times, the two could safely be alone together.

  The injuction against the Polio vaccine is scary though.
• It seems that tires will outlive us all
• More on the Kathryn Johnson case
• A Slate article on the ethanol haters, of which I am one. He leaves out the fact that creating ethanol takes more energy than it produces.
  

Thursday morning link rapid fire

• Fast Failure's and Google
• HDR in Photoshop CS III - I still haven't gotten that to work right, more at this site.
• Andrew Sullivan largely echoes me in what to do with Iraq.