Humans are really bad at estimating risk as explained in the article ‘Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk‘. The oil companies aren’t to blame, we are.
The problem with digital magazines is that they are just PDF’s of the print edition, and this makes them very difficult to read. I can’t flip to page 122 to finish an article, and when a graphic spans over two pages I can’t easily read it to understand it. Magazines need to be fundamentally redesigned if they truly want to go digital.
It’s spring time, go play in the dirt and grow something.
Sounds like the upcoming season finale of House was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II. Crazy.
Spring and summer are nearly here, so take a minute and refresh yourself on packing that backpack. [via lifehacker]
Dropbox is an impressive piece of software that I’ve played around with in the past but never gave much thought to. I’ve recently been re-introduced to it as a way to share documents with people I work with. It’s a great way to share the most up-to-date version of documents and other resources without an endless and messy email trail. With Dropbox it’s as simple as placing a document into the shared folder and ‘poof’ it gets synchronized across all computers connected.
This led me to start thinking about syncing some other folders I use for work so that I’d have constant access to them from any computer or my mobile phone. The problems I ran into were: a) files must be in the Dropbox folder b) my entire folder was 5GB+. Dropbox offers 2GB of storage for free, but wants $10/month to upgrade that to 50GB. I find the pricing structure a little expensive. I overcame this second problem by electing to only sync the folders I will be actively using over the next few months, thus reducing the size substantially. However the first problem still existed: I didn’t want to have to move the files I wanted to sync into the Dropbox folder — they needed to live in their sub-folder structure within my main documents folder. I knew there had to be a way to create an alias or linked folder inside the Dropbox that points back to the main folder. The trick is that a simple alias or shortcut doesn’t actually work, you need to create a symbolic link.
Lifehacker covered this exact issue in a great article that points to the Dropbox wiki. The beauty part is that someone has created an automator script (for mac) that lets me right-click and create a symbolic link of any folder I want. I can then place the symbolic link inside the Dropbox folder and everything stays put and in sync.
Canon has released their new crop of cameras. There is some interesting updates, but sadly they seem to have cranked the MP up to 14. Will have to see how this affects the noise and overall image quality. It is nice to see they finally have 720p video with a stereo microphone. It would be nice if they could have started the lens a little wider open than 28mm, but with 14x optical zoom it could be an interesting look.
Another interesting announcement is their updated d-SLR the T2i. Less than a year ago they released the T1i to replace the XSi. With entry level d-SLR’s like this, it’s hard to figure out why anyone (other than the top of the top photographers) would need anything more. the T2i offers 1080p video, 18MP and a whole heap of other internal enhancements.
I think I need a new laptop case. Twelvesouth are making some damn sexy laptop cases. (update: $34 shipping?! No dice.)
The idea of geotagging pictures has been something I’ve written about a lot in the past. I really like the idea of being able to go to a location and see a collection of photos that show the changes in a place over time. Flickr has just done a little post that shows this combination of old and new photos in one shot on their blog. It is a really amazing effect.
Photo by Jasone Powell
There is many examples of these photos on flickr, and many are captured in a gallery called Looking into the Past.
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