Photo by SebDaddy.
The Toronto Star had a really nice photo comparison on their front page today. The images I see online don’t seem to really show how dark it was, but I suppose if you compared this photo side-by-side you’d see a difference.
Archive for March, 2008
Lifehacker does a rundown of user submitted suggestions for the best photo organizing solution. As guessed Picasa takes the honours for Windows/Linux while iPhoto seems to be the Mac program of choice for non-professionals. I’m sure more debate will ensue.
The Globe and Mail reported today that Rogers plans to charge users who exceed their allowed bandwidth $5 per gigabyte, up to a maximum of $25. It’s bad enough that they already shape traffic on their network and charge for 7Mbps 10Mbps but only deliver 4-5. With the popularity of online video sharing, photo sharing, video chats, and streaming music (all legal activities) a family of four could go over their month quota, and that $70 a month Internet bill just went over $100. That’s a lot of money for Internet access.
Techcrunch is reporting that phishing scams have finally come to Facebook. Given how connected users on Facebook are, and how stupid uneducated they are in the ways of the Internet, it won’t take long to spread through the network. Just today I got my first bit of Facebook spam on my wall:
“OMG! I found this girl on Yahoo messenger, and she got wild on cam, you have to see it to believe it. She shows anyone, Message [removed] on Yahoo.”
I still get MSN messages every few weeks from people saying, “OMG, is this a photo of you?” with an obviously loaded link attached. Let’s think before we click people. Seriously.
This aerial on one of the final waves of the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach gave Kelly Slater the win, and his second win in as many events on the 2007 ASP World Tour. He also got knocked a number of times in early heats, but found a wave in the dying minutes to take the win. This guy is still ridiculously good, and people are starting to talk 9x World Champion. [ASP World Tour]
A chunk of Antarctic ice about the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed today. The size of Manhattan??
A group of students in the UK invented a disappearing/reappearing nail polish. To get around the ‘no make up in school rule’ they worked with the local University to create a nail polish that was visible when struck with UV light (outside the classroom) but went almost clear when in the hallowed halls of education.
I had no clue how ‘they’ decided when Easter would be every year. Luckily the Toronto Star informed me in a recent article. The reason it moves every year is becuase ‘Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox’. We won’t see an Easter this early again until 2160, so count your lucky eggs.
In a follow up to the previous post, here is a link to a Google Map that displays Wikipedia articles with GPS data on a Google map. The link is from the original blog post about Wikinear (you’d have had to go a few levels in on the last post to find it). Zoom to an area of interest, then wait a few seconds for it to load up new place locations.
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