I just got back the digitized version of all of my dad’s Super 8mm cine film!
What does that mean?
It means we can watch films from my childhood in the 1970s without having to set up a projector!

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I* was in Munich for a meeting on Thursday. I get there about half a dozen times a year. Fly in the night before, get to the hotel late, have a bite to eat**, sleep unsoundly (although its getting better, usually asleep by 1:30am [12:30am UK time]), wake up, have breakfast, walk to [...]

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What better way to celebrate Canada Day than with some arrogant worms.
What Canada is:

What Canada isn’t:

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Way back in the autumn of 1991, Andrew spent some time on the island of Sardinia, in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Italy. He mostly just hung out because he was a) young; b) naive; c) broke. A couple of those days were spent helping pick buckets of grapes and then watching [...]

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If you like pretty pictures and flying, then you’d probably like the “reality art” (does any one else call it that?) over at Flight Patterns. It shows the flights within North America over one day.
I got there through a random read of Wikipedia - its home page featured the article on the WTC7 building. [...]

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I’ve long loved making panoramas. Tonight, I came across this video of the artist Clifford Ross who made a video panorama system. (By the way, both Pop!Casts and TED are two of my favourite sites on the web.)
I simply take several photos from the same height and angle (as best I can manage [...]

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