My first crack at HDR images. It seemed only fitting that my first attempt be with photos from my favorite place on Earth.
I don’t have a camera that does bracketing so I had to manually adjust the shutter speed for each exposure. All in all, I’m pretty happy with how they came out. what do you think?
As you can tell from the watermark, I don’t have the full version of photomatix. I’m not sure if I’m ready for that investment yet.
Maker Faire – Phoenix.
The first Maker Faire – Phoenix is happening on the 15th of October. Definitely want to check this out.
Fans around Arizona, and the nation, are coping with the loss of local comic book store, Atomic Comics.
Last night, all four stores quietly closed for the last time. No official word on the Atomic Comics site, but the closure has been confirmed by former employees and other sources.
This is a sad moment and I want to add my voice to the throngs of fans and patrons mourning the loss of this great chain of stores. Atomic is where I first picked up great titles like, The Walking Dead, and Chew… they will be missed.
Check out these other sites for more on the closure:
Lightning Octopus
Nerdvana
Skulljammer
Comic Book’d
-note: Thanks to Lightning Octopus for the links, I first found on their post.
Apologies for the prolonged absence, but the last month has required focus in other areas of my life.
The time has come to get back to normal and focus on everyday life.
Yes, this post is deliberately vague, but the important thing here is The Runoff is back! Which I know is exciting news for all six of you.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
As a father, with two little girls, today’s SMBC truly speaks to me.
Once again, xkcd is spot on.
In 2008, tech scholar Nicholas Carr sparked an earnest debate when he proclaimed in The Atlantic magazine that Google is making us stupider.
Habitually link-hopping down the rabbit hole of online information, Carr argued, has degraded our collective attention span and threatens to permanently downgrade our intelligence. Rather than reading for context and nuance, the Internet encourages us to skim for fast facts that lack substance.
But Carr hasn’t spoken the last word in whether the Internet makes you smart or dumb – far from it, in fact.
Not only did his Google thesis quickly attract rebuttals extolling the potential intellectual virtues of Internet use, but the Pew Internet Project, in conjunction with Elon University, also surveyed 371 telecommunications experts to help settle the score. Responding to the question of “whether Google is making people stupid,” a majority of respondents – 81 percent – countered that the search engine and the Internet is doing just the opposite.
via Does the Internet Make You Smart or Dumb? : Discovery News.
I sense a future podcast topic! This topic is something I think about a lot, but I’ll save my thoughts for the podcast.
Don’t let that stop you though… all three of you. What do you think?
p.s. The irony here is I didn’t completely read this article before I linked to it.
*UPDATE*: Check out this related topic over at Wired.com.
