07 January 2012

06 January 2012

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Immature Bald Eagle

PotD: Immature Bald Eagle

I mis­tak­enly tweeted this morn­ing that I was stak­ing out a golden eagle.  I have a hard time telling imma­ture bald eagles from golden eagles at a dis­tance, but upon closer inspec­tion, I’m pretty sure this is a young bald eagle.  One of these days, I’m going to find a golden eagle! (The focus is a lit­tle soft here.  I had a night­mare of a time today with out of focus shots.  I think I need to stop using the 1.4x teleconverter.)

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Fashion That Beats Facial Recognition

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I love the idea of a SF story in which teen fash­ion is dic­tated by the need to thwart omnipresent mon­i­tor­ing.  The exam­ple images they pro­vide are a must-​​see.

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05 January 2012

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Nervous Sparrow

PotD: Nervous

I’m not sure what this is, but I  believe it’s a brown-​​headed cow­bird.  I had some trou­ble with the bird iden­ti­fi­ca­tion guide online.  Very tiny, eas­ily star­tled bird.  Very hard to get close enough for a shot, usually.

 

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Dreams of Space

Stunning scans of non­fic­tion children’s books about space travel.  Makes my heart ache in a strange way.  Should prob­a­bly get that checked out.

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04 January 2012

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Kestrel

PotD: Kestrel

Beautiful birds, and some of my favorite to pho­to­graph.  Narrowly missed this one tak­ing flight.  Still pretty darn rusty.

 

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Biopixels

A fas­ci­nat­ing devel­op­ment from UC San Diego in biotech­nol­ogy.   It doesn’t seem super-​​practical at this point, but new emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies rarely do at first.   10 years from now, you may have to feed your mon­i­tor and televisions.

via Laughing Squid

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The Case for No Comments

Tobias Buckell did it.  Daring Fireball does it.  There’s a grow­ing trend of turn­ing off com­ment­ing on inter­net web­sites, and at the moment, I have com­ments turned off here while I tin­ker with the site.  Matt Gemmell makes the case for why this is a good idea.

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