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Stuff I missed
Ooops. Did I really miss an entire month? Here's some stuff I missed.
First pictures of live giant squid in its natural habitat
New Lifespan Extension Genes Found
Images provide the first documented use of tools among wild gorillas.
"The biggest treasure in history has been located."
Photography links
Nikon's come out with some new cameras, a couple with built in WiFi. The P1 looks nice. via the Digital Photography Blog.
To offer an opposing view, I'll link to toycamera.com "The toy camera photographer eschews the modern developments of camera technology, the reliance on computerised exposure systems, motorised film transport, PPI, TTL, CCD, DOF, the drive for higher and higher resolution, for gizmos, gadgets and carbon fibre tripods. They believe focus is an over-rated commodity in most photographs and a focusing ring to be a needless gimmick on your average camera."
Photofakery "Identifying falsified images can be straightforward if you know a few tricks."
Knowledge links
Find-A-Human - IVR Phone System Shortcuts (USA)
Find out how far you walk - Google map pedometer. Somebody needs to tack on a speedometer so we can figure out how fast we walk so when we plan walking trips we can get an ETA. Something tells me a lot of us will be walking more.
Lots of ways to generate ideas.