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Monthly Archives: June 2006

pinholga notes

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Time to document the various modifications I had added to my Holga. This is the way it looks now with wirenut-based cable release affixed. If you do this, be careful not to glue the wirenut so close to the shutter release. As it is now, I have to use a cable release all the time, [...]

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not how I read it

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Mark Pilgrim’s list of Ubuntu essentials for ex-Mac users: Cory Doctorow: Mac guru and software developer Mark Pilgrim recently switched to Ubuntu Linux after becoming fed up with proprietary Mac file-formats and the increasing use of DRM technologies in the MacOS. What I read was more like “I lost a bunch of my own metadata [...]

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why do comedians explain civil rights so well?

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Orrin Hatch’s Flag Burning Remix: The fact that the [flag-burning] proposal was defeated by only one vote (no thanks to California’s often bewildering Democrat Diane Feinstein) is disturbing, however, and it got me thinking of comedian Bill Hicks’ infamous rant about flag burning from years back. Hicks’ words resonate strongly in the current political climate, [...]

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