- Since he lost the ability to talk or eat, Roger Ebert has turned into one of the world's best bloggers. (He did win a Pulitzer Prize decades ago, after all.) Here he is writing about his new face.
- Why fixed (non-zoom) lenses take better pictures, and let you carry less while doing so.
- Dave Olson's wonderful video from Northern Voice 2010. (He couldn't attend in person because of surgery. I know what that's like.)
- Nick Curran plays the best off-the-hook Little Richard–style rock 'n' roll since the 1950s.
- The sexiest CPR instructional video ever.
- U.S. baby boomers grew up in a time of remarkably low immigration, and that affects their attitudes now.
- Dr. Fritz Sennheiser, who changed the world of headphones, has died.
- The frighteningly ugly new London 2012 Olympic mascots fit right in with the Power Rangers.
- I've started using Google's free embeddable web fonts on this website.
- Nikon's 10 best lenses (actually, it's 12). Also, the company's worst lenses.
- A "thank you BP" cake.
- The Twitter spelling test.
- "Markets did not clean up smog in Los Angeles or bring Lake Erie back to a semblance of life or rescue the California condor from extinction." Indeed, "Political philosophy can never be free of history."
- The Swinger takes any song and makes it all jazzy and swingy, sometimes with hilarious results (such as with Metallica).
- The Big Caption is often poignant or funny. This one made the rounds last week (beware: swearing).
- The evolution of the camera.
- "Microsoft, despite J Allard's best efforts, never went native, never really figured out how be part of [Internet] culture."
- Even if you work full-time, you probably spend more time with your kids than your grandparents did with theirs.
- How the CEO of "identity-protection" site LifeLock had his own identity stolen 13 times (!).
Links of interest (2010-05-28)
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Derek,
Thanks for the Swing Link. Enter Sandman is awesome, but I don't think the Guitar Solo part of the clip jives quite right, You?
I do love it though and thanks for the link!
D/C
I was actually surprised how well Kirk Hammett's guitar solo swung out, given the amount of shreddericity there is in it. Something seemed to go out of whack at the end though, with the swing suddenly going off-beat. Which is kind of cool in itself.