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SHOES: Weekend Photography Challenge

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:50:54 +0000

SHOES: Weekend Photography Challenge:

Image by kk+

We’ve all got them – so this weekend’s challenge shouldn’t be too hard – should it?

Shoes come in all shapes, sizes and colours and they reflect the personality,…

The Manhattan Declaration Part X: Summary

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:14:24 +0000

The Manhattan Declaration Part X: Summary:

The Manhattan Declaration, as it turns out, is an attempt by a bunch of religious conservatives to try to defend their least defensible policies (read: indefensible). As a result, it was not…

HJHOP Podcast: Creationist Adventure-Kid Jonathan Park Meets the Gimp!

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:55:55 +0000

HJHOP Podcast: Creationist Adventure-Kid Jonathan Park Meets the Gimp!:

Well, here’s another episode of the HJHOP podcast—number 16, in fact. I never thought my audience would let me live long enough to produce this many. In this episode, I examine a little item…

Scienz teeching

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:44:09 +0000

Scienz teeching:

This monumentally silly page on the CIF belief bit of the Guardian website was probably just there to stir up knee-jerk responses. (There are, naturally, thousands of comments.) But, hey, my…

Canon Powershot SX20 Review

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:13:22 +0000

Canon Powershot SX20 Review:

I’m fairly familiar with the PowerShot cameras so was keen to see a model with a maxi zoom lens. There is a lesser specked model — the Canon PowerShot SX120 IS — but I figured the adventurous…

OK, everyone stop what you are doing...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:54:01 +0000

OK, everyone stop what you are doing...:

Do me a favor and look around and see if my keys are there.

Fuck.

HJ

Sunset on the mountain: Taken on Halkyn commons at the side of...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:56:18 +0000

Sunset on the mountain:

Taken on Halkyn commons at the side of the road.

This is an HDR image made from 5 exposures (-2 to +2) processed in Photomatix.

See where this picture was taken. [?]

The Manhattan Declaration: Euthanasia

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:27:13 +0000

The Manhattan Declaration: Euthanasia:

In my last post I wrote about how the Manhattan Declaration is a call for the religious sacrifice of human beings to a god on a scale never before seen in human history - in terms of the death and…

How to take International Street Portraits

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:33:56 +0000

How to take International Street Portraits:

Few things are more enjoyable than traveling in a foreign country and using your camera as a bridge to connect with locals. Especially in countries and areas which are under developed, you may find…

Bhopal

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:16:42 +0000

Bhopal:

Suketu Mehta writes of greed and irresponsibility over Bhopal. :

Union Carbide and Dow were allowed to get away with it because of the international legal structures that protect multinationals…

8 Things to Bring on a Photowalk

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:07:45 +0000

8 Things to Bring on a Photowalk:

This Guy Might Be Packing Too Much - Image by Brian Auer

This year I have challenged myself to doing 52 Photowalks. I’m leaving the house once a week with my camera and taking photos of…

The Manhattan Declaration Part VIII: Religious Human Sacrifice

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:19:59 +0000

The Manhattan Declaration Part VIII: Religious Human Sacrifice:

Imagine that a solar eclipse strikes the nation. Under the guidance of its religious leaders, the government immediately starts to round up people to be sacrificed. The idea is that, once enough…

Top 20 Popular Point and Shoot Digital Cameras

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:16:29 +0000

Last week we published the Top 10 Popular DSLRs – listed in order of popularity with our readers based upon their purchases at Amazon over the last month or two.

Today we’re publishing a…

My lecture notes for today....

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:54:46 +0000

My lecture notes for today....:

I’m serious—this is everything that I am doing in class today. My students are going to be giving final presentations about their websites during exam week, and it is my job to prepare them for this…

SF Contest stories are online

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:25:40 +0000

SF Contest stories are online:

at TheScian.com. Enjoy. The authors would be glad to see your comments and—am sure—would happily respond.

The stories are a break from the past. They are uncompromising, and hence, I hope, will…

Creationists fuck up everything very badly.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:42:00 +0000

Creationists fuck up everything very badly.:

I’m sorry, but this must be a short post. Tonight, at the recommendation of Animala, I have come across something so incomprehensibly awful that I have to do it up as a podcast, and it is going to…

Science vs religion

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:32:25 +0000

Science vs religion:

A cartoon on geekstir.com

How To Handle Unwanted Critique of Your Photography

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:58:37 +0000

How To Handle Unwanted Critique of Your Photography:

When I first started posting my photos online, I longed for people to take a look and comment on them, but then sometimes I wished they just hadn’t bothered. Not everyone is going to love…

Ironic News International

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:29:51 +0000

Ironic News International:

Rupert Murdoch and his son & heir and employees are getting a bit stressed about the world-wide-web as a threat to their unfeasibly large income stream. For instance, in today’s Guardian,

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By me in the BMJ: the dodginess of drug company trials

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:12:43 +0000

By me in the BMJ: the dodginess of drug company trials:

Here’s a piece by me in the British Medical Journal this week, published online already, and in the print edition this Friday. It’s a head to head with Vincent Lawton, who until recently was head of…