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Raining (and Biking) in Seattle

Rusty Umbrella Man Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. August was hot and sunny, and although I know a lot of people go for that sort of thing, it’s not my preferred state. Call me crazy, but I actually prefer the rain and the gray – especially when I have a lot of work to do. ...

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Video Podcast at iTunes Music Store

A friend pointed me to an interesting iTunes development: Crookz, a video podcast (link goes to the iTunes Music Store within iTunes). This is the first I’ve seen of such a beast, though it’s not very surprising; the addition of music video support opened the door for any video. And in fact, there are others ...

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Schneier on Future Emergency Funding

I’ve been utterly agog at the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, mostly due to the massive and clearly preventable loss of life. Security expert Bruce Schneier talks good common sense in an editorial in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Funding security based on movie plots looks good on television, and gets people reelected. But there are millions of possible ...

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Broken Levees

Bush continues to say “we’re fighting terrorists in Iraq so that we won’t have to fight them at home.” But the war in Iraq is actively killing people here in the U.S., in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Although you can’t control when a natural disaster is going to hit, you can prepare for it. ...

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CD Baby’s Excellent Copywriting

I’m a writer, so it pleases me to no end when someone’s words bring a smile to my face. I ordered a CD from CD Baby and received the following email informing me that the CD has shipped: Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed ...

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I Heart iMovie at InformIT

I wrote an article for InformIT, which is now online: I Heart iMovie: Why Apple’s iMovie HD Beats Windows XP Movie Maker 2. Two weeks and six full MiniDV tapes later, I sat down at my PowerBook G4 and fired up a little application that I’d previously launched only once: iMovie. In less than two ...

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I Heart iMovie at InformIT

I wrote an article for InformIT, which is now online: I Heart iMovie: Why Apple’s iMovie HD Beats Windows XP Movie Maker 2. Two weeks and six full MiniDV tapes later, I sat down at my PowerBook G4 and fired up a little application that I’d previously launched only once: iMovie. In less than two ...

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Current TV Survival Guide

My wife is out of town for a few days, which means I get to watch all the television I want. Mostly, this includes shows she has no interest in seeing (such as the documentary Gunner Palace, which arrived today via Netflix). Now I’m sittting on the couch, checking email, and scrolling through channels, one ...

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NYTimes Review HDR-HC1

The only previous option for shooting HDV footage was Sony’s HDR-FX1, a good camera with a $3,500 price tag. In today’s New York Times, David Pogue reviews the HDR-HC1, a new, smaller Sony camcorder that shoots HDV: A Look Ahead at HDTV, Shot by You. The HC1 is much smaller, but also uses only one ...

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The Digital Student at NYTimes

Here’s an interesting special feature at the New York Times: The Digital Student. All sorts of information about equipping your college student. “When I went off to school, what you went off with was your clothes and a car,” said Myle Walsh, an importer in Midway, Utah, whose son, Makena, will be entering the University ...

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