Archive For March 2nd, 2004

Polarizers.. Can you see a difference?

This thread is interesting if you’ve wondered what use polarizers are. This message has 2 photos in it, with and without polarizer, and the difference is striking. Here’s a lengthy article linked from the thread above. Lots here. Finally, here’s a technical explanation on how polarizers work!

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Cherry Blossom Girl – C64 rip off?

Has anyone else beside myself and Proinnsias noticed that the beginning of Cherry Blossom Girl by Air sound very like a famous C64 tune? I don’t think so, as even Google hasn’t been very helpful! Ah.. no wonder, it’s the radio mix, not the album version. I am trying desperately to remember what C64 game [...]

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What will NASA announce?

There’s plenty of speculation about what NASA will announce later. Some have serious ideas while the ridiculous is also suggested.

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Spain takes on the world!

Russell spotted this special report in Time magazine on Spain. His time in Spain makes for interesting reading. Bah, I love Spanish culture (except for the smoking!) but perhaps Ireland isn’t such a bad place to live after all!

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Set Yourself Free!

Mike Johnston is looking forward to better weather and suggests ways for photographers to take better photos. Nice, easy to read article and more to do with social engineering than any techincal aspect of picture taking.

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Procmail Sanitizer 1.141 available

The Procmail Sanitizer has been updated and now scans inside zip files. I just tried it with a copy of MyDoom and it quarantined it on the server. Later, After installed Fedora Core 1 on a new server I discovered that Metamail doesn’t ship with FC1. Bad, bad, it’s required for checking the zip files. [...]

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