Backyard (with Wide Converter)

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

From the first shoot with my brand-spanking-new Canon S3 IS.

Lion’s Head Lighthouse

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

The lighthouse at Lion’s Head harbour, Ontario, Canada, July 2006.

Click here to see where this photo was taken. (geotagging by BeeLoop SL)

4362_Please Brake for Snakes

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

This sign appeared quite recently on the road near our property. The Bruce Peninsula is known for the endangered Massasauga Rattler, though we’ve never seen one.

From Scott Adams‘ The Dilbert Blog comes an entry about Praying for Sick People, pointing out a study “to assess the benefits of praying for heart bypass patients. It turns out that that the prayed-for group didn’t do any better than the non-prayed-for people. In fact, the people who knew they were being prayed for actually did a little worse.” [emphasis mine]
Meanwhile, wife of recovering film critic Roger Ebert is asking us, in this entry in her husbands blog, “to pray for Roger during his period of recovery and to visualize him being enveloped in healing light. ”
I want him to get better, so maybe I should skip the praying. It’s not worth the risk. She also suggests he’d want us to go to the movies. Nobody has done a study on that, as far as I know. Should be safe.

From the site:
: Below is an image (constructed in Photoshop) of a simple red gradient.
: Imbedded within the gradient is another image. Can you see it?
Just to be clear – if you CAN see it, you ARE colour blind, to some degree.

Reverse Colour Blindness Test

According to this article (link to external site), a certain company (link to the company’s site) is all set to buy or sell-off or merge with this other company (link to their site), which may or may not affect users of this product or service (link to product or service page).
Time will tell what the future holds for that product, but the blogosphere is abuzz with plagiarized speculation and ill-formed ideas bereft of confirmation.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
(via some Blog) (link to some blog)

DevilDucky – David Attenborough: The Lyrebird
In April 2006, to celebrate naturalist David Attenborough’s 80th birthday, the public were asked to vote on their favourite of his television moments. This clip of the lyrebird was voted number one. A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.

This is what prog-rock classics have come to, is it? Just shoot me now.

I’ve been playing with a fun little mashup between Flickr and Google Maps called geotagging. It actually has wider implications beyond this, into GPS and so on, but the Flickr connection is what drew me in. Let’s say I have a photo on Flickr, like this one:
What I can do is go to a tool like BeeLoop geotagr or YUAN. CC Maps and navigate their implementaion of Google Maps to the location where the photo was taken. Then you copy and paste the tags from geotagr, or better, let Yuan CC Maps automatically update your tags in Flickr, including putting a link in the description so that others may also find the location. Very cool. You can even see on the satellite view the two tones of the water where the rivers meet.

The Complete List of Losers (full article here)
1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6. Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9. Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10. dBASE IV (1988)
11. Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12. PointCast (1996)
13. IBM PCjr. (1984)
14. Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
15. Iomega Zip Drive (1998)
16. Comet Cursor (1997)
17. Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
18. IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
19. OQO Model 1 (2004)
20. CueCat (2000)
21. Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
23. Free PCs (1999)
24. DigiScents iSmell (2001)
25. Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)