If you use a Mac and shoot digital photos, you should be using Apple iPhoto to manage them. But my mom — who, for reasons unknown (despite numerous major problems with Windows over the years) — has yet to switch to a Mac. Since she asked for help backing up her photos, I needed to …
Note to Nate Fisher now that I’ve finished watching season three of “Six Feet Under”: please stop saying the f-word so much in front of your baby. Thank you.
Fox cancels “Arrested Development”. Meanwhile, “Yes, Dear” enjoys its fifth season… Related: Die-hard ‘Arrested Development’ fans already feeling sting of loss
The Blame Game If our Iraq adventure ends badly, there will be ample blame to go around. But the buck should stop, as President Harry Truman famously said, in the Oval Office. President Bush was quick to claim credit when things were going well, and he cannot escape blame when things turn ugly. This is …
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Save the Flowers – Would-be scent engineers aim to resurrect lost floral fragrance No one knows what’s responsible for this waning of fragrance by roses and other ornamental-flower varieties, including carnations and chrysanthemums, but scientists who investigate floral scent suspect that the flower breeding that’s led to an estimated 18,000 rose cultivars in an ever-widening …
Why Do-It-Yourself Photo Printing Doesn’t Add Up (NY Times) Despite the ceaseless efforts of manufacturers to convince consumers that printing at home is fast, convenient and a whole lot of fun, the evidence shows that many people are tuning out the marketing. I have to say, I gave up printing photos at home last year. …
Bush Tours Katrina Damage Amid Criticism “I’m not looking forward to this trip,” Bush said as he toured Alabama and Mississippi and headed for Louisiana. “It’s as if the entire Gulf Coast were obliterated by the worst kind of weapon you can imagine,” he said. Why does everything have to be weapon-related with this guy?
In the news: Movie studios worry about box office slowdown And on a completely unrelated note, “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” opens in theaters today.
Bill Keaggy, the guy behind my favorite riding `zine from the old days (it had such an amazing design, done before computer-generated layouts were common), has posted some old-school BMX photos of himself and others on Flickr.