Anntention: Mac Loves Only!
Do you love you Mac?
I'm not talking about now, with you shiny new iPod video and Intel MacBook Pro, I'm talking about the serious Mac lovers. The ones who have (or have had) a Classic. The ones who stuck with Apple through the Dark Times. The ones with two or more Macs, including that old LC II that hasn't worked in years, but you'll never get rid of it.
If you love you Mac, then go here! It's the official song site for "I Love My Mac" by Daphne Kalfon. A song recently featured on the MacAddict CD and at the MacWorld Expo and now available for download at the iTunes Music Store. There's even a video.
So if you love your Mac. If you REALLY love your Mac, you'll check it out.
A Picture is Now Worth 1,024 Bytes
Nikon, who in my opinion made the best film cameras for newspaper work, is all but getting completely out of the film camera business. Not a big surprise. The switch from film to digital has been a long time coming for a number of reasons, including increasing cost of buying and disposing of the toxic chemicals needed to process film, the increased quality of digital cameras, and the ease and speed at which a digital image can be printed. Increasingly, you're seeing the film media left to a shrinking handful of professionals. It will only be a matter of time before you see the chain store film developers completely replaced by the digital print kiosks.
On a related note, the announcement from Nikon has made me decide to keep my old FM-2 that I used so many years in the newspaper business. One day, I'll put it next to my old manual typewriter as a monument to the past.
Who's on Sci-Fi First?
David sent me a link this morning about the announcement that the new incarnation of the BBC's "Dr. Who" will be premiering on the Sci-Fi Channel this spring. This is one of several announcements of production green lights for Sci-Fi, including a new 12-hour mini series from Steven Spielberg. Spielberg previously co-operated on the 20-hour epic mini-series "Taken," which even though I missed some of it, was excellent. The other cool sounding show involves Stan Lee in a reality contest show called "Who Wants To Be A Superhero" in which follows contestants as they try to create their owne superheros.
Disappointing History
Apparently, scientists have determined that the Donners, of the Donner Party fame, didn't revert to cannibalism as we have all learned in our history classes. They've found evidence that other members of the party, in a separate encampment did, but not the Donners. It's always disappointing when the less interesting truth of history conflicts with what you've learned all your life.
Light at the End of the Breakfast Tunnel
This article about the creation of three glow in the dark, flourescent green pigs causes me to wonder how far we are from glow in the dark bacon.
