Here is this morning's playlist. Highlight was definitely the arrival in the mail of new CDs from Ojos de Brujo and Antibalas. Oh, and I'm also intrigued by the latest from Laibach, which is all their interpretations of national anthems from around the world. I'm enjoying being back on the morning shift. We'll see how long that lasts but for now it's a nice way to start the day every other week.
Here's a leftover item from last Sunday's NYTimes, which, alas, shattered one of my consumer illusions, that megapixels mean anything. Oh well, I still like my camera.
Finally, while it is extremely cool that Stephen Colbert now has his own ice cream flavor, I'd be a bit more impressed if Ben & Jerry's had actually come up with something new instead of just taking the nuts out of the discontinued Nutty Waffle Cone flavor. (and bring back the Festivus flavor, dammit)
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I had heard that megapixels weren't the be-all and end-all of digital photo quality but I didn't realize how little impact they have. This is great because I'm very happy with my 5 megapixel camera & had been wondering if I "should" be thinking about replacing it.
Although the author portrays them as nattering nabobs of negativity, I'm in agreement with the people who objected to his first test. I'm hardly an expert but I've seen many times in my own work that if you need a small photo for a web page, the best way to do it is to start with a large file and downsample it in Photoshop. You get a much better image than with a photo that was small to begin with. There's just more detail to work with.