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Sensor cleaning needn't be that frightening.

So schön es auch ist, das iPhone, aber damit hat er schon recht!

This (Don Hertzfeld's "Rejected") short movie is a MUST to know! So click the link and get to know it!

I've been around for a while now. And I still have to say: ipernity's good, but still not as good as Flickr (technically seen).   UPDATE: Ok, this blog entry was ment as a statement without "justification". As I've been asked some times now, here are a few reasons for my opinion: Flickr's webpages are clean. This makes it easy for the visitors to focus on the pictures of a user. ipernity is wild'n'weird: Most user defined sites just look awful. Like myspace. IEC - instant eye can…

Just a question. Curious about honest answers.

Ok, maybe this is a kind of fun for freaks - but I'm sure you all read my profile yet, haven't you? ;) Ever thought of how it is when you take LSD or such stuff? Tasting the geometry of the things around you? Or hearing images? A few guys gave it a try and developed this little Java Applet: upload images of 64x64 px^2 in size and listen to them. First I thought they'd perform some 2D FFT, but they are not. Just go there and find it out for yourselves! http://www.artificialvision.com/ja…

Ok, the title might be a bit strange, but when thinking about this you might realize, that this is really a hard issue. Ok, short prehistory: Today I was eating a Caesar's Salad in an American Diner around the corner. I ate this kind of salad a long time ago and the two where quite different. Searching wikipedia.org and the net I found some recipes and discussions about which one is the "real" one. The same thing at cocktails: What is a genuine Mojito, or genuine Caipirinha? Mojito: spearmi…

I hate it. Quite a lot people have reported a few months ago, that they only get "anonymous visits". At the moment this also happens to me and I start asking me, if almost anyone has switch on this "privacy feature" of not showing their visits to the pictures they've watched. I mean, come on, why do you click the pictures at all if you do not want its creator to see you??! Or ist it just hits that come from search engines... really out of IP, so to say?

Today I cleaned the CCD of my D70. On the test shots I made before and after, I found (at least) 3 "over sensitive" pixels. It's not hot pixels, I guess. Until now (more accurate research on this topic is still to be done) my first impression is that these pixels do not depend on the ISO, nor do they depend on the exposure time. They are just brighter (and a little more red) than the pixels around them. They're invisible when located in black/dark areas. I just hope this isn't gonna develop i…

Vielleicht solltet ihr mal diesen vertonten Uncyclopediaartikel zum Thema "Dyslexie" anhören (OGG Datei). Falls ihr nicht wisst, was Dyslexie ist: vorher kurz bei Wikipedia vorbeischauen und die ersten paar Sätze der Erklärung lesen. Viel Spass! =)

Whenever I see some TTV pictures I start wondering when it comes into vogue to shoot pictures with a dusty and dirty CCD sensor ;) (sorry dear TTV lovers - just joking. I like ttv too)  

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How funny is that??! =) And this? Years of science and finally we are able to play the Tetris Theme on... Tesla Coils. What an achievement :D

Maybe microblogging (twitter) is a solution for staying more in touch with people. Regular blogging just takes too much time because you want to write down many thoughts. But is microblogging suitable for longer thoughts? I really doubt that! Maybe it's just an instrument to waste energy (storing the information and reading it as you follow too many people) and time (the reason is obviously connected to having followers). So to say, microblogging is likely to just increase the world's total info…

Slowly but surely I am more and more convinced that I must be a machine. Also is twitter.com. I try to sign up at twitter since days now - using the audio captcha. I am not able to pass it. Even I am able to pass it on the issuing company's site. But not on twitter. But maybe they just have a programming error in their code. Who knows.