digital camera

Remember burning wood/paper with a magnifying glass? Any bright light source entering your camera lens gets focused on the camera sensor. Over a short time (a couple minutes) it can overheat.

Cameras with an LCD viewfinder ("electronic shutter") should be susceptible to damage by being exposed throughout the time you spend framing the shot.

The real shutter in an SLR would protect the digital sensor. Only now the bright light is shining into your eye while you compose your image. A very fast shutter speed should be required to properly expose a photograph on a bright light source. About the same amount of light should reach the sensor in all properly exposed images--whatever the subject be it the sun, a spotlight, or a powerful flash. Therefore, you should be unable to damage an SLR by photographing a bright midday sun unless the exposure is amiss.

I should remember to take pictures of very bright things very quickly because my camera has an LCD viewfinder.

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I'm posting this message for the archives with source links because I didn't find a concise explanation,

unread books

There are four categories. Sort and repost.

Find background info where I saw the list:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/XxBlaze/~3/289815409/unread-books-meme.html

######################### Fun
Catch-22
Life of Pi
Jane Eyre
The Iliad
Mrs. Dalloway
Brave New World
Frankenstein
1984
Angels & Demons
The Catcher in the Rye
Freakonomics
The Hobbit

######################### School
The Odyssey
The Tale of Two Cities (?)
Middlemarch
The Grapes of Wrath

######################### Started, never finished
The Prince

######################### Untouched
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
Pride and Prejudice
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

Score! Retailers retaliate!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2008/05/15/nb-cards.html?ref=rss

Have other jurisdictions created perpetual gift cards?

Who wants to issue unlimited-in-time debt?

Will there be two types of cards?
1) account with non-expiring balance
2) cards labelled like coupons: good this week* only!

It could be "2008" or "May 2008" to avoid the illusion of perpetual
validity.

unlimited potential

I have heard a particular parable (in a few forms) share the message that how we experience the world is our choice through how we react to others and our environment.

A few areas of debate: and the obvious, difficult, choice to make. . .

weather: wear appropriate clothing

religion: provide your freedom to choose to others

aesthetics: wear/decorate with what you enjoy