img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation_t.jpg'/img: Photo: NASApFloating 190 miles above the Earth's surface, the extraplanetary crash pad known as the International Space Station careens through the sky at an average of over 17,000 miles per hour, making almost 16 Earth orbits a day./p pSet for completion in 2011, it's been a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1204"10 years since construction first began/a on the ISS. The final version will double its current capacity of three residents to six and provide incalculable contributions to science. In honor of its 10th birthday, we've assembled some of our favorite photos from the space station's lifetime. Click through the gallery for a glimpse at one of the world's most impressive sci-fi realities./p pstrongLeft:/strongbr/ Astronaut Piers J. Sellers moves along a truss on the International Space Station, while space shuttle Discovery is docked in July 2006. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation2_t.jpg'/img: Photo: NASApThe Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station with Expedition 18 on Oct. 14, 2008. Visible in the background is the southeastern coast of Tunisia (left), the Gulf of Gab#232;s and the Isle of Jerba (bottom center). Top of the picture points northwest./p pThe Expedition 18 mission brought NASA astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov to the ISS for a six-month stay that relieved two other astronauts of their posts. pOf particular note to Wired.com readers: Videogame icon and now space tourist Richard Garriott (known as Lord British in the citeUltima/cite series) tagged along on the expedition for 12 days before returning to Earth on Oct. 24./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation4_t.jpg'/img: Photo: NASApThe International Space Station is seen here in front of the Earth's horizon, photographed from the space shuttle citeAtlantis/cite as it moves farther away June 19, 2007. /p pDuring the departure and fly-around, the citeAtlantis/cite crew got a look at the station's newly expanded configuration, which included the retraction of an old solar array and the unfolding of a new one on the starboard side of the station.

/p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation6_t.jpg'/img: Photo: NASApDuring a seven-hour, 19-minute spacewalk, astronaut Scott Parazynski cut a snagged wire and installed homemade stabilizers to strengthen a damaged solar array. Parazynski is anchored to a foot restraint on the end of the Orbiter Boom Sensor System./p pMission STS-120 was flown by the space shuttle citeDiscovery/cite and delivered the citeHarmony/cite module. The module, among other things, added 2,666 cubic feet of living space and completed the U.S. core contribution to the ISS./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation7_t.jpg'/img: Photo: NASA pBest known for the insulation-foam scare after the citeColumbia/cite tragedy, STS-118 found citeEndeavour/cite with a puncture in its heat shield. Fortunately the fears that the exposed foam would lead to another catastrophe were needless. /p pciteEndeavour/cite's orbital-maneuvering-system pods and vertical stabilizer are visible in this photo as it docks with the International Space Station. The mission successfully delivered its supplies and modules./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation8_t.jpg'/img: Photo: NASApOn mission STS-122, European Space Agency astronaut Hans Schlegel works to replace a nitrogen tank used to pressurize the station's ammonia cooling system./p pPictured in the photo is the exterior of the new Columbus laboratory, which Schlegel traversed during the six-hour, 45-minute spacewalk. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation9_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Victor Zelentsov/NASApThe station's first female commander, Peggy A. Whitson, walks with cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (center) and Malaysian space tourist Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, who is also the first Malaysian in space./p pThe astronauts are wearing Russian Sokol launch-and-entry suits for Expedition 16. The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 10, 2007, and arrived at the ISS on Oct. 12. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation10_t.jpg'/img: Photo: NASA 
pIn this photo, the Expedition 1 crew members are still training for their upcoming mission a week-and-half prior to the Oct. 30, 2000, launch to International Space Station. /p pThey are (left to right) Soyuz commander Yuri P. Gidzenko, Expedition 1 commander William M. (Bill) Shepherd and flight engineer Sergei K. Krikalev./p pAs the first residents of the ISS, it was this crew's job to unpack all the supply boxes and move in. They stayed a little over four months before returning to Earth./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation11_t.jpg'/img: Photo: NASApThis view of Hurricane Felix was taken from the International Space Station on Sept. 3, 2007, with a 28-70mm lens set at 28mm focal length. /p pThe ISS was located nearly over the coast of eastern Honduras when this image was taken. At approximately noon GMT, Hurricane Felix was moving west at 21 miles per hour. The sustained winds were 165 miles per hour with higher gusts making it a category 5 hurricane. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation12_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Bill Ingalls/NASApPhotographer Bill Ingalls has traveled the world as a photographer for NASA since 1989. Honored by United Press International as one of the top pictures of 2007, Ingalls' photo of the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft shows it being transported by train to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. /p pThe spacecraft launched two days later, bringing the Expedition 16 crew to the International Space Station. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_spacestation/spacestation13_t.jpg'/img: Photo: NASA pRussian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Expedition 17 flight engineer, uses a communication system in the citeZvezda/cite service module of the International Space Station on July 17, 2008. The Russian module provides living quarters and life-support functions./pbr style="clear: both;"/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:9af4e9b99baa80ac985c8370fca352ce:Kk035%2F0L2P5Q7t5%2FeKfQ%2BUKXvtHRPc07iF2IPjROIhjfx0LHW03pHcYI0TyB3latXcGnqMo9KAhNFg%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:40de80a51605e43aa8666b01d653ce92:ru%2FQvBfpHzKeIukFar7bL364mmVeayeC3xPoBG%2BeUra%2F1%2Fd4GsMaxffY%2FWkFB9FVF9PDbWBtwuZE'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:8d167de8e86392709c06933354a94f47:Um32DKGj8m5dc8ATvBGrfpeSbrWr%2Bnf4IRTvnXjxJ%2Bj8yzTUd9xp1u7VNaDUVAqlBaRvSAsyysbi'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:6a3a611fe83f5572670c835a05757835:ByU2Ie3Yr80l1ZcQhsmDSktBJVw1wmJMzoaIEewSSYaf3rp2tK0x5MiIgu9wtwm8qbMw%2FzbfQ0UZ'img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'//a br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=bfca563db639eb47d73fe3664a25fa86p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=bfca563db639eb47d73fe3664a25fa86p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=bfca563db639eb47d73fe3664a25fa86" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=bxhltL"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=bxhltL" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/474334204" height="1" width="1"/

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pOne wonders sometimes, with all the other stuff they've always got going on, if the members of a href="http://www.sonicyouth.com/"strongSonic Youth/strong/a ever have to remind themselves that they're in Sonic Youth. Like, can you picture Thurston, jamming out with a href="/article/record_review/145413-original-silence-the-second-original-silence"strongOriginal Silence/strong/a, thinking, "Oh, crap, a href="/article/news/145351-sonic-youth-link-with-matador-for-next-album"strongwe just signed to Matador/strong/a! I better call Lee and get my lanky behind to the studio!" Or Kim's a href="/article/record_review/50830-free-kitten-inherit"stronghanging out with Yoshimi and Julie Cafritz/strong/a and realizes she's gotta write a bassline for that pesky other band of hers? There's been a wealth of happenings with the members of Sonic Youth lately, though precious little of it has to do with Sonic Youth proper./p pBut more about those side gigs in a minute.../p pFirstly, the four Yoofs managed to get together in the same room recently to collaborate withnbsp;Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and composer Takehisa Kosugi on a brand new piece of music. The piece will soundtrack a new work by the a href="http://www.merce.org/"strongMerce Cunningham Dance Company/strong/a that will debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in mid-April, in celebration of choreographer Merce Cunningham's 90th birthday. The a href="http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=703"strongMerce Cunningham at 90/strong/a piece will be performed on April 16-19. (You might remember the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as being the people who a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/11/03/031103crda_dancing "strongbrought Radiohead and Sigur Roacute;s together/strong/a back in 2003.) br /br /So, yeah. Sonic Youth + Led Zeppelin + dancers = MASSIVE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM EXPLOSION!!!/p pAlso, that traveling, career-spanning a href="/article/news/48683-sonic-youth-plan-career-spanning-art-exhibit"strongart exhibit/strong/a, a href="http://www.sonicyouth.com/main/includes/sensationalpop.html"strong"Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix"/strong/a is on display until January 4 in Bolzano, Italy. It'll move to the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, Germany from January 31-April 26, Konsthall in Malmo, Sweden May 29-September 6, and Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporaneo in Navarra/Nafarroa, Spain from October 2009 through January 2010.br /br /Other than that, and presumably working on their Matador debut, Sonic Youth as a unit has been pretty quiet recently. Individually, though, they have a hell of a lot going on.br /br /Thurston Moore's a href="http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/"strongEcstatic Peace/strong/a label recently offered up an LP from a trio comprised of saxophonist Paul Flaherty, Vampire Belt guitarist (and Thurston's partner in Northampton Wools) Bill Nace, and Thurston himself. The three-track set, emFlaherty/Nace/Moore/em, was crafted last winter, and sports three very amusingly-titled tracks: "Sex", "Drugs" and "Lavender". Northampton Wools promise their debut LP from the label shortly, and Ecstatic Peace will also issue an album by Hat City Initiative, a group featuring Thurston and his brother Gene Moore, as well as a forthcoming collaboration between Thurston and noise god Prurient. Thurston also just issued an ultra-limited edition cassette to a href="http://www.destructiveindustries.net/"strongDestructive Industries/strong/a which they call his "most encompassing and introverted work to date". We'd tell you more about it, except it is sold the hell out. Moore also recently a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/spike-jones-where-the-wild-things-are-1/"stronginterviewed director Spike Jonze/strong/a for emInterview /emmagazine, and introduced a screening of David Bowie videos at NYC's Museum of Modern Art earlier this week.br /br /Moving on, Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley pops up on Spanish singer a href="http://www.christinarosenvinge.com/"strongChristina Rosenvinge/strong/a's recent album emTu Labio Superior/em, which was recorded and mixed by a href="/article/record_review/36646-rather-ripped"strongemRather Ripped/em/strong/a producer John Agnello at Sonic Youth's studio in Hoboken, NJ. 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pThis sort of thing became inevitable once Jack White moved from Detroit to Nashville: He already hired the trumpet player from a local Mexican restaurant to play on the Stripes' a href="/article/record_review/43672-icky-thump" target="_self"strongemIcky Thump/em/strong/a, and now the Raconteurs have corralled bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs and country singer Ashley Monroe for seven-man/one-woman acoustic jam of "Old Enough", a fairly convoluted song from their recent a href="/article/record_review/49603-consolers-of-the-lonely" target="_self"strongemConsolers of the Lonely/em/strong/a. The original version of the song, with its fiddle and acoustic guitar solo, leans toward country, and this version makes that influence explicit. br /br /The most interesting elements are the new ones. With her soft-edged, Parton-esque voice, Ashley Monroe sounds great harmonizing with Brendan Benson White leans in toward acoustic alpha male Skaggs, whose graceful mandolin picking fills the transitions from one section to another. Toward the end, they segue wittily into the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Suzy", and in the video, directed with a shaky hand by photographer Autumn de Wilde, the song ends with repeated punctuation and a smattering of applause for each other. It sounds a bit self-congratulatory, but here's hoping this expanded group has some more crossover-ready covers in them./p pstrongVideo:gt;/strong a href="http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/--205690924" target="_blank"span style="text-decoration: underline;"The Raconteurs [ft. Ricky Skaggs and Ashley Monroe]: "Old Enough"/span/abr /[original version from emConsolers of the Lonely/em; out now on Warner Bros.]/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Tr7LZA4vINbs0XkNEJ2O65iPnYU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Tr7LZA4vINbs0XkNEJ2O65iPnYU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/P_vVJk0pY_E" height="1" width="1"/

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The Camera Club of New York invites emerging photographers, who are not enrolled in undergraduate, graduate or certificate photo programs, to apply for a three-month residency at its Manhattan facility at 336 W. 37th St. Suite 206. A jury will select four residents for 2009. Residents will receive film, paper, and $3,000 stipends, and will have access to CCNY's darkrooms (black and white and color) and shooting studio, up to three printing/shooting sessions per week during a three-month term. Living accommodations not provided.br / br / Please send a CD with 10 images, jpg files only at 72dpi, approx.1024 x 768 pixels (no more than 1 MB), with cv (hard copy) and separate image description list (title, date, medium, dimension--hard copy, please) and any support materials to Camera Club of New York, 336 W. 37th St, Suite 206, NY, NY 10018-4212 by Dec. 13th [b](postmark deadline)[/b].br / br / Applications may also be dropped off (through a mail slot in the door.) Please be sure to label your CD and include SASE for return of materials. Decisions will be announced by Dec. 23. The first residency begins Jan 1, 2009.br / br / For questions, email us at info@cameraclubny.org. 

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FXhome has released PhotoKey 2, the latest version of its greenscreen photography product that’s Mac OS X compatible. The PhotoKey series enables photographers to integrate greenscreen photos into their portfolio.

Almost 14 years after Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion, music photographer Robert John, known for his work as the exclusive photographer for GUNS N' ROSES during the height of their career, has forged a content partnership through Dark Moon Entertainment with Joost, a global web video service whose broadcasts feature television, film, and music programming via the Internet.

This is a problem I've been struggling with for a while and could really use another set of eyes or advice from a fresh perspective.

We're professional wedding photographers who have to develop a very economical storage and backup solution. We shoot about 20 weddings a year averaging 4000 photos a wedding at an average of 25-30mb per photo (we shoot RAW). This equals about 120GB a wedding in raw files and about 2.5TB in RAW files per season.

We also shoot a variety of other projects throughout the year and will be adding video to our workflow this year, which means we need even more space.

Right now we have two Mac Pros. The following is the current plan for storage/backup, I'm looking for people to shoot holes in it so please be brutally honest and give me your best suggestions for improvement.

Machine 1 - 2TB total usable space
- 4 1TB drives running in RAID 10 (which will include booting the OS from the RAID)
- This computer will be used to store RAW data only. RAW photos, and RAW video footage
- When any data is downloaded to this RAID array it will also be downloaded to a Mac Book Pro to be transferred to an offsite backup drive so that at all times we have one on-site raid copy of the files and one offsite single backup of the file
- When this RAID array is full all 4 drives will be removed, one mirrored set will be put in static bags in storage and one set will be placed in a dual bay external enclosure for easy access ***Is it possible to transfer two striped drives from the Mac Pro to the dual bay enclosure while maintaining the striped RAID?***

Machine 2 - 1TB total usable space
- 4 500GB drives running in RAID 10 (which will include booting the OS from RAID)
- This computer will be used to store LIVE working data. Edited JPEGs, albums, business documents, video edits.
- This computer will have the entire 1TB content of the array copied to a 1TB external firewire drive each night for backup (erasing the contents from the previous night). At the end of one week I'll move that firewire drive to an offsite location and replace it with another 1TB firewiredrive. Those two 1TB drives will be switched back and fourth offsite and onsite each week so that the most we could ever lose of LIVE working data is 1 week if our studio burnt down or something.
- Again like above when this RAID array is full all 4 drives will be removed, one mirrored set will be put in static bags in storage and one set will be placed in a dual bay external enclosure


I know that the Mac Pro has two odd sata ports on the motherboard which can be used to plug in two esata connectors. Does anyone think it would be worth plugging in two esata connectors to MACHINE 1 in order to have six 1TB hard drives running in RAID 10 for a total of 3 TB usable space. I've read that it's quite a pain installing those esata extenders on the mobo

- I really want to figure this problem out without using a RAID controller card
- I Do not want to create a linux server to house more than 4 drives
- I Do not want to use 1.5TB drives, as I've read some really negative reviews on them (and I can't risk losing anyones wedding pictures!)
- I Do want to use the Mac Pros existing 4 bays to create a good solution.
- I don't mind switching the drives out once a year and putting them in an enclosure but I don't want to have to take them out more than once a year because a) it means i have to install a fresh copy of the OS and related programs on new RAID 10 drives and b) i don't want a ton of external drives cluttering things up

Obviously eventually we'll be looking at dedicated Xserve type RAID arrays but for now I want to stretch the capabilities of the Mac Pro to find an existing solution.

Thanks in advance for anyone who has even taken the time to read this thread, I know it's super long.

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Professional music photographer Robert John is best known for working with GUNS N' ROSES.

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div style="margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 10px;"posted by Neil/div a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/STW424HWv1I/AAAAAAAAL_Y/tKO3UFy4tb8/s1600-h/tshirt-firsta-2.gif"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/STW424HWv1I/AAAAAAAAL_Y/tKO3UFy4tb8/s400/tshirt-firsta-2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275325791450087250" border="0" //aspan style="font-size:78%;"br //spandiv style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size:78%;"A CBLDF T-shirt. You can buy it and wear it. It will love you and tell the world that you like the First Amendment./spanbr //divbr /A deluge of mail this morning. So far there's about 300 messages saying "Yes, thank you," and "Oh. I get it," and precisely one chiding me for defending the distasteful and saying they 'agreed with Jess'. Jess, on the on the other hand, wrote back to say "span style="font-style: italic;"Thank you/span," and, "span style="font-style: italic;"...donate I will. Believe it or not, I actually own Lost Girls, and plenty of other things that could've, at one point, gotten me bitten by obscenity law... I needed an external prod, and you helped. Off I go to donate.../span" Which made me happy.br /br /The CBLDF website is at a href="http://www.cbldf.org/"http://www.cbldf.org//a. You can buy a basic membership a href="http://www.cbldf.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=mbrshp_c1"here/a, or go and explore the things that they'll give you if you make a donation. Signed a href="http://www.cbldf.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=39"Frank Miller books/a make great gifts. They havea href="http://www.cbldf.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=38" books signed by me/a as well. Also a href="http://www.cbldf.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=24"Prints,/a and a href="http://www.cbldf.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=23"tee shirts/a...br /br /div style="text-align: center;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/STW43Rgk7vI/AAAAAAAAL_o/VEGjtNl1eQg/s1600-h/MemberAppreciation.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/STW43Rgk7vI/AAAAAAAAL_o/VEGjtNl1eQg/s400/MemberAppreciation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275325798266760946" border="0" //aspan style="font-size:78%;"A CBLDF Party invitation. I've never really been sure about that logo myself.br //span/divbr /a href="http://www.cbldf.org/articles/archives/000364.shtml"...and, I've just realised, a party/a. If you're in New York on Friday night (the 5th), you could go. There will be comics people there. Door prizes. Talking fish. Giveaway gift bags.a href="http://www.cbldf.org/articles/archives/000364.shtml" It's at the Village Pourhouse in NYC on 64 3rd Ave at 11th Street, and is free for all current year CBLDF members./abr /br /div style="text-align: center;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/STW43BydwcI/AAAAAAAAL_g/haBlJvX3Vwg/s1600-h/tshirt-hb86-2.gif"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6L1zPW0YW7k/STW43BydwcI/AAAAAAAAL_g/haBlJvX3Vwg/s400/tshirt-hb86-2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275325794046820802" border="0" //aspan style="font-size:78%;"span style="font-family: arial;"Another CBLDF tee shirt. It has Hellboy on it. Mike Mignola drew it. It is for sale. Wear this tee shirt and you will be King of Awesomeness./spanbr //span/divbr /There are span style="font-style: italic;"Entertainment Weekly/span photographers out here at the house. I thought they were shooting my work spaces, but they seem to want me in the photos, so a handful of links and then I will run out and be photographed:br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Sandman's Twentieth Anniversary./spanbr /br /Thespan style="font-style: italic;" LA Times /spaninterviews me starting at a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/dream-a-little.html"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/dream-a-little.html/abr /continuing atbr /a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/neil-gaiman-ala.html"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/neil-gaiman-ala.html/abr /br /And there's a little interview at a href="http://www.metrobostonnews.com/us/article/2008/12/02/01/4156-66/index.xml"http://www.metrobostonnews.com/us/article/2008/12/02/01/4156-66/index.xml/abr /br /...br /br /There. Photos done. I was just handed a href="http://www.elsewhere.org/tarot/vertigo/"a reissue of the Vertigo Tarot/a, celebrating Sandman's 20th, and was pleased, on checking, to discover that the cards were finally on heavier stock... (People have been complaining for fourteen years that their cards crumpled and faded with use.)br /br /a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/12/03/boaudio103.xml"The Daily Telegraph lists the Graveyard Book audiobook/a on their list of Christmas Audiobooks, and it says "span style="font-style: italic;"should raise Gaiman from cult to classic status/span" which gave me pause. I think I span style="font-style: italic;"like/span being a cult author. Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines. The Graveyard Book gets a href="http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2008/12/02/looking-for-some-book-ideas-for-gift-giving/"a gift-giving plug on the YALSA blog/a as well, which is good, because we love librarians here. div class="label_list" style="margin-top: 20px; padding-left: 15px; text-indent: -15px; font-size: 78%/1.4em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: .1em;"strongLabels:/strongnbsp; a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/label/I%20made%20up%20the%20talking%20fish" style="color: #999; text-transform: uppercase;"I made up the talking fish/a/div

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/voyager.JPG" width="414" height="527" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/NewerTech's new Voyager is being billed as the world’s first “Quad Interface” SATA I/II Hard Drive Docking Station with support for FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0, and eSATA for 2.5" or 3.5" drives up to 2TB. /p pBasically, that means you can enjoy plug-and-play access to match your level of performance. It is also completely hot-swappable, so users can change drives while their computer is already running. At $100, it seems like a pretty decent buymdash;but if you can do without Firewire, a USB + eSATA a href="http://gizmodo.com/5027818/lightning-review--brando-multi+function-hard-drive-dock"Brando HDD dock/a with 4 card reader ports can be had for $79. /p blockquotepNEWERTECH ANNOUNCES VOYAGER –/p pWORLD’S FIRST “QUAD INTERFACE” SATA HARD DRIVE/p pDOCKING STATION/p pTurns Any 2.5" or 3.5" SATA I/II Hard Drive up to 2.0TB into an External Drive/p pMac PC Plug and Play Ready - Boot and Swap Drives /p pDecember 2, 2008, Woodstock, IL mdash; Newer Technology, Inc. (NewerTech®) http://www.newertech.com, the leading developer of PC, Macintosh®, iPod®, and iPhone® performance upgrades and accessories, today announced NewerTech Voyager, the world’s first “Quad Interface” SATA I/II Hard Drive Docking Station with support for four interfaces: FireWire® 800/400, USB 2.0, and eSATA. NewerTech Voyager turns any 2.5" or 3.5" Serial ATA (SATA) I/II hard drive up to 2.0TB into a fully bootable and hot-swappable external drive solution. /p pEasy Convenient To Use /p pUsing Voyager is so simple: just insert any standard 2.5" or 3.5" SATA I/II hard drive (up to 2.0TB) into Voyager’s compact docking base and select the fastest of the four interfaces supported by your computer for read/write data speeds of up to 3.0Gb/s. There’s nothing else to install or configure. Voyager saves users the time and inconvenience of installing a hard drive into a computer or using an external hard drive enclosure with limited interfaces and slower speeds. /p pPlug and Play Hot-Swap Ready /p pWith the most interfaces available on the market, Voyager provides Plug and Play ease of use for a fast external hard drive solution that works with both Macs and PCs. In fact, Voyager is so easy to use, that combined with today’s low cost of hard drive storage, users can think of a bare SATA I/II drive as being as convenient to use as a flash memory card, with the same instant access benefits and the addition of huge storage capacity gains. In addition, Voyager is completely hot-swappable for consumers wanting to move multiple drives at will while their computer is on and running. Its unique design and drive eject button makes inserting, using, and removing SATA I/II hard drives a safe and effortless procedure. /p pIdeal Solution for Storage Archives /p pThe ideal solution for storage archives, professional photographers, videographers, and other hard drive storage archivers will no longer need multiple drive enclosures and power supplies for every archived hard drive. “Whether consumers want to re-task an older swapped-out hard drive, need to access multiple drives, or want to add big capacity, low cost external storage capacity to their desktop, Voyager is able to travel any computer user’s data universe needs with ease,” said Grant Dahlke, NewerTech’s Product Manager. “Its design and ‘Quad Interface’ functionality offer high speed ‘slide and swap’ hard drive read/write performance and convenience never before available.” /p pNewerTech Voyager Features: /p p· Supports all 2.5" and 3.5" SATA I/II hard drives up to 2.0TB/p p· "Quad Interface" for maximum system compatibility and data transfer rates/p p· Data transfer rates up to 3.0Gb/s (300MB/s)/p p· Push button drive eject for safe hard drive removal/p p· Hot-Swap functionality for fast access of multiple hard drives/p p· Weighted base and non skid rubber feet for stable operation/p p· 2-Color Status LED: left side blue for power on, right side flashing red for disk activity/p p· Compact design: measures 5.28" x 3.70" x 2.68" inches and weighs 1.35lbs without drive/p p· Whisper Quiet operation - no cooling fan needed/p p· Plug and Play with Macs and PCs/p p· All interface connection cables included/p p· RoHS Compliant/p p· One year w