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craigslist | women seeking men in paris -
2 hours and 20 minutes ago
Bonjour! Comment s'appelles? Je m'appelle Erin. Je suis une femme et j'ai 23 ans. J'adore la langue
du France et les gens. Je parle francais et j'adore le compaigne. I hope that you are looking for
somethign a little old fashion because that is who I am. I am currently living in Virginia, USA,
but would be willign to move to France for the right man. I think I am a unique individual who has
the right spark to capture your attention.
So. Here is a little bit about me. I am a single professional woman. I am almost 23. I love to
dance and I love to have fun. I really would love to get married soon and am a huge romantic. I
thought my last boyfriend was the one but things with him just didn't work out.
I am fun, spontaneous, and love to have a good time. My hobbies include photography, dancing (I
took 8 years of dance and 10 years of gymnastics), making movies (my dreamjob is to be a
producer/director/screenwriter in Hollywood and make some decent movies), fashion design, singing,
writing,travelling, and just having fun.
I think that I am a great girl because I am unique. My greatest joy in life comes from making other
people happy and seeing them smile and feel good about themselves. And I love to be a homemaker as
well. There's just something about cooking, cleaning and laundry that makes me happy. I would love
to have a big family and a big home someday. And I thnk that the fact that I'm so young and want to
do these things makes me different from most girls my age. I love to spoil my man (I give great
massages) and just make him my world.
I have great ambitions in life and expect the same from my man. I have a paralegal degree and have
studied French for 7 years. I hope to live in France for a couple of years someday soon. I have a 2
year old son, but he is living with my family currently. I enjoy the finer things in life and
lookign for the same thing in my future husband.
Now, I hate to say this, but I am a bit picky. I love guys who are taller than me (I am around
5'7"). Dark hair and beautiful eyes are my weakness, although I am not against blondes. :) You must
take care of yourself and have a good body. I would love to be able to go to the gym with you and
run once or twice a week. Someone who has a decent job so that we can have a larger family. Race is
not an issue at all for me. But sexy accents are appreciated ;) . Someone who shares some of the
same passions as I do and has the same kind of goals in life. I love BIG cities and family and
friends are VERY important to me.
Oh, & I absolutely adore football. My favourite team is the NY Giants followed by the Colts and
Broncos tied for 2nd. Oh, and my ideal guy would be no more than 3 years my junior or 12 years my
senior...although I am not ruling out any options.
Please, only reply if you are serious and have a picture. I will send you a picture in return. I
can tell you that I have great eyes, great personality and curves in all the right places. I am
abotu 5'7" with auburn hair and blue/green/grey eyes. I have freckles and I love my derrier. If you
want to know more, just ask! Hope to hear from my Prince Charming soon.
-Erin

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we make money not art -
2 hours and 22 minutes ago
ul lia href="http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the_wrong_note/"Frieze Magazine | Archive | The
Wrong Note/abr/ How Western pop music is being used as ‘touchless torture’
by the American military/li lia
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/04/guantanamo-obama-white-house"A toxic legacy |
World news | The Guardian/abr/ One of the first problems Barack Obama will have to address when he
takes office is Guantánamo. What fate awaits its inmates - and how disastrous are the
long-term effects of its very existence, asks Julian Borger/li lia
href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/2149"Thoughts on quot;New Media Artists vs Artists With
Computersquot;/abr/ quot;New Media vs Artists With Computersquot;, artist and blogger Tom Moody
sees the distinction between conceptual photography and art photography made in the 1970s as a
correlate to that between new media artists (i.e. those who exact a high level of mastery over
hardware and software) and artists working with computers now (i.e. those who use computers and
digital technologies in their art practice, often towards a conceptual end and in a more amateur
fashion.)/li lia
href="http://www.resistnetwork.com/info/journal/post/Leaked-BNP-list-published-on-the-web-by-Wikileaks."Resist
- Journal - Leaked BNP list published on the web by Wikileaks./abr/ You may have heard of the BNP
members list that was leaked onto the internet this week by Wikileaks. A few months ago one of the
founders of Wikileaks explained to Resist the power of leaking secrets via the web and the ethical
justifications behind it./li lia
href="http://archinmotion.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/building-of-the-year/"BUILDING OF THE YEAR
laquo; ARCHINMOTION (ar+mo)/a/li lia
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/is-technology-rewiring-our-brains-1051654.html"Is
technology rewiring our brains? - News, Gadgets amp; Tech - The Independent/abr/ Small says the
effect is strongest in so-called digital natives - people in their teens and 20s who have been
quot;digitally hard-wired since toddlerhood.quot; He thinks it#039;s important to help the digital
natives improve their social skills and older people - digital immigrants - improve their
technology skills./li /ul

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Wired Top Stories -
3 hours and 39 minutes ago
pstrong1901: /strongAnimation pioneer Walt Disney and nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg are born.
So, if you've ever thought the Uncertainty Principle was a bit goofy, you may be onto something.
/pp Disney was born in Chicago, but spent much of his childhood on a Missouri farm. He sold his
first sketches to neighbors at age 7. Rejected for military service because he was too young, he
drove a Red Cross ambulance at the end of World War I. He covered the entire vehicle with cartoons.
/pp Disney went to work after the war as an advertising artist in Kansas City and sold his first
animated cartoons. He went to a
href="http://www.norsknettskole.no/fag/ressurser/itstud/fuv/gunnargrodal/bio.htm"Hollywood/a and
partnered with his brother Roy in 1923. /pp Mickey Mouse debuted to the public in the first
sound-synch cartoon, citeSteamboat Willie/cite in 1928. /pp Disney added Technicolor to animation
the 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon citeFlowers and Trees/cite. This first full-color animated
cartoon mdash; and first film of any kind to use the new three-color Technicolor process mdash; won
Disney his first of 32 Academy Awards. The 1937 cartoon citeThe Old Mill/cite was the first short
subject to use the multiplane camera technique, with foreground, mid-ground and background on
separate animation cels at different distances from the camera. /pp Disney's pioneering continued.
1937's citeSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs/cite was the first full-length animated musical feature
mdash; produced at the outrageous cost of $1.5 million ($22.6 million in today's money). /pp In
1940, citeFantasia/cite combined some live action with animation, a process Disney had been working
on since his Kansas City days. He used it extensively in citeThe Three Caballeros/cite, citeSong of
the South/cite and citeMary Poppins/cite. /pp Disney introduced time-lapse film photography to a
wide public with films like citeThe Living Desert/cite and others in his award-winning True-Life
Adventure series. Disney also produced pioneering TV programs in black-and-white and then color.
/pp Southern California's Disneyland, opened in 1955, led the shift from generic amusement parks to
theme parks. It included a futuristic sci-fi Tomorrowland. Disney conceived EPCOT, the Experimental
Prototype Community of Tomorrow near Florida's Disney World, as a showcase for applying technology
to improving people's lives. It was under construction when Disney died Dec. 15, 1966, at age 65./p
p- - -/p pHeisenberg was born the same day as Disney, in Würzburg, Germany. He began playing
the piano early, mastering difficult pieces by age 13. He taught himself calculus and then worked
on a farm for three summers to earn tuition to study physics at the University of Munich. /pp He
studied with Arthur Sommerfield, Max Born and James Franck and earned a doctorate in 1923, the year
Disney went to Hollywood. a
href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1932/heisenberg-bio.html"Heisenberg/a
went to Copenhagen to study under Niels Bohr. /pp Heisenberg described a method for calculating the
energy levels of "a href="http://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Heisenberg-Werner.html"atomic
oscillators/a" in a famous paper, "On Quantum Mechanical Interpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical
Relations." It brought him immediate fame. /pp A second paper, "On the Visualizable Content of
Quantum Theoretical Kinematics and Mechanics," explained his famous Uncertainty Principle: It is
impossible to specify both the exact position and exact momentum of a subatomic particle at the
same time. /p p- - -/p pFor his contributions to quantum mechanics, Heisenberg received the Nobel
Prize for Physics at age 31. It was 1932, the same year Disney won his first Oscar. /pp During
World War II, while Disney was making military-training and civilian-propaganda films for the U.S.
war effort, Heisenberg was director of Germany's uranium project working on an atomic bomb. He was
arrested in April 1945 and remained imprisoned in England until the summer of 1946. /pp After the
war, Heisenberg worked on a unified theory of fundamental particles and on plasma physics and
thermonuclear processes. He was director of the Max Planck Institute and headed a program to invite
visiting scientists to work in Germany. /ppHeisenberg retired in 1970 and died Feb. 1, 1976, nine
years after Disney. /pp emSource: Norsknettskole, Nobel Lectures, Notable Biographies/em /pbr
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
4 hours and 14 minutes ago
Rules:
#1 You may submit only one photo per contest.
#2 The contest runs for exactly one week, from the time stamped on the first post in the thread
(this will be made by the winner of the previous week's contest).
#3 Please refrain from commenting on the photos submitted in the contest. I think that a good
photograph is one that can appeal to someone who may not know much about the technical aspects of
photography. I think it would be best if the judge isn't swayed by someone else's opinion of the
photograph.The judge will decide his/her favorite at the end of the week, place a post listing it
and a short synopsis of why he/she chose that photo. The winner is then responsible for starting a
new thread containing a new contest and topic which again will run for exactly one week.
This weeks theme is Nature. I know this is a rather broad theme, but it should
allow for more submissions. Happy shooting!
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
4 hours and 21 minutes ago
I am quickly running out of storage space on my desktop computer (MacPro 2x2.66 Dual Core / 5 GB
RAM). I have three internal HDs - two 500 GB and a 1 TB I use for Time Machine. My main problem is
the large amount of space used by my iTunes and iPhoto libraries, as well as a ton of DVD
projects... I have close to 400 GB of pictures (my wife is into photography) and I've got GBs of
tunes and movies and the like taking up space as well.
Just looking for advice as to how you would set up a system that will allow me some space. I think
I will eventually need a 1 TB drive just for photos, but then won't I need something even larger
for Time machine? I think I would prefer to just add the storage internally, but that limits me
somewhat, no?
I'm hoping someone smart will have some clearer thoughts to share...
- c
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Guardian Unlimited -
7 hours and 25 minutes ago
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width="1" height="1" //divpChristine looks about 15. She is wearing a pair of vertiginously heeled
ankle boots that make her both tall and a little wobbly and which form the basis of a pretty
remarkable ensemble. She is also wearing fluorescent tights, a clashing fluorescent tutu, a T-shirt
that she appears to have accessorised by snapping a glowstick in two and splashing its luminous
contents over herself, a pair of lens-less glasses that also glow in the dark, and an expression of
profound suspicion. The suspicion is aimed in my direction. "You," she says, narrowing her eyes,
"don't look like a raver. What are you doing here?"/ppThis is a question I started asking myself
the moment I walked into Aberdeen's AECC Exhibition Centre, where the second Clubland Live arena
tour of 2008 is in full swing. Ignored or derided as the apotheosis of cheesy, worthless pop by the
mainstream media, Clubland is nevertheless Britain's "biggest-selling dance brand" - Clubland and
its parent label, All Around the World, have spawned 21 No 1 albums, millions of record sales,
sellout tours, and their own TV channel - and the place is accordingly thronged with kids: primary
school children accompanied by parents wearing weary expressions, gangs of adolescent girls
striding around arm in arm, boys playfighting and getting each other in headlocks, and older
teenagers whose unsteady gait suggests Grampian police's rigorous attempts to stop underage
drinking before the event have met with only partial success. /ppRegardless of age, everyone is
going berserk. The uproar is continuous. Everyone screams at everything all the time - the
performers onstage who do their 20 minutes and scuttle off; the DJs who fill in between them
playing thumping hardcore remixes of Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl, the Sugababes' About You Now
and, most startling of all, Cascada's unlikely cover version of Patti Smith's Because the Night. At
one point, an announcement about the venue's regulations regarding flash photography comes over the
PA, and goes down like the Beatles at Shea Stadium. When the fans really like something, they
express their approval by pelting the stage and each other with glowsticks. The really big acts
appear to be performing under a kind of neon hailstorm./ppIf Clubland's audience isn't
discombobulating enough to an outsider, there are Clubland's stars to contend with. If you're over
21, it seems highly unlikely that any of their names will ring much of a bell, unless you've been
paying very close attention to the album charts or glued to Clubland TV: Kelly Llorenna, September,
Eyeopener, Cascada, N-Force, Darren Styles. You won't have heard them on Radio 1 - the station will
have little to do with them. Clubland's architects, Matt Cadman and Cris Nuttall of All Around the
World, claim that at one juncture they were told by a station representative that they weren't
interested because All Around the World released "music for kids who live on council estates".
"That was one of our favourites," Cadman says. "In fairness, the people at Radio 1 have changed
since then, so you can't really pin that one on them, but I think that statement still has an
underlying truth to it. It's perceived Clubland doesn't reach the kind of people Radio 1 wants to
attract." Clubland TV, meanwhile, was set up in response to the lack of interest other music
channels showed in playing that kind of music./ppTellingly, Cadman says All Around the World began
in the early 90s, releasing big northern rave anthems like Love Decade's Is This a Dream? and
Control's Dance With Me (I'm Your Ecstasy) - "records that no one else understood, that were
popular in the north-west, but no one knew about in London and that remains true to this
day"./ppCertainly there's still a noticeable regional bias to Clubland's appeal (this tour goes no
further south than Birmingham, although the cancellation of a date in Plymouth apparently had more
to do with logistics than a lack of demand). And since the release of the first Clubland
compilation album in 2002, Cadman and Nuttall do seem to have constructed a genuine youth
phenomenon out of the most unlikely ingredients: a selection of thunderingly uncool sub-genres of
dance music that seem to have a peculiar appeal to teenagers too young to go clubbing - bouncy
scouse house, happy hardcore, pop trance - and a stable of artists that you suspect wouldn't get
past reception at any other record company. /ppThere is Ultrabeat, two Liverpudlian DJs called
Chris and Mike. Chris and Mike are funny, friendly and charming and have a string of hits to their
name, notably the 2003 smash Pretty Green Eyes, but, with the best will in the world, more closely
resemble plumbers than pop stars, a fact rather underlined by their videos. These usually feature
Chris and Mike looking a bit lost while women in suspenders lasciviously gyrate around them. "We've
had things before where channels have gone, 'Oh, we don't want to play the Ultrabeat video, I don't
like the guy in it.' But I'm slightly bored with the celebrity thing where everybody's got to look
a certain way," Cadman says. "We're going, 'This is the guy who made this record,' and I think
people relate to that, rather than some good-looking faccedil;ade." As if to prove his point, no
sooner do I sit down with Matt and Chris than a lady asks for their autographs for her teenage
daughter. "Nice to be nice, innit?" says Chris when she departs. "We're all normal people,
everyone's the same, aren't they?"/ppThen there is Blackout Crew, Bolton's faintly terrifying
tracksuit- and hair-gel- heavy progenitors of a genre called donk, whose last video, Put a Donk On
It, has thus far racked up more than 3m hits on YouTube. There is Darren Styles, a former happy
hardcore producer who finds himself, at 34, a slightly baffled teeny pin-up, purveying music that,
on the basis of his Clubland live set, often sounds not unlike a Coldplay piano ballad sung in an
Essex accent and inexplicably retooled with thumping 160bpm beats. "It's a bit daunting for me, to
be honest," he says. "I enjoy it, but you spend 12 years standing behind the decks then you're put
out in front of a huge crowd in a spotlight with a microphone, and it's completely out of my
comfort zone." /ppAnd, most successful of all, there is Scooter, a novelty German rave act who
emerged in the early 90s and managed to spin out their expected 15 minutes of fame into 14 years.
Imagine if the people who made Sesame's Treet had gone on to release 13 albums and sell more than
14m records worldwide, and you get some idea of the sheer improbability of Scooter's career,
although to really grasp how bizarre it is, you need to be conversant with their oeuvre, which is
nuts. Scooter have variously released rave versions of Soft Cell's Sex Dwarf, Marian by the Sisters
of Mercy, Hava Nagila, and the theme tune to Miss Marple. /ppThey've also recorded a medley of Shut
Up and Dance's 1991 hardcore hit Raving I'm Raving with a bagpipe rendition of Scotland the Brave,
and not one but two songs inspired by the work of forgotten mid-80s John Peel favourites Stump.
Their current big thing is jumpstyle, a sort of synchronised hopping dance popular in the
Netherlands, which Scooter have promoted with singles called Jumping All Over the World and Jump
That Rock, a collaboration with Status Quo. If you feel like sniggering at this as precisely the
kind of thing that causes British music fans to feel vastly superior to their clueless continental
counterparts, it's worth noting that, with minimal radio play or media coverage - though there was
a video clip shown on Zane Lowe's MTV show Gonzo, which the excitable Kiwi claimed was evidence
that "music is finally dead" - Scooter's last album entered the British charts at No 1, knocking
Madonna off the top spot. /ppBackstage in Aberdeen, their dressing room features plenty of rock
star trappings, including a cooler full of vodka, a watchful manager there to ensure I don't
overrun my allotted 15 minutes of face time, an immense PA system that apparently forms part of
their pre-gig ritual - "for one hour, very loud music, a few drinks to get you in the mood" - and a
certain bullishness about the derision their music attracts. They have, they tell me, recently been
the subject of a series of paintings by a German artist called Albert Oehlen, who on his website
claims to be "fascinated" by Scooter, "because they have no content, only form". Nevertheless,
questions about Scooter's longevity are met with a shrug from frontman HP Baxxter, resplendent in
skull rings and Black Sabbath T-shirt. "We never stop," he offers. "Nearly every year there is a
new album. Maybe that's the reason why we've lasted so long." /ppThen again, bafflement at your own
success is very much a Clubland trademark. Despite the success of the albums and the TV channel,
Cadman and Nuttall managed to convince themselves the first Clubland tour would be a disaster: it
sold out. Darren Styles says he thought his debut solo album would sell around 20,000 copies. It
sold 22,000 in a week and entered the charts at No 4. "Coldplay were No 1, then Duffy, then Neil
Diamond, then me. It was absolutely bizarre."/ppPerhaps their surprise stems from the fact that
everything about Clubland seems somehow wrong: it's as if it exists in a hermetically sealed
bubble, apart from the rest of the music industry, where all the usual rules are turned on their
heads. The artists are clearly huge stars despite the media blackout. (Styles actually thinks they
might be successful because of the media blackout: "Maybe the fact that it's not so in your face,
it's not all over TV and radio accounts for it's appeal - it seems a bit underground, it's not
something that your mum and dad are listening to.") The TV channel is a huge success, despite
disobeying the most basic principles of a music channel. "If the video's a bit average, music
channels in general go, we love the track, but video's a bit cheap, so we're not going to show it,"
says Nuttall. "We would have a completely different view from that because if the track's brilliant
and the video's a bit average, not big budget, who cares? Kids don't sit there watching TV going,
'Oh, they must have only spent a hundred grand on the video, I'm not watching it.' They like the
tune, pure and simple."/ppAnd the All Around the World label sells vast quantities of CDs to
precisely the audience that everyone assumes never buys CDs. "If you're a 15-year-old and you can
work a computer, you can go and get a track you want in 30 seconds, it's really not that
difficult," Cadman says. "So singles have become less valuable because people just steal them or
Bluetooth them to each other in the playground. The value then becomes in the album. If the album
genuinely is good, if there's not one tune and nine fillers, if there's three or four singles on
it, the pound;8.99 in Asda or Tesco starts to seem like a bargain. For pound;8.99, I'm not going to
download it all, I might as well pay for it. You've just got to encourage the value for money, and
then records will sell physically. Clubland compilations have 60 tracks on them, take us months to
compile, and sell for 10 quid. People trust us, because me and Chris genuinely love the music. It's
not cool or perceived to be cool, but it's what we love. We'll sail with it and no doubt we'll go
down with it when it stops selling."/ppBut there's no sign of that happening for the foreseeable
future. The crowd in Aberdeen don't look like they'll be changing their allegiances any time soon.
As Scooter take the stage, the hail of glowsticks grows denser than ever: HP Baxxter never flinches
or falters, despite the surprising number of them that hit him squarely in the face. They play
their medley of Raving I'm Raving and Scotland the Brave, but no one other than me seems bemused.
They play Jumping All Over the World, and a crowd of boys at the back of the hall break into a
delighted synchronised jumpstyle routine. Christine wobbles past again on her high heels: "You
still here?" I ask her if she's having a good time. "Are you kidding?" she grins. I start to ask
her what she likes about Clubland, but but she doesn't hear - the screaming again -and she wobbles
away into the crowd./ppa href="http://www.clubland.fm/"Clubland.fm/a/pdiv style="float: left;
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/psshootout.jpg" width="807"
height="415" style="display:block;float:none;" /There are a lot of $200-$300 point and shoots on
the market right now, and there's no way the test display at Best Buy is going to tell you which to
buy. How is elbowing other shoppers while analyzing your hasty snapshots on a 3-inch, low-rez
screen going to help you make an informed buying decision?/p pInstead, I put six of the most
popular point-and-shoots on the market through some major testing. Then I decided on the one that
you should buy without the hedging BS./p pstrongMeet our competitors/strongbr emEach of these
compact point and shoots features optical image stabilization and is priced around $250:/em/p pa
href="http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=camerascamcorderstype=digitalcamerassubtype=tlseriesmodel_cd=EC-TL9ZZBBA/US"Samsung
TL9 ($280)/abr 10MP, 5X zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa
href="http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoActfcategoryid=145modelid=16718#ModelDetailAct"Canon
SD790 ($250)/abr 10MP, 3X zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pa
href="http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Digital-Camera/26120/COOLPIX-S560.html"Nikon
S560 ($250)/abr 10MP, 5X zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa
href="http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551storeId=10151langId=-1productId=8198552921665309170"Sony
W170 ($250)/abr 10MP, 5x zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa
href="http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras-Camcorders/Digital-Cameras/Lumix-Digital-Cameras/model.DMC-FS20K_11002_7000000000000005702"Panasonic
FS20 ($250)/abr 10MP, 4x zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pa
href="http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=13044pq-locale=en_US_requestid=7962"Kodak
M1093 ($200)/abr 10MP, 3x zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pstrongStudio Shoot/strongbr The shots inside were
captured under diffused sunlight in full auto mode at max (10MP) resolution. I won't say that it
wasn't an extreme disappointment that only one camera, the Kodak, was able to shoot with proper
white balance in this situation and offer us colors as they really look (you'll have to trust me on
this one). The other cameras compensated poorly, possibly metering the diffused light as tungsten
light, and producing a fairly cold image because of it.br script type="text/javascript"
charset="utf-8" galleryPost('camerabattlemodo', 6,''); /scriptbr Other than the color, you can't
make out much from the wide shots. But if you blow the images up to their native resolution, there
are huge differences. Even in the web-compressed images here, it's obvious that Canon captures the
most detail:br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/canoncookies2compressed.jpg" width="807"
height="440" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pIt's basically a tie between Sony and Kodak for
second place. Here's what Kodak looks like:br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/kodakcookie2compressed.jpg" width="807"
height="466" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pAnd then there's a pretty hard drop in quality.
Panasonic comes in a solid last place here:br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasoniccookie2compressed.jpg"
width="807" height="384" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pYou can fix the color by manually
choosing a smarter white balance (color temperature), or adjusting the balance in post. But you
can't get the texture of those cookies back. Big win for Canon here./p pstrongMotion
Photography/strongbr It's no secret that many point-and-shoots are horrible for capturing the
spontaneity of a child or pet, in part due to focus lag and often an additional wait before the
shot is actually taken. While DSLRs are the best solution, I wanted to see if any point-and-shoots
could rise to the challenge of capturing some action./p pSo I put them to the test on a Chicago
side street where cars get up to 15-20mph. After repeat testing on each model, once again, we had a
clear winner. Trouble is, it's Panasonic, loser of the resolution match! Panasonic features more
shooting settings than any of its competitors, so my guess is that they spent a lot of time on
optimizing at least this particular preset optimization.br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasonicmotion.jpg" width="807"
height="518" style="display:block;float:none;" /br The remainder of the competition was fairly
close, and I can't say that even the Panasonic model will capture any incredible sports action
photography. But I will say that the Nikon and Samsung seemed to lag more than the others from
button press to shot acquisition. They both tended to have the blurriest shots as well. Here's a
typical result of the Nikon:br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/nikonmotion2.jpg" width="807"
height="556" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongVideo/strongbr Like high-speed
photography, point-and-shoots aren't fundamentally designed for video. But then again, since they
all shoot video, people have begun using them more frequently than they ever used their bigger,
more specialized camcorders, so a test was necessary./p pAfter playing some billiards, I found
Canon's image, though not technically the highest resolution, to be the best. A point as well to
its realistic sound capture of ball on ball action.br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/canonvideo.jpg" width="807" height="476"
style="display:block;float:none;" /br Second place goes to Kodak. Even though you can make out a
great deal of grain on the table's felt surface, it also captures a relatively sharp, pleasantly
contrasty image when you examine each ball.br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/kodakpicnewsss.jpg" width="807"
height="445" style="display:block;float:none;" /br Last place? This title is, once again, reserved
for Panasonic. For some reason, the camera interpreted the red table as some sort of blurry pastel.
And the sound was a like a fast food drive-through speaker.br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasonicvideo.jpg" width="807"
height="454" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongFlash/strongbr We've all been there. It's
late. A friend is in town. Your cameraphone can't hope to capture a shot in your drunken stupor,
especially as you're hanging out in a smokey bar. I'd loved to have recreated this scene precisely
in its brilliance, but instead I opted to take pictures of my cat with the lights low.br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/sonyflash.jpg" width="807" height="529"
style="display:block;float:none;" /br It's an unfair challenge for a small-lensed, small-chipped
camera to capture a decent picture in low light, even with flash as a crutch, but the Sony did as
well as I could have hoped, illuminating my subject and her background alike, lacking the hotspots
of most flash photography./p pThe other cameras were predictably mediocre, but the absolute worst
at handling flash had to be the Nikon. Not only did it give my cat a washed-out glow, but it didn't
even consider properly exposing that obnoxious pile of boxes behind her. The shame.br img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/nikonflash.jpg" width="807" height="540"
style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongWeird Features and Gimmicks/strongbr img
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/samsung-tl9.jpg" class="center"
style="display:block;" /None of these items should probably determine your buying decision, but I
wanted to mention a few of the more...interesting features of the cameras. The Samsung TL9 has a
set of snazzy analog dials on top that display battery life and remaining memory like a car's
dashmdash;plus it plays music and movies. The Panasonic has categorized an Intelligent Auto Mode
that gives a lazy but informed user a nice way to tell the camera, "hey, you may need to boost the
ISO," without messing with any other controls or gimmicky menus. The Nikon will warn you if a
subject's eyes are closed. The Canon has ditched the standard up, down, left, right menu dial for a
spinning ring...that's bold, if not always intuitive. And Sony will shoot in 16x9 or stretch images
to that ratio for quick HDTV slideshows. Plus, smile/face detectors are everywhere. How did we ever
take pictures before boxes enclosed a loved one's face?/p pstrongSo What Should You Buy?/strongbr
After all my testing, I'd recommend the Canon SD790. Sure, it didn't win every category, but it won
the one that counts mostmdash;detail. It came first in the video category. And it never ever fell
flat on its face./p pMaybe this conclusion sounds a little too clinical to you. If so, let me say
that there are less tangible elements I appreciate about the Canon SD790: It includes the best
built battery charger and it is the only model tested to sync with a computer via mini USB (as
opposed to some annoying proprietary cable or dock). On top of those, it always seems quick to
capture a shot after I pressed for the shutter, though it's still not nearly as responsive as my
prosumer DSLR. The one thing I'd ask for in this camera is a more powerful zoom lens./p pIf you
know an extreme technophobe, you might tell them about the Kodak M1093. It offers the simplest
shooting experience with one button to choose a photo mode, one button for flash toggling and one
button to actually take a picture. Digital cameras don't get simpler than that, and I have to
admit, as the cheapest model in this roundup ($200), with the least techie brand name, it performs
better than I expectedmdash;though it does have a propensity to bump the ISO, producing some
unwanted noise./p pBut as for the Sony W170, while it does feature the widest angle lens with 5x of
zoom, it's clunky in the hand and rarely brilliant in quality. As for the Nikon S560, it takes
mediocre shots. The Panasonic FS20 is inconsistentmdash;bordering on horrendous much of the
timemdash;and features a small screen and a dated interface. Meanwhile, the Samsung TL9 just
completely fails to impress me./p pSo go ahead, pick up the Canon. It seems the company's
overwhelming market share is well deserved. Or don't. I won't lose sleep or anything. Just don't
come crying to me when all your pictures look like crap./p br style="clear: both;"/ a
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15 hours and 39 minutes ago
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/GizmodoGalleryAnnex.jpg"
style="display:block;" /For a few weeks you've been hearing about the Gizmodo Gallery in NYC,
catching a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/gizmodo-gallery/"plenty of teasers/a for the cool
stuffmdash;contemporary marvels, homemade wundergear and pieces of historymdash;we're showing down
at the Reed Annex on Orchard St. from today 12 noon through Sunday 4pm. Now, for the first time,
we're revealing ithe whole list/i. And it's annotated, for your pleasure./p pbStuff You'll Never
Own/bbr a href="http://gizmodo.com/5098715/at-giz-gallery-103+inch-plasma"Panasonic 103-Inch TV/abr
The biggest production HDTV in the world, this 103-inch diagonal plasma is coincidentally the
largest set we could fit into Reed Annex./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/372072/sony-xel+1-oled-tv-review-verdict-small-on-size-large-on-beauty"Sony
11-Inch OLED TV/abr OLED technology will power all flat-screen TVs in the future, but the
beautiful, high-contrast wafer-thin screens are still excruciatingly expensivemdash;in this case
$230 per diagonal inch, or $2500 for the set./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5042268/draganfly-x6-uav-ufo-thingy-packed-with-carbon-fiber-hdnight-cameras-and-gps"Draganfly
X6 RC Helicopter/abr A carbon-fiber remote-controlled helicopter designed to be stable in 18mph
winds or even if some of its motors die. It's GPS enabled and can be armed with a high definition
camcorder or night vision. And it looks like a Terminator./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/341896/hands-on-with-optimus-maximus-keyboard"Optimus Maximus Keyboard/abr
A keyboard with little OLED screens under each key, which can be programmed to display whatever
character, picture or animation and trigger any keystrokes you want./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/carbon-butterfly-gallery-rc-plane-lighter-than-a-sheet-of-paper-251243.php"Carbon
Butterfly RC Plane/abr This remote-controlled airplane is lighter than a piece of notebook paper
because of lightweight balsa, carbon fiber and Swiss-made gears./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/curvaceous-cell/new-au-infobars-shave-corners-just-need-lube-303709.php"Au
Infobar2/abr Despite it lacking a lengthy feature list, the Infobar2 is the most beautiful phone
from Japan's AU company and I think maybe the most beautiful in the world. On Loan from Gizmodo
Japan and Au./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/nab07-hands+on-red-one-4k-digital-cinema-camera-gallery-252750.php"Red
One Movie Camera/abr A digital movie-making revolution and a future-proof modular platform, the
10-lb. digital video camera shoots pristine 4K-resolution movies with its 12-million-pixel "ultra
high def" sensor./p pbStuff You Might Convince Your Mom To Buy You/bbr a
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/yamahas-ysp+4000-flagship-surround-bar-does-upscaling-hdmi-xmipods-288971.php"Yamaha
YSP-4000 Surround Sound Bar/abr This soundbar is a 5 channel surround sound system that uses cold
war submarine sonar tech to bounce beams of audio against walls and to your ears from different
angles./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/amazon-kindle-live/amazon-kindle-e+book-reader-launch-live-324292.php"Amazon
Kindle Ebook Reader/abr The first wireless E-Ink ebook reader with a cellular connection, so you
can buy and download books without the need for a computer. It bests the paperback but can't be
safely read in the bathtub./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5038693/review-pentax-w60-waterproof-camera-catching-whale-sharks"Pentax
W60 Waterproof Camera/abr I've had many happy times in Hawaii with this camera. It's my favorite
because it works to 30 feet and yet is small enough to pocket without causing a bulge./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/380767/hands-on-yamahas-tenori+on-synthesizer-we-love-it"Yamaha Tenori-On
Music Maker/abr A revolutionary rethinking of the music keyboard, this 16x16 pad of light-up keys
interprets a player's finger strokes and performs a light and sound show in response./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5096518/at-gizmodo-gallery-weird-japanese-usb-gadgets"USB Heated
Gloves/abr Thanko's Gloves use the power from a computer's USB ports to warm your fingers on cold
winter mornings./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5096518/at-gizmodo-gallery-weird-japanese-usb-gadgets"USB Neck Tie/abr
Thanko's USB powered neck ties have a built in fan for hot office afternoons./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/once-upon-a-time/using-belkins-weird-powerstrips-289558.php%3EBelkin%20Power%20Strips%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3EThe%20only%20power%20bricks%20we're%20proud%20to%20display%20have%20clever%20cable%20organizers%20and%20closing%20panels.%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href="Wicked
Lasers Torch/abr Currently pending Guinness records for being the most powerful flashlight of its
kind, the 4100 lumen Torch can easily set paper on fire./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/will-it-blend-crazy-old-man-blends-everything-in-powerful-blender-215611.php"Blendtec
Blender/abr We don't know if Blendtec makes the best blenders, but if they can shred bananas the
way they can shred gadgets on their famous YouTube videos, we're sold./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/383843/casio-exilim-ex+f1-slow+mo-super-cam-full-review-verdict-totally-unique-shockingly-powerful"Casio
Exilim EX-F1 Super-Slow-Motion Camera/abr The first consumer-grade camera to deliver
1200-frames-per-second slow-mo, it can also shoot 60 full-resolution stills per second./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/359388/hands-on-chumby-wi+fi-widget-beanbag-cuddly-in-more-ways-than-one"Chumby/abr
It's an internet machine disguised as a pillow. I use it to check the snow report, play internet
radio, tell the time, check the surf and read the news, but it can run hundreds of additional
widgets./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5099074/aiptek-pocketcinema-v10-pico-projector-review"Aiptek
V10 PMP Pico Projector/abr Battery-powered mini projector plays movies from an SD card, using an
LED to project a picture up to 50" on the wall without burning your hand. One day, all cellphones
will have these./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/wild-charge-hands+on-really-does-charge-wirelessly-227215.php"WildCharge
Charging Station/abr A charging matt that uses nubs on a matt instead of wires to charge your
devices./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5100801/at-gizmodo-gallery-a-never-seen-before-tokyoflash-watch"Tenmetsu
Tokyo Flash Watch/abr Tokyoflash's Tenmetsu watch is one of the cleanest designed of their
collection, and has never been seen before the Gizmodo Gallery./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5018137/3800+piece-death-star-diorama-is-coolest-star-wars-lego-ever"Lego
Death Star/abr This Lego diorama includes 3800 pieces, 21 minifigs and is one of the biggest sets
ever made. It's also the only one that can destroy entire brick planets at will./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/tokyo-found-godzilla-beer-dispenser-roars-when-you-pour-225195.php"Godzilla
Beer Pourer/abr This Japanese gadget looses a Godzilla roar when you lock in a can and serve beer
from its mouth./p pbStuff You'd Have To Make Yourself/bbr a
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/mods/samus-wii-mod-tucks-rolls-explodes-with-goodness-303933.php"Metroid-Modded
Wii/abr Samus tucks, rolls and explodes out of this yellow light-up Wii./p pa
href="http://benheck.com/original-atari-2600-vcsp"Ben Heck Custom Atari VCSp/abr Almost a decade
ago, Ben Heckendorn sparked an entire underground scene of custom, hand-built game consoles when he
deconstructed the classic Atari 2600, transforming it into the Atari VCSp, complete with built-in
screen, sound amplifier, battery power, and aluminum frame. On loan via Ryan Block, gdgt./p pa
href="http://www.coin-operated.com/projects/ipomadness"Jonah's Slot Machine/abr This web 1.0 bubble
art project checked for short URLs and if you land on an available address, you've hit the
jackpot./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5098617/at-gizmodo-gallery-free-diy-laser-etching"Make's
Phil Torrone and His Laser Etcher/abr Yes, our friend Phil from MAKE Magazine is showing up with
his laser etching device to brand custom images onto any and every surface./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5099673/at-giz-gallery-reader-meetup-with-a-back-to-the-future-delorean"Back
To the Future-Modded DeLorean/abr Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. Oh wait, yeah we
domdash;this mod is pre-Mr. Fusion./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5057856/nes-bong-is-one-third-party-nintendo-accessory-you-wont-find-at-gamestop"NES
Bong/abr A Nintendo controller modified into a contraption for smoking tobacco and only tobacco. On
loan from some stoner./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5020490/msi-wind-running-mac-os-x-also-thinks-its-a-mac-pro"PC Running Mac
OS X Using Hackintosh/abr We're partial to Macs at Gizmodo, but there's plenty of nice PC hardware
that we'd love to run Mac OS on, like this MSI Wind Nettop that uses Hackintosh to get it done. On
Loan from Brian X. Chen of WIRED.com/p pa href="http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/"Limor's
Wave Bubble Radio Jammer/abr An open source radio wave jammer that will disable connections like
those from Wi-Fi, GPS, cellular and RF. Illegal. Small enough to hide in a pack of cigarettes./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/super-tv+b+gone-bulked-up-to-90+foot-range-184527.php"TV B
Gone/abr This pocket sized remote spams IR power codes of common TVs to shut off different makes
and models. Not recommended for trade shows. Trust me./p pbThe Stuff of History/bbr a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5091517/at-gizmodo-gallery-ancient-apple-phone-prototypes"Apple Phone
Prototype/abr In the early 80's, Frog Design and Apple collaborated on this phone prototype with
electronic check payment and a stylus for use on the monochrome screen./p pa
href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffudder.de%2Fartikel%2F2007%2F07%2F17%2Fdie-design-vorfahren-des-iphone%2Fsl=detl=enhl=enie=UTF-8"Apple
Tablet Prototype/abr From Frog and Apple's "Snow White" design language comes this tablet, looking
very much like a cousin of the IIc./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5098364/at-gizmodo-gallery-the-original-sony-walkman"Sony's First
Walkman/abr The TPS-L2 Walkman did not record and was panned by the press before its release in
Japan in 1979. Right before becoming a huge success. On loan from Sony Tokyo Archives./p pa
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica"First Sony Digital Mavica Cam/abr This 1988
electronic camera paved the way for modern digital cameras. It wrote to a floppy disk and had a TV
output cable./p pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blickensderfer_typewriter"Blickensderfer
Portable Typewriter/abr George Blickensderfer's portable typewriters, introduced around 1892, were
advertised as "The Five-Pound Secretary." The Model 6, first sold in 1906, offered an aluminum
framework, at that time a relatively expensive and rare metal. On loan from Christopher Bonanos./p
pa href="http://www.clickondavid.com/polaroid.html"Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95/abr In the fall
of 1947, the chemist Edwin Land brought a few dozen new cameras and a pile of film to Boston's
Jordan Marsh department store, to demonstrate the instant-photography system he'd developed./p pa
href="http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/83celltech.html"Bell Labs Briefcase
Phone/abr First used in 1984 as an early example of a transportable cell phone (most other cell
phones were car only phones). On Loan from the ATT Archives and History Center./p pa
href="http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/70picture.html"Bell Labs Picturephone/abr
The first Picturephone test system, built in 1956, was crudemdash;it transmitted an image only once
every two seconds. But by 1964 a complete experimental system, the "Mod 1," had been developed and
wasbr displayed at the New York World's Fair, paired to a model at Disneyland. On Loan from the ATT
Archives and History Center./p pa href="http://www.dyson.com/about/story/"Dyson G-Force Bagless
Vacuum/abr James Dyson invented a bagless vacuum, which no one would manufacture because it would
kill bag sales. It was picked up in Japan in 1983, though, and James used the proceeds to launch a
company that today builds the world's suckiest vacs./p pa
href="http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press_Archive/200001/00-002E/"Sony Aibo ERS-111/abr Sony's
first revision of their 1st generation robot pet was able to learn and grow from having puppy-like
logic to dog-like logic. They were too unsophisticated to run or seem very lifelike, but they paved
the way for true robotic toys like the Pleo dinosaur./p pa
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn"First Cameraphone Prototype/abr Philippe Kahn
built the first cameraphone in 1997 out of a digital camera, a laptop and a Motorola handset with
some clever software. To date, well over a billion cameraphones have been sold. You do the math./p
p[Links above wrangled by intern Ericamdash;Thanks Erica!!! And thanks to our host a
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Orchard Street/abr New York, NY 10002/p pstrongGizmodo Gallery Reader Meetup/strongbr The a
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folly, a leading digital arts organisation working in the Northwest of England and online, has
released a new series of ArtCast, this time in association with Art Locates Me. Experience these
podcasts now at www.folly.co.uk/ArtCast. br / br / ArtCast is folly’s ongoing series of
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