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pharyngula | August 6, 2006
Foreign Dispatches posts some digital camera recommendations, with explanations. I just went through a fair amount of research before going out and getting a new camera myself a few weeks ago, and it's all good—most importantly, his best choice is the same camera I got for myself, the Nikon D50. Whew, what a relief. Don't you hate it when you dump a bucket of loot on something and then you find a good review that tells you you should have got something else?
As he notes, how many millions of pixels you've got are no longer the most important criterion for a good camera. What settled me was…
pharyngula | April 6, 2006My eye is on a lovely little MacBook Pro for myself someday, but I have to say the news about Boot Camp, which allows the Mac to boot into Windows, wasn't at all interesting to me. Now John Gruber explains why it's good news.
I doubt that I'll ever use it, though. Why would anyone want to swap Unix for a Microsoft anything?
pharyngula | March 7, 2006First Gabe and Tycho, and now Josh…it's so cute.
I bought my very first Mac in 1984, the 128K model, with an external disk drive. I later upgraded that to an amazing 512K of RAM, with a 30MB hard drive. I'm a truly godless man, but if I have anything close to religion, it is the Cult of Macintosh.