Thomas Hawk makes note of this blog dedicated to night photography on Flickr. Check out the Nighthawks – Night Photography blog. Below is an a photo I shot at a country fair in Hinesville, GA in the early 90s. I loved the way a longish exposure at post-sunset dusk could bring out these wonderful purple-to-pink colors in the sky.
Over at personal finance blog Hello, Dollar! they’ve got a great post about how bringing your four times a week can eventually earn you half a million dollars.
So let’s see, four days bringing lunch at $2 plus one day out at $7 equals $15 per week. Eating out every day would cost $35 per week, so I save $20. $20 a week! That’s over $80 a month — that covers my utility bills right there. Who couldn’t use that?
40 years and the miracle of compound interest turns that into $581,826! Nice!
(via Lifehacker)
Update: This image came from a demo Microsoft did in Spain, showing off this detachable QWERTY keyboard for the controller, plus lots of other goodies. LINK
This might make the whole Media Center Extender experience built-into the Xbox 360 a whole lot more useful for those applications requiring more text input than you’d want to hunt and peck with an on-screen virtual keyboard.
(Via Engadget)
Interesting free app from Microsoft, the ‘Location Finder.’ Does a lookup of your location based on your WiFi access point or IP lookup and displays your position on MSN Virtual Earth.
(via Charlie Owen’s Retrosight).