Some of the conventional wisdom about maintaining rechargeable batteries, ain't so wise for newer Li-Ion batteries.
As you can read on my battery page, Li-ion batteries need a very different kind of care than the old, heavy Ni-Cds and Ni-MH batteries did.
These suggestions only apply with Li-ion batteries. These are the lightweight ones that are custom-fitted to your phone, laptop or camera. They have weird voltages like 3.7V or 7.4V. These are the dedicated batteries used in all modern digital SLRs like the D80, D200, D2X, D100, D50, D70s, Canon 20D and any point-and-shoot that takes a dedicated battery. Hint: these batteries will be marked "Li-ion."
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Bibliographical Generator
Ottobib is a website where you enter the ISBNs of your sources, pick your bibliographical format (MLA, etc.) and click a button. And you have a fully formated bibliography.
NICE!
via LifeHacker (Again!)
NICE!
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How to Make Paper; Photo Essay
This is a great series of photos, I think you could figure out the paper-making process from just these pics, without the captions if you had to.Paper-making is big fun, it's great with kids (they love that they HAVE to dip their hands into the gelatinous sludge of pulp) and it teaches some positive ethics. For several months I taught developmentally challenged adults paper-making, and they loved it as well.
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Top 10 Lies told to Naive Artists and Designers
Just like every high-school kid should be required to know how to balance a checkbook and write a resume before graduation, every art/design school student should be required to take some small business management classes before they take that sheepskin out into cold harsh world. Sometimes it seems that every other kind of business person looks at creative people as sheep waiting to be fleeced. Most of these things are basic commonsense for any normal businessperson, but you artists are different, because they're doing something they love, they're having fun, it's not REAL work. I'm only guessing this is what these people must think. I swear the "exposure equals payment" arguement must be taught the first week of MBA classes or something.
3 "Do this for us and you'll get great exposure! The jobs will just pour in!"
Baloney. Tell a plumber "Install this sink and my friend will see and you'll get lots of business!" Our plumber friend would say "You mean even if I do a good job I have to give my work away to get noticed? Then it isn't worth the notice." Also the guy would likely brag to everyone he knows about how this would normally cost (X) dollars, but brilliant businessman that he is he got if for free! If anyone calls, they'll expect the same or better deal.
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3 "Do this for us and you'll get great exposure! The jobs will just pour in!"
Baloney. Tell a plumber "Install this sink and my friend will see and you'll get lots of business!" Our plumber friend would say "You mean even if I do a good job I have to give my work away to get noticed? Then it isn't worth the notice." Also the guy would likely brag to everyone he knows about how this would normally cost (X) dollars, but brilliant businessman that he is he got if for free! If anyone calls, they'll expect the same or better deal.
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The Daily Show is as substantive as the "real" news
A lot of people, from your humble dragon to Jon Stewart himself, have suggested with differing porportions of humor and outrage, that the average tv news show is no better than the "fake news." A new study by Professor Julia Fox of Indiana University, actually confirms our jokingly paranoid suspiscions. The Daily Show averaged at least as much "substantive" audio and video coverage during the 2004 presidential election as the major networks' evening news shows. In fact their relevant video clips were frequently longer and slightly less slanted towards short soundbites. While this is funny, back-handed praise for the Daily Show, it is damning to the networks. Will this study change the status quo of television news? Doubtful, but perhaps it will motivate some of us to try and expand our sources of information about our world. Hey, a dragon can dream, right?
Is it time to tune out World News Tonight and tune into The Daily Show? Professor Fox doesn't think so, saying that "we should probably be concerned about both of those sources, because neither one is particularly substantive. It's a bottom-line industry and ratings-driven. We live in an 'infotainment' society, and there certainly are a number of other sources available."
It's ironic that Jon Stewart, who seldom hesitates to criticize the media, is turning out tongue-in-cheek content that is just as substantative. It also demonstrates that the mainstream media may not be so mainstream anymore, and that people looking for in-depth treatments of newsworthy topics are often best served by looking in places other than the evening news or The Daily Show, no matter how funny the latter is.
via Slashdot
Is it time to tune out World News Tonight and tune into The Daily Show? Professor Fox doesn't think so, saying that "we should probably be concerned about both of those sources, because neither one is particularly substantive. It's a bottom-line industry and ratings-driven. We live in an 'infotainment' society, and there certainly are a number of other sources available."
It's ironic that Jon Stewart, who seldom hesitates to criticize the media, is turning out tongue-in-cheek content that is just as substantative. It also demonstrates that the mainstream media may not be so mainstream anymore, and that people looking for in-depth treatments of newsworthy topics are often best served by looking in places other than the evening news or The Daily Show, no matter how funny the latter is.
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