December 2005 Archives

NY Times: Google Earth, software that marries satellite images and mapping capabilities, has caused alarm over its display of sensitive sites.

Media Photoshop Retouching. We wanted to show how easy it is to change someone’s appearance in this campaign. Interesting presentation of how photos are retouched to define beauty. Link from boingboing. Here's a link to another piece on boingboing: Photograph retouching expert's gallery about photo retoucher Glenn Feron.

Online Journalism Review: 'Why do I love online publishing?'. Includes comments from the editor in chiefs of NY Times, Cleveland.com, Craig Newmark of Craigslist.org and others.

Interesting transcript with Robin Miller, author of "Point and Click: OpenOffice.org." On the same day, another Washington Post transcript was with Tony Bove, author of "Just Say No to Microsoft How to Ditch Microsoft and Why It's Not as Hard as You Think."

Om Malik on Broadband: After years of being stuck in the slow lane, the US consumers are finally going to get a massive speed upgrade and taste the true broadband for the first time. From a 512 Kbps world to 6 Mbps, then 8 and soon 15 Mbps…. it seems the future has finally arrived. And with that, the question…. how much speed is enough? Can we the consumers really tell the difference between 15 and 30 Mbps? Or is it just a way for the broadband operators to get us to pay more… for something which we might use less.

NY Times: Living with Frank Lloyd Wright. Houses by famous architects are notoriously impractical. So when Frank and Jeanne Cretella bought the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in New York City three years ago, they were worried that the roof might leak.

NY Times: Shafts of ancient ice pulled from Antarctica's frozen depths show that for at least 650,000 years three important heat-trapping greenhouse gases never reached recent atmospheric levels caused by human activities, scientists are reporting...