Card Lake in Winter (not even frozen over) in late December.
]]>Card Lake in Winter (not even frozen over) in late December.
]]>This is the old Shaker Mission House on Main Street in downtown Stockbridge, Ma. It is the oldest house in town....
]]>As best I could tell, this is the old entrance to the famous Alice's Restaraunt. You know, the one in Stockbridge, MA made famous by Arlo Guthrie.... It has been bought out, and renamed -- why, I am not sure....
]]>While in Stockbridge, I stayed at the Red Lion Inn, a wonderful old inn from the 1700's that is still in operation today. It is a grand old place, with 4 floors of rooms/suites and several guest houses. There are two red lions that grace the front entrance, one of them being shown here. When my dog walked up to the front entrance with me, he got one look at this lion and froze -- and tried to cower away in fear. Apparently he thought the lion was a real cat! The Red Lion Inn does have a real cat -- a black and white one that roams around the inn at night, but it isn't anything like the bronze lion pictured here....
]]>I went to the cemetery in Stockbridge, MA to find Norman Rockwell's grave site, but when I encountered this interesting set of graves I stopped to photograph them. The Sedwick family apparently has all of their grave sites in a concentric circle around the family patriarch, so when the rapture happens they can all go together.... facinating....
]]>The Main Street Cafe turned out to be one of my favorite digs when I was recently in Stockbrige, MA. Great breakfast and lunch, but a bummer that they weren't open for dinner.....
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I took this photo during a private tour of the Supreme Court this past week. A 12-story spiral staircase made of marble spans the 1st thru 12 floors of the U.S. Supreme Court in a section of the court restricted to employees and Justices.
Hand-held at 1600 ISO.
Mark Frauenfelder:Jamie Olson from California bought some Aquage shampoo, made by SalonQuest, and offered it for sale on eBay. Her eBay listing included her own photos of the product.
Soon after, a private investigator hired by SalonQuest, emailed Olson, demanding the she stop selling the shampoo.
Of course, the reason SalonQuest is going after Olson isn't because they don't want her to take photos of the shampoo bottles. It's because they want to control the secondary sales market, and they are trying to use copyright law as an excuse.You are displaying copyrighted Aquage containers in your advertisements," which, according to the private investigator, is a "violation of SalonQuest's legal rights under the federal Copyright Act.
Olson, however, refused to cancel her sales in response to Aquage's threatening email. This week, she got a second email from the company's private investigator:
"On September 7, 2006, this office contacted you on behalf of SalonQuest concerning your unauthorized sales of Aquage products on eBay. Despite being formally notified that you are violating SalonQuest's legal rights, you have continued to list additional Aquage products on eBay. Also, you have continued to display copyrighted Aquage containers in your advertisements, yet another violation of SalonQuest's legal rights under the federal Copyright Act.
"SalonQuest would prefer to resolve this issue amicably. However, unless you immediately and permanently discontinue your sales of Aquage products on eBay and through any other unauthorized channels, SalonQuest has authorized us to forward this matter and your file to its legal counsel for further action.
It argues that it has contracts with its distributors limiting resale of products only to licensed vendors. Therefore, it claims that reselling its products is a breach of its contracts. But Olson never entered into a contract with Aquage. She just bought the shampoo at a store and is now trying to resell it. Aquage's contracts with its distributors doesn't give it the power to control the entire secondary market for its products.For now, Olson isn't backing down. Here's her latest eBay auction for Aquage stuff.Link (Thanks, Greg!)
[Lana Lawrence writes: This issue is having a major impact on a photo project that I was going to begin some months ago -- it is a documentary series of sorts and the likelihood of capturing the issues with a common household product is very high. I have no fear of moving forward with the project, but some sponsors are very nervious given the legal climate....]
Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of hackers, press and others on Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day. After 24 hours of hacking (with a break for a private Beck concert in the Yahoo courtyard the first evening), 54 projects were demo’d to the crowd of about 400 people. Over 3,000 pictures from the event (tagged “HackDay06″) are on Flickr here.
A handful of teams were awarded prizes in categories ranging from “Too Useful” and “Best Schtick” to “Overall Winner”. The overall winner, determined by a quick huddle of judges after the demos (David Filo, Jeff Weiner, Ash Patel, Bradley Horowitz, Chad Dickerson, David Hornik, Peter Fenton, Gina Trapani, Salim Ismail and me) was a hardware/software combination device stashed inside a woman’s handbag.
The winning project, called Blogging In Motion, combined a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures. The device was created by Diana Eng, Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy, pictured to the right along with the device.
The other 53 projects weren’t bad, either. And I had a wonderful time emcee’ing the event. Something special happened at Yahoo this week, and I was very lucky to be part of it. Thank you to Yahoo, and especially Chad Dickerson (head of Yahoo Developer Network) and Bradley Horowitz (VP Product Strategy at Yahoo) for organizing this and inviting me to participate. This needs to become a regular event.
Our previous coverage of Hack Day is here and here.
Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
I ran accross this photo on Flickr and thought I would fall off my chair laughing. This guy photographs wildlife and comes up with some really creative stuff.... Click on the photo to learn more about him and his subjects!
Photo: Copyright 2006 Scott Alan Johnson and blogged through flickr.
Adobe’s No. 1 Selling Consumer Photo Editing Software Offers Fun, Creative Possibilities for Consumers to Showcase and Share Photos in Engaging Ways
London. — Sept. 12, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 5.0 software, a major upgrade to the No. 1 selling consumer photo editing software*. Available for Windows®, Photoshop Elements offers new and more flexible ways for consumers to organize files, edit images with ease and share photos in engaging and innovative ways. Adobe Photoshop Elements allows for quick, one-click fixes to photos with the option of exploring more sophisticated editing techniques.
*Source: The NPD Group (April 2002 to April 2006) based on units sold.
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]]> Showcase and Share Photos in Entertaining WaysPhotoshop Elements software makes it easy to share photos with themed and customisable layouts, multi-page document options for albums and scrapbooks and over 100 framing choices. With drag-and-drop simplicity, photos can be moved and resized within these flexible layouts. The new Map View allows consumers to drag photos to any location tied to an online satellite map to relive memories based on locations where photos were taken.
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Experience Superior Editing
Innovative editing functions give consumers new ways to tackle common photo edits. The new black-and-white conversion tool adds a dramatic and elegant look to photos, instantly converting colour originals to a variety of rich black-and-white photo styles with deep contrast. The new Adjust Color Curves controls allow consumers to achieve the perfect exposure for every image. Photoshop Elements also allows consumers to easily correct camera lens distortion.
For more information, read the full press release at www.adobe.com.
]]>This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.
Your Intellectual Type is Insightful Linguist. This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. And that's just some of what we know about you from your test results."
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Hmmm. Well I wonder what the folks at "tickle" are using for a control group. Is it other online users who take the test? Or is it a random group of people that have been tested in a variety of environments....
I think that I blew one or two of the math questions, but who knows? Without ordering a more indepth report, they don't really give you a sense of what questions were not answered correctly. The summary of my "intellectual type" is accurate, though. I am generally far stronger in the linquistics/spatial categories than I am Math. I generally don't put a lot of stock into standardized I.Q. tests because I think that there is so much more to "Intellegence" than being able to answer questions on a form. I'm thinking of people who have little formal education but are able to do amazing things with their lives. I wonder how Peter Jennings would have scored....
]]>Lights illuminate the sky above the Pentagon in Arlington, VA on the fifth annversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. I have other shots that were taken from my back yard not far away, but they don't include the view of the U.S. Capitol. Standing there tonight taking these photos brought back some of the feelings from that day in 2001, but I think that five years has allowed time for a lot of healing.
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