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100 Beautiful Free Textures

100 Beautiful Free Textures

22 Most Used Free Fonts By Professional Designers

22 Most Used Free Fonts By Professional Designers

KXAN/TW Dispute Commentary

I read this commentary entitled I want my NBC today by a KXAN employee. Much like politics I am a bit perturbed by this discussion as in the end the only person getting hurt is the consumer, as always. I could not help but comment,

"While I understand both sides there is the very key element that TW provides the infrastructure to bring cable to your house. In the OTA model the station makes their money off of advertising revenue and that should be the same in the cable model except that money to TW should pay for infrastructure. If I get the product over the air it's free, so what is different with me getting it via cable? The fact that I have 100% access to the station no matter what, so I always get it. The cost involved in getting the cable to my house and providing that infrastructure is huge. I in no way have a dog in this fight other than being annoyed that I don't have the channel. Although I do work in network engineering so have an intimate knowledge of the costs involved in this sort of model. By these corporate entities continuing to not minimize their cost and simply raising their revenue they are simply hurting the consumer who does not have any more money to spend. I am considering dropping my cable anyway, why would I be happier with prices increasing?  KXAN and TW, how about I buy all of my TV from the internet or better yet get it for free?! That way you both lose out on all of my money."

I am just pointing out that these models are old and flawed. Get over it. Find new ways to make money or die out. Don't continue to raise prices and expect consumers to pay MORE money for the same old product. I don't need 10K channels, no one does. Just sell me a decent product for a decent price and figure out how to minimize your cost so that you can make money.

some people call him the gangster of love

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The Best Rap Albums, Mixtapes, and Songs of 2008 (So Far)

A great list.

The Best Rap Albums, Mixtapes, and Songs of 2008 (So Far)

Photographer's Rights Card

The Photographer’s Right is a downloadable guide that is loosely based on the Bust Card and the Know Your Rights pamphlet that used to be available on the ACLU website. It may be downloaded and printed out using Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may make copies and carry them your wallet, pocket, or camera bag to give you quick access to your rights and obligations concerning confrontations over photography. You may distribute the guide to others, provided that such distribution is not done for commercial gain and credit is given to the author.

Photographer's Rights Page

The A-B-C-D-E of Travel Photography

Ever glanced in exasperation at travel photographs wondering why yours taken of the same landscapes or subjects never turn out as stunning?

Great travel photographs share a few similarities even though their subjects may be as different as a sweeping landscape or a brooding portrait.

Below are a few primer concepts that will guarantee better travel shots from even a simple point-and-shoot camera.

The A-B-C-D-E of Travel Photography.

Awesome Uke Artist

I blame Frauenfelder for my obsession with surfing the "tube" for songs on end looking for better Ukelele music. Oh well, it's fun.

Don't Buy a Harmony One Remote

Don't buy the Harmony One remote control, buy the 880 if you must buy one or wait for an RF version of the One. I owned an 890 that I used for IR and it worked great. It had multi-angle IR capability, with the One it seems that you must have it pointed almost exactly at the cabinet to get it to work because of it's one very small IR panel. But in order to use the touch screen you must tilt the remote towards your view this making it fairly useless. I love the layout of the One but have gone back to my 890 because it actually works. What a concept.

21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs

10e20 has a great breakdown of how to get some better shots.

Do you want to sharpen your creative picture taking instincts? Do you want to combine new ideas with your current projects and techniques? These techniques will be better  executed with digital cameras and meant as some direction or guidelines to taking ‘better‘ pictures. You are your cameras best viewfinder!

21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs