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 Wednesday, September 4, 2002
started 9/4/2002; 2:15:24 AM - last post 9/4/2002; 10:52:22 PM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, September 4, 2002 
9/4/2002; 6:15:24 AM (reads: 5928, responses: 9)
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Blunder and frightening 
| | Woke up to the sound of thunder this morning — something as rare as snow here in Santa Barbara. Walked out on the roof and saw a perfect little thunderhead over Montecito Peak, just east of here. Little forks of lightning. More thunder. |
| | Kinda scary, since this is the main cause of brush fires around here, where it hasn't rained since March. |
| | I went inside, looked on the radar and saw the mini-storm right there, about one mountain wide. |
| | So I hit command-shift-4, which has been the Macintosh partial screen grab command since forever. I took a nice little shot of a one-inch square area, so I could put a little .jpg of the shot in this otherwise innocuous post, just to make the page prettier and all that. (I'm kinda short on visuals here, and I don't like that. I'm actually a pretty visual guy.) |
| | Anyway, Jaguar (OS X v 10.2) saved the picture a .pdf file. I figured that involved a resettable default of some kind, so I looked to Help for an answer. Help told me about Grab, a new program for controlling various kinds of screen shots. Well, it turns out that Grab only saves files as .tiffs. |
| | Why not .jpgs, .pngs or .gifs? Arg. |
| | Anybody know the short-cut answer to making instant .jpgs? Warning: it'll cause many more visuals on this blog. |
Two rights don't make a wrong — just a more righteous argument
| | In this post in the Discussion section, Timothy Phillips provides some well-sourced thinking about our rights to the works of each others' minds. One sample: |
| | Our own Supreme Court has warned us that "the natural tendency of legal rights to express themselves in absolute terms to the exclusion of all else is particularly pronounced in the history of the constitutionally sanctioned monopolies of the copyright and the patent."SONY CORP. v. UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., 464 U.S. 417 (1984), footnote 13. |
Out from under the Persian rug
| | Tim Judah's The Sullen Majority, in the New York Times Magazine, is an encouraging piece. One excerpt: |
| | This widespread access has allowed many young Iranians to follow political or cultural developments anywhere on the planet. But even more significant, perhaps, it has allowed people to talk to one another. The computer has become particularly important in the lives of urban girls, often confined at home by traditionalist parents who, by the same token, have absolutely no clue what their daughters are doing online. |
| | A lot of what they're doing, it turns out, is blogging. For the uninitiated, a blog is a Web log, a kind of online diary or journal. Many blogs, Iranian or otherwise, are boring accounts of people's daily lives, or gibberish-like streams of consciousness. But in Iran, bolstered by the anonymity their computer screens provide, female bloggers are catching attention for their daring and articulate mix of politics, dirty jokes and acid comment. |
Body surfing
| | Halley: I'm noticing all the women's bodies, each so different, all alluring in a strange way. How did we ever get stuck in this woman's magazine wasteland that dictates so narrowly how we should look? |
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lou josephs - Re: Wednesday, September 4, 2002
9/4/2002; 1:09:25 PM (reads: 564, responses: 2)
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Should radio run commericals on 9-11. Walter Sabo quoted in www.rronline.com says we should and radio should be proud of the fact. When is this guy going to start blogging?
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Ralph Hempel - Re: Wednesday, September 4, 2002
9/4/2002; 1:35:16 PM (reads: 631, responses: 0)
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Body Surfing....
Funny how the only body that got Halley at all excited was the young and shapely one :-) The first was too skinny, the other too fat. Sounds a bit like Goldilocks and the Thre Bears.
The irony of the "women's magazines wasteland" comment next to
And in the steamroom, a lovely girl, strong and shapely, beautiful thing to see, gets me feeling sexy and makes me think of a few men I know.
is just too funny.
Cheers, Ralph
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Doc Searls - Re: Wednesday, September 4, 2002
9/4/2002; 3:10:38 PM (reads: 692, responses: 1)
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I don't think we know yet how the country is going to deal with the 9/11 anniversary. I suspect it'll be an a Day of Mourning and Remembrance or something like that. Betcha that's the way TV plays it, and the rest of us will probably follow its lead.
But basically I agree with Walter. Return to normalcy and all that.
As for blogging, I can't forget Walter's posts to the old Broadcast Professionals forum. Blunt, minimal and often misspelled. But that was their charm, too.
I only know him through that old forum. Do you know him well enough to pitch him on the idea?
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Anita Rowland - Body Diversity
9/4/2002; 4:43:57 PM (reads: 579, responses: 0)
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Laurie Edison's book, Women En Large: "collection of photographs that portray beautiful, strong, courageous, powerful, elegant, handsome mid- to super-size women. ... The focus on the beauty and power of fat women provides an unforgettable and radical contrast to the ugly images of fat women which pervade our lives. As if that weren't enough, the text discusses fat oppression and fat celebration, health and body size, fat and sexuality, activity and ability, fat and ethnicity and more."
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guet - pdf -> jpeg
9/4/2002; 5:37:48 PM (reads: 567, responses: 2)
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just open the pdf file in the little Preview app that comes free with OS X, then choose, file>export and select the jpeg format from the popup menu.
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bashyap - Re: pdf -> jpeg
9/4/2002; 5:57:59 PM (reads: 614, responses: 1)
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Jim Woodgett - Re: pdf -> jpeg
9/4/2002; 6:18:10 PM (reads: 683, responses: 0)
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Preview 2 (the "little app") has been significantly empowered in 10.2. It's a great can-opener for a variety of files (as is TextEdit for previewing fonts and ligatures). Not sure why GraphicConverter can't open PDFs though.... maybe version 4.5?
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lou josephs - Re: Wednesday, September 4, 2002
9/5/2002; 2:18:05 AM (reads: 715, responses: 0)
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He was the best man at my wedding..I almost was PD of NJ 101.5 Yeah I know him well enough. I sent him links to this blog and dutch idol Adam Currys..plus mine. It has to be easy for Walter and with his mac it will be..
More later when we know it.
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lou josephs - Re: Wednesday, September 4, 2002
9/5/2002; 2:52:22 AM (reads: 581, responses: 0)
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The Empire has struck back. Windows Media 9 is now in beta.
The encoder doesn't do 95, 98 or nt 4.
The player does 98 thru xp. But no 95 or nt 4 like WM 7
The server is .net so it's Win 2k or xp.
They have added premium services...
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