After being impressed with a professional photographers 1,600 lens that allowed to shoot a whole wedding (pretty much in the dark, from dusk on) without a flash... I research lenses a little bit. The 1,600 dollar one is out of my budget, but this lens does pretty close to the same thing, but for 70 bucks... For that price, it's totally worth a try. (I hear that it feels a bit plasticy and cheap, but takes GREAT photos).

Quoted: Amazon.com: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens: Camera & Photo

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Darth Vader kicks some japanese cops ass... well.... almost...

Quoted: darth vader police japan

Funny follow up articles to the "keving rose is worth 60 million."

Don't get me wrong, I love digg.com... i just agree with BusinessWeek's shotty journalism.

Quoted: 9rules Network is an umbrella that brings together the very best web content from all around the world, and highlights it for all readers to see.

also another one from salon.com owner:
http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/04/businessweek-on-digg/

A Spanish company today announded they had a process to turn Plankton into Oil (which could be used by Diesel vehicles). It’s quite preliminary, but promising. There has been talk of this for some time, but no particular group that said they could do it reproducibly.

Quoted: Reuters |

Interesting/Sad story on PBS last monday night about the "boy in the bubble" from a couple of decades ago. Really sad story.

Quoted: But as the documentary vividly reveals, plenty of nightmares did. An increasingly unstable Vetter became obsessed with the danger of germs, so petrified with fear ...

too funny... i like seeing soap opera craze people of the world uniting together. warm and fuzzies.

ok.... was looking for "New Horizons of Bellevue", a microsoft software training company for my department, but stumbled across "New Horizons" of Seattle/Lynnwood. A Seattle 'Swingers Club'..... QUITE an interesting article about them from Seattle Weekly in 1999.... The quote "Anything goes here..."

Quoted: A rookie swinger checks out Seattle's suburban sex scene and finds couples living the American dream behind closed doors.

here is a bit more background info about the pandora music site, part of the music genome project....

Yikes... (note to self, leave weegie board and wika items at home during trip to India)

Quoted: A family of five has been beheaded in Sonitpur district, north-east India, by a mob who accused them of witchcraft.