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Digital Photography —

The Panorama feature of most digital cameras is perhaps the most under utilized feature available. Most digital cameras have poor wide-angle focal length. Panoramas effectively eliminate your wide-angle handicap by allowing you to take shots of the entire landscape and then stitch the parts together. Alas, the stitch function and software in most cameras is a manual process and is altogether missing in many digital SLRs.

Enter, Autostitch - download this lightweight stitcher, point it to a directory of images that need to be stitched and watch it work its magic. Another cool benefit of stitching, taking 20 megapixel images from your 5 megapixel camera! Just take 4 shots and stitch them together and you a nice detailed, wide angle 20 megapixel shot - no more megapixel envy.

 

Here is a before and after shot with the final result at the bottom.

The J-Walk Blog —

It's official. From The Onion: Cost of Living Now Outweighs Benefits.

A report released Monday by the Federal Consumer Quality-Of-Life Control Board indicates that the cost of living now outstrips life's benefits for many Americans.

"This is sobering news," said study director Jack Farness. "For the first time, we have statistical evidence of what we've suspected for the past 40 years: Life really isn't worth living."

Admit One / mental gymnasium like sit-ups for your brain —

Very funny stuff. Enjoy yourself.

Science Made Stupid

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The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century Joey deVilla's Weblog — ...my Unitarian Jihad fits my centrist sensibilties quite well: it's Brother Broadsword of Moderation.

You can get your own at the Unitarian Jihad Name Generator. Like any religion, there's an original and reformed version.