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"Will Nikon introduce a global shutter camera?Yes.The only real question is "when?" I've been following Nikon patents for three decades now, particularly ones pertaining to digital imaging. Nikon has quite a few patents in the global shutter arena, with one of the most interesting one being a hybrid global/rolling shutter patent (just resurfaced by Asobinet in Japan). In that updated patent, the original of which is now eight years old, …

We just closed down Relay’s 2024 St. Jude campaign. Thanks to your generosity, we were able to raise $1,078,348 to further St. Jude’s mission of finding cures and saving children. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. This is an incredible achievement that we share as a community.

Science had always predicted that it had no intersection whatsoever with faith. In the end, the one was the bridge to the other — at least up to a point. As our knowledge peeled back layer after layer of reality, digging ever deeper into the fundamental truths of the universe, the beauty and strange inevitability of its workings seemed to show that spirituality was just wishful thinking; ignorance dressed in …

I have finally managed to finish my 15mm (1:100) Weimar Republic Schupo Sonderwagen of 1921. At least one of these armoured cars was still trundling around Berlin when the Soviets took the city in 1945.The STLs are available at https://www.wargaming3d.com/product/daimler-schupo-sonderwagen-1921/Later on...Unditching rampsI've added a separate STL for the wooden unditching ramps that could be carried over the port rear wheel.However, due to the limitations of the STL format's floating point …

A few days ago a New Jersey indiepop fan shared with me his discovery of a little known band from the UK: The Bed Bugs. At first I thought they were The Bedbugs, who I wrote about time ago. But no, these were different. Not only their name was different, with a space between bed and bugs, but they hailed from somewhere else in the UK, York. The Bed Bugs …

Cover design by Elizabeth Story. Cover art by Mike Mignola. The subtitle tells you everything you need to know about this new collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories from Tachyon. I designed the interior of the book, less floridly than some of my previous designs for Tachyon, and a little more abstractly than I’d usually do for a title such as this. All of the stories have been published before, …

The genocide in Gaza reached its one year mark without any end in sight. 365 days of indiscriminate bombing, the decimation of hospitals, targeted attacks on journalists and aid workers, and mass scholasticide. In the face of this destruction, rigorous analysis of Palestine's history and present has never been more important. That is why we are launching the Verso Palestine Pamphlets. These pamphlets are short, urgent interventions answering pressing questions …

What’s going on, Internet? After reading Jay Hoffmann’s recent post on “Gift Of Code,” he recounts the moment Netscape ended and Mozilla Firefox emerged from the ashes. Caught in a death spiral, and backed by their employees, Netscape instead chose to gift their browser to the open source community and spun off Mozilla as a non-profit to take charge. For years, Mozilla retooled the codebase, piling rewrite on top of …

I grew up with the music of John Williams. It was and continues to be synonymous with blockbuster movies. There’s really no one who’s been able to achieve the musical legacy that he has and maybe never will be. He’s given the world a beautiful gift that we can never fully comprehend or repay. A few methods for how to sort the books on your bookshelves. I suppose also useful …

Traveling in Kham • Jashideley! • Burial in the sky • Kangding, the gateway of Tibet • The Love Song of Kangding • The monastery of Tagong • The Buddhas of Drakgo The city of Drakgo, in Chinese Luhou, is located on the road from Tagong to Garzê, on the banks of the Xianshui, i.e. Freshwater River, which runs along the road. The name of the city seems to come …

Representing suffering—how to do it, when we should do it at all—has long been a subject of debate. At the center of that debate is the role of the audience: how do we, as readers and viewers, witness depictions of violence in images, films, plays, or literature? In On Photography, Susan Sontag suggests that the act of looking, from a distance, is self-regarding. For writer and photographer Teju Cole, this …

My youngest son's football team had a "bye" this weekend so I had some extra time Saturday and put together a few maps for our Horror on the Hill Shadowdark game. ("Horror on the Hill" refers to the old TSR-era adventure module B5 The Horror on the Hill).First up is Guido's Fort - a frontier stockade sitting across the river from the ominous "Horror on the Hill". I put a …

Last year, I introduced you to the Second Hour Sattelberg, a field watch inspired by a key Australian victory in World War Two. Today, I have in my hand the… The post Second Hour Sattelberg Mk2 appeared first on The Time Bum.

Love that command-shift-D means "Send" in Apple Mail and "Discard Draft" in Gmail.

As characters explore dungeons deep and ancient ruins, they often come across decorations from times past. Such decorations serve as excellent vehicles for secrets and clues, single-sentence pieces of history or lore revealed through play. Here are ten types of stonework decorations to keep on hand to improvise the revelation of such secrets and clues. Relief. The projection of an image in which the stonework around the image is carved …