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The power of Ceiling Cat compels me to post this image:

Kim du Toit is considering buying a new camera, and asked for recommendations.

Since the rest of this post is mostly lists of specs, and will be of little interest to most readers, I’m putting it all below the fold. (However, if you are interested in digital cameras at all, scroll to the end to read Ken Rockwell’s comments on resolution and pixel count.)

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When I saw this on a Michelle Malkin article about envirowhackos, I thought it was an aerial photo.

Um, I was wrong.
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This has been around for a while, but it came up in conversation the other night, and I wanted to find the link for my Dad:

Photopaper Pinhole Cameras.

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An obvious idea that nobody else seems to have caught.

Stunning refutation of psychic phenomena via analogy:

We had been discussing psychics. He was a firm believer in psychic powers, had had psychic experiences, and regularly visited a psychic. His point was, since I had not experienced psychic powers, I would never be able to believe in what he “knew” to be true. You could never prove to a blind man that photography exists, and likewise no one would ever be able to demonstrate to me that psychic powers were real.

OK, give it a shot. How would you refute this?
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Pappa Flash, eat your heart out.

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…And it lasted an endless two minutes.

That’s right, there was actual frozen water! Actually falling from the actual sky!

… In the form of sleet during a moderately intense cloudburst. While I don’t know the numbers, it felt like the temperature before the storm was a frigid 65 degrees or so, but within a couple of hours, it had fallen to an arctic 55 (60, at most). (As I write, it’s about 50, at the ragged edge of human endurance. I may, may, even have to roll down my sleeves when I walk out to the car.)

Meanwhile, Friend Pat, proprieter of the Flaming O Press in balmy Colorado, had to settle for this sad imitation of the season:
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SnappedShot shows us a photo from AP’s Hussein Malla:

AP’s caption:

A Lebanese resident of a Beirut suburb counts U.S. dollar bills that he received from Hezbollah as a compensation for losing his house during the month-long Israeli offensive on Lebanon at a school in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 18, 2006. At a school in south Beirut’s Bourj el-Barajneh neighborhood, Hezbollah members began distributing US$12,000 (Euros 9,300) in crisp cash bills Friday to those who lost their homes in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.

But as SnappedShot points out, the bill in the photo is back-lit, and we should be able to see the security thread. It is not visible.

So, Hezb’Allah is distributing what is ostensibly American cash (because who, after all, would want Lebanese, Syrian, Iranian, or even Euro bills) but is in fact counterfeit. AP (and al-Reuters, among others) are aiding and abetting this criminal act.

And of course, we see the ultimate greed and hypocrisy of the Hezb’Allah and their Iranian backers: they’re not even using their overflowing wealth of petro-dollars to help the people whose homes they’ve destroyed by using them as shields, but are instead victimizing them again with counterfeit money, counterfeit sympathy, and counterfeit faith.

(Via LGF.)

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It’s not just photos being staged or retouched.

Neo-Neocon highlights an extremely misleading AP headline and article:

“Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease fire”–would lead one to believe that Israel had fired rockets at Lebanon in violation of the cease fire. Wouldn’t it?

The first paragraph–”Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads Monday as they returned to still-smoldering scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire ended 34 days of vicious combat between Israel and Hezbollah”–is devoted to the destruction the Lebanese people have suffered.

It’s only in the second paragraph that the writer reveals what the headline refers to, which is the fact that the rockets fired “despite cease fire,” the ones that fell short of their targets in Israel and landed in south Lebanon, were fired by Hezbollah.

AP: Not against the War, but on the other side.