SHS Rooftop

Go to the Stadium High school Auction March 21, 2010 for a chance to participate in this adventure.

Cat Ladies

Who's Tagged?

Here's a suspected social network SPAM email you might have received.




Don't click Yes, don't click No.
Just ignore.




Ask-Leo.com

Snopes.com

Labnol.Blogspot.com

eWeek.com

Live on a Bridge

A Fremont Home

Seattle Channel.org



TheBridgeReport.Blogspot.com

Don't EVER talk to the police

Sorry Collin

From Randy Cassingham's Blog:

"Some readers will be a bit puzzled why I would spread this message in my blog: "Do not, under any circumstances, be interviewed by the police without advice from a lawyer." You have a right to remain silent, and I urge you to exercise that right. Especially if you are innocent.

Yes, this pertains to U.S. citizens, and not everyone in other countries have this right. How sad for them! But "Taking the Fifth [Amendment]" isn't something to be ashamed of: it's a cherished important part of our Bill of Rights."

Watch James Duane, a professor at the Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va.






Randy Cassingham's Blog: Don't Talk to the Cops

Pinhole Photography by Incarcerated Girls at Remann Hall, Washington State

Prison Photography






Via Brooks Seymore

Tacoma

Neko Case in Tacoma

Celine Dion and Elvis Presley

Freestyle Volunteer

Judy Lightfoot, formerly a teacher and the Founding Head of Eastside Prep in Kirkland, is a Seattle writer.

Thousands of people in my city who are ambulatory, articulate, and otherwise capable of a social life are isolated from mainstream society, just because they have a mental illness or are homeless. Long-term isolation will damage anyone's sense of balance and integrity, and public services can’t satisfy the human need for personal connection's.

So I choose one individual to meet with every week for one hour of coffee and conversation at a cafe. I also enjoy irregularly scheduled coffee hours with people I meet who live in tent cities.

I don't need specialized knowledge about mental illness or homelessness, or about available resources, because my job isn't to solve someone’s problems. It's just to sit and listen and talk over coffee for an hour. Over time, this interested attention can add up to a transforming gift. And the atmosphere of the public spaces we share would brighten if millions of us contributed one coffee hour per week in this way.

FreestyleVolunteer.WordPress.com

Toxic Waste

The Stranger has posted a provoking article by Brendan Kiley about the Ruston Smelter - its past and touchy future.

The Stranger

One Time $250 Payment

How government announcements should be made

Born Again America

BornAgainAmerican.org

(Founded by Norman Lear)

Religious or Political?

USNews

This is good

This was at a Texas Tech Basketball game.

The two young ladies on the right are six years old. The two in the middle are seven and the one on the left is eight.

What da ya mean

Street Photography

What da ya mean not here

Playing For Change

Song Around the World "Stand By Me"

New York Frog

Nikon D3x

Buy Canon

Bathtime in Clerkenwell

The Real Tuesday Weld

Stadium Dickens Festival Dec. 13th

"Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Be it decreed that all lords, ladies and children shall come and celebrate the 4th Annual Dickens Festival at Stadium, a holiday festival, where Bobbies, Beefeaters and the Queen herself will be on hand to recreate the Victorian London of Charles Dickens.

Characters from Dickens novels walk the street. Food and entertainment fill the area with sights and smells that take you back to another era.



The festival is named after Charles Dickens whose concern for the poor is reflected in novels about their plight. His holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, is loved by many. In keeping with the mission, the festival plans to raise money for the " New Phoebe House", a residential home with a capacity of 16 adults and 10 children of pre-school ages. Residents learn skills to enhance their parenting, independent living, and employment skills. The festival also supports historic restoration and recognition of historic sites.

The festival is held over 10 blocks in the historic Stadium District Saturday, December 13th starting from 11:00am to 6:00pm."

WWW.DickensFestival.net

Dickens Festival.pdf

Animation Tool

ANIMOTO.com

AutoCollage

New gadget

AutoCollage

Flicker Slideshow

From Flickr.com

Vista Photo Search

Photo terms

Vista Search can also be used to located EXIF type information.

Advanced Query terms

TiltViewer

New mini app

TiltViewer

About

An Xmas Weekend

December 9, 2007

Here is the Crossing Band:

HD Photo plug

Released for Photoshop

Microsoft Download: HD Photo Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Software

"HD Photo offers compression with up to twice the efficiency of JPEG, with fewer damaging artifacts, resulting in higher-quality images that are one-half the file size.

In addition, HD Photo offers increased image fidelity, preserving the entire original image content and enabling higher-quality exposure and color adjustments in the image. This new format offers the ability to decode only the information needed for any resolution or region, or the option to manipulate the image as compressed data.

'With HD Photo, we're taking a new approach to creating and editing photos that simply isn't available to photographers with today's formats,' said Amir Majidimehr, corporate vice president of the Consumer Media Technology Group at Microsoft. 'HD Photo fully preserves the original image fidelity with high dynamic range while still allowing for significant improvement in compression size.'

In addition, HD Photo offers both lossless and lossy image compression, and can retain the full dynamic range and color gamut data from a camera's sensor. Also, because making adjustments to common color balance and exposure settings won't discard or truncate data as other common bitmap formats typically do, it's easier to "undo" those changes at a later time. As a result, significantly smaller files can be created while still retaining optimum picture quality."

Press Release

CNet - Vista to give HD Photo format more exposure

"HD Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image formats. HD Photo supports a wide range of features including:

• Multiple color formats for display or print
  
• Fixed or floating point high-dynamic-range image encoding
  
• Lossless or high-quality lossy compression
  
• Efficient decoding for multiple resolutions and subregions
  
• Minimal overhead for format conversion or transformations during decode

HD Photo delivers a lightweight, high performance algorithm with a small memory footprint that enables practical, in-device encoding and decoding. It delivers compression quality comparable with JPEG-2000 and more than twice the quality of JPEG."

Bill Crow's HD Photo Blog

Nisqually Wildlife Reserve

This show was put together using a program called Muvee.
It analyzes the pictures and the music and combines the two. There are a goodly number of themes that can be applied as well.

Smilebox

PC Fair

Click to play Make your own Smilebox

Maritime Fest

Port of Tacoma