Public Secrets

Rumours are that Nikon will be anouncing the D200 on September 1st.

Or is is going to be a D80.

Bottomline is, I can’t wait. I just hope it is a full frame version, but I’m afraid Nikon is sticking to the APS size sensors.

Bitter Fruit
Paul Fusco’s photo essay on the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. Produced by Magnum Photos.
Very impressive!

I found a possible Skype killer application; Gizmo. (http://www.gizmoproject.com/index.html).
Gizmo is a free VOIP application which is based on the open protocol
standard SIP.
Why is this important, isn’t Skype the new standard? No, Skype is the hype and nobody has bothered to look under the bonnet. Skype is a locked down box using a propriety protocol and [...]

RESEARCHERS have proved what mothers have been telling their sons all along – erotic images can make you go blind.
A study by US psychologists found people shown erotic or gory images could not process what they were seeing immediately afterwards.
Researchers believe that people in traffic don’t see other cars or pedestrians if the have just [...]

Researchers at the George Mason University have developed a methode which makes it possible to listen in on VOIP calls like Skype. Next counterstep will possible be the encryption of VOIP with Public Key Infrastructures (certificates).

A terror expert in the Netherlands, from the Clingendael institute, thinks that the Dutch government should do something against tools like Google Earth on the internet. These tools would give would-be terrorists too easy access to vulnerable information like; the Dutch main port Rotterdam, government installations, houses of our royal family, etc, etc.
I remember a [...]

“We work very closely with automobile manufacturers because your car is a great place to listen to your iPod,” said Steve Jobs, chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple, at a Tokyo news conference.”We’ve worked with a lot or automobile manufacturers and I’m very happy to report that next year, in 2006, over 1 million cars [...]

The BBC reports that every second a blog is created.
The question is; how many of these blogs stay active and how many sease to exists after ashort while.The question is; how many of these blogs stay active and how many seize to exist after a short while.