http://rcnevada.com "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." Douglas Adams Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:50:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I traded in my Sigma 120-400mm and bought a Nikon 80-400mm. --There was nothing wrong with the Sigma, in fact it focused faster, but I feel more comfortable with the Nikon. I got to Sunset Park just in time for the first annual Duck vs Coot race. Obviously the little guy was ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/10/14/new-lens/ For those of you that have wondered how Google was going to monetize YouTube, here's the first clue. After months of experimenting with long-form video, YouTube said on Friday it would start offering full-length episodes of some television shows on its sprawling Web site. “This is what the users want,” said Jordan ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/10/11/youtube-to-offer-tv-shows-with-ads/ Just a note in case you missed the Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Blog about it. It seems that some of the laptop recovery DVDs from ASUS contain not only the OS and drivers, but extra bonus material. This material includes, among other things: A key cracker that is credited to “Freddy Cruger”. M$ eyes ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/10/10/asus-ships-secret-information/ US patent number 7,415,666 describes "a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed". ---IBM keyboards, which were the standard for ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/10/09/microsoft-patents-page-uppage-down/ The Mio Knight Rider GPS features the original voice of KITT from the TV show and also has flashing LEDs to simulate the scanner from KITT. Sounds cool right? Ummm, well maybe kinda cool if you're a fan of David Hasselhoff, but it's not as good as it sounds. If you ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/10/08/796/ It's a rare day here in Las Vegas. Last night we had wind and rain. Today the sky is clear and the mountains look close enough to touch. The air is still and temperature is in the high sixties. The birds are noisy and flitting from wire to branch and back. I ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/10/05/beautiful-day/ I built myself a pinhole lens for my Nikon D70 out of some old stainless shim stock and a body cap. I used the finest sewing needle I had, set a 1/2 x 1/2 piece of shim stock on a board and tapped the needle through with a small hammer. This is ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/10/01/pinhole/ I finally tracked down the website that originated this creepily weird pinhole camera made from the 150 year old skull of a thirteen year old girl. It appeared on Wayne Martin Belger's site Boy of Blue Industries. For more incredibly strange cameras start with his camera archive. I doubt that I could ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/09/27/lets-see-you-out-weird-this/ The day that the US government announced the Fannie Mae / Freddy Mac take-over the London Stock Exchange went down for over 6 hours. At first the official line from the LSE was, "We will be investigating this and will do everything we can to make sure this doesn't reoccur." Now ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/09/25/london-stock-exchange-failure/ --EAT AT OWN RISK-- (This should carry a Surgeon General's warning) This recipe was printed in Stuff Magazine but I like this presentation found on The Stanger better. For more pictures click on the link. The recipe from Stuff Magazine: BACON, CHEESE AND BEER DOG Ingredients: 1 hot dog 1 slice of thick-cut bacon 1 can of ... http://rcnevada.com/2008/09/20/deep-fried-bacon-cheese-and-beer-dog/