Amazing Space Shuttle Photos

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Mummm…. Space Shuttle photos taken with a Nikon D2X. I love a camera with good dynamic range!

The D2X is sweet. Thanks to Nikon and (Palo Alto’s) Keeble & Schuchat, mine arrived in time for last week’s trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to photograph the roll out of space shuttle Discovery from the VAB to the launch pad. Tiny web-sized images do not do the camera justice, but the 11″x17″ prints that I have here are testament to the great capability of the camera to record detail in scenes requiring variously: high dynamic range and long exposures at low light levels. Here are a few examples…

D2X at NASA KSC: Nikon D100/D1/D2 Forum: Digital Photography Review

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Deck Keyboard

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Holy crap! Man…. This is the coolest keyboard I have seen in years! each key has its own LED behind it (84 total), variable brightness (seven levels), USB interface (the plug even has an LED in it), and draws less than 250mA. They come in red, blue (I want!), and yellow. Even the bottom of it looks cool!
This is the perfect keyboard for running ICE on a hot data node down on the BAMA. I’ll take a blue one please.

Deck Keyboard

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MPAA less that Honest?

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I’m shocked that such a fine and upstanding group likethe MPAA could be accused of such a crime… And I was also shocked ot hear that my friend Loretta could not become Pope and that if you surf with IE your computer gets munged up pretty quick…

Two NYPD veterans are being investigated by Internal Affairs for allegedly accepting payoffs from the motion-picture industry to arrest vendors of pirated DVDs, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

Boing Boing: MPAA bribing NYC cops to bust bootleg DVD sellers?

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