The ACLU has been suing over the Patriot Act and the Justice Department has been busy redacting passages out of the court filings… including a quote from the US Supreme Court. Now why would they do that? Were the Supreme Court Justices uttering something to endanger the Republic? Was the Justice Department just doing the [...]
Just in case it is not completely clear yet, the terrorists have definitely won. They kicked off a mind-boggling change in the US, helped along by moronic politicians in this country, that now culminates in mass-jailings of peaceful protesters and “free-spech” zones. A once-free and proud country has been transformed into a third-world police state [...]
Some time ago I bought a Kodak Retinette 1A for my wife, but we both kind of neglected the camera until now… it is a beautiful 35mm camera from around 1963 with a great, sharp lens and a very quiet shutter. Last weekend we took the camera along for a hike along San Francisco’s Crissy [...]
Are you sharing any photos on a P2P network? Well, many other people do. Any search on a Gnutella network reveals thousands of photos, and while many of them are of the… ahem… willingly shared nature, there are always private snapshots that somehow make it into some unwitting user’s shared folder – available for all [...]
Japan must be one of the countries that has changed the most since World War II… it is almost impossible to imagine what Japan must have looked like only two generations ago while wandering through its modern streets. It now embodies the 21st century more than any other place in the common subconscious of this [...]
This Found Film came from a slightly damaged Kodak Duaflex camera I got from eBay. The film is a roll of 620 Ansco Pan film and only the first two pictures were ok, the rest had probably been destroyed when somebody opened the camera without winding up the film. This is the better of two [...]
You know, for a recently liberated country where Democarcy is supposedly now in full swing, there is some remarkably bad news coming out of Iraq. How about this from a British newspaper, the Sunday Herald: “BRITISH forces are arresting children in Iraq and handing them to US forces who interrogate and detain them indefinitely in [...]