One of the hallmarks of police states everywhere is the internal checkpoint. Think of all the movies you've seen where some Nazi or Soviet bureaucrat---backed up by uniformed thugs---is blocking a road or a train platform and demanding that people "show me your papers!" For a long time, we here in the United States could look down on other countries for their sad practice … [Read more...] about The D.C. Police State
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Today I Am A Man
Well, no, just a photographer. A less wussy photographer. Digital cameras capture images using a light-sensitive sensor at the point where the lens focuses the image. In compact fun cameras, it's sealed away safely inside the camera body, so it stays clean all the time. In a DSLR like mine, however, it can get a little dusty. That's because I can swap the lenses on my camera, … [Read more...] about Today I Am A Man