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Color management tweak in Firefox 3

June 21, 2008 6:23pm

If the person posting their photos knew what they were doing, they probably converted their photos to sRGB before posting them. Enabling color management in Firefox will have no effect on these images because they're already being displayed properly.

It will only help in the cases where people post photos using the Adobe RGB or ProPhoto profiles & they appear washed out because the browser is assuming they're sRGB images.

Until color management support is much more widespread in the browser, most photographers will continue to convert to sRGB before posting their images online.

Chopping down trees to make books is good for the environment, provided you then line your walls with bookcases

April 20, 2008 7:57am

Our music room is lined with books from floor to ceiling on the external wall--it gives us a place to put them all AND it's reasonably good soundproofing so the neighbors don't complain.

Perfect length for a pop song: 2:42

April 17, 2008 12:32pm

"I used to have this theory that all great singles should be 2 minutes and 58 seconds long. So Joe said to me, 'Just stop us when we get to 2:58.' Well the time was going by and they were cutting a really great version, live, bang on the money. I looked at the studio clock and they were already past 2 minutes and Bill Price said, 'What are you going to do?' There was about 20 seconds to go and I still didn't know what to do. The time came up and I thought sod it, I spoke over the intercom into the studio, right over the track, the tape, everything. Joe sang out, 'Okay okay don't push us when we're hot!' I thought that's it I'm dead, I've ruined the perfect take . . . When they came in the control room everyone was saying what a great track it was and I thought any minute now I'm done for, but nobody said a thing about my voice being right over it."

-- Kosmo Vinyl, referring to The Clash's "Armagideon Time" (taken from the Clash on Broadway box set).

Danny Lyon's 1960s biker photography

March 7, 2008 1:42pm

Danny Lyon is equally well-known for his work photographing the civil rights movement as part of the SNCC. His book "Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement" is well worth checking out.

Worst Band Names of 2007

December 14, 2007 8:36pm

I was a little annoyed when I first heard that my band was on "the list", but I was highly amused once I saw the article. It's not like we don't know our name is dumb . . . we're the ones who came up with it! Besides, if you're in a band and don't have a sense of humor, you may as well quit now--you're in the wrong business.

Also, it was pretty cool of them to link to each band's website--I bet a lot of sites wouldn't have bothered.

IRA from My Precious, Precious Gun (we're in the "Looooooong" section).   :-)

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