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| Wednesday, September 4, 2002 |
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Blunder and frightening 
| | Woke up to the sound of thunder this morning — something as rare as snow here in Santa Barbara. Walked out on the roof and saw a perfect little thunderhead over Montecito Peak, just east of here. Little forks of lightning. More thunder. |
| | Kinda scary, since this is the main cause of brush fires around here, where it hasn't rained since March. |
| | I went inside, looked on the radar and saw the mini-storm right there, about one mountain wide. |
| | So I hit command-shift-4, which has been the Macintosh partial screen grab command since forever. I took a nice little shot of a one-inch square area, so I could put a little .jpg of the shot in this otherwise innocuous post, just to make the page prettier and all that. (I'm kinda short on visuals here, and I don't like that. I'm actually a pretty visual guy.) |
| | Anyway, Jaguar (OS X v 10.2) saved the picture a .pdf file. I figured that involved a resettable default of some kind, so I looked to Help for an answer. Help told me about Grab, a new program for controlling various kinds of screen shots. Well, it turns out that Grab only saves files as .tiffs. |
| | Why not .jpgs, .pngs or .gifs? Arg. |
| | Anybody know the short-cut answer to making instant .jpgs? Warning: it'll cause many more visuals on this blog. |
Two rights don't make a wrong — just a more righteous argument
| | In this post in the Discussion section, Timothy Phillips provides some well-sourced thinking about our rights to the works of each others' minds. One sample: |
| | Our own Supreme Court has warned us that "the natural tendency of legal rights to express themselves in absolute terms to the exclusion of all else is particularly pronounced in the history of the constitutionally sanctioned monopolies of the copyright and the patent."SONY CORP. v. UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., 464 U.S. 417 (1984), footnote 13. |
Out from under the Persian rug
| | Tim Judah's The Sullen Majority, in the New York Times Magazine, is an encouraging piece. One excerpt: |
| | This widespread access has allowed many young Iranians to follow political or cultural developments anywhere on the planet. But even more significant, perhaps, it has allowed people to talk to one another. The computer has become particularly important in the lives of urban girls, often confined at home by traditionalist parents who, by the same token, have absolutely no clue what their daughters are doing online. |
| | A lot of what they're doing, it turns out, is blogging. For the uninitiated, a blog is a Web log, a kind of online diary or journal. Many blogs, Iranian or otherwise, are boring accounts of people's daily lives, or gibberish-like streams of consciousness. But in Iran, bolstered by the anonymity their computer screens provide, female bloggers are catching attention for their daring and articulate mix of politics, dirty jokes and acid comment. |
Body surfing
| | Halley: I'm noticing all the women's bodies, each so different, all alluring in a strange way. How did we ever get stuck in this woman's magazine wasteland that dictates so narrowly how we should look? |
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