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Oct. 17th, 2009
Why you should read Language Log
Oct. 17th, 2009 01:20 pmPosts such as these:
* Did it really change from "The United States are" to "The United States is" due to the Civil War?
* Whether or not dangling participles are really ungrammatical in English.
* A discussion of sentence fragments, specifically if you can start a sentence with an initial coordinator such as "and" or "but", inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. With follow-up asking for a new term.
* How *not* to learn Chinese Characters.
* Which leads nicely into why translation software isn't always the best choice. Spread to fuck the fruit.
* Did it really change from "The United States are" to "The United States is" due to the Civil War?
* Whether or not dangling participles are really ungrammatical in English.
* A discussion of sentence fragments, specifically if you can start a sentence with an initial coordinator such as "and" or "but", inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. With follow-up asking for a new term.
* How *not* to learn Chinese Characters.
* Which leads nicely into why translation software isn't always the best choice. Spread to fuck the fruit.
Not exactly, of course.
But the high court in Britain has ruled that the collaboration by the US and UK governments to suppress evidence of the torture of Binyam Mohamed was harmful to the rule of law.
Glenn Greenwald has the whole history, which is ugly, btw.
Basically, the Bush administration (supposedly at the request of the UK government) told the court that if they didn't redact the details of the torture, the US would no longer share intelligence with the UK - even if it meant the UK got hit with a terrorist attack. After Obama took over, Obama's administration basically said the threat was still active.
The court decided to call that bluff, saying...
We cannot accept looking at the matter objectively on all the evidence (which is fully summarized in this judgment) and as a matter of reality, that there is a real risk that the United States will reassess its intelligence relationship or reduce its intelligence sharing if we made the 7 paragraphs public.
There is still an appeal to go, however. It is nice that someone is asking the US if it really means the threats it issued under Bush.
But the high court in Britain has ruled that the collaboration by the US and UK governments to suppress evidence of the torture of Binyam Mohamed was harmful to the rule of law.
Glenn Greenwald has the whole history, which is ugly, btw.
Basically, the Bush administration (supposedly at the request of the UK government) told the court that if they didn't redact the details of the torture, the US would no longer share intelligence with the UK - even if it meant the UK got hit with a terrorist attack. After Obama took over, Obama's administration basically said the threat was still active.
The court decided to call that bluff, saying...
We cannot accept looking at the matter objectively on all the evidence (which is fully summarized in this judgment) and as a matter of reality, that there is a real risk that the United States will reassess its intelligence relationship or reduce its intelligence sharing if we made the 7 paragraphs public.
There is still an appeal to go, however. It is nice that someone is asking the US if it really means the threats it issued under Bush.
Calibrating a monitor
Oct. 17th, 2009 05:53 pmAnyone know the proper way to calibrate a monitor for colours? I suspect this has something to do with colour management and profiles.
Can anyone point me a proper primer? (Or convince me this is completely irrelevant?) I figure if I am messing with my pictures, I should at least know the colours are accurate.
Can anyone point me a proper primer? (Or convince me this is completely irrelevant?) I figure if I am messing with my pictures, I should at least know the colours are accurate.
[photos] - Magpie
Oct. 17th, 2009 06:45 pmI've already pruned this set down to under 100, but I need to do another round of stricter work.
Still, for the moment I am just putting some up bit by bit. (How many *is* a decent amount for a photoshoot in the end? Should I prune down to 20 best and never more than that?)
Lady Magpie looking sassy.
Still, for the moment I am just putting some up bit by bit. (How many *is* a decent amount for a photoshoot in the end? Should I prune down to 20 best and never more than that?)
Lady Magpie looking sassy.