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Interesting Links, February 2, 2011

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Interesting Links, January 4, 2011

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Here are links I found interesting on January 4, 2011:

  • INSANELY awesome solar eclipse picture – Oh, yeah. This is DEFINITELY awesome. In Discover Magazine.
  • Predicting Apple’s Future Made Easy – "So…you want to be an Apple prognosticator. You want to be able to predict where Apple will be headed in the next 12 months. "You want to impress your friends with the accuracy of your predictions. No problem. You can do it. You can even foretell the exact month when most of your predictions will come true. And you can do it all with almost no effort." Read this article to learn how from Ted Landau.
  • In Beebe, Ark., 5,000 Dead Blackbirds Drop From the Sky – I don't know about you, but I find this disturbing. Could our New Year's celebrations have caused the death of 5,000 birds in one small city?
  • How to make a decent cup of tea, following George Orwell’s golden rules – "Ignore Yoko Ono and John Lennon, and heed George Orwell's tea-making advice." By Christopher Hitchens.
  • How to Take Better Pictures – Ken Rockwell's Web site is a great resource for all photographers. Plenty of excellent content to read to help you be a better photographer.
  • PowerBalance Admits Their Wristbands Are a Scam – "I don't think this would surprise anyone, but PowerBalance—manufacturers of plastic wristbands with hologram stickers on it—have admitted that there's "no credible scientific evidence that supports [their] claims and therefore [they] engaged in misleading conduct."" Read more on Gizmodo and stop throwing away your money on woo-woo crap like this!

Interesting Links, December 21, 2010

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Sunrise/Sunset Times for Photographers

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Phoenix times now updated.

SunI’ve just updated my calendar of sunrise and sunset times for the Phoenix area. I’ll be keeping this up-to-date as a published calendar. Subscribe at webcal://ical.me.com/mlanger/Sun.ics. I know you can subscribe with this link using iCal, but I think you can also subscribe with other calendar formats such as Google Calendar.

If you’d prefer to download and import the files, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 are currently available.

If you’re a photographer or pilot, you know how helpful it can be to have this exact information. Every year for the past ten years or so, I’ve been updating iCal with this information so it’s always available on my computers and other electronic devices (think BlackBerry, iPad, etc.).

The last time I offered to create these files for photographers, I had a lot of folks ask for them but no one seemed willing to cough up a little dough for the time it takes me to create the files.

So here’s the deal: If you want sunrise/sunset times for 2011-2015 — that’s FIVE YEARS WORTH — in ics format, you’ll need to use this Paypal link to send me some coffee money. Be sure to include either the GPS coordinates for the place you want sunrise/sunset times for OR the Zip code. I’ll try to get the resulting files to you in e-mail within 72 hours. (Keep in mind that the more coffee you buy me, the more motivated (or caffeinated) I’ll be to send those files quickly.)

And no, I won’t add you to any e-mail list. I have way better things to do with my time than bother strangers who were kind enough to buy me coffee.