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When it comes to choosing a waterproof digital camera, there’s obviously one feature that matters above all others and, according to Trusted Reviews, Pentax’s Optio W60 passes that test without any difficulty. What’s more, it’s also apparently reasonably rugged, and it takes some decent pictures for good measure. While you can anticipate the usual noise problems at the highest ISO settings (including a nearly useless ISO 6400), the W60 looks to actually perform decent enough up to ISO 800, which is more than you can state for some cameras. On the downside, the site found that the camera suffered from some “particularly bad barrel distortion” at wide angle settings, and it proved to be a bit more sluggish than the norm, which appears to be at least partly due to the camera’s autofocus system. Still, if resistance to the elements is your top priority, it looks like this one will get the job done.

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Sascha at PCMag writes a charming little piece on the death of Usenet as a method of discourse and its eventual rebirth as a repository for porn, spam, and pirated warez. He recalls the days of “serious conversations” on 8-bit Atari architecture and net.manners. In a way inconceivable in today’s Web-fragmented marketplace, Usenet was where […]

Sascha at PCMag writes a charming tiny piece on the death of Usenet as a method of discourse and its eventual rebirth as a repository for porn, spam, and pirated warez. He recalls the days of “serious conversations” on 8-bit Atari architecture and net.manners.

In a way inconceivable in today’s Web-fragmented marketplace, Usenet was where you went to talk. Conceived back in the idealistic, non-profit days of the Internet, it was—well, it is, but it mostly was—a series of bulletin boards called “newsgroups” shared by thousands of personal, which traded new messages several times a day.

Sascha brings us back to 1993, the year when most of the current blogger kings were just entering college. Their discussions were precursors to the open, sad eyed moping of JenniCam and her ilk, the snark of the Gawker empire, and the basis for just about each social network on Earth. After all, if emo nerds could create a complex network of interconnected forums, think of what Ning can do with VC funding!

I personally never got into newsgroups as a communications medium although I now use the network for another form of data transmission. Is Usenet dead, as Sascha posits? I don’t think so. As long as there are folks who thing a command line is superior than a mouse, the original text-only social network will live on. Sure, ISPs will shut down access out of mislaid kiddie porn fears but the real pros know where to go to get their agnst-filled, nit-picking, obsessive fix.

Via [crunchgear]

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http://live.pirillo.com - I admit it. I’m a Star Wars Fanboy. I’ve loved it since I was a kid. I collected Star Wars memorabilia throughout my childhood. When I got an email from Alex the other day, I had to check it out. It’s a Freeware app for Mac OS X that’ll grant you to generate your own title sequence for your own Star Wars fan work.

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