Author Archives: Gustaf Erikson

links for 2009-08-21

Epson V500 Photo Scanner | PhotographyBLOG
recommended for neg scanning
(tags: epson perfection v500 scanner negatives slides medium-format wishlist)

links for 2009-08-17

Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers Are Failing | Politics & Media | SPLICETODAY.COM
Great analysis of the problems facing newspapers in the US and (I think) in Sweden.
(tags: newspapers business journalism media analysis news advertising content)

links for 2009-08-10

REVISED: How to fix the Vista KSOD (blacK Screen Of Death) | LogBlog
Might have to do this on sis-in-law's machine
(tags: computer windows ksod black troubleshooting)

links for 2009-08-08

Michael – The New York Review of Books
Great article about MJ and black gays
(tags: Michael.Jackson queer culture media celebrity pop gay)

links for 2009-08-07

Dery and Lecter do Italy – Boing Boing
Best thing I've read on BB for ages
(tags: italy essay culture usa exile)

links for 2009-08-04

LensHoods.com – Official Site for Lens Hoods
need a hood for my Shitma zoom
(tags: photography gear lens-hoods wishlist)

THEORY OF GAMES AND ECONOMIC MISBEHAVIOR – Edge 295
Early English finance
(tags: finance economics tally-sticks Exchequer money history tl;dr)

links for 2009-08-01

The Paranoid Style in American Politics
to read later
(tags: tl;dr paranoia politics usa conservatism conspiracy)

Iran-Iraq Alliance? – Page 1 – The Daily Beast
Fascinating backgrounder on the MEK, an Iranian organisation who supported Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war and who some in the US now view as a "tame terrorist" org in the fight against the [...]

links for 2009-07-10

Holocaust: The Ignored Reality – The New York Review of Books
About the mass extermination in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in Poland and Belarus.
(tags: holocaust nazism soviet memory history jews ww2 nyrb europe belarus poland)

links for 2009-07-09

Jeb Bush on Obama – New Jeb Bush Interview – Esquire
TL;DR but looks like a good interview
(tags: usa politics interview republican Jeb.Bush esquire)

links for 2009-07-08

Ruins of the Second Gilded Age | MetaFilter
MeFi exposes photoshoppery in NYT Mag feature, pics are taken down. Potentially huge impact for the pphotographer
(tags: photography fake manipulation photoshop mefi metafilter looks-shopped-to-me Edgar.Martins)