I LOVE HISTORY ...and research!!! - DNA confirms Aboriginal culture one of Earth's oldest

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Date: Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 3:40 PM

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Connie Lavoie posted in I LOVE HISTORY ...and research!!! Connie Lavoie 21 July 15:40 DNA confirms Aboriginal culture one of Earth's oldest www.australiangeographic.com.au The first Aboriginal genome sequence confirms Australia's native people left Africa 75,000 years ago... View Post on Facebook · Edit email settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.

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I LOVE HISTORY ...and research!!!] vintage everyday: Unbelievable Inventions of The ’60s

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Deb Rios Pendleton posted in I LOVE HISTORY ...and research!!! Deb Rios Pendleton 21 July 16:13 vintage everyday: Unbelievable Inventions of The '60s www.vintag.es PLEASE USE THE LINK I PROVIDED AS BELOW AS IT OPENS WITHOUT VISITING FACEBOOK? Just one of the people and groups l follow more of this post at http://www.vintag.es/2013/07/unbelievable-inventions-of-60s.html Please add use #AceSocialNews to your tweet and or email us at News and  Views and get your favourite post featured!  Thank you, Ian {Editor}

OpenSource Documentation: Installing ClipGrab Video Downloader and Converter...

Open Source Documentation: Installing ClipGrab Video Downloader and Converter...

ClipGrab is a good option for your who tries to find suitable media or video converter on Linux, especially for Ubuntu 13.04 and Linux Mint. This application as well provides the downloading capacity to get the video from the on-line source such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, MyVideo Channel.

More at http://www.ossdoc.com/2013/05/installing-clipgrab-video-downloader.html?

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The 10 Best Indie Games for the Holiday Season

The 10 Best Indie Games for the Holiday Season:

1. Torchlight 2

The fantasy-RPG sequel to the wildly popular 2009 game Torchlight, Runic Games' latest installment in the franchise, doesn't mess with its recipe too much. And in this case, that's a big positive.

Part steam-punk treasure hunt, part magic-heavy flight of fancy, Torchlight 2 capitalizes on the fast-paced, action-filled environment crafted by the designers of Diablo, Diablo 2 and Fate. Expect a lot of loot-grabbing from this game, as a bulk of the fun takes place in expansive and randomly generated cave systems practically filled to the brim with treasure and fancy equipment for your specific character class.

Torchlight 2 really gilds the lily with a long-awaited and happily embraced local LAN option — meaning you can raid dungeons with three of your closest friends. This makes the experience, for the first time, a cooperative one, and has been one of the best new features.

This game is really a continuation of that old-school play style seen in the previous Diablo installments, so if solo (or small group) hunting is your thing, download away.

Price: $19.99 on Steam

Platform: Windows
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You or someone you know is probably one of those fickle gamer types. While the regular masses would be awed by a freshly minted copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, you're searching for something deeper and more refined than the average franchise from your big box store.
Whether you want to be the "cool indie guy" who passes out sweet games to your friends, or you're looking to snag some new and interesting games to get you through that lull between Christmas and New Years, here are 10 indie games worth picking up.
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Turn an Old Kit Lens Into a Macro Lens by Removing the Front Element

Turn an Old Kit Lens Into a Macro Lens by Removing the Front Element:

If you have an old plastic kit lenses lying around, something that you are not using for anything serious, you can give it a new life as a macro lens by removing the front element.



Here I have an old Canon 38-76mm lens. You can find these in eBay, second-hand stores, etc. The process may not be identical for other kit lenses, but should be similar.

Use a small flathead screwdriver to remove the plastic ring that is glued onto the front. Be careful not to tear or break it.

You’ll find tiny crosshead screws under the ring. They may be really tight. The cheapest tools won’t work here. Use a good, hardened, exact-fit screwdriver and keep it firmly in place, otherwise you may ruin the heads and then you won’t be able to remove the front element without breaking things. Try not to scratch the lens.

Pull the front element out. Now you have an odd-looking but fairly decent macro lens! Attach it normally to the camera (not in reverse; no adapters needed).

Keep the parts so you can put everything back together later if you ever get tired of using it as a macro lens. You can the lens cap and the front element together as a “lens cap” of the macro lens. A rubber band can keep it together.
With the widest aperture the depth of field will be very narrow, so you may want to shoot with the smallest aperture you can. In bright sunlight this should be no problem. Otherwise you may want to use a tripod and a remote, or the camera’s self-timer, and flash(es) etc. Without the front element the auto-focus will not work, so it’s better to turn it off. Focus by moving the camera or the subject.
Using an extender increases the magnification.
Here are some sample photos I shot using my makeshift macro lens:

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About the author: Juha Loukola is a photography enthusiast based in Finland. You can visit his Flickr page here.

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A Remote Shutter Release for iOS Devices That Masquerades as a Roll of Film

A Remote Shutter Release for iOS Devices That Masquerades as a Roll of Film:

Ever since the launch of iOS 5 in mid-2011, iPhones, iPads, and iPods have accepted the “volume up” signal as a “take a picture” command, allowing Apple’s headphones to double as handy remote shutter releases. If triggering your camera’s shutter with a pair of earbuds in your hand isn’t “hip” enough for you, check out this new iCA Remote Shutter by Japanese novelty photo company Gizmon. It’s a dedicated shutter release for your iOS device that’s designed to look like a roll of film.



It comes with three pieces: the film cartridge shutter release, a retractable cord (an ordinary 3.5mm aux cable), and a holder for storing your cartridge on your keychain when it’s not being used:

Simply plug one end of the cable into your device, the other end into the film roll, and you’re set for shake-free picture taking (and for covert picture taking when you don’t want to reveal that you’re taking a picture).
The shutter releases themselves come in three flavors: red, yellow, and green:

The iCA Remote Shutter doesn’t come cheap: they cost $23 a pop over on Amazon.
Gizmon iCA Remote Shutter A (via Technabob)

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How Wearable “Sousveillance” Cameras Will Transform Our Society

How Wearable “Sousveillance” Cameras Will Transform Our Society:

Have you heard of the term sousveillance? It’s the inverse of surveillance: instead of a camera pointed at individuals, individuals wear their own cameras on themselves to document their activities. Wearable-camera pioneer Steve Mann has written a fascinating piece for Time, titled “Eye Am a Camera: Surveillance and Sousveillance in the Glassage“, in which he offers his vision of what the future will look like once wearable cameras such as Google Glass (seen above) become ubiquitous.



Mann argues that it will soon be absurd to enforce any “no photography” policy, even in private places, as “cameras become integrated into the very fabric and flesh of our society and the prosthetic territory of individuals”:

Consider the automobile or wheelchair as a middle ground between building-mounted (surveillance) cameras and wearable (sousveillance) cameras. Would a drive-in theater owner kick out a driver who had a rearview camera or dash camera? Would you throw someone in a wheelchair out of a movie theatre because a rear-view or auto-pilot camera was part of the wheelchair? We’re starting to see this trend in concert halls where organizers are giving up their fight against audience members using camera phones. But once cameras become part of the human mind and body, their fight will be completely lost.
[...] society will return to a world in which there is both sousveillance and surveillance (both “undersight” and oversight) rather than today’s world of [...] surveillance without sousveillance (oversight without undersight).

Here’s something crazy for you to think about: photography is often prevented these days because authorities can see the cameras being used, but what happens if/when the human eye can be used as a camera or if/when memories can be projected onto a screen? At that point, anything people can see and any location people can visit will be fair game for photographs, and society will simply have to adapt and live with it.
Eye Am a Camera: Surveillance and Sousveillance in the Glassage [Time]

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Image credit: Photograph of Google Glass camera by Chris Chabot

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