Bad cop, no donut, apparently a police officer with the Coral Gables Police Department forced yet another photographer to delete her images on her memory card. Unfortunately for him, she knew about file recovery software. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

I was in coral gables this weekend - I can totally see the cops doing this. There are tons of them around and they have a holier than thou attitude. - Zach Landes

Think of all those other pictures that never made it due to stupid cops. It's sad. - Josue Salazar via twhirl

Wow I just realized it is Momoco! Could this be a racially motivated incident? Momoco is Japanese! - Igor The Troll

Despicable. - TranceMist

Idiot cops charge you more on a speeding ticket because the Dodge they chased you with guzzles too much gas. - TranceMist

"Vista Business and Vista Ultimate—the two more expensive versions of Vista—are the only two available for downgrade, and only to XP Pro. So in order to get XP on a Vostro 1000, you'd have to install Vista Business first, which costs $99 over the default. Then, you're down another $50 for the downgrade for a total of $149. That's quite a kick in the nards, Microsoft. Then again, Vista is fine and should work fairly OK on pre-built machines if you want to save $149." - Russellreno

Get a Mac - TranceMist

Good advice. - Russellreno

Talk him out of it! - Rick Wolff

Tell him to get a real job and work at Seesmic! :-) - Robert Scoble

Love Daniel.. Genius! - Muthu Ramadoss

This guy is impressive. I like his idea. - possible248

way to go - Marco Sascha Sven Hoppe via twhirl

Dude, you live on the peninsula? Go explore the tons of open space and wilderness around you. - TranceMist

Can comment on my own message, Cool! - Muthu Ramadoss

A baseball bat usually does the job except with Steve Gillmor. :-) - Robert Scoble

lol. There is the "find and invite friends" to send messages to them, but to get them to actually get a FriendFeed account, and then participate is a much trickier business. I think that the solution here would be to start wearing all sorts of bling and telling your friends that you got it all from FriendFeed. - possible248

LOL. Funny responses. Normally there's an invite button, and you enter an email.. couldn't see anything in FF. - Muthu Ramadoss

Sadlly, you folks sub for friends. I work and know tech luddites. I mean SEVERE! I need you all! - Laurent Courtines via twhirl

yes... if not harder! - Adnan

Depends. If the drivers for all your hardware are already on the Windows CD then it's easier. Otherwise, it can get more complicated. - Morton Fox

Well put, Daniel. I really think that answers my original question perfectly. +1 for you. - possible248

Not usually. Windows has always been a breeze for me, takes awhile, but everything works. Occasionally with Linux I will have to hack around driver issues, but it's not that bad b/c the community is so great. - Thomas Lopez Jr

Depends on which Windows version and which Linux distro you're talking about. I'd say Vista and Ubuntu are, at least for me, on the same level - my only problem with Vista is I need to install the touchpad driver for scrolling, and my only real problem with Ubuntu is the fact that I need to pull out a network cable to get my wireless driver. Bloody Broadcom/Dell/whomever I'm supposed to blame for this. - Cyvros/fyc

Quick tip: I wouldn't come with three phones to the UK. Over here the police thinks if you have more than one phone you are a terrorist: http://www.met.police.uk/campa... http://www.met.police.uk/campa... - Benjamin Kohler

I'm curious that you can't use the N82 for Qik videos, is this because it's non-compatible with the US 3G networks? (Also, be careful coming to the UK with a camera too http://www.met.police.uk/campa... ) - Mat

My Nokia N82 vs. N95 comparison on photo features: http://offonatangent.blogspot.... - Steve Garfield via twhirl

Qik doesn't REQUIRE 3G, but the quality is better, so you could use the N82 without 3G. - Steve Garfield via twhirl

You need an assistant to carry your phones. Wait! Which phone will you use to call your assistant? - TranceMist

that is excellent. :D - edythe

Brilliant! - Chris Nixon

The letter was brilliant, the comments were idiotic. I think the comments on Digg have more value that the comments to a Valleywag post. - Tac Anderson

@Trancemist Yeah, I'm sure he's blaming himself. All the way to the bank, via his penthouse apartment, no doubt. - Ian Betteridge

selling to Yahoo was the right thing to do. There are few things in life more important than personal financial freedom. But Yahoo *could* have used Flickr to be the springboard to truly dominate social search and they bungled that. Could have bought digg, could have tied it all together. With Yahoo's bungling social search, FF remains the most viable candidate to succeed at social search here and now today. - Thomas Hawk

"A. If Daisy Duke were the half-sister of both her Uncle Billy Bob, who never had children outside of the immediate family, and her Aunt Lilly Mae who was married to her Cousin Jethro, what would you say her relationship is to Billy Bob and Lilly Mae's illegitimate son Bucky?" - Russellreno

LOL - TranceMist

Fight back with BitTorrent - TranceMist

"thanks Adam" - Loic Le Meur

That's not saying much, given that there are only two options. - TranceMist

Jennifer Mattern about Twitter's spammy future. Actually, I don't think spam will be a huge problem on Twitter. It's all a matter of who you're following. - benedikt via Mento

Can't it just be dead already? - TranceMist

This is an idea I have been thinking and planning to write about for some time. I like your simple explanation. I have mainly noticed the difference semantics that people use between taking, making, snapping, shooting, capturing, etc. I will still likely write up my thoughts sometime. Thanks for this post. - Jeremy Hall

interesting. 90% of what I shoot occurs naturally "taken" and I just get it. 10% is probably posed or "made." Nothing elaborately arranged though. That said, probably 50% of my shot happens in the camera and another 50% afterwards in post production. - Thomas Hawk

Making means something different to me. The way you defined it, I see it as more of a set-up shot. However, I make a photograph in that I shoot as-is, but when I bring it back and post-process it, I make it look like the scene I imagined - with different tones, highlights, and levels. - Dawn M. Armfield

It strikes me as kind of a false choice. "Taking" a photo is the act of snapping the shutter - which every photographer does for every single photo they take. The larger process, including everything that goes into a photo, from setting up a scene (or finding one) to recording the image to processing it in post production could rightly be said the "making" of a photograph. I do both. - Eric

I think the term "making" has more meanings to it. If I understood your article right, you refer more to staging a scene etc. For me "making" refers also to finding a location (in landscape photography that is), and visualizing the image, and then returning to that place in the right light. In short I usually do both. - Sven

AP wants you to pay to quote their articles. - schmutzie

Great, another old-media doesn't get it story. - TranceMist

Has an excellent magic triangle on Exposure - TranceMist

I like the magic triangle in that article. - TranceMist

Excellent article and PDF on rights and caveats - TranceMist

Excellent article on the right to photography - TranceMist

Excellent round-up of lots of photographers being harassed by police and why it just doesn't add up - TranceMist

At least one politician gets it - TranceMist

Memphis Police consider anyone with a camera suspicious - TranceMist

Toung-in-cheek - TranceMist

Photography may be deemed an act of terrorism - TranceMist

Stupid London Police advertisement against photography - TranceMist

A rundown of recent DC-area harassments of photographers by police and security - TranceMist

Police harass photography student for taking photos on local train - TranceMist