matt buchanan
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The Nerdiest Thing I’ve Ever Wanted
Wi-Fi sucks. Well, it sucks if your router is lurking in a subterranean realm of your apartment and your gaming rig is located aboveground with an iron staircase in between the two and you don’t want to run 100m of cable or wire the apartment with ethernet because you don’t own the building.
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The Day Mankind Swallowed The Globe
A century is not a very long time. Life is short or whatever, but people live to be 100. One hundred years ago yesterday, we had never touched the southernmost point on earth. We had automobiles. And planes. But we’d never been to the South Pole.
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Canon 1D X: The New Most Epic DSLR Ever
There’s a lot of reasons the 1D X might be the most ridiculous DSLR ever made, but the numbers seem like a good place to start. A full-frame 18MP sensor. ISO 204,800. 12fps RAW shooting. 61-point autofocus. Three DIGIC image processors. One gigabit ethernet port.
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Apple Needs To Merge Apple ID And MobileMe For iCloud
I’m super excited for iCloud but I’m still wondering what the hell I’m going to do with my two separate Apple ID accounts: my original one, which I made to buy stuff on iTunes — and still use to buy apps — and then the MobileMe account that Apple forced you to make as a…