Twitter Groups: Loren Brichter on the problems faced by Twitter client developers tempted to add ‘group' features. Except of course that other than group synching between multiple computers, TweetDeck already does this perfectly. (Via Daring Fireball.)

A camera is most decidedly **not** just a light-tight box to hold the film. This one isn’t anyway. This is my new Leica M4. It was built in 1966 and looks practically new. You camera nerds might notice that it has been customized with the much cooler M3-style levers. I love everything about this camera. It’s small, built like a tank, and every single thing it does it does with buttery-smoothness.

Give Up and Use Tables “Take three minutes to build a table. And ten minutes to get a donut. Bill the client for an hour. Done.” I know it’s supposed to be a joke. It’s funny because it’s true.

During any given day I run into a few articles or blog posts which look interesting, but are a bit long and should probably be saved for later. Enter Instapaper. Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content. We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them. Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them.

Developing film is a constant process of figuring out what works and what doesn’t. So far I’m pretty good at discovering what doesn’t. I’ve been shooting either Ilford XP2 Super and having Meijer process and scan it or Tri-X shot at ISO 1200 and processing it in Diafine. My last roll or two of Tri-X has been too contrasty and grainy even for my tastes, so I thought I’d give old faithful, Kodak D-76 a try.

I occasionally switch back to using Apple Mail, thinking it will be better than Gmail this time. The concept is there. It’s a native app, integrates with every other _real_ OS X app. I really like the _idea_ of it, but it never sticks. Trying again over the weekend to see how it goes. Mail Act-On will probably help, but I want single-key interaction like Gmail offers. Still looking for a plugin or something that will let me do that.

Everybody Hurts It seems to me, as the end of the first half approaches, that the theme of this year’s Super Bowl XLIII Ads is extreme violence done to one’s person. (Via Davenetics.) That is exactly what I thought after the first half. That, and a little misogyny thrown in for good measure. Glad I’m not the only one who wondered if all the agencies had some sort of meeting pre-game.

Can’t get enough of those Hitler dubs? Here’s another. This time he rants about the new $8,000 Nikon D3x. Anyone spending any time at all on photography forums should find it funny.

I can’t remember the last time I saw a movie this bad. Poor Wahlberg just can’t catch a break. He sure can scowl though. Painful.

It seems to me that the more we can do to reduce distractions and clutter, the more productive we will be. I’ve been using Isolator to help with this. It nicely and easily hides all background windows and helps focus on the task at hand. Free (but of course you’ll want to donate a little something.)

I would hate that job.

I will have an M8 one day.