NeutralDay

Neutral day photographic news site.

I'm amazed I keep finding good sites I've never heard about.

Anyway, one thing I liked about it immediately: the design. "They" tell me that background graphics are outdated, but I tell you I'm sick of all sites having either black or white backgrounds. Booooooring.

A friend visited me back when the WWW was a new thing, and I showed her around the web a bit, and she commented on all the black sites: "don't they have any imagination?" And this was 13 years ago! Not much new under the sun.

Back to NeutralDay, it is also refreshing to see a dash of humor in a recipe, as I try myself, for example he writes:
"Now I wasn’t planning to post my predictions for Photokina till after Photokina ends, as I’ve learned that way they tend to be significantly more accurate [...]"

Update: he has a worthwhile comment on full-frame, economics, the 5D, and image quality here.
According to recent rumors, an upcoming Canon 50D and surely also the future 5D replacement may be very interesting in high-ISO ways.

Archiving photos

tOP discussion on archiving/storing files/photos.

Bangla Bangers

Building a supercar in a month, from an old junker?

Ur-Domai

From Shorpy's. (Sadly too few girruls there, mostly town pictures.)

Camera evolutions

360 degrees

Mike Reichman points to this 360x180 (almost) view of an Olympic event. Takes a while to load, but is fun to zip around in.
(Holy frig, that's a lot of people who want to go there and sit looking at tiny people running far below.)

dotSUB.com

dotSUB.com is about collecting volunteer efforts to put subtitles on films/programs. Sounds cool.
For example, TTL found this Danish program about Tim Ferriss (Four Hour Work Week), with English subs. If nothing else, you'll have a chance to hear how Danish sounds.
My interest peaked in the middle of the video, when it turns out that they got Tim hisself to visit the two hardworking "cases" in Denmark and see how he could save them time.

Why Men Crave Real (Not Perfect) Bodies

Why Men Crave Real (Not Perfect) Bodies, article.

Normal is not

[Thanks to Alex for the link.]

I've come to suspect that it's very unusual to be "normal", and it seems research supports that.

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Probability

If you cast a 99-sided die 99 times, what are the odds of number 5 not coming up?

And for a 9-sided die cast nine times? And a 999-sided die cast 999 times?

This is not a riddle, I just want to know.

Anon informed:
If you cast a 99-sided die once, the probability of 5 not coming up is 98/99. If you cast a 99-sided die twice, the probability of 5 not coming up either time is (98/99) * (98/99). So, the odds of the number 5 not turning up after 99 throws is 98/99 multiplied by itself 99 times. This works out at about 0.366.

For a 9-sided die, it works out at about 0.346, and for a 999-sided die, about 0.368.

It's related to the mathematical number 'e'. As the number of faces increases, the probability gets closer and closer to 1/e.


eolake:
Yes!
Thank you.
I had an intuitive feeling the number would be about the same, but I couldn't get my head around the math. (School is thirty years ago after all, and I don't think we ever got into probabilities.)
I also felt that the number was not all that small. 0.37 sounds about right.

3D humans

3D humans are getting there.



And Emily.