So scanning books and magazines are driving you nuts ...
Translation: how do I get rid of the patterns so I don't have nightmares of them. Try these sites for help:
- From about.com: Ways to remove moiré patterns and get better looking images when scanning photos from books, magazines, newspapers, and other printed materials.
- From about.com again: Everything a beginner needs to get started scanning plus advanced tips and tricks for black and white and color scanning and special effects.
- Scanning Basics 101: 'nuff said.
- Scanning Magazines and Books: from ephotozine.
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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