Toast: a piece of bread, cooked in a metal box by some heated coils. Smoldered toast, the toast thats been left in your metal box too long. I was looking at my older articles here on the site and discussing them with Nick when he gave me the above analogy. I had noted that my wit inside of my ramblings and rantings had been dried up, and he proclaimed it to be smoldered like toast left in a toaster too long. So here is my response, a response in the tradition and style of my article about EOS (Email Overwrite Syndrome).

The smoldering effect is the drying of a wit, the poisoning of a well, the pissing on a hobo fire. It’s where one has been told no so much they completely remove all wit and slightly risky phrases and wordings from their writings. For me, I say: no more. No longer will I run around like a washed up 80’s hair band wishing that my makeup actually came off and that my voice was two octaves lower. No longer will I sit around deleting sentence after sentence and just type more BS than Al Gore managed to muster with…
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HDR imaging, the proverbial crown jewel of photography tricks, has been limited to those using Adobe Photoshop for too long. For about three months now I have been researching the best freeware way to create HDR images. For those who do not know what HDR means, it stands for High Dynamic Range, which is a method of photography that attempts to capture more of the light spectrum than a traditional image. Using samples from the high and low end of the light spectrum, HDR is a digital composite of many different images at different exposures. Creating an HDR image is a complicated process, one that usually takes no less than half an hour to churn out one photo, and on top of this, your images can never be appreciated in their 64-bit native color depth because of the computer industry’s failing to upgrade monitor standards. If you are willing to put the time and effort into achieving a beautifully detailed image that HDR spits out, then pay close attention.

What you need

Creating an HDR image does not require highly-sophisticated equipment as one would think. Basically any camera with an adjustable exposure value (EV) setting can be used and will…
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Anyone who has ever tried to create their own blog knows that there are nearly one hundred different blogging platforms, Content Management Systems (CMS’s), or blog hosts to choose from. This group is comprised of software ranging from commercially licensed programs to open source piles of flaming fecal matter. About a year ago when I set up my first website I chose the open source program WordPress to be the man behind the curtain. About a year ago WordPress should have just given up. The open source blogging platform hosted a million different vulnerabilities to viruses, hackers, and itself. It was so muddled and confusing to install and maintain that Microsoft was probably calling it “son.”

Yesterday I decided to start up my personal blog again, and with this choice I needed to choose the platform to run it on. Browsing through the options that my hosting service offered, I spied WordPress. Now, I am not one to hold grudges, especially with technology. I recognize that software in the CMS world is indefinitely hard to write and program. This is only doubly troubling those open source dev’s who are writing for no profit. Meaning they have smaller amounts of money…
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Deep Thought is celebrating its third birthday! That’s right, it’s been three years ago since a handful of geeks got together and started Deep Thought. Instead of accepting gifts, we’re giving them to three lucky winners!

That’s right, we’re giving away three Mac software bundles to three lucky readers. This year’s giveaway bundles include software from The Omni Group, NewsGator, Flying Meat, and more.

What do you have to do to win? Well, nothing really. Simply visit the entry page, fill out the entry form, and cross your fingers!

Good luck, and thank you for three years of your support!