Link Rojak on a Friday.

Today is a link rojak day, so here are a few links.

School Link

Here’s a link that has been quite helpful for one of the subjects that I’ve been studying. [via Online Ethics Center] It is, shall we say, one of the more interesting subjects of this semester.

M9 Preview

A nice long preview of the Leica M9. [via Digital Photography Review]

Apple Tree

New iPods. [via Engadget] I actually want a Touch with an even greater capacity than they’re offering. So I guess I’ll be keeping my money this time round.

Man Booker Shortlist

Here is the Man Booker shortlist for the year. [via The Man Booker Prizes] The candidates are: A S Byatt’s The Children’s Book; J M Coetzee’s Summertime; Adam Foulds’s The Quickening Maze ; Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall ; Simon Mawer’s The Glass Room; and Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger .

Hubble, Hubble

New beginnings for the Hubble. [via The Online Photographer] Yay, space!

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Short Wait Packing Booker Photography

Short On Features

Nope, no feature today. Just… can’t bring myself round to doing it, and school’s starting, so I have a feeling it’ll be stagnant for quite a while. Sorry about that.

Wait, Wait

I think I got something. That is, for the new project. I think I got that leash I was talking about. I’m still figuring my way around it, but it’s funny how sometimes you keep going and going and thinking that you’re evolving, then one day you wake up and you realise that the first ideas were best, you know?

Packing Bags

I have apparently been cheated of a week of holidays and school begins next week. I started to pack my stuff up, draw timetables and the like yesterday. It’s looking to be a bit of a rough semester, but I’m sure it’ll figure itself out somehow.

Booker Longlist

Here’s the Man Booker longlist. [via The Man Booker Prizes] I haven’t read any of them, though I did want to try the A.S. Byatt book, The Children’s Book. Never got to it. I also heard that Toibin’s Brooklyn is quite excellent.

Photography

New cameras (the D3000 and the D300s) and two new lenses including a newer version of my jack-of-all-trades 18-200mm from Nikon. [via bythom]

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The White Tiger Wins The Man Booker Prize

The result of this year’s Man Booker prize has been announced, going to Aravind Adiga’s debut novel The White Tiger. [via Man Booker Prize news]

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Conspiracy Theorist

Fixing A Hole

It’s been happening for a few days now, and no one really knows why. Sure, they talk about it, whisper and murmur, trying to figure out what exactly is going on, even as they know that no one has any clue at all. And there it is again, outside my window, a group of workers surrounding a tall machine, staring down a hole in the ground as the machine just drills and drills, making whirs and buzzes and other assorted noises.

It’s all pretty shush-shush-hush-hush. I heard stories though. I heard, for instance, that there’s more than one of these. At other blocks, and I mean many other blocks, there have been similar set-ups, with their workers and their drilling and their whirs and buzzes.

What could they possibly be doing? At first, when they brought in the machines and surveyed the sites, we imagined that they were adding lifts to the block. Then it became clear that they weren’t building lifts. They weren’t going up. They were looking down. Maybe they’re looking for treasure. That explains their frowning faces and paranoid eyes. No, maybe they’re poisoning the water.

Recently, my tap water seems to taste of metal.

I’m watching. I’ll keep watching. And what worries me is that that’s all I might be able to do.

Embarrassments

I think I embarrassed myself a little in one tutorial yesterday. No one said anything, of course, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that I said something terribly stupid or slighted someone unintentionally, or… I don’t know. Nothing to worry about, of course, but I get these feelings sometimes and have no idea why I get them.

Booker Nominees

The Booker shortlist is out. [via The Elegant Variation] I’m surprised to see that Salman Rushdie didn’t make it. Also, I’m a bit shocked to find Netherland not there, because they’ve all been raving about it so wildly. I’ll make sure to get it on my next shopping trip.

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