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Cultural Pollution

Utsav — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:27:44 +0000

‘Cultural’ implies pertaining to customs, beliefs, art and all the other products of human thought made by a particular group of people at a particular time. Culture provides a sense of identity; it defines who you are and maintains a sense of belonging. It validates our reason for being in this world, defining where we [...]

Cultural Pollution

Random Photoshop Antics IV

Utsav — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:31:19 +0000

The following is the product of a few hours in front of the computer tinkering with Photoshop using standard tools - colour replace, clone, stamp among others. View the album I did it as a favour to my uncle who asked me to redo my grandfather’s portrait. He wanted me to remove the aberrations. I went [...]

Random Photoshop Antics IV

Picasa web albums giving away 11 GBs of space?

Utsav — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:47:53 +0000

This is straight off Picasa’s new features page. It had me stumped. I even checked and double checked if I had been bumped to 11 GB as well. (Picasa web albums normally allows you to have up to 1gb of space for photos free of charge). A redesigned Settings page We cleaned up the Picasa [...]

Picasa web albums giving away 11 GBs of space?

adaptation or mitigation?

Utsav — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:17:00 +0000

I get confused by the whole adaption vs mitigation quagmire. Under which bandwagon are such actions like resorting to sustainable consumption, reducing our carbon footprints, switching to a local producers and minimising air travel (where applicable) classified? My personal understanding is they are responses that we as individuals make in response to a stimuli (Climate [...]

adaptation or mitigation?

Letterman on Global Warming: “We’re Dead Meat” [video]

Utsav — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:45:00 +0000

wonderfully placed!! Originally from desmogblog

Letterman on Global Warming: “We’re Dead Meat” [video]