I LOVE MY LUMIX LX-3, but it looks like Panasonic is upping the ante with a soon-to-appear Lumix LX5. “Coming in both black and white versions, the pro compact camera would build on the LX3 by getting a much more sensitive sensor that can now handle ISO 12,800 versus the earlier model’s ISO 3,200. The camera now has a much longer-ranged 24-90mm lens (versus 24-60mm) without sacrificing the bright f2.0 maximum aperture.” Sounds like it takes what I like about the LX3 and makes it moreso. Cool. I expect I’ll be ordering one soon. . . .
Archive for 2010
July 17, 2010
THIS WEEK in the future.
MORT ZUCKERMAN: Zuckerman: Obamanomics “our economic Katrina.” Too bad you didn’t notice a couple of years ago, Mort. But better late than never, I guess.
Plus this: “As we have discussed, the media and the Democrats seem to forget about the primary role previous government interventions had in creating our current mess. The anti-capital rhetoric has been a calculation designed to distract people from the failure of previous social engineering.”
CATCHING UP: If you missed it last week, check out my interview with Mark Levin on the collapse of the welfare state, what to do between now and November, and more.
Knoxville, Tennessee.
WHERE ARE THE GIRLS? “Darkly, I suspect that girls were killed–and that this doesn’t get talked about because it spoils the happy feminist image. But that seems unduly paranoid.”
STRANGELY SILENT in the Eurozone.
KATHY GRIFFIN speaks truth to power.
JOHN GALT WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: Wealthy Reduce Buying in a Blow to the Recovery. Unexpectedly! Gee, regulatory uncertainty, promises of higher taxation — who could have seen this coming?
Related thoughts from Roger Kimball.
WAPO OMBUDSMAN: We Should Be Covering The Black Panther Story. Ya think?
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE BLOGGERS. Yeah, I had something on this last night. It deserves more attention.
THIS LAP DANCE brought to you by California taxpayers.
QUESTIONS ABOUT the speed of labor market adjustment.
MARKDOWNS ON men’s swimwear.
PHOTO: The devastation from the D.C. earthquake.
I’ve experienced this sort of devastation myself.
SERIOUS human beings.
JONAH GOLDBERG: “I’m beginning to wonder if the political moment is much, much, more significant than most of us realize. The rules may have changed in ways no one would have predicted two years ago. And perhaps 10 years from now we’ll look back on this moment and it will all seem so obvious.”
UPDATE: Thoughts from the Crack Emcee.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Nuking Westphalia: Obama’s Deep Convictions Point to War With Iran.
LUKEWARM SUPPORT for Elena Kagan: “If confirmed, Kagan would be the first successful nominee in recent years whose nomination was backed by less than a majority of Americans in the final poll before the Senate confirmation vote (or, in the case of Harriet Miers, before her nomination was withdrawn).”
I think that Republicans shouldn’t make a fight of it, as whoever is next would be worse. But some people disagree.
OMEGA IMBALANCE produces overweight offspring?
Omega-6 and omega-3, both polyunsaturated fatty acids, are each critical to good health.
But too much of the first and not enough of the second can lead to overweight offspring, the scientists showed in experiments with mice designed to mirror recent shifts in human diet.
Over the last four decades, the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 in a typical Western diet has shifted from a healthy five-to-one to 15-to-one in much of Europe, and up to 40-to-one in the United States.
In the breast milk of American women, the average ratio has gone from six-to-one to 18-to-one.
Earlier studies have established a link between such imbalances and heart disease.
But “this is the first time that we have shown a trans-generational increase in obesity” linked to omega intake, said Gerard Ailhaud, a biochemist at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and main architect of the study.
“Omega six is like a fat-producing bomb,” he told AFP by phone.
Uh oh.
FRANK TIPLER ON LEE BOLLINGER, GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES, AND PRESS FREEDOM: “His argument is so obviously false that he himself, in his own article, cannot avoid providing the facts needed to refute it.”
SPACE TOURISM UPDATE: Virgin Galactic spacecraft makes 1st crewed flight.
THE NEXT BUBBLE: Municipal Bonds?