I’ve read Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy (meh), Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (incredible), Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle (meh-ish — PKD has much better), Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (probably the most incredible-while-hardest book I ever read), and of course, Hamlet. (via Kottke)

The Null Device links to the ‘dark flash’, which is an infrared flash that could turn bright flashes in the night obsolete (saving all those people in say, football stadiums, the embarrassement of being seen using a light source with a range of 8 meters to snap a picture of the far side goal). But I started thinking, isn’t this something you can already do. There are plenty of tutorials on how to remove your camera sensor’s infrared filter, and I’m pretty sure you can fit a IR-transmitting filter to a flash to achieve the same effect. Lots of interesting exposure calculations (as you need to compensate exposure in higher wavelenghts) will follow, I’m sure.

No shit!