How to process digital images.

18 September 2016: It may be out of date in the particulars, but overall this remains very useful.

From Rebecca, this insight into the signals clothing sends.

"Genetically modified foods are as safe as the conventional ones, but require more testing on long-term safety and the effects on the environment, a UN official has said in Nairobi." I've lost the plot here. If they as safe, why do they require more testing? And GM pollen has set a new world reco...

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Not entirely unexpected, I don’t suppose, although our hosts were remarkably reluctant to confirm it. Mine was delicious, stuffed with some sort of plum or prune. And there was good rice too, mixed with steamed or boiled giant corn kernels. All in all considerably more exciting than the chifa I've...

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To Lima, via Amsterdam. A long, but deeply uneventful flight, which is as it should be. Just two complaints. First, my super-duper reclining seat had a broken footrest, which made it pretty uncomfortable when fully reclined. And second, with a rinky-dink little personal screen one has no way of know...

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