@Homer Berkowitz: As I said above, it's not about the chemicals. The process of developing Kodachrome is different than for other films. It uses a lot of complicated chemicals, but more importantly it requires special *machines* and a lot of very exacting steps and processes that are very hard to reproduce.

@The Lone Scout: The thing is, there's way more to it than chemistry. The process of developing Kodachrome is different than for other films. It uses a lot of complicated chemicals, but more importantly it requires special *machines* and a lot of very exacting steps and processes that are very hard to reproduce.

@elementary: Kodak has not processed Kodachrome for years. Dwight's (the place we're talking about here) is independent; they have no connection to Kodak so they don't honor Kodak's policy. In fact they'd be insane to do that because it means they'd be developing people's film at their own expense, for free.

As others have pointed out, the images are taken at different times. It should also be pointed out that the truck(s) are parked at the loading bay of a fairly large grocery store. This is just a funny coincidence. That loading bay has trucks of various brands and distributors parked there, at that angle, over the…

I agree with this 99%. The 1% hesitation is due to something this "cheap cables are OK" theory doesn't consider: extremely cheap cables are probably made in crappy factories with low manufacturing standards. As a result, the super-cheap likely have a higher failure rate because of their crappy manufacturing. I'm…

Public service announcement: In discussing this among friends and online, I realized a while ago that a lot of people who don't like French Press coffee were actually doing it wrong. So I wrote this guide to the proper use of a French Press: [Link]

One good thing about Twitter is that it acts as a different vehicle for brain farts. As a result, it keeps those brain farts out of people's blogs, and thus out of my RSS reader. :-)

That's not recycling. It's RE-USING!

I wish the CC website did a better job of being less ambiguous. For example, I go to get a CC license, and the first question is "Allow commercial uses of your work?" (Yes or no). The explanation says "The licensor permits others to copy, distribute and transmit the work. In return, licensees may not use the work for…

How about starting by editing your photos? Who wants to look at 250 MB of someone else's vacation photos? That's like in the old days when "Dad" would get out the slide projector after dinner and "entertain" the guests with hours and hours of slides.

Brilliant! My bad, your good. It works now, and it is sweet!

What the... the instructions say to download the file to your HD, then use TB's extension manager to find and install it. Nice, except it downloads a .jar file and the extension manager wants a .xpi file. No prob, I just change the explorer to find "all files," find it, install it, and nothing happens. I restart TB,…

I'm a bit late coming into this, but has anyone tried Snapfire from Corel? I tried it for about 15 minutes once, and it seemed pretty good. Includes image tagging, etc. But I rarely see it mentioned. I'd like some feedback before I commit to it.

I posted about the dangers of deep frying turkeys on my blog last year. I'm glad to see the Instructables site at least made a passing reference to the dangers.

I posted about the dangers of deep frying turkeys on my blog last year. I'm glad to see the Instructables at least made a passing reference to the dangers.

Wow, this will be very handy. I have a handful of text strings (ping codes for blog posts, html strings, etc.) that I use often enough that I was wishing for something like this. I'm definitely going to give this a whirl!

I've been trying to upload an avatar to Lifehacker for two days, and I get the same error message as Malachi: "Something bad happened on our end. Go ahead, blame us. It'll make you feel happy."

I've been using a Nikon 5400 for the past three years. It's sort of half way between an SLR and a point&shoot. It's worked reasonably well, but the shutter lag was driving me nuts, plus I hate all the nested menu surfing you need to do in order to change any settings. Also, the size was driving me crazy — being almost…

Remember when we wished things were small enough to be carried in an Altoids can? Now I wish there were smaller Altoid cans.

I think the number one most important tip is to see weight loss (and healthy weight maintenance) as a long-term lifestyle thing. Forget about radical measures to drop a bit of weight fast. You'll just gain it back when the measures end, plus you'll probably hate the process so you'll be disinclined to do it again…