Credit to this group. I've had a SourceForge address in place for 20yrs or so that forwards to my main email and it kept working through after their acquisition in 2016 of Sourceforge.

Take a look at the 54-59 second mark on this video:

http://vimeo.com/8186279.

Look at the chest area of the guy wearing a striped shirt to the right of girl in shorts. You'll notice the stripes look weird and are morphing. It's referred to as aliasing as well.

In addition to the temporal artifacts, there's some strange stuff happening with color in this video as well. Why does the track surface look like it was shot on an NTSC camcorder, for instance? Or is the dirt in Singapore cyan-tinted?

The low-light performance is fine, I guess, but there still seem to be a ton of compromises in the hardware.

I have a Canon 7d that takes beautiful video. I spent a fair amount of time learning to make beautiful videos with it, and I also spent a fair amount of money buying low light lenses, filters (vari nd filter), and still need to buy audio (zoom h4n), steadycam (zacuto) and follow focus gear. The thing is, I intend to make a documentary so I do want it to be as good as I can possibly make it so I will end up spending an additional $1k-2k on top of the camera body depending on the gear I end up going with.

Having said that, the target market for a cheap Canon DSLR (parents) with the stock lens and nothing more than a tripod should be very happy with the flexibility of carrying one camera for stills and video, and the results they get on video should be very close to a a similarly priced camcorder.

Here is an example of why. I was at a ballet recital on Saturday and a father was filming his daughter with a $900 Canon T2i camera on a tripod and his video will likely look better than on a comparable Canon camcorder because the light was not changing, his subject was at the same focal distance and his camera was mounted on a tripod. That eliminates almost all of the manual control variables that require more equipment except for one - audio. A $99 audio device can fix that if it matters to you.

On the flip side, the DSLR gives you full manual controls and the ability to shoot in low light with possibly a cheap $100 Canon 50mm f/1.8.

Here are two videos shot with DSLR's that can show you the range of these DSLR's:

Alexandra (1 camera body, lens, and monopod) http://vimeo.com/6854556

Salton Sea (1 camera body, lots of lenses and fancy equipment) http://vimeo.com/10314280

Video DSLR's will replace camcorders eventually. In the meantime they can be useful in that they take both stills and video, and etter yet they are the best thing that happened to independent film makers.

UPDATE: Another comments points to a post on Philip Bloom's site about which DSLR to purchase. Philips site is full of very helpful information, the Salton Sea video linked to above is his.

http://philipbloom.net/2010/06/06/whichdslr/

I don't believe you watched the TED talk by Daniel Kahneman embedded in the blog post.

Daniel Kahneman mentions the 60k stat after his discussion and says "for Americans".

That should lead you to the conclusion that the number would likely be different if you did the gallup survey in a different country.

Braintree has gone out of their way to help my company out, they are extremely startup friendly.

My customer service rep at Braintree handles regular billing inquiries and has also helped me with some coding issues - that speaks volumes in my book.

Did your Mahalo investors get a share of thisweekin?

I read a little bit about how Odeo handled it with twitter handled it, just wondering how you did.

The design is clean, I like the concept. I didn't see attribution for each photo, did I miss it? I wouldn't feel comfortable visiting the site everyday if you don't give credit to the photographer.

I just noticed the attribution is missing on the photo page, but present on the homepage. If you were only going to do one, it seems the one that would benefit the photographer them most is on the photo page - because likely that will be the one that is indexed and possibly found on your site later - thus the link would help them.

Thanks for input, I will add that to the todo list. thanks!

Also I believe that clicking on the photos has to take you to flickr.com, according to the TOS. At least that's what I remember. Clicking on the photo (from the detail view) seems to go to the same page.

The Gmail issue you highlight I believe would only happen when the original outbound smtp server goes dark before it reattempts delivery. I say this because I have been receiving emails from Gmail with greylisting on for a week now.

Look at the logs and you will notice a lot of initial attempts that are never "followed through" on, and these are from Google's IPs.

And BTW, spammers have figured out RFC822 now, so this doesn't even prevent a lot of spam.

Good points. I used to do enterprise IT consulting and we couldn't integrate many spam cutting techniques without getting a large dose of complaints saying "where is my spam".

In our case, it's just two of us, and the level of spam was overwhelming. I accept the trade-off.

Heh, I always assume I've broken my mailserver when I don't get any spam. Unfortunately, I am usually right.

We just integrated zendesk into django using an app called django_zendesk, so far so good.