In case you want to take good photographs (as opposed to just being a camera geek), you'll be well served to read Alain Briot's series - "Aesthetics and Photography" on the Luminous Landscape. The webpage there doesn't really list the articles in the correct order, (I have no idea why!), so I'll list them in sequence (and by conceptual grouping) here -

The Basics
1) How to See Photographically
2) How to Compose a Photograph

The Technique
3) How to Choose the Best Lens For a Specific Composition
4) How to Find the Best Light for a Specific Photograph
5) How to Select the Best “film” for a Specific Image with both Film and Digital Capture
6) How to determine the best exposure for a specific photograph with film and digital capture

The Operational
7) How to Decide Which Photographs Are Keepers and Which Ones Are Not
8) How to Create a Portfolio of your Work

The Unteachable
9) How to Establish a Personal Photographic Style
10) Being an Artist

There are more of Alain Briot's columns (Briot's View) here, and his own website can be found here. I'd previously linked to an article by Ken Rockwell - How to Make Great Photographs or "Everything You Really Needed to Learn About Photography That They Didn't Teach You at Brooks", that stems from the same philosophy. Read that here.

For camera geekery (I wouldn't deny my own guilt, of course...), there's DPReviews. :)

- Chinmay

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1) Where can I get scores (for playing on the piano) of Indian and western music? Fr free of course...

2) Which is a good domain name seller/DNS hosting service? Does it work out cheaper to buy the domain name for longer term?

3) Which is a good chess book for learning basic strategies, tactics, opening and endgame moves etc?

- Chinmay

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Bill Maher's Victory Begins at Home is a mandatory viewing if you are interested in either of = Standup Comedy, America, Planet Earth

Do watch it.

- Chinmay

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Enjoy some nice Irish music [Playlist] for St. Patty's day!

... and don't forget the Guinness either! ;-)

- Chinmay

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Have you ever listened to National Public Radio? There's wondeful stuff on all the time, including Classical music, discussions about political, social, environmental issues around the world. Much like PBS - the television counterpart. [Find the PBS schedule in your area here]
NPR also has a lot of internet transmitted [Real Player] programs. One of my favourits is Performance Today which features a different musical performance every day. They've also recently added a list - the PT50 - 50 classical music must haves. You can listen to snippets of all 50, and their cultural significance on the PT50 page.

If you want to listen on 'real' radio, you can find the AM/FM frequency in your city here. You can also listen to a wide variety of music on winamp radio. Here's my playlist of classical stations.

In Passing: Read all about the "My job went to India and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" t-shirt.

- Chinmay

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