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Ive been off my game lately. Here, remedially, are some comments to recent posts that I meant to publish but didnt. About the Vocal Range video, from Doug Anderson: "There is an important vocal range missing from the video. Just...

["Open Mike" is the open-topic Editorial page of TOP. It appears when Yr. Hmbl. Ed. finds the energy.] - I just caught up with all the Featured Comments on the last several posts, starting with "Big Camera, Small Camera" (a...

Happy Juneteenth! Especially to anyone who is gathering today. The previous post got a lot of interest, and a large number of relevant and interesting comments—just the Featured Comments and my inline responses are up to almost 1,900 words (!)...

In Fridays post, "How Is TOP Doing?", I talked, in the Featured Comments, a little about the relative nature of money. Money is a subject I know relatively little about. Still, I was surprised by Dave Milliers comment. It doesnt...

A followup on the progress of The Great Monochrome Safari, in which Don Quixote Mike stalks the veldt in a funny hat for "always-on" digital B&W and other big game not mandatory for the sustenance of Dawgs*: —Daniel Morrison at...

Allan Stam wrote: "The number of industries that the iPhone has destroyed is really quite extraordinary. Pocket cameras, calculators, stand-alone GPS, and literally dozens of others. One wonders how much of this Steve Jobs anticipated or if he would be...

I should write introductions to our "big" posts here. I sometimes forget that not everyone has been reading regularly since George W. Bush was President! So, to explain: the "Bakers Dozens" are small virtual group shows here on The Online...

Oh, ouch. Aint that just the way it goes? There I was, gassing on about how I moderate comments, and...then I realized that the Featured Comments for the "Ideal Format" post never got posted. Or rather, they did get posted,...

[TOP publishes on Mon./Wed./Fri. Comments will be posted later.] - 1: Controversy! In the previous post, I thought the controversial Principle would be the Second one, "Buy the best camera you can afford." But no. Going by the comments, it...

Book Sale Upcoming Im going to be working on Featured Comments this morning on the last several posts, going back to Sunday. But I wanted to give you a heads up that Ive just entered into discussions to have another of our fantastic book sales, just like in days of old—pristine new copies of two beautifully printed books that complement each other and are hard to get now. With one, the price of used copies on the secondary market has risen above the price when it was new, whereas our price wi...