Tools

It’s a pleasure to give credit to Michael Dell and his Guangzhou colleagues for my new e5510 widescreen laptop computer, to Steven Ballmer and his OS whiz kids for Windows 7, to Matt Mullenweg and his teammates at WordPress for their blogging software, and to Arun Kale of The Masterplan for The Morning After magazine-style theme — the essential tools used to craft and present truthalyzer.com.

In addition, I depend on Mozilla Firefox for internet browsing, Adobe Photoshop for image editing, and NoteTab, from Fookes Software, for drafting posts and editing CSS and PHP files. And to answer the question that the foregoing may have suggested to you, no, I have not received any considerations for mentioning all those products. The stuff works so well, I just felt I should give some credit.

Another question that has probably occurred to those who follow truthalyzer.com is why I have replaced my iMac desktop computer with a Dell laptop. The simple answer is that in doing so I have gained several times the computing power of the iMac packed into a lightweight package I can take anywhere, and at less than half the price of a comparable Apple product. The more complicated answer has to do with my reaction to Apple’s transformation from the open-minded, customer-friendly alternative to “Big Brother” corporations like IBM to a company that seems intent on becoming the most controlling and customer-demeaning in the business. I’m a long-time Apple user (my first computer was an Apple II), but I can no longer support a company whose operating systems are increasingly dumbed-down, whose products are ever more closed and proprietary, whose applications are censored, and which now threatens to spy on its customers.

But enough about my tools. The primary reason for the Credits page is to give proper recognition to the sources of the photos that appear on truthalyzer.com.

Photos

When credits are printed on photos, referenced in adjoining text and links, or included in the file names of JPGs, they are not repeated below. The following list of credits is formatted to indicate photo location/page – description, credit/link:

Frontpage header – Keyboarding, from mydailyclarity.com

About – Storm clouds, from serendipity in a day

About – Earth petri dish, from Vanderbilt University

Evidence – Species extinction collage, from Students Against Climate Change

Evidence – Oil well near Beaumont, Texas, by John Collignon

Evidence – Population overshoot blackboard diagram, from The Oil Drum

Evidence – Hand-operated water pump, from Water Encyclopedia

Scenarios – The Soiling of Old Glory, by Stanley J. Forman, from Slate

Scenarios – The Harvest Wagon, by George Stubbs (1724-1806), from Bridgeman

Scenarios – Earth climate change, from The Daily Galaxy

Scenarios – New York (for cover of book, Homo disparitus), by Francois Baranger

Scenarios – Roadblock/Road Closed, by Andrew Bolte on Flickr

Credits – Steve Jobs superimposed over Big Brother, from Anil Dash

Contact – Shaun of the Dead mob, from Best-Horror-Movies.com

Posts – Blood feud in Palestine, from CNN

Posts – Unemployment reports lie, Roosevelt Memorial, by threeleggeddog on Flickr

Posts – Obama and Superman, originally posted on Barack Obama’s senate website, obama.senate.gov, which is no longer active

Posts – Obama warns of catastrophe, by Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images

Posts – State secrets, Extraordinary Rendition, from DSI Comedy Theater

Posts – Grapes of Wrath II, Ontario tent city, by daniel.gene on Flickr

Posts – Satellite collision, tracked objects around Earth, from Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies

Posts – It’s his fault, Lloyd Blankfein, from zimbio

Posts – A glimpse at what’s wrong, Wile E. Coyote, Warner Brothers Looney Tunes

Posts – The best way to rob a bank is to own one, frame from Moyers-Black interview video at vodpod.com

Posts – Ethanol is a scam! Corn ear-gas pump from University of Florida Extension

Posts – You’re ready for The Big One, right? Custom receipt, from customreceipt.com

Posts – Will humanity survive the current extinction? Plesiosaur fossil, from Camp Internet

Posts – Hacked! Image from LindaCaroll.com

Posts – Is this website hazardous to one’s health? Image from Reader’s Digest Canada.

Posts – Are humans smarter than yeast? Image from Ghent University.

Posts – Guest essay: The Paradise Imperative. Image from IE University’s Sapiens Tribune – liberal arts blog.

Posts – Climate change: Fire or ice? Image from Siliconeer.

Posts – The economy is the least of our problems. Godzilla barely visible during dust storm, from avixyz on Flickr.

Posts – Infinite monkeys, finite resources. Chimp typing, from Deluxe.

Posts – A (shooting) gallery of alternative energy sources. Shooting gallery, from carnivalshooter.com.

Posts – Guest essay: Life after growth. Earth-in-hands, from Hazel8500.

Posts – World Water Day. Tap by Tim Dillon, from USA TODAY.

Posts – Earth Hour 2010. Earth clock, from Recanto das Palavras.

Posts – Is Earth past the tipping point? Frame from video by that title, produced by the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment.

Posts – Earth Day(dreaming). Environmental-themed-day globe from TreeHugger.

Posts – Gulf oil spill a reminder of our limits. Oil rig fire photo from U.S. Coast Guard.