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I predict I’m going to spend a lot of money with these folks: RentGlass.com. I shoot with Canon, and I’ve currently got a 50mm f1.8, the 18-55mm Digital Rebel/300D kit lens, and a 75-300mm f4.0-5.6. I love each and every one of these lenses, but there’s room in my heart for more.

In response to a question from Lisa in the comments, I checked on some numbers to see what the breakeven point would be for renting vs buying.
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Post-it notes from the underground

• Gnostic Gospels of Judas - You kissed my lips and broke my heart
• 357 Maharishis Missing, Feared Dead In Astral Plane Crash (Audio)
• South Park’s Cartoon Wars(Video) - Scientology, Family Guy & the Mohammed cartoons
• Gold futures climb to $600 an ounce - take the money and run
• Paris Hilton as “Mutha Teresa” - the storyline

We are like this Wonly

• White noise from Indian call centers - hat tip - Indianpad - check out VIPTel
• Time Magazine - Rebuilding Bangladesh - Is Bangladesh Shining
• 400 million post-colonial Indian holocaust - annual avoidable mortality and endemic poverty
• Medha Patkar - hungry kya?
• “Hello, Bangalore? Where’s My Unemployment Check?”
• Are the British boys going home early?

Blogcritics and Desicritics are constantly attacked by spammers - in fact, it’s probably a mark of maturity to see Desicritics get spam comment attacks - we’ve evidently been indexed by the spam artists.

We recently had some Jesus spam, it occured twice, and was cleaned up, finally blocking the IP. The spammer left one last comment, interestingly on one of my posts,

OK, before you ban me for posting the gospel messages I want you to think to yourself “If you died tonight are you 100% sure you’d go to heaven?” I dont post those threads to stir trouble, I POST THEM BECAUSE GOD WANTS ME TO DO SO! We all have sinned and fallen short of Gods standards! He says Jesus is the way truth and the life, no one comes to God but through him! Repent and believe in him because you may not have tomorrow!(death comes when we least expect it) Your eternity is at stake otherwise!

Amrita, a Desicritic, has responded to the spammer with a post, Dear Jesus Spammer, that makes for entertaining reading:

Thank you for responding to my article. It is heartening to know that my simple review of a spoiler website struck such a deep chord within you that you felt the need to redeem my soul. I have never had such a response ever before.

Of course, I later found out that it takes very little to connect
with you and I have to say that I felt a bit cheated. After all, with
all that talk about my soul it seemed to me that we had a connection -
until I clicked on another article, and yet another, and yet another….

I was a little cheered, however, to realize that you were not universally magnanimous. I find that you are most visible on Desicritics, where a lot of us heathens can be found, easily penned in a cyber box, awaiting your pleasure. While some on Blogcritics
have also been blessed with your presence, I find it comforting to know
that you are not “the village bicycle” of the Blogcritics network, as
the cruder boys back in India might have put it.

Hilarity!