«I paid a dollar more to have a roll of film developed by Shutterfly. The online scans are similar to Ofoto's. I ordered a few prints and got the same kind of too high contrast snapshots that I get from every consumer photo service i've used over the last few years.

«I figure that it's a function of the photo industry, which mostly deals with photographs taken in full daylight or flat interior light. I avoid photographing in these conditions.

«Since I've decided my best shots will get tranferred to PhotoCD, I'll continue to use Ofoto and scan to CD as necessary.»

[On Deciding . . . Better log]

Thanks to "maverick historian Jessica Durbeen," we now know that Honest Abe was born Abigail Lincoln, a victim of Marfan's syndrome, a genetic disorder that can cause disproportionate growth. As a young girl, she decided to dress as a man to work as a rail splitter and, thanks to some Log Cabin luck, found a male transvestite to marry ("'Take a look at a photo of Mary Todd Lincoln and you'll be convinced'"), by whom she gave birth to six children while, possibly--and here Durbeen can go no further than the evidence allows--carrying on a torrid affair with John Wilkes Booth. . . .

Plagiarize This! by Jill Lepore in A Common Place

USA Americans have no vernacular to speak of social class.