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Best of the blogs ▷ brandib laments the loss of easily obtained (i.e., at the local department store) good quality professional clothing. Read When Did We Agree To Settle For Less? ▷ I gave up Twitter/X years before Elon took it over and made a bad place worse. But now John Gruber is saying — and I think he’d be among the last to say it if it were true — that the service has re-found its footing and there’s less political content there than on the other tweety services. Read X Once Again Marks the Spot ▷ Steve Allen was a broadcast pioneer who single-handedly shaped a lot of television programming just by figuring it out and doing it first. David Hofstede profiles him. Read Remembering Steve Allen Nikon F2AS, 55mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor, Fujifilm Neopan 400, 2015 Cameras and photography ▷ Derrick Buckner shares a useful tutorial article on how to use guide numbers to shoot flash manually. Read Manual Flash Doesn’t Have to Be Hard ▷ I love me a good Kodak Retina, and Mike Eckman found one…