On Sunday afternoon there will be a peaceful protest against the New York MTA’s proposed subway photography ban. It’s at 1:00 p.m. in Grand Central Station. People armed with cameras will fan out and take photos on the subway. (Note that the ban would also apply to photos on buses.)

The Village Voice, for its part, has interviews with several NYC photobloggers about the proposed ban, and is running a Forbidden Photos Contest.

The front page of NYCsubway.org is currently all about the proposed ban.

A subway photo ban is a stupid, stupid idea. What’s next — banning photos of buildings? Maybe we should just require all subway riders to wear blindfolds, so they won’t be able to look at all the secret secret things.

We’re living in insane times.

Here’s a profile of Kyle Cooper, who designs title sequences — “the short introductions and closings to films, videogames, and television shows that list the names of the cast and crew involved in the production.” He’s done the titles for Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Se7en, and other films. I never realized there was a person whose sole job was to design those things, nor did I realize how much effort went into them. Interesting stuff.

I’ve had Macintosh fever lately. I want a Mac. The fever has subsided in the last few days, but over the long Memorial Day weekend it was especially strong. For some reason, last Friday morning I found myself browsing all over the Apple website, checking out the different product lines and pricing different machines. Then on Sunday I spent a long time at the Apple Store in SoHo.

I don’t know exactly why I want a Mac. There seem to be several reasons: they look so damn cool, I keep hearing how elegant the Mac OS interface is, OS X is beautiful visually, and also I’m just darn curious and I feel like I’m missing out on something. The thing is, I bought a new computer just over a year ago — a Dell with Windows XP — so it might be a while before I get around to buying a Mac. Unless I sell my Dell. Or, I could get an eMac, maybe, since they’re cheaper.

Anyway, in order to boost my confidence, I’d be interested in hearing from any Mac users who might have some input/advice/reasons why I should switch.