Puzzled by why some pictures I'd taken appeared dark on PC monitors but perfectly fine on my shiny new iMac I posed the question in a previous post. Jonathon explained in the comments to that post that it had to do with gamma settings and how they are different on different machines. He provided the following links,here and here and here for a more thorough explanation. Something to be aware of if you are posting pictures on the web. The problem is at its worst when there is a lot of contrast in a picture. Later on I talked to my brother-in-law Bill, a Mac person from the beginning of time. He has never wavered. He knew all about the above problem and mentioned that there is a neat utility that deals with this, but not before the usual rant about Bill Gates and Microsoft imposing their inferior standards on the world. The utility will process your graphics as a batch preparing them for use on the Internet. It apparently adjusts for the gamma. Alas, he couldn't remember what it was called. If anyone knows don't be shy. Information like this has a way of provoking thought. It occured to me that not only had I solved the mystery of the dark photo's but another of life's more serious questions. Folk wisdom has it that the more creative and liberal among us use Mac's. For the recored whatever I lack in creativity I make up for by being plenty liberal. This bit of indisputable wisdom provides a further explanation as to why right-wingers are so negative, so dark. It is reflected in their outlook on life, the world, and everything. It's those damn PC monitors casting everything much darker and more dismal than it really is. The solution just switch.

note: I don't work in the PR department at Apple Computer.