3 Cheers For The Internet, Eternal Font Of Mirth And Amusement!

Posted by Doug on February 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment

So Aron stumbled across the newly-proposed "don't come near else you're risking a severe dose of radiation, and not the cool 'turns-you-into-the-Hulk-slash-Fantastic-Four-kind" signs created by the IAEA (Official Motto: "No time to search for Iranian nukes, we're making signs!") and decided to post it to the "Stick Figures In Peril" Flickr group (a source of [...]

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Phun With Photography

Posted by Doug on April 24th, 2006 | No Comments

I stumbled across a couple of nifty photo streams recently via digg and thought them worthy of sharing further. First up is an amazing set of pictures of a rainbow, taken from just about as close to one as I've seen. Very cool stuff.
Next is an awesome HDR photoset of New York City [...]

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The Illustrated Stephenson

Posted by Doug on March 16th, 2006 | No Comments

Credit goes out to Aron for ferreting this one out. He's been on a bit of a Flickr kick recently and happened across a Flickr group that is seeking to photographically document the real-world locations described in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle (i.e. Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World). Thus far, [...]

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"Camera Tossing" - A Flippin' SWEET Flickr Meme

Posted by Doug on October 15th, 2005 | 2 Comments

From the Kids, don't try this at home with your father's $1200 digital SLR dept.
Some enterprising young shutterbugs over at Flickr have created a new meme for those of usyou out there with disposable income and/or digital cameras: camera tossing. Aspiring "camera tossers" (bet that one gets a laugh in the UK) set their [...]

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