7 Photography Projects to Jumpstart your Creativity.
A few interesting possiblities here, including the idea of doing a photowalk every week and creating a 100 strangers project.

Python Debugging Techniques | Ayman Hourieh’s Blog.
Just a pointer for Dawn for use in the future.

YouTube – Pyro System 2.2 Halloween.

I would have loved to have had this for Halloween. Or any time, for that matter. Very cool.

First of all, always add “Dear Reddit” to the title of the submission. Redditors love feeling like you’re writing them a personalized letter – they get all misty eyed. Second, always add (PIC) to the submission. If your submission doesn’t contain any pictures, go ahead and add one. It doesn’t even have to be relevant [...]

However, although you may also be creating a profile on your laptop, we know that a small shift in viewpoint, a change in the angle at which you’re viewing the screen, can alter how colours and tones appear.
via Gavin’s Greyscale Gradient – a greyscale plug-in for Lightroom | Gavin Gough: Travel Photographer.
Grabbing this so I [...]

Recipe | Creamy Mushroom Croustades | Natalie MacLean.

REDMOND, Wash. – Police are warning Sammamish-area residents about a flasher who has exposed himself to multiple women on the East Lake Sammamish Trail.
via Serial flasher reported on East Lake Sammamish Trail – Seattle- msnbc.com.
Glad that I don’t use ELS to get home, although it appears he is only targeting women. There’s a joke to [...]

In 2008, I went into several schools closed the previous year to find buildings stripped of metal but left with libraries full of books, computer labs upturned, art classrooms full of supplies, and administration offices filled with confidential and sensitive student records.
via SCHOOL’S OUT FOREVER – PART 1 – Vice Magazine.

That B&W structure is an actual image of a molecule and its atomic bonds. The first of its kind, in fact, and a breakthrough for the crazy IBM scientists in Zurich who spent 20 straight hours staring at the “specimen”—which in this case was a 1.4 nanometer-long pentacene molecule comprised of 22 carbon atoms and [...]

They may resemble pandas, buffalos and camels – but these animals are actually poodles, all competing for the title of top dog at ‘creative grooming’ shows across the U.S.
via The poodles transformed into pandas, horses and even snails at ‘creative grooming’ dog shows | Mail Online.

Contrary to popular Mac fanboy belief, Macintosh is not more secure from a software standpoint than modern Windows; it’s merely safer to use because malware writers prefer to target the platform with the biggest install base, according to Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, co-authors of The Mac Hacker’s Handbook, which came out this spring.
“Apple [...]

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Aral Sea was the world’s fourth-largest lake. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union began a massive irrigation project in what are now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, diverting water from the rivers that feed the Aral Sea to irrigate farmland.
via Aral Sea Continues to Shrink, August 2009 [...]

British historians have unearthed a letter written 510 years ago by King Henry VII that sheds startling new light on Canadian history.
The letter reveals a previously unknown English expedition to this country in 1499 and may add the name of William Weston — an obscure shipping merchant from the west England port of Bristol — [...]

The analysts found no support for the claim routinely made by politicians that American health care is the best in the world and no hard evidence of any particular area in which American health care is truly exceptional.
via Editorial – World’s Best Health Care – NYTimes.com.

If you’re trying to understand all of the reasons why your representatives may support or oppose certain health care reform measures, we can add the money-in-politics puzzle pieces. Here’s a cool tool that brings together data from various parts of OpenSecrets.org to show how much money each current lawmaker has raised from various health-related industries [...]

MADSEN launches a WEEKLY bike giveaway
So let’s be honest, the last link contest we held was just a blast. So we did some pinky-twisting and Jared Madsen (our founder) consented to an idea of pure madness. We’re going to run the contest again, only this time – we’re going to give away a bike every [...]

YouTube – 3D morphable model face animation.

Wow. This is amazing stuff.

The body’s appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing save a potentially lethal case of inflammation.
Now researchers suggest the appendix is a lot more than a useless remnant. Not only was it recently proposed to actually possess a critical function, but scientists now find it [...]

There’s a feeling, often voiced around these parts, that free agents don’t want to play for the Edmonton Oilers. The reasons offered are varied – anything form the weather, the nightlife, Kevin Lowe, the travel, Ritch Winter, or even being on an NHLPA blacklist.
via Everyone Hates Edmonton – OilersNation.com.

xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet.

YouTube – Feynman ‘Fun to Imagine’ 6: The Mirror.

Richard Feynman explains why a mirror appears to reverse left and right but not top and bottom.

The world’s most elusive human being

Polychrome II Nice pictures of the polychrome wood in the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, and a few sentences about the typical character of Canadians.