It’s not hard to imagine hell as a place that is very, very noisy.
via Baird: Why We Need Silence (Not Cell Phones) | Newsweek Julia Baird | Newsweek.com.

Cell Size and Scale.
Drag the slider to zoom in, all the way down to a carbon atom.

The full extent of executive pay.

How To Write Badly Well.

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Jerry Fahrni » For those that need a reason to support CPOE and EMR implementation.

Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush.

More Americans Falling For ‘Get Rich Slowly Over A Lifetime Of Hard Work’ Schemes | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.

Glass presents two problems to the photographer that make it difficult to light. First is the reflective nature of its surfaces, and second is the way glass transmits light. While there are several standard approaches to solve the problems involved with lighting glass, understanding the basic nature of light’s interactions with the glass gives you [...]

Ira Hyman, a professor of psychology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, put a clown on a unicycle and asked him to ride around campus. He then analyzed the reactions of students to find out who noticed the clown and who didn’t.
via Clown study no laughing matter « Headline Health.

Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens Review.
One more in the list of lenses I would love to have but can’t quite justify and definitely can’t afford.

Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Jeffrey’s “Video-Asset Management” Lightroom Plugin.

Panasonic Leica 45mm F2.8 Macro OIS Lens Review: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review.

In terms of color reproduction, black-and-white capabilities, and sheer usability, I’ve been blown away by the 3880’s performance. If it doesn’t have as many bells and whistles as its competitors—the 3880 has fewer inks and lacks a built-in color calibration device—it beats its rivals in terms of its superior out-of-box experience. Get the 3880 going [...]

Every working stiff in the bottom 80 percent should be outraged and politically motivated to force change. But if everyone is convinced of the convenient nostrum that our own attitude controls how much we are paid, then workers won’t band together to demand a larger share of our national prosperity.
via The impotence of positive thinking [...]

YouTube – Bob – “Weird Al” Yankovic.

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Epson Stylus Pro 3880 Hands-On Review.

Getting hideously drunk at a dinner party and embarrassing yourself is certainly nothing new. As far back as the 9th Century, the beautifully named ‘Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette’ insisted that local officials use the following letter template dated 856 when sending apologies to offended dinner hosts.
via Letters of Note: I was ready to sink into [...]

Highly Unrecommended: Bacon and Cheese Stuffed Pizza Burger — The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

Digital Night Photography: Test Exposures, Noise Reduction, and Image Stacking « Joe Reifer.
Dawn has been asking about techniques for night exposures. Here’s another of the types of things that night photographers do. “Stacking” multiple exposures is a way to get rid of some of the noise that comes from long exposures by averaging it out–this [...]

YouTube – Man showing his Neo Geo collection dancing.

Concerned About BPA: Check Your Receipts / Science News.

The very idea of a set-side, aka: National Park, is an idea that separates man from nature – indeed an idea that, at its core, separates man from his very nature as an integral part of nature. We are it. It is us.
via Photography that aims at being true, not at being beautiful because, what [...]

YouTube – Speaking Piano – Now with (somewhat decent) captions!.

YouTube – Roy Ayers – Battle Of The Vibes.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 Review | Digital Camera Resource Page.
Worth reading even if you have already purchased a GF1 just to see some of the tips about software, configuration, and controls.

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