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60 Photography Links You Can’t Live Without

Tue, 13 May 2008 11:09:43 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: 25 blogs, 20 amazing photographers, and some other fun stuff....

Clip Source: www.cameraporn.net

Photography Related Blogs

A Photo Editor

Digital Photography School

Epic Edits

f/1.0

Flickr Blog

Engadget

L7 Foto

Photowalking

Photopreneur

Strobist

What’s The Jackanory?

Thomas Hawk

Rebekka

PhotoDoto

Photo Critic

Photography Bay

Chase Jarvis

PDN Pulse

John Nack on Adobe

O’Reilly Digital Media Blogs

Stuck in Customs

Jim Goldstein

Gizmodo Digital Camera News

Magnum Photos Blog

Photoshop Insider

Amazing Photographer Portfolios

Photo News & Reviews

PopPhoto

The Digital Picture

Photo.net

Rob Galbraith

Ken Rockwell

Goodies for Flickr

Big Huge Labs

Slideoo

Flickr Leech

Pic Lens

Flickr Rss

Photography News and Post Aggregators

Photography Voter

Imaging Insider

PicUrls

Aphlog

1001 Noisy Cameras Digital Camera News

The Online Photographer

Photub

Fred Miranda

Tags: blogs, links, photographers, photography, portfolios.

Spectacular Photography

Sun, 11 May 2008 04:55:09 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

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Free Music: 22 Websites to Get the Music You Love

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:08:32 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: (thanks Mr. B)

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BeeMP3.com

a mp3 search engine

Blip

a quick way to tell your friends what song you’re into

Critical Metrics

a database of highly recommended songs

Deezer

offers, free of charge and legally, all kinds of music

Free Albums Galore

a full-album “mp3 blog”

Free Music Zilla

a tool specialized for social music downloading

GrooveShark Lite

find and listen to any song

Hype Machine

tracks a variety of MP3 blogs

Imeem

a wide range of media

Internet Audio Archive

over a hundred thousand free digital recordings

Jango

create a custom radio station

Last.fm

the most popular custom radio site

Musicovery

choose which songs to play based on things like mood, genre

Music Search Online

mp3 search

MuxTape

create and share mp3 mixtapes

Pandora

great for finding new music

SeeqPod

media search engine

SpiralFrog

over 700,000 songs for you to download

Skreemr

for locating mp3 files

Slacker

a custom radio station site

Songerize

simplified interface for the SeeqPod music search engine

Songza

a music search engine with the ability to create playlists

Tags: music, mp3, radio, search

Ain't Eccentricity Great!

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:37:43 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: Fascinating! methinks

Clip Source: www.newyorker.com

Our Own Devices

Does technology drive history?

James Prescott Joule, whose findings led to the first law of thermodynamics, spent his honeymoon jury-rigging a thermometer to take a reading at the top and bottom of a waterfall where a lesser man might merely have canoodled. Joseph Henry shredded his wife’s silk petticoat to make insulation for the coil of wire he needed to wrap around an electromagnet. Thomas Edison didn’t wash, and was convinced that changing his clothes would alter his body’s chemistry, and not in a good way. Nikola Tesla, who developed the first motor for alternating current, had to do everything in multiples of three: twenty-seven laps in the pool, twelve hundred electric lamps for the city of Strasbourg. He was also afraid of earrings, peaches, touching people’s hair, dropping tiny square slips of paper into bowls of liquid, and eating food whose cubic footage he had not been able to estimate at a glance.

Colors of the Night Sky

Mon, 12 May 2008 18:36:06 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: The last photo is a panorama - scroll far over to the right to see the entire image (or clicking will take you to the original). The second to last photo is called Emerald Tornado.

"The blood moon is also known as the “Hunter’s Moon” or “Sanguine Moon.” While folklore warns that a blood moon is a sign of bad times, the red star of night is anything but. The name “Hunter’s Moon” originates from the fact that this moon cast a brilliant light, allowing hunters to continue to seek prey even at nighttime"

"No matter how much fact stands behind blood moons, some people still continue to think of them as harbingers of doom (but they are really quite the opposite!)"

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While daydreamers are famous for spending their afternoons gazing out of their office windows, there’s something to be said for the night sky as well — its intense hues go far beyond an average black sky.

Blood Moon

Around the time these moons are seen in the sky, there is very little darkness between sunset and moonrise

This is because the plane of Earth’s orbit around the sun makes a narrow angle as far as the horizon is concerned at this time of year.

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Skylines

The skyline above is Kuwait, gorgeously accented by shades of paprika.

Star Trails

To capture one on film takes patience

the magical effect that you see in the picture above usually takes an hour or more to record

Auroras

The auroras themselves actually take place in the ionosphere (upper atmosphere).

This phenomenon is has been called “The Dance of the Spirits.”

More pictures of the night sky:

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Of course, seeing those different colors is all a matter of your where and when.

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A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:11:05 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Gary Greenberg photographs the world, one grain of sand at a time, in A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder

(magnification 40X)

Maui Sand:

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Star Sand:

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Namibia:

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Minnesota:

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Six Sand Grains:

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Ireland:

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Lahaina Maui:

Tags: nature, sand, photography

Leonardo Da Vinci's 10 Best Ideas

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:48:05 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: I had never heard of his scuba gear designs. From the source page: "Da Vinci's fascination with the sea spurred many designs for aquatic exploration. His diving suit was made of leather, connected to a snorkel made of cane and a bell that floated at the surface. Proving the artist was also practical, the suit included a pouch the diver could urinate in."

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Mirror Writing

Was it a ploy to thwart Renaissance copycats peeking at his notes, or just a way to avoid the inky mess of writing left-handed?

Scuba Gear

Da Vinci's fascination with the sea spurred many designs for aquatic exploration.

The Revolving Bridge

Da Vinci thought his revolving bridge would be best used in warfare.

The Winged Glider

Da Vinci's imagination was filled to capacity with ideas for flying machines, including several gliders equipped with flappable wings.

The Triple-Barreled Cannon

His jacked-up triple-barrel would have been a deadly weapon on the battlefield

The Aerial Screw

Modern scientists agree it may never have lifted off the ground

The Ideal City

His architectural draughts are highly detailed

The Self-Propelled Car

His wooden "car" moved by the interaction of springs with geared wheels.

Geologic Time

He supposed (right) that the mountains must once have been coastline

The Vitruvian Man

his perfect human form

he's now considered one of the most recognizable figures on earth

Comprehension Climbs When You Slooooow Doooown

Fri, 09 May 2008 10:54:41 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: clipversity, where art though?

Clip Source: www.wired.com

It should take you two and a half seconds to read this sentence. Any faster and you won't absorb its meaning. The motor response of the retina, and the time it takes the image of a word to travel from the macula to the thalamus to the visual cortex for processing, limits the eye to about 500 words a minute. (That's peak efficiency; the average college student can expect a rate about half that.) "There is no such thing as speed reading," says Keith Rayner a cognitive psychologist at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. "Not if your definition of reading is comprehending text." Studies show that fast readers fare worse than slower ones when questioned about the text. So, to get smarter, slow down. It's even OK to move your lips.

Tags: brain, reading, slowing down, comprehension

Gandhi’s 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World

Tue, 13 May 2008 11:42:16 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: "Mahatma Gandhi needs no long introduction. Everyone knows about the man who lead the Indian people to independence from British rule in 1947."

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1. Change yourself.

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

2. You are in control.

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

3. Forgive and let it go.

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

4. Without action you aren’t going anywhere.

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

5. Take care of this moment.

“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present.

6. Everyone is human.

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

7. Persist.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

8. See the good in people and help them.

“I look only to the good qualities of men.

9. Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

10. Continue to grow and evolve.

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Tags: wisdom

Thousands dead in Chinese quake

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:40:27 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Between 3,000 and 5,000 people may have been killed by an earthquake measuring 7.8 in just one county of south-western China's Sichuan province, reports say.

Some 10,000 people are also feared to have been injured in Beichuan county.

Desperate efforts are under way to find survivors. One school that collapsed has buried an estimated 900 students.

President Hu Jintao has urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims of the quake, which hit 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital.

The quake was felt as far away as Beijing, he says, meaning millions of people will feel connected to the disaster and will be watching TV screens closely to see how the government responds.

Tags: earthquake, china

Russian Stone Idols of Komi

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:50:42 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: The seven "stone idols" in the upper part of the river Pechora stand alone on a wide plateau. An interesting formation considering the surrounding landscape: The writer for englishrussia.com believes they were man-made. http://englishrussia.com/?p=1911

I think they appear to be formed by nature, but the location is odd.

amgumen if you see this, any ideas?

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In the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Area you can visit the summit of Spasskaya Mountain, where you can get a good view of a group of columnar rocks separated from the cliffs. Not far from this colonnade, at the very base of the mountain, is a small cave in the form of an oven. Inside is a lake with a constant water level. Ice formations remain intact in the cave even on the hottest summer days.

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The area is sparsely populated and has a poorly developed transport network. In the northern Urals there are a few reserves - Denezhkin Kamen, Pechoro-Ilychskii and Visherskii.

At the upper part of the river Pechora, there are seven famous picturesque stone rocks – “idols” on the plateau Man-Pupu-Ner.

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The Komi Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Ко́ми, Respublika Komi; Komi: Коми Республика, Komi Respublika) is a republic and a federal subject of Russia, to the west of the Ural mountains, in the north-east of the East European Plain.

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Forests cover over 70% of the territory of the republic

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Tags: russia, komi, geology

5 Scientific Laws and the Scientists Behind Them

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:29:11 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: From Cliff Pickover's Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them.

Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

"Eureka!" Archimedes screamed, then he ran outside naked ..

1. Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy

Plutarch wrote that Archimedes was so obsessed with math that his servants had to force him to bathe, and that while they scrubbed him, he continued to draw geometrical figures on his body!

2. Hooke’s Law of Elasticity

Hooke was interested in the science of respiration, so he had himself placed in a sealed vessel from which air was gradually pumped out.

he damaged his ears and experienced deafness in the process

3. Bernoulli's Law of Fluid Dynamics (Bernoulli's Principle)

Johann was unable to bear the “shame" of being comparable to his son and threw Daniel out of his house for winning the prize that he felt should've been his alone!

4. Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

Dalton never married, saying "My head is too full of triangles, chymical process, and electrical experiments, etc.,

5. Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction

Global warming? Blame Fourier - he came up with the idea

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Earth in 250 Million Years?

Wed, 14 May 2008 06:41:15 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: Don't miss the links!!!

Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Earth in 250 Million Years?

Is this what will become of the Earth's surface? The surface of the Earth is broken up into several large plates that are slowly shifting. About 250 million years ago, the plates on which the present-day continents rest were positioned quite differently, so that all the landmasses were clustered together in one supercontinent now dubbed Pangea. About 250 million years from now, the plates are again projected to reposition themselves so that a single landmass dominates. The above simulation from the PALEAOMAP Project shows this giant landmass: Pangea Ultima. At that time, the Atlantic Ocean will be just a distant memory, and whatever beings inhabit Earth will be able to walk from North America to Africa.

Future of wind power - will be HUGE!

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:41:27 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I think it's incredibly exciting to be living during a time of such change. We are talking about a massive change in global dynamics that has already begun. The next few decades should be amazing.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Wind could provide 20% of nation's energy

The report, a collaboration between the Energy Department research labs and industry, concludes wind energy could generate 20 percent of the nation's electricity by 2030, about the same share now produced by nuclear reactors.

Such growth would envision more than 75,000 new wind turbines, many of them larger than those operating today. About 54,000 megawatts would be produced by turbines in offshore waters.

And it would require a major expansion of the electricity grid system to move power from high-wind areas to other parts of the country, the report said.

"This is the equivalent of taking 140 million cars off the road,"

Tags: wind power, alternative energy

U.S. soldier fulfills his mission of getting Iraqi girl new legs

Sun, 11 May 2008 18:56:45 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: One day, Falcon, a New Yorker from 1st battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, asked her what she wanted. He expected her to ask for a toy. "I'll get you anything you want," he recalled saying.

"I want legs so I can walk to school," she told him. One day she planned to be a doctor. School was important to her.

It was a daunting request. The family was too poor to pay for expensive prostheses. The travel alone to an equipped clinic would be too expensive. Her father is unemployed and ill.

So Falcon, who admits he wasn't sure about the Iraq war, wasn't sure he was making a difference, decided he'd get Shahad her legs.

He went to his commander, to his chaplain, to anyone who would listen. The quest was frustrating and took months of pleas. He threatened to walk away from the Army if he couldn't give Shahad legs.

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BAGHDAD — Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon , 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba , north of Baghdad , when he saw Shahad Abbas . The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood.

Falcon couldn't just walk on, so he stopped to talk. He came back the next day and the day after that, then every day for six months, bringing her toys, gauze for her legs, a new wheelchair. Anything she asked for he would bring.

In a war that Falcon no longer really understood, Shahad became his mission. So when she asked for legs, that became his mission, too.

On Friday his dream and hers came true, just three weeks before he's scheduled to leave Iraq . Shahad was fitted with prosthetic limbs in a U.S. military-funded clinic in Baghdad that normally provides artificial limbs for wounded members of the Iraqi security forces.

"We created a bond, and I didn't need a translator to interpret the bond we had," Falcon said.