October 23, 2008
Poladroid
Gorgeously playful app which takes your digital photos and makes them look like old Polaroid snaps. Features loving touches like having to wait for the photo to “develop”.
October 22, 2008
Callie Shell - Obama - Digital Journalist
Some really outstanding photos of Barack Obama and the hubbub surrounding him in the lead-up to him winning the party nomination.
October 19, 2008
Hot Air Balloon Trip slideshow on Flickr
A handful of photos from Joy’s and my trip in a hot-air balloon, high above “wine country”.
October 14, 2008
August 13, 2008
Symmetry Explorer
Symmetrize Flickr photos based on tag. Ones that turned out interesting to me were “bassethound”, “kiss”, “hippo” and, disturbingly, “boobs”.
August 3, 2008
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture
I’m bored of “beauty in nature” — Hurrah for The Big Picture covering beauty in science! Enjoy these photos before they turn the collider on, and we all get sucked into black hole.
June 29, 2008
Fail Whale sculpture - a set on Flickr
Quality! A 3D-sculpture of Twitter’s almost-ever present beacon of FAIL!
June 25, 2008
Sorry I Missed Your Party
Found photos of dreadful-looking celebrations, with appropriately snarky commentary. Ace!
June 4, 2008
The Big Picture
Blog by Alan Taylor gathering together the best photos from the newswires, displayed at a decently-high resolution.
March 11, 2008
February 22, 2008
Photojojo's Photo Time Capsule
Get an occasional email containing photos you uploaded to your Flickr account a year earlier. Micronostalgia. Lovely!
January 16, 2008
My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress)
US Library of Congress + Flickr == FTW! LoC uploads photos from their collection to Flickr, sharing them with the world, then Flickr users can update the metadata, improving their usefulness. Everyone’s a winner.
December 5, 2007
Edit your photos! On Flickr!
Flickr’s new Picnik integration is top-notch — Enough photo-tweaking power for about 80% of the population, I’d guess. And, effectively, a new implementation of “hohohohat”!
October 11, 2007
Cool Tool: ScanCafe
I’ve been looking for a cost-effective way of converting our wedding photo negatives into digital files for a while, and this looks like it might be the way to go. $0.19 per negative.
August 21, 2007
YouTube - Image resize
Demo of a wicked-cool smart image-resizing technique, from the SIGGRAPH conference.
August 1, 2007
Polar Rose
Firefox plugin which collaboratively identifies faces in photos all over the web. There’s no smart matching yet, but that’s promised for the future. Creepy, inevitable, and awesome.
July 18, 2007
July 1, 2007
Kwik-E-Mart - a photoset on Flickr
To promote the Simpsons movie, a bunch of 7-Elevens have been turned into Kwik-E-Marts — Squishees, Buzz Cola and all. (And Jasper in the freezer)
June 24, 2007
Friend Photos - Facebook Screensaver
OS X screensaver which grabs your friends’ photos from Facebook. Playing with this, I was reminded that a) I have some incredibly hot friends and b) I have some incredibly strange friends.