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Exactly what you think it is.

Exactly as amazing as you think it is.

Love love LOVE Flickr’s new gallery feature. Curate a collection, selecting from the whole of Flickr’s massive photoset. Here’s my first example, a sampling of the best basset hound shots.

There is nothing I do not love about this photo — not least the look on Youk’s face!

Stream of photos posted to Twitter. Crappy cellphone cameras aplenty, but it’s fascinating to watch.

Surprisingly funny Lego constructions of New York sights.

Why I’m glad I’m not in Boston. (Though the arc of Dunkin Donuts coffee is making me somewhat “homesick”)

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”.

Some really outstanding photos of Barack Obama and the hubbub surrounding him in the lead-up to him winning the party nomination.

A handful of photos from Joy’s and my trip in a hot-air balloon, high above “wine country”.

Dogs, which are upside-down. Duh.

Symmetrize Flickr photos based on tag. Ones that turned out interesting to me were “bassethound”, “kiss”, “hippo” and, disturbingly, “boobs”.

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.

Quality! A 3D-sculpture of Twitter’s almost-ever present beacon of FAIL!

Found photos of dreadful-looking celebrations, with appropriately snarky commentary. Ace!

Blog by Alan Taylor gathering together the best photos from the newswires, displayed at a decently-high resolution.

Really nice Flickr search tool. Gives you a great at-a-glance thumbnail view.

Get an occasional email containing photos you uploaded to your Flickr account a year earlier. Micronostalgia. Lovely!

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.

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”!

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.