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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

Upside Down Dogs

Dogs, which are upside-down. Duh.

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

compfight

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

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

People playing chess on roller coasters

Life (deliberately) imitating “art”.

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.

May 8, 2007

Flickr: The Atrocious Apostrophe's Pool

Grocer’s apostrophe spotting’s.

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