“After purchasing my family membership and visiting the museum today I was forcibly thrown out of the museum by two museum security guards at the direction of the Director of Visitor Relations Simon Blint. My crime? Taking a photograph from the second floor stairs in the SFMOMA’s atrium (an area where the SF MOMA’s own website explicitly says…”
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If you have an old white film canister and an x-acto knife, you can make a clever little flash diffuser that will slip over the flash on your typical SLR camera. Photojojo has a guide for making one. It should really take you about 5 minutes (assuming you have a canister on hand), so give it a shot. Your photographs—and your photo subjects—will thank you for it.
Hackszine.com: Film canister flash diffuser
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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Stolen From: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/05/15/holy-f-ing-s/
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I’ll miss the picks. I’ll miss them even more than the touchdowns, though he holds the all-time records for both. For it was in failure that we saw how much Favre wanted to win. He wanted to win so badly he was willing to lose. Not just lose. He was willing to be the goat for a shot at being the hero. So many quarterbacks are poor timid souls who’ve known neither victory nor defeat. Game managers. Not our man. He knew defeat 288 times. There is something poetic about his last pass as a professional ending up in an interception.
ESPN - Brett, we miss you already - NFL
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And the ultimate yuppified result: A 13 shot venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel. It cost a total of $13.76 (with tax).
The Most Expensive Drink at Starbucks
Stolen From: Interesting: What Is The Most Expensive Drink At Starbucks?
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SRJC’s resident felines at The Oak Leaf Online
You’ve likely passed them while walking between classes. Some are black, others are spotted. There are fluffy ones too. They live, eat, and work at Santa Rosa Junior College, and their tuition is free. They are feral cats, and they are serving a purpose on the Santa Rosa campus.
Our Far-flung Correspondents: The Dark Side: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
In Galileo’s time, nighttime skies all over the world would have merited the darkest Bortle ranking, Class 1. Today, the sky above New York City is Class 9, at the other extreme of the scale, and American suburban skies are typically Class 5, 6, or 7. The very darkest places in the continental United States today are almost never darker than Class 2, and are increasingly threatened. For someone standing on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on a moonless night, the brightest feature of the sky is not the Milky Way but the glow of Las Vegas, a hundred and seventy-five miles away. To see skies truly comparable to those which Galileo knew, you would have to travel to such places as the Australian outback and the mountains of Peru. And civilization’s assault on the stars has consequences far beyond its impact on astronomers. Excessive, poorly designed outdoor lighting wastes electricity, imperils human health and safety, disturbs natural habitats, and, increasingly, deprives many of us of a direct relationship with the nighttime sky, which throughout human history has been a powerful source of reflection, inspiration, discovery, and plain old jaw-dropping wonder.
Stolen From: Slashdot | Making War On Light Pollution
Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron has just been announced on the Ubuntu-devel-announce list. Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will be an Long Term Support version with updates available until 5 years after the release date.
Me fail English? That’s Unpossible!
Stolen from: Miss Teen USA contestant talks about maps, schools, other things - VIDEO - TV Squad
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The brains behind the world’s favourite cartoon series has three new entries in the latest volume of quotations from the experts at Oxford University.