Sonar from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo. Very nice animation driven by sound. Zoom full screen, turn it up, enjoy. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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Warren, Connecticut. Last month this young possum started coming to our bird feeder every day to dig around for seed. Very cute guy and I have a new found appreciation for how enjoyable possums are to watch. This guy was a real character. This was shot through a rather dirty double-paned kitchen window last month [...]

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This first batch was taken this winter with a Canon G11 camera on a hike in the Woodbury Audubon Center, Woodbury, Connecticut. The last two were taken this winter with a Canon G11 in the Pine Swamp beaver pond near Cornwall, Connecticut.

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Misplaced Manhole Covers Fantastic collection of images. Talk about great patterns. I thought the manhole covers themselves were interesting but in this case it’s all about how they’re placed and misplaced. Great. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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Mom-And-Pop Site Busts The Web’s Biggest Myths This is a great NPR piece on David and Barbara Mikkelson, the people behind the myth busting site Snopes.com.

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Viewfinder iPhone app for photographers Luminous Landscape has a nice review of this iPhone app that helps in framing and composing before the shot so one can better know which lens to put on a camera to get the right angle of view. Cinematographers use tools like this all the time and many photographers have [...]

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Teenage Girls Explore Their Lives Through a Camera’s Eye Great NY Times piece by Corey Kilgannon on a program at The Studio Museum in Harlem giving teenage girls cameras to document their lives. The teenagers, all of whom are black or Hispanic, are trained in the use of the digital camera’s aperture settings and shutter [...]

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Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]

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Universal to Cut All CD Prices to Below $10 Wow, this is significant. This will give Apple’s .99 a song on iTunes a run for their money. I routinely buy albums on iTunes and burn CDs for my car but this way I can have a better quality CD and rip it for iTunes. I [...]

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chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo. Nice movie on what Chatroulette is all about. [via Daring Fireball]

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RandomDorm: Chatroulette for the College Set RandomDorm is the Chatroulette concept limited to college students. They think this will filter out the most “unsavory” elements on Chatroulette. I’m not sure they quite get how unsavory a bunch of drunk college dorm kids can get.

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How A Few Made Millions Betting Against The Market Terry Gross interviews Michael Lewis on his new book: The Big Short which documents how some people realized what was happening to the US economy and made money betting against markets. This interview is one of the clearest discussions of the US financial meltdown since NPR [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. At the start of a short winter hike up to the Pinnacle Dave and I got distracted by Queen Anne’s lace with snow cones on them. Note: I’m behind in my uploading, this was taken January 31st of this year. The flip out LCD on the G11 meant that Dave probably didn’t have [...]

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Kindle for Mac Install this free application on your Macintosh and connect to your Kindle account at Amazon to read books, just like on a kindle. Frankly, I’m amazed it took them this long to do this. I hope Apple does it with their iBooks application.

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If you don’t know what Chatroulette is, see this. This guy is incredible, what a creative use of this medium. Cracks me up. Want to see more of it. [via Gizmodo]

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LOOSEWORLD x Waverly Films: Reggie Watts in F_CK SH_T STACK from LOOSEWORLD on Vimeo. Holy shit, Reggie Watts is a genius, no two ways about it. Wow. Blow this up full screen with HD on for the full “stack.” [via Boing Boing]

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The Big Picture: Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010 Spectacular architecture under construction, beautifully documented.

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An Orange breasted Sunbird feeds on Cape Honeysuckle at the top of Table Mountain. The bright colours in the distance is the sun on the roof tops of Cape Town. My long time flickr contact Michael Greenwood hit the jackpot with this one.

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Building a Better Teacher But what makes a good teacher? There have been many quests for the one essential trait, and they have all come up empty-handed. Among the factors that do not predict whether a teacher will succeed: a graduate-school degree, a high score on the SAT, an extroverted personality, politeness, confidence, warmth, enthusiasm [...]

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The iPad is a natural for these kinds of books and activities. This is a mock up of some ideas for interactive books and learning tools for the iPad. Great stuff. [via Sanford Shapiro]

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