June 2, 2009 @ 11:57 pm
Photo by Jack Delano (Library of Congress archives)
The stunning photo above is one of the many notable mentions in the 2008 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest. If you missed the previous year’s winners, you can download them all in a zip file at this link. Ahh, that’s why I love Wikimedia. :)
February 3, 2009 @ 12:22 pm
The once-mighty titan of the cellphone industry has fallen far from the top, reporting today a $3.6 billion net loss for the 4th quarter of 2008. Damn.
Here’s what about $2 billion worth of pennies looks like (approximately 200 billion pennies).
January 29, 2009 @ 11:11 am
This is interesting. Very Small Array has posted visual representations of Billboard’s Top 100 hits in 2008 which makes it very easy to digest information (especially when the information is in list form like it is on Billboard’s website). Anyway, it’s amazing how much pop music was pushed through the radio last year while almost every other genre took the back seat.
And judging by what’s playing now on the radio, it looks like 2009 is shaping up to be very similar. If you’re curious, VSA also put together graphs and charts for Pitchfork Media’s top 100 tracks of 2008. But honestly, it’s Pitchfork, so how accurate can this be except in representing the indie music out on the market?
January 28, 2009 @ 11:47 am
It was only a matter of time after Todd Laffler posted his best engagement photos of 2008 that he would come out with his best wedding photos of 2008 too! I totally forgot about this, but I came across a picture of Andrea and Jordan’s wedding picture in there too. Check it out if you want to see some wedding eye-candy.
January 25, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
Todd Laffler has put together a slideshow of the best engagement pictures he took in 2008. If you’re looking for some top-notch wedding/engagement photography, look no further than Todd Laffler’s collection featured on his website.
January 14, 2009 @ 1:24 am
I had no idea there was such a contest with so many contestants involved, but wow am I impressed with the way these fish tanks are set up! They’re incredibly detailed and they certainly look like little habitats. If I were a fish, I’d be happy to live in any of these tanks. [via]
