Our yard this year is like an Eddie Izzard routine. Covered in bees! And mosquitoes, but none of them were available to pose. Look at that big fat pollen pod!


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This week I screwed on the macro doohickeys jdorff got me for Christmas a couple of years ago to take pictures of my newly sprouting seeds. Today I left them on and took pictures of everything in sight. :-D

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In case you were wondering who's winning the battle.


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This is the D50 scsuehle bought me about a year and a half ago--a refurb through Amazon with the 18-55 lens for about $550. Now it's $1000. What!? Is discontinuing it driving up the price of the remaining ones instead of making people discount them to get rid of them ( Read more... )

If you want to keep up with the madcap exploits of rtpddrummon's weather balloon/camera/intergalactic space station project conveniently here on eljay, auryn29a made the feed.

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The thing that I remember most about the movie Minority Report was the advertising. "Hello Mr. Yukkamoto, and welcome back to the Gap!" Signs on the street recognized you and shouted personalized ads. It was creepy and part of the movie's point.

Leave it to Apple to make it come true. From CNN:

Apple also announced a partnership with Starbucks: ( Read more... )

As in Chicago Manual of Style, not complementary metal-oxide semiconductor. Ben and Scott, feel free to skip to the next entry ( Read more... )

Here's a random question for ya --

When it comes to shuffling off to Buffalo, which came first, the step or the song?

Helen Duncan was arrested during World War II after holding a seance where she claimed the spirit of a sailor from HMS Barham told her his ship had been sunk. Problem was, the Barham’s sinking was then still a military secret, and authorities feared Duncan might reveal details about the impending D-Day invasion, presumably also obtained from ( Read more... )

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