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  • Recommended: Unbroken

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    For the last couple of months, I haven’t been able to stop telling people to read a book called Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Of course, I have it listed on my sidebar as recommended reading. It’s one of the best books I’ve read recently. It’s a biography about…

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  • I Am Your Father

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    Source unknown.

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  • Award Wallet

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    I used to travel quite a bit in my last job and accrued some random airline miles here and there. I couldn’t keep track of how much I had and where they were until I found out about Awardwallet.com. It’s a free site that tracks your balances in one convenient place and even alerts you…

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  • The Museum of Endangered Sounds

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    The Museum of Endangered Sounds (made by obsolete gadgets).

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  • Slow Motion Skateboarding Tricks

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    Uncommon skateboarding tricks in super slow motion. Filmed at 1,000 frames per second with a Redlake N3 high speed camera.

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  • Unknown

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    Scars are tattoos with better stories.

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  • New T4i and the 40mm f/2.8 Pancake Lens

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    Oops, I’m a little slow, but if you haven’t heard yet, Canon just announced some new products.

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  • Tiananmen Tank Man

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    Another familiar photo to remember another historical event that took place this month a few years back, but I never knew it was so wide. That’s a LOT of tanks! Check out the video footage too! It looked like he was just passing through on his way back from a grocery store or something.

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  • House of Flying Laptops

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  • Girl from Vietnam Napalm Photo 40 Years Later

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    Forty years ago this month, one of the most memorable images during the Vietnam War was taken. Kim Phuc, the 9 year old girl in the photo, was running from her village that was hit by napalm. Everyone has seen that picture, but I didn’t know video footage also exists. Warning: the footage is graphic.

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  • Perception is Not Reality

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    Taken this past Wednesday at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. Admission is free before 10am on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

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  • Tiffany Dome at 24mm

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    The Chicago Cultural Center’s Louis Comfort Tiffany art glass dome at 24mm, not wide enough. Restored in 2008, this is the largest Tiffany glass dome in the world. May, 2011.

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  • Imperial Walker

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  • What We Say vs. What Mom Hears

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    Does anyone send e-cards anymore? I still love hoops&yoyo. Here’s one in honor of Mother’s Day this weekend: What we say vs. what mom hears. Click on the buttons on the left of the card to hear what we say. Then click on the buttons to the right of the card to hear what mom…

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  • My New Desktop Wallpaper

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    So here’s my wallpaper for the week: Taken, not by NASA, but by Russia’s weather satellite, the Electro-L. Apparently, this is not a composite made from many different photographs—this is a portrait of Earth taken in one single shot. Download full-size image. Warning, it’s huge! (100mb image) Planet Earth via Gizmodo.

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  • What is a hipster?

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    Lorena Gaillot went to NYC from France and didn’t know what a hipster was. So she set out on a hipster quest.

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  • Caught

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    Caught at Niece #2’s birthday party last week. I feel bad. Look at the fear in his eyes… Still procrastinating on my final project.

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  • Star Wars Day 2012

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    You know how my tagline on this website is “more geeky than girly?” Yes, I’m a Star Wars geek. I’ve loved it since I was little. So in honor of Star Wars Day, I changed my Facebook cover photo. You can get your very own Timeline Cover image at the Official Star Wars Facebook Page.

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  • Brevity

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    I’ve been using a tool called Gmail Meter that just came out last week. It analyzes your Gmail statistics and trends. As if Google didn’t know. It’s just sharing the information with you. Gmail Meter is an Apps Script which runs on the first day of every month and sends you an email containing different…

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  • Photography Equipment in Beijing

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    I’ve been meaning to document this here so I can find it easily in the future. Where do you go to buy photography equipment when you’re in China? Look no further than the Beijing photography city. If I remember correctly, it’s about 2 stories filled with a hundred different stores/booths. I didn’t buy any big-ticket…

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