24 Hours of Flickr



Popu, originally uploaded by fraud_art.

The Flickr folks are finally getting around to doing a “Day in the life of Flickr” sort of event called “24 Hours of Flickr“. (It seems like such an obvious idea, I’m really surprised they haven’t done it earlier.)

Today (5 May) is the big day, and the photos are already collecting with enthusiasm, with nearly 500 photos there now. (I’d expect many thousands before it’s all over – there are over 22K people that have joined the group.) So go take some cool shots and add them to this record of the day on the planet. If you’re lucky (and good) they may include your image in a book they’ll be producing later.

It’s all wet and dreary here (but we needed the rain!), so I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do. We have the annual Byte Bash (UMM computer science club picnic) this afternoon, and I was hoping for some cool shots there, but the weather makes that less clear. We’ll see, though. Unfortunately the business of both the day and the end of the year (grading! grading! grading!) mean that I can’t go out on a photo safari of any consequence. Such is life.

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Osama to outlast W?

"yep, but a very dangerous one" by shadowplay
PeeZed has already righteously outraged over the insansity of letting a schmuck like Behe write the Dawkins profile for the Time 100. I’ll simply point out that the tone of his “profile” is wildly out of line with the others that I’ve looked over, and someone on Time’s editorial board should be in for a serious smacking.

Time’s “Alt 100” is in many ways just as perceptive as their official list. While the whole American Idol silliness is deeply depressing to me, and while the idea of Idol judges being among the 25 most important people in the country makes me want to cry, it’s hard to argue with their analysis:

More people vote on American Idol than the Presidential elections, Xzibit pointed out. And almost as much is written about it.

Sigh.

And then there’s this gem:

25. Osama Bin Laden, head of Al Qeda
The panel pointed out that he’s likely to outlast Bush as head of an organization.

Oh, joy. Makes me proud to be an American.

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