Wondering about Tuva? Here’s the Google Maps perspective, centered on the Tuvan capital city of Kyzyl.

Anyone know if that singing is linguistic, or just musical? In either case: Woah!

(Shoutout to J. Stone for this one)

(Blame Manous for this sage advice)

In honor of the Firefox 3 release today, this site will unerringly crash Internet Explorer. Try it and see!

 –f8 is generally the aperture that provides the sharpest point of focus on lenses. That doesn’t mean you should always shoot at f8.
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–Rules were meant to be broken, yes, but it feels much better if you know what the rules were in the first place. Picasso started as a realist. Once he had that down he could paint whatever he wanted. Be like Picasso. He got laid a lot.
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–Never be ashamed to take a picture. It’s not a bad thing, it’s a good thing. You’re not soul-snatching, you’re soul-preserving. Also, is there a picture you really really want to take of someone? Just ask nicely and confidently and 90% of the time they’ll say yes.

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Deadly Sins-themed wine glasses!  Brilliant! Compelling! Capacious! In some cases, downright impractical! Pictured: Lust. Link

via boingboing

More excellent photos here

I think it is for exactly this sort of thing that we created the Smart Art category (if by “think” I mean “blindly speculate” and by “we” I mean “Ennui”):

dawdlr is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?

Great idea! Be sure to drop them a postcard, nextime you’re engaged in something general.

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(from Qnonymous)