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Cockatoos weeding onion grass.

These helpful chaps decided to snack on some starchy onion grass bulbs inn the front lawn.

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Oh Schmidt . Sting Pain Index

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index The descriptions of the various pain indexes are like wine descriptions.

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When The Arctic Ice roads fail, send in the Blimps.

Discovery Air and HAV have signed a tentative deal that both companies hope to finalize in 2012, followed by the first delivery of airships in 2014. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/08/26/nwt-discovery-airship.html A British manufacturer hopes to build a fleet of airships for Yellowknife’s Discovery … Continue reading

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Coffee Jerks

A series of 1950s/60s-era coffee commercials edited down to just the moments when the guys were the biggest jerks to their wives about coffee.

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Garden

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Roman Calender

‘The lovely people on my LibraryThing group solved my missing calendar problem super-quick!\r\n\r\nThe calendar was supported by Penn State and is no longer active However, it does still exist in a web archive here. So today is Ante diem VII … Continue reading

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New Avatar: The last Airbender Series focusing on the character of Korra.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Korra

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Christopher Nolan (Director of “The Dark Knight” ) on 3d and prime lenses.

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/06/christopher-nolan-tested-3d-conversion.html While Nolan told the audience that “I’m not a huge fan of 3D,” he did go on to reveal, “We did tests on “Inception” to look at the post conversion process, and they worked very well. It’s quite easy … Continue reading

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Photojojo » Get Greater Depth of Field with the Brenizer Method

Photojojo » Brenzier Method Tutorial. CC Image by mccun934@Flickr.com Photo taken with the Brenizer Method. The top link is to an article on how to create an image with an extremely shallow depth of field.

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Webcomics to read..

Sam and Fuzzy Ninjas, Mafia, Sidekicks. Platinum grit Supernatural Scots. Scary go Round English muffins. Return To Sender : A dead webcomic that is nonetheless quite interesting. Hark a Vagrant A historic account of ficitional accuracy.

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