An interesting comic that recalls the story of the population explosion and collapse of the reindeer of St. Matthew Island. The ending is a bit heavy handed for my taste, but the overall content is interesting.

spectacular rendering of the proximity of facebook friendships

A good post mortem on an an image and why the photographer shot at high iso on a bright, sunny day. Definitely something I need to remember as I usually tend to shoot at ISO100 or nothing in the sun. I should really put more effort into considering ISO as a variable even outdoors.

extraordinarily beautiful flickr tag explorer. highly recommended. uses an interesting planetary ui scheme to allow you to combine related tags and drill down into more specific photos.

The story behind the Blue Marble photograph and the Blue Marble 2002 version that is included as the default iPhone wallpaper.

A good example of why people should use the RAW mode on their camera instead of in camera jpeg compression.

How to extract icons from applications and folders and save them to image files using OS X standard utilities

awesome article on image compression and our ability to see blue.