I took this photo with my phone the other night at The Duke Hotel. The man stood at the window in exactly this position for about 15 minutes.
Big Scary, Little Scary
Which of these images do you find the most frightening? Which the most beautiful? Which the most relevant to human existence?
On the left, the highest-resolution image of a virus ever taken. It’s the Epsilon 15 Bacteriophage (i.e. a virus which infects bacteria), and if you count viruses as being alive then it’s one of the most abundant forms of life on Earth.
On the right, a photo of what one guy found growing under his co-worker’s computer monitor. There’s a full image gallery. Hat-tip to Boing Boing.
Bronte Beach is better than my office
You can see why I much preferred to meet my client at Bronte Beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs this morning, rather than an office somewhere. I’m slightly annoyed to be back at my desk now.
Enmore Autumn
I haven’t posted a photograph in a while, so here’s an image of Enmore Road from about an hour ago — uploaded while I sip an absinthe cocktail at The Sly Fox Hotel.
Saturday Reading, 1 March 2008
Summer’s over, so time to burrow indoors and catch up on reading, yeah? Here’s a few things to kick off your weekend.
- Learning to Lie, a fascinating article covering not only how lying is a sign of an intelligent child, but how we learn that no-one likes a tattle-tale and teen rebellion. Hat-tip to Bruce Schneier.
- A selection of 27 images from Life‘s coffee-table book 100 Photographs that Changed the World.
- 6 Influential Datasets That Changed the Way We Think. Hat-tip to O’Reilly Radar.
- Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait, an amazing series of photographic images by Chris Jordan which illustrate the excesses of human consumption.
’Pong’s “Pink Force” a finalist in Sydney Now
’Pong’s photograph Pink Force (above) was a finalist in the Sydney Now, a photojournalism contest run by the Historic Houses Trust. Congrats, babe! [high-resolution version]
