Absolutely charming and technologically amazing wind and light-powered mechanical critters. I want to see them on the beach outside my window when I wake up in the morning.

Google does it again.

Check out this video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours, and then go read this article at the New Yorker. All sorts nifty elevator facts and the story of what happened to the man in question. Fascinating stuff.

In-situ animation. Quite amazing.

I don’t even know where to begin. Just go and look. Oy.
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Another gorgeous Magnetosphere piece from flight404.

Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.

Buncha great information here about optimizing both Photoshop and your workstation. Thanks, Mr. Nack!

This big. I bought “retouching” and it links to my retouching site. $10. I even got this nice free button! Check out The Big Word Project and buy someone something useless.

Title 17 of the US Code says that copyright protection is in effect from the time the work is created in fixed form. If somebody steals your work, you can sue them and collect actual damages, the amount of money that you’re out by the infringer not properly licensing the work. Actual damages. Hmmm. No punitive damages? Nope. For that, you have to register the work. James Duncan Davidson explains it all on his blog.