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Hooray, Alan Taylor's new photography / journalism weblog is live!

Nostalgia-drenched photorealist still life paintings.

Nice browser extension that embeds site previews on Twitter. (It works better than that sounds.)

"Are we are evolving our contract with society through our increasing interactions with digital platforms, and in particular, through what we've come to call the web?"

Fantastic engravings from an 18th century book on religious practice across the world.

Nice description of the terrifying uniform plague doctors wore in the Middle Ages.

"As the user switches from their laptop to iPad, the website should automatically switch to accommodate for resolution, image size and scripting abilities." Great hypothesis. Hard in practice.

Paintings that capture alchemists, messy labs and all.

"It’s almost always better to correct than to unpublish."

Beautiful photo galleries powered by user submissions.

Matt was profiled in the McMInnville paper. I snuck into the picture somehow.

Images from around the Web. Looks like a fun way to browse, but I wish the images were a bit bigger.

Awesome intricate bamboo iPhone case. [via Hey Stuff]

Glossy photo book of urban decay in Detroit.

Nice list of board books for kids to revisit.

"This demo is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time." Nice look at the lost video game art of color cycling to show movement.

Great list of design laws to keep in mind. Seems that users are waging a constant battle against Hick's Law. [via glass]

"There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms." Wha? This is hard to believe.

I think we're safely out of spoiler territory now so I can post this great analysis of Toy Story 3.

Neven Mrgan has a great point: when a satire gets too close to the subject it's taking down is it still satire?

Great 50's comic art.

Frozen bananas in a food processor = ice cream? I need to try this!

Great idea, I'd use them.

Images of the future I'm supposed to be living in! Manned space flight art by Chesley Bonestell in the 50's.

Brazilian visual arts magazine. You can read them here in a Flash reader.

Nice way of summarizing the stories of the World Cup teams by finding similar American sports stories/teams.

Zen medium format photos by Ryan Carver. Nice to see his photos outside of Flickr. [via mathowie]

Danny Sullivan on the unhappy relationship/different norms between blogs and the mainstream media. [via mneznanski]

This site uses open health and crime data to rank your county on the seven deadly sins. [via anil]

Love these long exposure night landscapes--uniquely Midwestern.

Nice minimalist inline MP3 player. I hope they move from Flash to HTML5 eventually.

Photographer, alphabet trucks and abandoned gasoline stations.

Nice prints.