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Look Me in the Eye
I just saw a video of some Florida teens mocking a disabled man as he slowly drowns. He cries for help. He struggles. They curse at him and laugh. And they aren’t going to be charged with anything. What they did was immoral, but not illegal. Personally, I think that if you do something immoral…
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Digital Art
A friend of mine sent me a link to an artist on fiverr who can take a photograph, such as this one, and transform it into a digital watercolor, like this. That’s pretty nifty, for five bucks. I love the result. I’ll probably have him do some more in the future. But this made me…
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An Osprey Extra
It’s truly amazing how many interesting people you get to meet when you write a blog. Brian Kenney is a truly talented nature photographer who found me due to my first post about ospreys a while back. He’s been a font of information about osprey behavior. I’ve learned a great deal from him. This is…
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Sneaky Memes
/meem/ n. [coined by analogy with `gene’, by Richard Dawkins] An idea considered as a replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meme I’d never even heard the term meme until I got a Facebook account, but they certainly are like parasites. More and more I’ve…