Culture Buzz The Minnesota State lottery takes pictures of each of all of their “big” scratch off winners and posts them online. Here's a collection of some of my favorites. (via stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com)
Tech Buzz Part of the MoMA's Talk To Me exhibit, British artist David McCandless' The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions shows the order in which we'll let technology bother us. Very accurate stuff. (via informationisbeautiful.net)
Part of the MoMA's Talk To Me exhibit, British artist David McCandless' The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions shows the order in which we'll let technology bother us. Very accurate stuff. (via informationisbeautiful.net)
Tech Buzz Created by Eric Fischer, these maps combines data from Flickr and Twitter. The red dots represent Flickr pictures while the blue dots are tweets. More on the story at The Daily Mail.
Culture Buzz There's a Flickr group dedicated to the bodega cats of NYC. Here are some my favorites.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacohaasbroek/4953310961/
Reddit, some days ago you really liked the picture “There is an i in team”. I am the designer of this picture, and here is the link to the original. Please give credit where credit is due.
Culture Buzz There's something undeniably magical about hot air balloons. From the floating head of Darth Vader to a balloon shaped like Mr. Peanut, there's a hot air balloon in here for everyone.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/23/new-flickr-design/
The changes Flickr is making involve the photo pages themselves. The biggest difference that you’ll notice right off the bat is that the actual picture on these pages is larger — 30 percent larger, actually. This makes it very clear what your eye should be focusing on. And that’s important because Flickr has added a number of other new features on the page to enrich the experience.
http://mashable.com/2010/06/10/flickr-facebook-sharin/
Flickr has enabled a new way to share Flickr photos with your friends on Facebook: you can now connect your Flickr and Facebook accounts, and every time you upload a public photo or video, your Facebook account will be automatically updated as well. To enable this feature, go to www.flickr.com/account?tab=extend and click “Connect”.
Culture Buzz Today's essential Flickr set comes from Mitchloidolt. It's all your favorite dudes from the Nintendo Entertainment System, looking pretty fucking swell. You should probably check out the whole collection. (Via Spacesick.)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/trustocorp/
An artist called Trustocorp has been putting up Banksy-esque urban art in the form of street signs around trendy neighborhoods in NYC, Miami and elsewhere. His Flickr page is not to be missed.
Boobs beat kittens. How about boobs AND kittens? (Via Flickr user lunchbreath)
Culture Buzz Lego Star Wars minifigs - they're just like us! Today's spectacular proof of that axiom comes from Flickr user Avanaut, via Make.
An amazing collection of high fives caught in mid jump on Flickr.
Flickr user Drbucket comes downstairs to find his pup attempting suicide. Taking “play dead” a little too far, don't you think?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/02/twitter-...
With the Tiananmen Square anniversary coming up on June 4, China has blocked Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, and other sites.
Rosie Hardy and Aaron Nace live 4,000 miles apart, but they're always together in the pictures they take. [Editor's Note: Which is kind of like the real thing, except more PhotoShoppy. Click through for more on their adorable story and their inexpensive, arty coping mechanism.]
I have no idea what's going on here, but it's seriously creeping me out. …And making me hungry.
They get it! The White House is now on Flickr and you can check out insanely hi-res images of the Prez and the rest of the gang just hanging out.