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30 second clips from the aquarium

I love that flickr is limiting videos to 90 seconds. It makes it the twitter of video that way and I don’t find myself ever getting bored clicking around my contacts. Here are a bunch of 30 seconds-or-shorter videos from a trip to the aquarium today.

Globalization is freaking awesome

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Chinese Hammer fucking rules, originally uploaded by mathowie.

I stumbled across Chinese Hammer tonight and fell in love with it for a thousand reasons. Just the thought of someone halfway around the world mimicking a video […]

More fun than a pile of powdered sugar

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Do I Look Cool Like They Do in the Movies?
originally uploaded by Max Sparber.

You might have seen a hilarious / bizarre / historical set of found photos someone picked up at a swap meet […]

ReCAPTCHA’s quality is going down?

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ReCAPTCHA’s quality is going down, originally uploaded by mathowie.

Several months ago, we implemented ReCAPTCHA on MetaFilter contact forms, to thwart spammers. It’s a good cause and a great idea: the nonsensical text you decode ends […]

WWNPHD

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WWNPHD, originally uploaded by the sweetchuck.

I’m sorry, but that’s the greatest movie poster of all time

Domain related junk mail

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Domain related junk mail, originally uploaded by mathowie.
In the beginning, I listed my home phone number and apartment address on all my domains. By the late nineties, the marketers/spammers showed up and after the tenth […]

Flickr: Photos from oregonianphoto

This is wicked cool: Flickr: Photos from oregonianphoto
Someone from the big state newspaper The Oregonian is posting all the photos that go with stories in the paper to Flickr. I found it because I follow my small town’s photos by flickr tag feeds. The paper gets new readers by mixing it up on Flickr, and […]

flickr, always innovating

ho ho ho hat/beard is the best wacky easter egg feature ever. Try adding it as a note to your photos.

Flickr “detail” sets

I’ve been using flickr on a daily basis for over two years. Today I followed a link from someone’s blog and landed on a page I’ve never seen before, and it rocked. It’s simple, but I didn’t have any idea it existed. It’s the “detail view” of photosets, which is so much more useful for […]

Noe Valley

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Noe Valley, originally uploaded by dunstanorchard.
Ah, nerd humor.