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Astronaut Tweets Beautiful Earth Images From Space.

// February 5th, 2010 // Comments // Features

Via Mashable.

One of the astronauts currently in residence on the International Space Station is using Twitpic to send some spectacular imagery of our home planet back down to us Earthlings.

It’s the next logical step now that the first real-time tweet from space milestone has been passed. Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi is now sending back images via his Twitpic account as the ISS orbits the Earth.

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Derelict hotels around the world

// February 3rd, 2010 // Comments // Features

Via Boing Boing.

“Here’s a collection of photos of 24 rotting, abandoned hotels around the world, some of them looking like horror movie sets, others like enormous follies, and still others like faerie palaces. ”

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Flickr to double its Commons collection

// January 30th, 2010 // Comments // Features

Via Boing Boing.
Jayel sez, “Flickr staff Cris Stoddard has commented on the Indicommons blog that the Flickr Commons will double the number of participating institutions this year from 31 to 60 GLAMs (art galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) this year alone. I believe that the Commons is Flickr’s singularly most important cultural contribution to the world. And it doubling in size means more of the world’s photographic heritage and history will be shared with its citizens.”

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