A group of us were in the Mountains to Sound relay yesterday. A multi-event relay starting at Hyak (up in Snoqualmie Pass) and ending out in Ballard at Golden Gardens. This is our photo album.

An interesting piece on AppleMatters about the cultural trends towards full disclosure (a la twitter, personal blogs, and the like) being embraced by people who believe they'll be the next reality stars.

Quoted: I want to believe that this trend, like all trends, will eventually pass. I want to believe that one day people will wake up and realize that it is more important to live your life than to document it.

redotting from: Jester

Instructions on how to embed flickr slideshows.

Quoted: Dig those flash Flickr slideshows? All that's needed is a bit of code to embed them within your website to ...

One of my favorite photos ever from flickr. I'd love a poster of this for my office.

Quoted: One of my favs from 2006, an extremely high detailed capture of the FPSO(floating production, storage and offloading) vessel parked near my apt at the Hyundai Shipyard. The engineers were pulling another all-nighter because the lights were on at 1am when this shot was taken.

I saw that Walmart launched a video download store and was excited to see whether they had Macintosh support. I never got to find out because this (http://flickr.com/photos/mrefranklin/381922052/ ) is what their site looked like. I haven't tried IE. Nice launch Walmart!

Quoted: Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.

I don't know if any of you have made it over to the new Olympic Sculpture Park but it's fantastic and free! These are photos I snapped with my phone so I can't wait to go back with something nicer and get more. If anyone would like to go, let me know. I'd wager it's beautiful at night.

Yikes.

This is really great. Use flickr photos to spell anything you want to. You can even adjust it and get the html to post it!

Flickr has filed a patent on "interestingness" as it relates to images. Quick! We need to get out patent for "intriguing" filed!

Quoted: A weblog about pop culture