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Wedding photography is a unique combination of every type of photography. Fashion and portrait photography, architectural photography, product photography, macro photography, family and children photography, and sometimes even travel photography are all included under the required knowledge umbrella of wedding photography. In order to deliver a complete wedding photography product, you’re going to need lenses - prozacfield from Bookmarklet

awesome list.. bookmarked for future shopping :) - Doritos değil Panço

"At least several hundred mile-junkies discovered that a free shipping offer on presidential and Native American $1 coins, sold at face value by the U.S. Mint, amounted to printing free frequent-flier miles. Mileage lovers ordered more than $1 million in coins until the Mint started identifying them and cutting them off. Coin buyers charged the purchases, sold in boxes of 250 coins, to a credit card that offers frequent-flier mile awards, then took the shipments straight to the bank. They then used the coins they deposited to pay their credit-card bills. Their only cost: the car trip to make the deposit." - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

I love coin dollars and didn't know these had been minted. I am one of those weirdoes who actually likes the Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea coins (although I'd sure like to see a historical woman on a coin people actually *use*. Guess I'm going to have to wait for rampant inflation...) - Spidra Webster

"...this will ensure that your photos are way better than those of your neighbors. After all, isn't that what Christmas lights are really about?" - Andrew Terry from Bookmarklet

cute! are they hard to make? - aden

The three finished birdies for Ayden are here in this post: http://friendfeed.com/phoenix... - Rachel Lea Fox

wooo hoo. Go Brizz! and Congrats Ben!! - Jenna Bilotta

cute! - Megen Vo from Bookmarklet

"Uruguay's M’Bopicuá Breeding Station keeps surprising us with births we haven't seen anywhere else. Here we have a gentle Paraguayan Hairy Dwarf Porcupine. Born with soft fur that turns into hard spines with age, these porcupines live in trees eating fruits and vegetables and dig into ant nests for dessert." - Rachel Lea Fox from Bookmarklet

Wow, obsessive much? I wonder what prompted him to make this? Will more charts like this start popping up? - Kamilah Gill

really liked the numbers, much better than just saying "registers < memory < disk" - Ertuğ Karamatlı

Interesting stuff. I'm downloading the PDF now... - Tyson Key

"When Randi was 15, he heard of a preacher in his hometown of Toronto who claimed he could read minds. Randi had been reading every book he could find on magic and illusions, so he thought he could figure out what trick the preacher was using on his flock. One Sunday morning, Randi watched the preacher set up a classic "one ahead" scam, using information obtained ahead of time to trick the crowd into believing he could read minds. Randi took the stage as he imagined his hero Houdini might have done and preached to the congregation about being duped, explaining the trick. He was immediately run out of the church." - bob from Bookmarklet

There's nothing more annoying than the truth. - Paul Buchheit

I first heard about him on Discovery Channel when they used to air show called Discover Magazine. - ashish

"Gay Wilkinson enjoys blowing anvils more than 100 feet in the air. So much so that is a world champion at the activity." (via http://www.boingboing.net/2009...) - Gary Burd from Bookmarklet

Wasn't there something like this in the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" with Reese Witherspoon? My daughter rented the DVD and I watched it with her. One of the characters had an eccentric grandfather who was always blasting something into the air... I don't think it was anvils, but something similarly "thud-worthy." Hilarious! - Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"

what a hoot - Mike Nencetti

Good job with the rescue. You just gained a few Karma points! - Philippe

oh no - where's thomas? - mike "glemak" dunn from iPhone

Awesome. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

seems a bit vague, what's this referring to? - Mike Chelen

Very funny and well played out indeed. - Janette Toral

"Many of your photos involve people actively defying gravity, where did the idea first come from and when did you start creating these types of images? The idea [evolved during] a period [in] 2005 when I rotated every photograph that I could [find]. I noticed that the meaning of a rotated picture could be completely different. In the beginning I took staged pictures of people in open urban spaces with a lot of concrete and flat elements. After that I tried out letting them make artificial poses, so that by rotating the picture it became a stunning effect. I liked the impression of people [who were] knocked off their feet, but still [remained] balanced. I called this work “Light-weight.“" - Mel Buckpitt from Bookmarklet

"We have heard from several users, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that a large number of you want Friendfeed backup support. So if you do, leave a comment on this post, send a twitter message to @robmay saying that we should support friendfeed, or tag a tweet with #backupfriendfeed." - Mark Krynsky

So how is it? Any thoughts on LifestreamBackup? - Justin Whitaker

Right. Because the addition of the beaver always makes things less dirty. Pervert. - Brian Johns

Um, Brian? I think the addition of the beaver made him positive it was, indeed, a dirty name for the company; it wasn't just his dirty mind after all. - Ladybug Heather

Last year at Bumbershoot, I did a ton of walking in Nike Frees and -- maybe the shoes contributed, maybe they didn't -- I got a mild case of plantar fasciitis. I still like Frees, but I try not to spend all my time in them. (which to be fair to the shoe, is generally not recommended anyways.) - Andrew C

I prefer to remain barefoot as much as possible - always have done as a kid... I met a guy wearing this and they looked weird for some reason :S - alphaxion

"Black mission figs with Serrano ham. Tiny beef meatballs with pine nuts and sweet yellow peaches. Tender braised rabbit with moscatel, cinnamon, and fresh cherries. And rich chocolate roulade cake shot through with rum. That was only a small portion of my incredible Spanish lunch last week at the Palo Alto headquarters of Facebook. After all, social networking — and creating the tools to do it — sure does work up a hefty appetite. No one knows that better than Josef Desimone, Facebook’s “culinary overlord.” And yes, that is his real title." - Dan Hsiao from Bookmarklet

Terri: The timing worked out great, don't you think? - Andrew C

"We are excited to announce the limited beta of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), a secure and seamless bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables you to connect your existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend your existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include your AWS resources. Amazon VPC integrates today with Amazon EC2 compute resources, and we will integrate Amazon VPC with other AWS services in the future." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

Will this be enough for the pharma companies to start using the cloud too? - Egon Willighagen

Egon, to start using? What do you think keeps me so busy :). But yes, it will definitely accelerate usage for certain workloads - Deepak Singh

Just remember to authorise offline access here: http://www.facebook.com/authori... - Kol Tregaskes

We could do with Twitter-like selections for what is pushed to Facebook and what is not. I don't particular want my Twitter posts going to FB, that's a little pointless. I would prefer native FF posts only. - Kol Tregaskes

I'd send it to my mom but I'd face the same problem in the alt-text. - EricaJoy

I wondered how Jim diagnosed and fixed our computer problems. - Anne Bouey

Hahaha... the alt text is amazing! How is XKCD so consistently awesome? - Ross Miller

Try http://lastpass.com - thegeniusfiles

That's true, but they're nowhere near as bad at logging you out as MySpace, who apparently logs everyone out as soon as you close the browser window. It's fricking annoying. - LANjackal

Please use the Beacon Javascript to _always_ send my purchase information to FB? - Daniel Dulitz

This will also include pictures :) - Benjamin Golub

Very good, but I don't plan on allowing a merger between my facebook page and my friendfeed stream any time soon :-) - Slappy Line