A lush carpet of lavender stretches as far as the eye can see. This amazing panorama shows how more of Britain will look as global warming prompts farmers to plant vast acres of the aromatic herb. The purple fields will vie with the now-familiar vivid vistas of yellow rape as Britain's rising temperatures make it easier to grow lavender, which flowers between June and August.
- Emma
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I wished you shared this in another way? When I click on the thumbnail it just goes to the Photoree home page. Have you tried vi.sualize.us?
- Kol Tregaskes
Mahdi, I normally link to the source via the bookmarklet, when you upload the image just add the source as the link. Thanks for this though. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Weekend before last I packed up the Buick with mrsth and the kids and headed out to shoot the “Biggest Little City in the World,” Reno Nevada. I’ve been meaning to shoot Reno for a while now, but somehow just never quite made it out there. I’ve been to Vegas dozens of times, but Reno’s always remained that elusive stepsister of Nevada just out of my reach. I’ve known that I’ve needed to shoot Reno for years of course. I’m collecting images of neon signs and the neon in Reno really is best in class. Maybe it was the worsening recession that finally convinced me. Every day more and more neon signs are coming down. But whatever the case, I made it to Reno just in the nick of time. I spent most of my time in downtown Reno and the best way that I can describe it is that it felt a hell of lot like post Katrina New Orleans. When I visited New Orleans after Katrina I was struck by how devastated the place had become, how broken in many ways the city and the people who lived there were, but at the same time how un
- Thomas Hawk
FWIW, Las Vegas seemed just as busy as it's ever been. It didn't SEEM to be hurting at all.
- iTad
Great post! Sounds like I'm going to need to get there sooner rather than later.
- Jeremy Brooks
Jeremy, you'd love it. There is so much neon there. But so much of it coming down soon I bet. A lot of the vintage neon is on closed businesses.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, I got the same feeling when I was there this weekend. I brought my camera, but just didn't feel motivated to shoot anything with how run-down it all was. The local media and government are just starting to catch-on to Social Media though, so it will be very interesting to see if that improves what happens there or not. I was impressed with the excitement at this Interactive Media conference I keynoted at there on Saturday.
- Jesse Stay
Thomas, I am sorry we didn't cross paths while you were here! Excellent post by the way, I have shared it with a number of other locals.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I like that you added portraits of the people you met. I've met some many people through my photography. The Motor Lodge shots brought back childhood family vacation memories as we drove through Reno.
- Russellreno
kudos Mr H. so well done. this should go into boing boing and alike.
- jacek
Really interesting post, terrific pictures as ever but the stories make them even better
- Matt Jones
I love Reno. I was there during a Burning Man road trip. My take away image of the place? A little old lady wheeling her oxygen to and from the slot machines. I could swear she had a cigarette hanging off her mouth.
- sean808080
Nicholas, will have to try and catch up on another trip. I only had 36 hours for this one so there wasn't really time to do a photowalk. I'm sure I'll be back to Reno though quite a bit to shoot more and do a photowalk or two. There's still so much more I'd like to shoot there. I pretty much just scratched the surface with this trip.
- Thomas Hawk
Too bad they won't just give it to all people that got stuck with Vista. (Looks at self in mirror.)
- Robert Couture
Why is everyone so excited by this? W7 is nothing but Vista SP2 renamed
- Dread Pirate PJ
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Shhhhhhhh Pj, that's a secret! Don't tell too many people or MSFT will resurrect the Seinfeld / Gates ads again. Oh, the horror.
- Mona Nomura
Users who buy Vista machines between July 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010 will be eligible for the free Windows 7 upgrade. Will anyone purchase a computer before July 1st?
- Phillip Stewart
Like Like Like Like Like Like Like Like Like Like Like. Ooops. Take that back.
- Martha
Anybody who EVER bought a machine with Vista should get a free upgrade.
- JCunwired
Booo! No free upgrade for those of us with vista pre2009... B etter only be a $50 upgrade. :P
- iTad
I'm so confused. Why is everyone so excited about this? They always do this. When a new OS has been announced (and is being rolled out to manufacturers), they give free copies to users who buy computers without the OS pre-installed. Apple does the same thing, allowing people who bought computers within 20 days or so of a new model/release to return it and get the new one (difference is, Microsoft's releases are announced way in advance and must cover more time since it's more difficult to roll out.
- Brandon Titus
This really isn't much of a story since they did the exact same thing just before the Vista launch. Customers who bought new machines with XP got a voucher for a free upgrade to Vista. The real story would be if Microsoft DIDN'T offer the same free upgrade this time.
- Ken McNamee
I just bought a new laptop running Vista. I have used XP up until now, just getting used to Vista. I doubt I would change OS for quite a while.
- Edward Kimble
If Microsoft did give Win7 as a free upgrade to vista it will help them in many ways. It will help keep Vista sales going, as stories are starting that people are already waitting for 7 to come out. It will help makeup with people that thought they got ripped off with Vista. Lastly it may slow down or stop apple adds that attack Vista day after day.
- walterh
"A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure won the top prize in the World Press Photo competition Jury members said the strength of the photo by Anthony Suau for Time magazine was in its opposites - it looks like a classic war photograph, but is simply the eviction of people from a house"
- Thomas Hawk
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There's some incredible pictures in here. It's an emotional roller coaster. This first one is not my favorite,even though I can see the reasoning behind their choice. It's hard to pick one, there's so many great shots:-)
- Michael Fidler
I love the one in the caption. I was embedded with Sheriff's dept for 2 weeks and I have so many photos like this one. Unfortunately they can't be made public.
- Sean Davis
That sheriff kind of looks like he's never actually had to hold a gun before. I feel like if he had actually needed to fire that thing, he would have ended up smacking himself in the face with it.
- Brian Chang
"Over the past few days we've made a lot of small changes to Gmail's contact manager which, combined, should make it easier to organize the contacts you want and get rid of some of the cruft."
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
Nice summary. The sizes of the slices are a bit misleading though. They've made the diameters of the circles, rather than the areas, proportional to the dollar amounts.
- Simon
Tonight Facebook has made a number of updates to the Facebook platform one of which is the opening of status updates. In order to get Facebook statuses, you no longer need to use a session ID to access statuses. This is a huge update and one that I think is going to take Facebook to the next level. There are additional updates listed in the Facebook blog post: Not everyone has 2k+ followers on FB to get a viral comment going the same as Twitter . FB = inner circle; Twitter = public party."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
so does this mean that more Facebook stuff will be filtering into FF?
- Thomas Hawk
It would be nice to be able to rely on Twitter as connective tissue for social media.
- Christian Anderson
This'll be an interesting change to the balance of power. If there is such a thing. Still, I'm hanging out on twitter, not FB (accounts on both of course though).
- Bryan Duke
Good question, Thomas. I wonder if it'll make notes importing functional with the default Facebook share type, without having to add them as a separate RSS feed.
- Tyson Key
It's up to FF if they're going to support FB's FQLs.
- Mona Nomura
Hmmm, time for a twitterific-style iPhone app for FB statuses?
- Bryan Duke
A facebook-centric blog says that a new facebook feature will kill a competitor? Ummm, no. No bias there...
- Owen Byrne
I don't see FB killing twitter, they serve two different purposes.Twitter is elegant in it's simplicity.
- Gary H
and Facebook is gonna kill Friendfeed too: "The real loser here is probably friendfeed, honestly. If facebook wins aggregation from many sources with this move, they’ll effectively kill friendfeed’s differentiation factor. they already have user-base, volume of relavent content to handle a mass influx of updates plus the digested format of the newsfeed that people already expect. They...
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- Alejandro
I like Nick, I do, but he is delusional LOL
- Mona Nomura
I doubt Facebook will kill FriendFeed, since FriendFeed is generally much more open in comparison (i.e. you don't need to approve friends, and the site feels much more "free-form"), not to mention that Facebook's aggregator only supports a limited number of sites natively, without using 3rd party applications.
- Tyson Key
Seriously, what is FQL? LOL And you better believe when bigger 3rd party services start using FB's messed up API they will NOT stay quiet about how messed up it is. They have the potential to be heard more than FB app devs - the only ones that actually utilized the API to begin with so FB better have their stuff together. Like I said on Twitter AND AllFacebook, FB is NOTORIOUS for being developer unfriendly. So LOL at the notion that FB will be a 'killer' anything.
- Mona Nomura
@Mona - Some proprietary bastardisation of SQL apparently, although there's an implementation in their "Facebook Open Platform" source code drop that they made eons ago, that I doubt they update, if I remember correctly.
- Tyson Key
As Facebook would call it, "an evolved subset" ;)
- Tyson Key
Ya along with their FBJS or whatever that is. Hilarious.
- Mona Nomura
@Thomas - Hah, great screenshot. Did you accept the "toy car request", "addicted to dexter invitation" and "winnie the pooh request" invitations? ;)
- Tyson Key
Well what stinks is that FB was all gung ho with 'normal people' monetizing on the apps we (users) hated so much. I mentioned in Leo's thread (man too many FB posts tonight) but FB screwed over the devs. Stats don't lie http://adonomics.com/about.... With a crappy track record like that, why would 3rd party developers want to support FB's initiatives? And TH LOL!! That is insane. I actually have a different group of people I interact with on FB. I kinda like it. ;)
- Mona Nomura
So when will twhirl allow setting status on Facebook messages?
- Colin Charles
from twhirl
FB overtake FriendFeed? I'd like to see FF gain more market share so at least FB is forced to re-do a few of their news feed features. I tried "importing" my blog thinking it would put links to my posts in my FB feed a la FriendFeed. Instead FB monitors your RSS feed, scraping the full text of your blog posts and creating FB notes, keeping the visitor inside their walled garden. Bush league.
- Tom Harrison
For the past 6 months or so I've been publishing to FF each month as they are available the compete numbers comparing FF vs. Twitter. By and large both sites have been growing at a very fast rate. January was no exception. January was one of FF's fastest growing months yet with a 26.6% month over month growth rate. Not to be outdone, Twitter tweeted in even more at a 34.7% month over month growth rate. Congrats to both. My money's still on FF in the long run though.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
I suspect a lot of the press around the Hudson river jet landing may also have helped boost Twitter last month. You are also though seeing more and more celebrities jumping on the Twitter bandwagon.
- Thomas Hawk
FB & Twitter & FF, the only other social site I'm on is Flickr and it's starting to concern me. I wish someone would stabilize Flickr - the deleting streams issue is a grave concern.
- Matt Penning
Thomas - you're right about the celebs on Twitter. Plus the Hudson River Flop. But it's taken a couple years for Twitter to get to this point. FriendFeed is still plenty early.
- Hutch Carpenter
well it is interesting to note that FF has more uniques than Twitter a year ago. Given that it is a far superior platform it will be interesting to see if they can be where Twitter is one year from now.
- Thomas Hawk