Thomas Hawk

When I first learned of this feature I thought for sure that it would be limited to Creative Commons Flickr photos. I wasn’t sure how Google could legally take high res photos for CC non-commercial photos or all rights reserved photos and integrate full sized versions of them into their product. But it seems as though this is exactly what they’ve done. If you look at the screen shot above, it features a photo by Flickr photographer Patrick Boury, if you look at that photo on Flickr, it is licensed as “all rights reserved.” I surfed Google’s Street View around San Francisco today checking out lots of the photos and many (in fact I’d say most) of the Flickr images that Google is presently using are either Creative Commons non-commercial licensed photos or all rights reserved licensed photos. - Thomas Hawk

Unless Google just changed it's business model to non-profit, it clearly sounds like infringement to me. - Jeff P. Henderson

Glitch, a game of giant imagination, is the new slogan crafted by a group of former Flickr employees, including Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, to describe their new socially based massively-multiplayer game. CNET has a meaty indepth behind the scenes article out on the new game which will be free to play, is browser based and is currently in private alpha testing to be released publicly in the second half of the year. - Thomas Hawk

I'd have reinstalled Windows. - Roberto Bonini

Shawn, thanks for cluing me in. Maybe you can help me understand what other things are worthless. - Cristo

OMG, BONINI it was a DELL TOO! - sofarsoShawn Blue Period

Pinewood derby is so much fun! We're thinking about starting it with some kids from our church. I think I'm going to build a wind tunnel. :) - Ha3rvey (Free hugs!)

"The incident began about 1 a.m. March 13 as Strickland, a former Beach resident now living in Los Angeles, walked past Flamingo Park near 14th Street and Michigan Avenue. Strickland called 911 when he saw a man being beaten by two men just outside the park. “I saw a guy running and then I saw two, what looked like undercover cops running. And they pushed this guy down on the ground, the one cop did, and the other cop came up as if he was kicking a football … and kicked the guy in the head,'' Strickland, 45, told a dispatcher during a recorded phone call to 911. For nearly five minutes, he talked to the dispatcher, who encouraged him to get closer for more detail “if it doesn't put you in any danger.'' A few seconds later, Strickland told the dispatcher: “Now they're coming after me!'' The two men, later identified as officers Forte and Hazzi, approached Strickland and could be heard saying, “What are you doing here? Where do you live? Let's see some ID.'' A few seconds later the line... more... - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

Probably shouldn't call the cops if you see the cops doing something they shouldn't be doing. It's like calling Fox News to report misinformation. - Fleagle

"When I raised a question with John Szarkowski about the effect of overproduction on the consistency of quality in Winogrand's output, he suggested I look up what Harry Callahan had said about the correspondence between creating bad pictures and working every day (referring to the commitment of an artist to his enterprise). In 1962 Callahan wrote, "I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos."" - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet