Nice.

I think Patricia Sullivan of The Washington Post sums up what you are trying to say:

It is not uncommon for obituaries and encomiums to be written well in advance of the death of a famous person. The New York Times and other papers have stock obits ready just in case of unexpected misfortune. With Mr. Jobs being so ill for so long, there has been plenty of time to write and prepare materials for his…

Patricia Sullivan of the Washington Post writes very eloquently:

That's the bridge in Valencia harbor in that photo, n'est-ce pas?

9.) Mark Higgins and the world's calmest passenger

Much more exciting, somewhat related video

And the crew is probably sleeping through it all. I'm getting seasick just watching it. But it is quite impressive.

She sees what you did there.

I love how opening the hood on modern cars is like opening a Xerox machine. Yellow handle: Okay. Anything else: Don't touch.

Stupid tradition? I'm guessing that those arrows came about with the age of televised football, when viewers could no longer see the entire field.

I have this terrible feeling of déja vu.

I have this terrible feeling of déja vu.

Music: "Mars, Bringer of War", from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst.

This.

Sure, the stock market's looked more like an EKG readout as of late

So why did they seize them?

Senna brushed his teeth faster than I do.

This photo was taken with a box camera built out of Lego.

This seems to point to what I see as snobbery on the part of some professional photographers, or at least the Nikon ad plays toward that persona. My brother is a very fine photographer (full-time school teacher), and he recommended some SLR kit to a person who wanted to make the jump to SLR photography. This friend…