…but that doesn’t mean you have to post it every time you see it.
I stumbled upon a site called WikiMapia, which appears to be a sort of Wikipedia for mapping (and by stumbled upon, I literally mean StumbleUpon…it’s a service you can sign up for and hit a button to find random sites online).
So they use satellite imagery and let you map places online. It’s helpful for things like Tysons Corner, which only sort of exist in terms of mapping: there’s no town called Tysons Corner, it’s just sort of an area…so just for fun, I clicked Arlington, and apparently you can comment on areas too. One comment for Arlington:
ARLINGTON FUCKING RULES!
ITS THE SMARTEST COUNTY IN THE U.S.
GOOGLE IT, BITCH
–by “notgivingafuck”, 7 days ago
Just, wow.
Thanks to Virginia for this hilarious piece of art from the Museum for Communications in Frankfurt:
That is high-freaking-larious. 
Behind me, at the Apple Store, from my iSight…and the line I’m in! I’m getting an iPhone, baby! ;-D
UPDATE:
W00t!
Having now had 24 hours to recover (read: SLEEP), here’s what I learned about taking photos having been the “official photographer” (haha) at the JJ Dinner in Arlington…
–Shooting indoors is HARD! - Yes, horses may be temperamental, and the security guards at the monuments may shoo you away if you pull out a tripod, but shooting people, inside, in a not-so-well lit room, is the hardest thing I’ve done. A speedlight helps, but only if you have a diffuser…which, I didn’t…so, yeah. There’s going to be a lot of post-processing going on…
More after the jump…
IPhone: Friend Book to Beam Your iPhone’s Contact Data with a Shake
While this is pretty neat, it’s a little kitschy. You hold two iPhones together and shake them, as if you were shaking hands, and it transfers the owner’s contact information between the two phones.
Really?
This is what happens when I finally clear out the “newsletters” folder in my Gmail…
iTunes is giving away an audiobook copy of “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coehlo. For those of you who haven’t read it, you’re truly missing you: the story centers on an Andalusian shepherd boy, Santiago, who dreams of a vast treasure in Egypt and sets off on a quest after meeting a man who claims to be an Alchemist. What starts off as your simple “go find the treasure and be rich” story turns into something much deeper and more spiritual, and it’s truly outstanding.
It’s free through July 14th, so be sure to grab it now!!!
The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday–an entire week before the device goes on sale.
Are ya kidding me guys? Seriously? Look, I want one too. I want one BADLY. I want one so much I’m willing to ditch Verizon, whom I’ve had for SIX YEARS now, and switch to a GSM technology that I don’t exactly have a ton of faith in.
But a week out? Seriously? Seriously.
Coverage from: News.com, Engadget.
“The Future” at the National Archives
Our military, past and present.
“Images of the Fallen” is a part of the Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial at the Newseum. These are the images of the reporters, photographers and broadcasters who died reporting the news in 2006 and 2007.
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” ~~Thomas Jefferson
For those of you looking for actual “content” at this website….sorry! 
I just got signed up with Dreamhost, an outstanding webhost out of California that has really good prices AND buys offsets so they’re carbon neutral. I’ve been wanting to put this together for a while now and I’m finally taking the time to get everything designed the way I want it.
But, sadly, that’ll take some time. So keep checking back! ;-D
And in the meantime, you can Facebook stalk me, Twitter-follow, and comment on my stuff on Flickr.
~~jag~~
