How to recognize the artists of paintings

http://themetapicture.com/how-to-recognize-the-artists-of-paintings/
(via  Making Light)

My Eyes! The goggles do nothing!

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/tree_on_a_hill.shtml

This is like an unintentional parody, "how to create a photoshop disaster".

Simplest means

"Jerome Delay has been on a quest for simplicity while covering some of the most important stories in Africa for The Associated Press. For the last year he has relied almost exclusively on one camera, and one lens, a 50-millimeter F1.4."  http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/the-lens-is-standard-the-photos-anything-but/?hp&_r=3

Lizards and Lyme

Apparently Lyme disease incidence is lower in California than elsewhere because the tick nymphs live on lizards that have an enzyme in their blood that kills Lyme.

http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/blog/lizards-save-california-lyme-disease

Cartier-Bresson interviews

The NY Times' Lens blog has a transcript of a 1971 interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson, which is very interesting:

Part one:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/henri-cartier-bresson-living-and-looking/

Part two:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/cartier-bresson-there-are-no-maybes/

"the PlayStation 2 is old, and therefore it is a shitbox of lies"

Excellent takedown of current video gaming.  The proximate target is the Sony Playstation 4, but many of the ideas apply across the gaming space.

http://gameological.com/2013/02/more-more-morehow-do-you-like-it/