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Synecdoche

Veering off-topic a bit here. I had to look this one up: Synecdoche (pronounced “si-NEK-də-kee”, IPA: /sɪˈnɛkdəˌki/; from Greek synekdoche (συνεκδοχή), meaning “simultaneous understanding”) is a figure of speech in which: * a term denoting a part of something is … Continue reading

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Top 50 WTF Moments In Comics

Just stumbled across this one. A fascinating site it is. Among other things, I learn that Captain America was fighting the Nazis at least a year before the United States entered World War II. Back in the 70s, in my SPARC … Continue reading

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UPDATE: 11 November 2008

There is some controversy swirling about in photography circles concerning the Callie Shell work (see The Big Picture, Again post of 11/11/08). Some believe it is clearly inspired, if not a direct rip-off (particularly, Shell’s Whistle-Stop Tour piece), of photographer Paul Fusco’s 1968 … Continue reading

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Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

My friend John passes on a link to an amazing post at DesignObserver. Thanks, John, for pointing this out and helping me discover the very wonderful DesignObserver.

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A Blog You Must See

Almost every day I find myself hitting the Web to “visit” with other programmers and Web developers, whether to find specific problem workarounds and other solutions, or to just keep up with the industry. In the course of researching Flex … Continue reading

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The Eye of a Photographer

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