Brick Wall

Texture

Artwork

Comcast, I am not happy

Well, Comcast has gone and done it. Starting October 1, 2008, residential customers of Comcast will be limited to 250GB of bandwidth a month. Yes, 250GB is a lot of bandwidth except when you think about the direction the net is going. Huge, high quality videos, streaming animation and news streams, Linux ISO's, and more will eat up 250GB in fairly short order.

Another wonderful item to look forward to is what kind of overage charges will apply.

Here are some links:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-250GB-Cap-Goes-Live-October-1-97294
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9837
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9838

Clouds

Cosmic Artwork

Foliage

Wall

Texture Art (Seamless)

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This Week in Photography

Just caught the latest episode of This Week in Photography. As usual, it's fun and informative. I think Alex Lindsay is pretty awesome. I remember him from his tips on TechTV.

Potentially awesome point-and-shoot

I am very excited about this new camera from Panasonic: The LX3.

Surfaces

Wall

Surface Texture

Broken Asphalt

Texture

Street Arrow

Free as in free speech imagery

I love to find free (as in speech) works. The US Government is an excellent source of free works, especially photographs. The following links are photos that were created by the US Government and are 100% free and public domain.

Ok, here we go!!! Enjoy these images!!!
http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=346125
http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=341843
http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=339280
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=62327
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=62323
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=61963

Also, make sure, if you need it, to check out the high resolution versions of these images.

Clouds

New set of seamless images

New set of images uploaded to Flickr. These images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license!

Clouds

Floral

Nature

Floral

Artwork

Stidiek

Full album link: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/9025

Alarming Sky

Afternoon Clouds

Colorful Sky

Clouds

Vent

Road Surface

I'm glad today is Friday!

Yeah, it's close to the weekend and I'm beat. Time for some fun stuff!!!

Nikon announces new cameras

Nikon just announced six new Coolpix cameras including the P6000. The P6000 lists for $499.00 and is clearly Nikon's answer to the Canon G9. Hopefully Nikon has solved the horrific barrel distortion issues with the P5000/P5100 models with this upgrade.

Links to some wonderful public domain images

I love to find free (as in speech) works. The US Government is an excellent source of free works, especially photographs. The following links are photos that were created by the US Government and are 100% free and public domain.

Here we go!!! Enjoy!!!
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=61717
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=61759
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=61750
http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=306567
http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=302353
http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=297523

Wonder of Nature

Pleasant Sky

Sirius and XM

Here's an interesting article by the NY Times dealing with the Sirius/XM merger.

Free Culture thoughts

I am constantly amazed at the growth of the free culture movement. As a member of Flickr, I love to see members sharing their images. Not sharing in the way we traditionally think of sharing, but in a relatively new way. This new way of sharing is not just showing someone a picture, it's also someone taking that photo and changing it, legally. We are seeing pictures and images remixed in new ways... a true participatory style of culture, free culture. Creative Commons licenses are spreading at an incredible rate, and Flickr is just one example of a platform for this growth.

Check out the MILLIONS of photos and images licensed under various CC licenses: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Cool US Navy Photo

I posted a neat, public domain photograph here.