Remember that song from the ’80s by Yes? “Owner of a Lonely Heart.” When I heard that as a kid, I misheard the lyrics. I was convinced they were singing about the “owner of the lonely horse.” (I also thought Starship “milked this city.” I was wrong.) It was not until I was nearly [...]
Some time back in the summer of 2008, I joined my friend Mark Sung for a short trip to the Mendocino coast. We meant to go camping, but the tent spots were full and we ended up fishing until about 4 a.m., anyway. Actually, we weren’t fishing for fish, but crabbing for crab.
Mendocino’s a pretty [...]
The Post is running an article in the A section about divining the origins of the domestic cat.
They come from the Fertile Crescent, their domestication coincides with the rise of agriculture, and they can be divided into four geo-genetic groups: Europe, Mediterranean, East Africa, Asia. (Why not West Africa? How did they get specific [...]
Mr. Foster, Mr. Simons, this one’s for you.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Vocalise. Sergei Rachmaninoff.
[Photo: Wookie-like cow on the outskirts of Colby, KS]
The Whale Hunt is worth a look. It’s a high-production slideshow (come on, that’s what it is) created by Jonathan Harris, who is a mere 10 days younger than me. He spent a week on the northern shore of Alaska, photographing a group of natives. Some of the photos are really great, others are just [...]
The amazing, disappearing honeybee has become the sleeper hit of journalism. It has slowly gained momentum over the last nine or ten months and now it seems like just about everyone has heard of it, even if they don’t really know anything about it. Most coverage follows the same beaten path: bees are [...]
British Columbia Premiere Gordon Campbell on Tuesday announced a historic agreement among what the New York Times calls “an improbable assemblage of officials from the provincial government, coastal Native Canadian nations, logging companies and environmental groups.” The area protected is equivalent to one quarter of all the world’s coastal temperate rainforest. In the deal, 4.4. [...]
I should have seen it coming. Will Smith had about 5 months to crawl to the top of my “most viewed” list on Flickr. He did it in the course of a day. Su Lin the panda has had about 4 days so far, and she beat Will in one day. It looks like it [...]
It’s been a real horserace, but as of 11:30 a.m. PST, Su Lin is now my most popular picture by 38 views. Which is actually quite substantial.
(She’s also the most favorited, most commented upon, and most “interesting.” What will it take to overtake her?—ed.)
Despite my best efforts, people really just want to see photographs of furry, fuzzy baby animals.
Sure, I could take a decent San Francisco picture,
or one of some people on the street,
or careless boaters with a tangled anchor,
or flying octopi.
But I woke up this Thursday morning to find that 25 people viewed the photo of [...]
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