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Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History 1955-Present. Want.

This new variation on corporate greenwashing—localwashing—is, like the buy-local movement itself, most advanced in the context of food. Hellmann’s, the mayonnaise brand owned by the processed-food giant Unilever, is test-driving a new “Eat Real, Eat Local” initiative in Canada. Frito-Lay’s television commercials use farmers as pitchmen to position the company’s potato chips as local food, while the poultry giant Foster Farms is labeling its packages of chicken “locally grown.”

Five signs your potential client isn't the one you want to work with.

This Venn diagram needs to go on my bulletin board.

These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

Not too bad set of instructions for making your own handstrap for a camera.

The majority of the world's farmers are women, so Shakesville presents a photo gallery of farming women around the world in action. Gorgeous.

Interesting case of accusations of photo fakery during Roosevelt's New Deal programs – echoing Republican protests against Obama's economic programs.

Beware the Dread Gazebo.

This is relevant to my interests.

The best Congressional floor speech of the last year on the financial crisis was this extraordinarily piercing five-minute revelation from Rep. MarcyKaptur of Ohio on the Wall Street bailout and how the Congress is subservient to their dictates. And the single most insightful article on the financial crisis was written by former IMF Chief Economist and current MIT Professor Simon Johnson in the May, 2009 issue of The Atlantic, when he argued that "the finance industry has effectively captured our government" and detailed how theU.S. has become very similar to failed emerging-market nations in both its political and economic culture.

a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997.

Slap bang on for me! – "The Referendum is a phenomenon typical of (but not limited to) midlife, whereby people, increasingly aware of the finiteness of their time in the world, the limitations placed on them by their choices so far, and the narrowing options remaining to them, start judging their peers’ differing choices with reactions ranging from envy to contempt."

If this isn't an indication of fraud on the part of executives at major banks and financial firms, I don't know what is. What will it take for Republicans to stop blaming mortgage holders and start blaming Wall Street?

Well. Up with Finland!

“Now we’ve found nature brings out more social feelings, more value for community and close relationships. People are more caring when they’re around nature”

Geithner said at the time he had not known about nearly $1.75 billion in bonuses, retention payments and deferred compensation that AIG was contractually obligated to pay its workers. Millions went to employees in the unit whose bets helped sink the company. Barofsky found no evidence that Geithner knew about the payments before March. But he wrote that it was a "failure of communication" for the top executive of the agencies overseeing AIG to be unaware of the payments.

The foundation closely linked to Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) that's taken nearly a million dollars from companies with interest in legislation moving through his committees, but given out nothing for its stated purpose, college scholarships for Indiana students.

A review site that explains how much gear you can get into any camera bag – sweet!

What is it? You're soaking in it. Melissa assembles all the pieces, connecting the dots into the overwhelming pattern that makes this picture impossible to ignore or deny.