America laughed and cried at a celebration for Tim Russert the other day. He was the Real Deal.
He will be missed.
This is a great presentation; mousing over the thumbnails reveals a description of each clip. Unfortunately, inexplicably the audio drops out on several of these clips!
Shot roughly half of this video over two days last month in Taipei, Taiwan. Some of it was shot outside Taipei 101, currently the tallest building in the world.
A great new website from Boston.com that uses news photographs in full, beautiful color. Quite unique in the web news world. [Click on the Opium Poppies]
"Big Picture is a fantastic and dead-simple new site from boston.com. Each entry tells a story through high-quality newswire images displayed at large sizes; recent entries include a look at Saturn from the Cassini space probe and the daily lives of soldiers in Afghanistan. If you're frustrated by the tiny news imagery we get spoon-fed to us on the web, this site will be a welcome addition to your daily browse."
Short-cuttin' throught the G.P.O. in Central Hong Kong recently {to take advantage of its killer air conditioning}, I took pix of this cool mosaic, Thinking it was made of colored tiles.
Recently I took another "AC" break, passing by the mural, and noticed it's made ENTIRELY of POSTAGE STAMPS from all over the world.