Posts Tagged ‘photos’
Reddit user BeardoGREG shared this unusual selfie of his family. I was mightily confused until one commenter explained it: "You were shot out of a cannon. The cannon is behind you and you are flying straight into the camera with that determined look on your face."
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The Hubble telescope has captured a dazzling new photograph of a spiral galaxy, NGC 2903.
NGC 2903 is part of the constellation Leo, located roughly 30 million light-years from EarthNASA used the powerful orbital telescope to explore it along w... ...
I am totally, utterly reliant on Creative Commons images for Boing Boing, and mostly I use Google Image's mediocre search tool for this purpose, but no more! Creative Commons's new search engine is out of beta, and contains more than 300,000,000 images, along with tools to make attribution easier! (via
Spoiler warning: The following post contains images from the next episode of Game of Thrones (Season 8, episode 2).
Let's get to theorizing, Thrones fans.
Ahead of Sunday, HBO has released 14 new photos from Game of Thrones Season 8, episode 2. Fro... ...
WhatsApp is continuing to ramp up the fight against fake news, this time setting its sight on visual misinformation.
The Facebook-owned messaging app is currently testing a new “search image” feature that allows users to easily upload an ... ...
Hugh writes, "This plaque commemorates its own commemoration." (Photo by Dr Vicky Forster): "This plaque was commemorated on October 10, 2018,
commemorate its own commemoration. Plaques like this one are an integral part of the campaign to support more plaques like this one. By reading this plaque, you have made a valuable addition to ...
Just days before Flickr mass deletes photos across its platform, the company has decided to hit its users with some good news.
In a blog post on Friday, Flickr announced that it will allow free accounts to host and upload more than the 1,000 photo li... ...
Flickr announced today that all Creative Commons images will remain protected on its site – including those uploaded in the past and those that will be added in the future. The news follows Flickr’s November 2018 announcement where it had stated it wouldn’t delete Creative Commons photos already on its service, after switching over to ...
Ard Gelinck poses celebrities with their younger selves. Fantastic. More on Instagram at: photo_time_traveling
(via Kottke)
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During the 1930s, the WPA sponsored horseback librarians -- all women -- to visit rural Americans, bringing them books; the librarians were only allowed to make deliveries in counties that had existing libraries, so schools and other institutions donated materials to establish libraries that would make their counties eligible.
The program ran until 1943, and, as ...