Snow Day 2012! was uploaded to Flickr

Hipstamatic / Snapseed snapshot, West Loop, Chicago. — update: a couple thoughts about this photo being Explored www.b12partners.net/wp/2012/01/21/snow-day-explored/ embiggen by clicking http://flic.kr/p/bfVjWr Snow Day 2012! was taken on January 20, 2012 at 08:23AM

Notes on Instagram after Using It for A Month or So

I signed up for an Instagram account on October 26, 2010, but I didn’t use it very much until September of this year. I’ve always been more of a fan of Hipstamatic, which is by far the better camera app, and of course, I am an active Flickr user.

Some further reading from September 28 2012

I guess I’ll have to go back to making Delicous posts by themselves since Twitter deprecated one useful-to-me API as I mentioned yesterday. A long time ago, there was a way to merge a day’s worth of Delicious links together and make a post. I’ll see if I can figure out how to resurrect that feature.

We Only Think We Know the Truth About Salt

When I spent the better part of a year researching the state of the salt science back in 1998 — already a quarter century into the eat-less-salt recommendations — journal editors and public health administrators were still remarkably candid in their assessment of how flimsy the evidence was implicating salt as the cause of hypertension.

Snow Day – Explored

Amusingly, this iPhone snapshot I took yesterday made it into Flickr Explore, currently ranking #163. Still don’t quite understand the Explore algorithm, as I’ve taken this exact photo dozens of times, or more, but this particular one resonated. I’m just happy it snowed finally.

Talking Heads Chronology

Talking Heads Chronology, originally uploaded by swanksalot. Excited to watch this. Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone Lens: Watts Flash: Off Film: DreamCanvas www.davidbyrne.com/film/TH_Chronology/index.php Chronology pulls together live performances from across Talking Heads’ career. It starts with their earliest days at CBGB and The Kitchen in New York City in… Read more“Talking Heads Chronology”