Photo of the Day: Sea Otter Snacking

Here, the otter has cracked open lunch and is enjoying it. This gives you a nice shot of her cradling her rock. The otter will hold onto the rock through multiple dives for snacks.

Things You’ll Find Interesting May 9, 2012

Here are some items I found today that I thought you’d find interesting.

• Art is a Popularity Contest, Not a Democracy
• Full Moon Rising
• Edie’s Trip Report: Tioga Road
• Notes From Chad: Funding Etsy’s Future | Etsy News
• Prismatic Goes Public
• Tonal Adjustments in the Age of Lightroom 4
• The Big Idea: Mark Teppo
• Giving the Velocity website a performance makeover
• The future of media on mobile and iPads isn’t about web beating apps, but better planning and implementation | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology
• Tempo, and bird song identification
• A Behind The Scenes Look at the Making of a Lee Filter
• Digital Darkroom Techniques with Carl Caylor
• AppleInsider: “Apple says lack of multi-user support on iPad is a ‘known issue,’ ‘being investigated’” – Marco.org
• How Hewlett-Packard lost its way – Fortune Tech

Photo of the Day: Sea Otter Napping

Sea Otter week continues… Sea Otters don’t come onto shore much, so they sleep in the water. One of the things they will do is wrap themselves in a kelp plan before napping, so that it keeps them in place so they don’t float off in the current. 

Things You’ll Find Interesting May 8, 2012

Here are some items I found today that I thought you’d find interesting.

• John Sheehan : The API Developer Experience Baseline
• How air freshener research led to a new fuel-cell charger for phones
• Birding the Owens Lake Big Day
• Returning to the scene of the crime
• Kirk’s Take: Electronic Viewfinders
• TUAW Bookshelf — The Business of iPhone and iPad Development: Making and Marketing Apps
• Mediacurrent: Webinar: The Drupal Media Initiative

Photo of the Day: Sea Otter feeding

Sea Otters will feed on shellfish and mussels, but they need a bit of help getting the shells opened. What they’ll do is bring a rock up from the bottom and put it on their bellies, and then beat the crap out of whatever it is they want to eat to crack the shell. It’s effective, if a bit splashy….

Things You’ll Find Interesting May 7, 2012

Here are some items I found today that I thought you’d find interesting.

• Felicia Day goes Neo-Victorian in a Steampunk Photoshoot – YouTube
• The Most Overrated Social Media Metric | Social Media Metrics | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert
• Why Scott Thompson’s “inadvertent error” is a big deal
• Supermoon in Seattle
• Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps – Technology Review
• Did your parents have a Chevy when you were growing up?
• Broken Promises and Stock Photography
• Is It Photography?
• Whisky Advocate Blog
• Style Guides, Mood Boards, And Style Tiles: 3 Tools To Keep Design Projects On Track
• This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details
• Why I write about bathroom fans and pillowcasing strategies
• What Photographers Must Know About Using Extreme Wide Angle Lenses

Photo of the Day: Sea Otter at Dawn

Sea Otter week continues. This shot was taken just as dawn was starting to break, bathing morro bay harbor with this fascinating golden light. three minutes later? gone…. 

Things You’ll Find Interesting May 6, 2012

Here are some items I found today that I thought you’d find interesting.

• Today’s Video Link
• Young women are (still) the best internet bait and 5 other lessons from ESPN’s blogger scandal
• Is the 1% rule dead? The BBC thinks so, but it’s wrong
• Tom the Dancing Bug’s Inner Hive
• The No Future League
• What Would the End of Football Look Like?
• Football, Dogfighting, and Brain Damage
• Lasting value
• The death of genre
• A Few Thoughts for the Weekend:-)
• BYOD and the security fun-sponge
• Why geeks (and other lean machines) need high-intensity workouts