Make Blog has a great roundup post on photographing smoke -- HOWTOs, galleries, "smoke sculptures" and ideas for putting together your compositions.
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Aug 29, 2007
Smoke photography roundup
Academic published erotic fiction about own students
A Cambridge University don wrote and published erotic fiction about his own students under a pseudonym, reports the BBC. Dr Peter Hutchinson was accused of sexual harassment in 2015 and forced out of his teaching post, but the novel, titled First Time: Ooo-la-la! was published under the name of Barry Able and has only recently […]
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Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy protection over sex abuse lawsuits
Facing “mounting legal costs” over lawsuits filed by victims of sexual abuse, the Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy protection. NBC News reports that the move pushes the lawsuits to federal bankruptcy court, and that the organization intends to establish a trust to compensate victims. Michael Pfau, whose Seattle-based law firm, Pfau, Cochran, […]
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Cartoonist sells his "crappy rejected" New Yorker submissions
For Christmas, I gifted myself with a New Yorker subscription. At the end of January, in my inbox zine, I wrote about becoming a little obsessed with the magazine’s cartoon caption contest, and how I had shared the fun with my 15-year-old daughter. I then found myself searching and following all the New Yorker-published cartoonists […]
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From smart bags to spinners, here are 10 great luggage ideas for your next trip all on sale
You’d be surprised anyone would have to say this, but…there are plenty of items that don’t belong in a suitcase. Like a bag of dead birds. No, really…people are actually packing bags of small dead birds into their luggage these days. Look, we can’t tell you how to pack. That’s your business. But we can […]
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Save an additional 15% on these industry-leading VPNs in honor of President's Day
Presidents’ Day and VPNs may not be a natural fit at first glance. But think about it for a minute. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were both American presidents whose legacies are forever tied with liberty and freedom. And what is a VPN service if not absolute web liberty and freedom for all your digital […]
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Get incredible savings on these factory recertified Microsoft Surface Books and Tablets
You hear the stories all the time. You know the ones about how a new vehicle instantly loses hundreds, even thousands of dollars in value the second a new owner drives it off the lot. Depreciation is a killer, especially when the item itself works just as well — or maybe even better than all […]
