Story Archives of 'Photography'

Here in the U.S., some citizen groups complain that their rights have been infringed upon by the Patriot Act, and now similar incidents are taking place in the United Kingdom.

A Greek tourist was arrested in April for taking pictures in the London Underground, and, more surprisingly, a Kent man was detained for snapping shots of a fish bar last month. Both were suspected of terrorism.

Summer. It means sun, fun, fast cars, friends and food. Warmth, wind, water, wild times and, for some, Weekend At Bernie's screenings (!). For us, it means your weekly collection of awesome links is celebrating its birthday! Here are a few links that'll make great conversation starters as you stand around the pool at your local Here's What's Awesome birthday party:

Maybe Skynet just needs a date

I hired a bunch of consultants for this week's compendium of awesome links. Their single, unanimous recommendation: Here's What's Awesome needs more controversy. It needs more attitude, more in-your-face, more crash-boom-bang. Seeing as how I flee from controversy the way Star Wars fans flee from the Special Edition DVDs, I'm not convinced this is a good idea. But they talked me into trying a controversial set of links just this once. If it doesn't work, expect three awesome links about fluffy bunnies and lollipops next week!

As you know, Here's What's Awesome has several teams working in the field at all times to collect awesome links, sometimes in the most unlikely of places. This week's links were found in a 6,000 year old archaeological burial site, buried in a false tomb near the center of a Peruvian leader's tomb.

This week's edition of Here's What's Awesome seems quite householdy - I guess working in the garden and trying to fix up the house geared me toward green, domestic awesome links. Just be thankful I didn't run across any stories about Saturday afternoon reruns, I guess. "University researchers have discovered that Urkel can power up to 16,000 homes..."

The power of prayer

Back in the 60’s, you couldn’t go to a party without seeing a Polaroid camera. Nowadays, they’ve largely been replaced by the digital variety, but a group of Dutch scientists are working to bring the retro cameras back.