Someone's bound to ask:  Do I favour mandatory jail time for anyone caught wearing socks with sandals?  Yes.  Yes, I do.

Because it's a holiday weekend, check out the work and blog of San Diego photographer, inventor and naval vet Robert Benson.  Not to be confused with Robby Benson.

Not the Roman god, the planet.  Computer enhanced catalogue with 236 incredible views.

Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Well, yes I know everyone hates the paparazzi and I'm sure lots of them are indeed dirtbags, but I still find myself opposing California's new "anti-paparazzi" law.  The simple fact is if someone's in a public place they do not have a right to privacy, nor can one make a meaningful distinction between the celebrity hunters and so-called 'real' reporters, which the folks in the comments at Entertainment Weekly don't seem to understand.  The law actually doesn't seem to have any purpose except to scare and intimidate since a photographer who breaks the law, either by tresspassing or cutting off someone's car, etc., can already be prosecuted because those things are, um, already illegal.  And I really do hate to find myself on the same side as newspaper publishers (because they also oppose the law) but that's how is.

And I've known three paparazzo's in my life and they were all nice, so there.

I often find Digg to be very useful in locating useful information and news onYe Olde Internets.  Just recently they've unveiled the 'new' Digg with a series of interface changes seemingly inspired by competition from Twitter and Facebook.  It's only natural that a site will evolve over time however the new version of Digg doesn't seem to produce the same search results as the original, or searches that are useful at all.  There are a host of other small glitches which will probably be ironed out however without a good search function the whole site is more or less useless.  I'm hoping that gets fixed too so Digg can get out of its rut and into a new groove.  (Note use of digging metaphors.)

Things just get more and more interesting in the never-ending case of the supposed Ansel Adams 'lost negatives'.  Robert Moeller, one of the experts who first said they were authentic, is now changing his story.

Who says lens distortion is a bad thing?