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Oscar season nears, but where’s the buzz?

NEW YORK - While the country continued to find ways to cut back in tough times, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided it was time to supersize. In October, it announced a doubling of the number of nominees in the best picture category, bringing the grand total to 10.

AT&T says iPhone to get picture messaging Sept. 25

AT&T says the latest iPhone models will finally get the ability to send picture and video messages to other phones on Sept. 25.

Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo

Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.

Shoplifters found after leaving photos in cart

Authorities said two Port St. Lucie women tried to steal nearly $200 worth of merchandise from a Wal-Mart but got caught because they left packets of recently developed pictures in their abandoned shopping carts.

Ariz. paper sues band for using dead officer's pic

An Arizona newspaper has filed suit accusing a local punk rock band of copyright infringement because it used a slain police officer's photo to illustrate its album.

Rain douses Rose Garden presidential class picture

That photographers' dream shot of the current president, the next president and the still-living presidents posing for a picture in the Rose Garden? Forget it! An unrelenting rain has forced the class picture inside.

Dolphins, Vikings, Panthers clinch divisions

From the ugliness of 1-15 to the beauty of an AFC East title. That's the Miami Dolphins' story this season.

Steelers winners, rest of playoff field tighter

On a day when most of the playoff races got tighter, the Pittsburgh Steelers were the only team to clinch a berth. By inches.

10 contenders for the best picture Oscar

Now that the presidential election is behind us, we can finally start obsessing about the really important race — what movies are in contention for best picture?

Old Photo Helps Solve Drowning Mystery

A treasured old photograph, a police investigator's long-shot appeal to the public and a retiree's sharp memory have combined to solve a 15-year-old drowning mystery.

US Among Worst in World for Infant Death

The rate at which infants die in the United States has dropped substantially over the past half-century, but broad disparities remain among racial groups, and the country stacks up poorly next to other industrialized nations.

Grandma's Painting Sells for $600,000

A woman who auctioned a painting that belonged to her grandmother, hoping to get a few thousand dollars to pay for her daughter's college tuition, was stunned when the picture fetched $600,000.

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Levi Johnston Playgirl PHOTO! First Topless Picture Released
Source: The Huffington Post

Playgirl.com (NSFW) has posted a first teaser picture of Levi Johnston from his upcoming nude, but not full-frontal, photo shoot.

A Few Words of Advice on Nudity and Hindsight

Somewhere out there, there's a picture of me naked. It's a Polaroid shot taken with an instant camera (y'know, back when cameras needed film). I'm lying on a bed, wearing nothing but me birthday suit.

Port Orchard Man Accused of Biting Deputy During DUI Stop
Source:

The deputy was investigating a car wreck... found a 1993 Isuzu Rodeo in the ditch. A 28-year-old man showed up and said the car was his, but pointed out that the deputy couldn't prove he'd been driving.

Bird Captured on Camera Eating Ticks From Around giraffe's Mouth
Source: Telegraph

"A photographer has captured the moment a bird fed on ticks" near the mouth of a giraffe.

Meghan McCain: If your brain were working as hard as your breasts...

Word on the street? Meghan McCain has big breasts. She's also something of a homebody, spending her nights in comfort clothes (sweatpants and a tank top) while perusing the latest bio on the life of famed pop-artist, Andy Warhol. How do we know this? Twitter, of course.

Camera shows albatrosses feeding with killer whale
Source: The Times

Pictures taken by cameras attached to the backs of albatrosses show that the huge seabirds use killer whales to help find their food for them.

Teens brag on Myspace about fleeing 'crackers,' stealing watches
Source: nwfdailynews.com

A 15-year-old boy was busted after bragging on his Myspace page about stealing watches from Sears. He even posted a photo of him and a sidekick modeling the stolen watches.

Tattoos: What were they thinking? - Picture Gallery
Source: The Orlando Sentinel

a mix. stupid & cool.

How to Photograph a Rainbow
Source: Digital Photography School

A Rainbow is something that has the power to stop you in your tracks when it unexpectedly appears when you're least expecting to see one. They're beautiful - but how do you photograph a rainbow?

21 Great Shots [And How They Were Taken]
Source: Digital Photography School

This is a series of 21 pictures and links to how they were taken that provides good examples for beginners and professionals who just haven't tried a technique demonstrated

10 Questions to Ask When Taking a Digital Photo
Source: Digital Photography School

What goes through your mind in the moments as you raise your digital camera up to take a shot and before you press the shutter? If you're like many digital photographers you're not thinking about too much - you just want to capture the moment and then move on.

Canon EOS 7D
Source: Digital Photography School

The Canon EOS 7D is being presented as a new model line for Canon - not an update of another camera in the range it's certainly above the Canon EOS 50D in terms of features but seems to be positioned alongside the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

How to Soften Up Harsh Flash Lighting
Source: Digital Photography School

How many times have you taken a photo and regreted that you used the on camera flash? The result is glaring highlights, shiny foreheads, and beady eyes, from the powerful direct hit of the small built-in flash. In this post René Edde shares some tips on how to avoid this.

Picture of what Jayce Lee Dugard looks like today should never be released
Source: Examiner

Since Jaycee Lee Dugard reappeared at a Bay Area police station after 18 years, people have been clamoring for pictures of what she looks like today. Due to pending DNA results, nobody wants to release pictures of her if she's somebody other than Jaycee Lee Dugard.

PETA protests around the globe - Picture Gallery
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

some hot, some not.

MSNBC's accidental Lockerbie Bomber Humor

So I went over to MSNBC.com just now and saw this story on the release of the Lockerbie Bomber. What caught my eye first was this picture right next to the story on MSNBC's main page. Notice what it says on the steps leading to the airplane?

'Ghost' picture taken at Fritzl house
Source: austriantimes.at

A British mum who made a pilgrimage to fiend Josef Fritzl's "House of Horror" has told how ghostly images have appeared in photographs she took of the home.

Poll & Picture: PETA takes shot at Overwieght women to save whales!

I am all for being humane to animals and eating healthy, but I wonder how this billboard spotted in Jacksonville, Florida will go over with humans! Picture of Billboard posted below.

Passport row Canadian back home
Source: BBC News

A Canadian woman, stranded in Kenya for three months because officials said she did not resemble her passport photo, has arrived home in Toronto. Suaad Mohamud was prevented in May from returning from a two-week holiday.

B & W

Thought this came out rather well

Pictured: the moment eagle swooped on swan
Source: Telegraph

A North American amateur photographer has captured the moment a bald eagle launched a ferocious mid-air attack on an unsuspecting swan in British Columbia, Canada.

Uproar in Japan over revealing kimono for pageant
Source: Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

A risque black leather kimono that exposed the underwear of Emiri Miyasaka, Japan's finalist in the Miss Universe contest, has upset the nation

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