Photographs of London. Taken at night. While hanging out of a helicopter. Big Picture: London from above, at night.

From Sports Illustrated, a frame-by-frame sequence of Phelps’ touch in the 100m ‘fly. And as to why Olympic times are measured to the hundredth-of-a-second, it’s not because of the Omega timing systems, which are accurate to a thousandth. It’s because of the minute differences in length of the lanes of the pool itself.

From everyone’s favorite new blog, The Big Picture, twelve stunning photographs from the USA Diving Olympic Team Trials. NB: Not suitable for iPhone browsing: As the blog’s name would suggests, the pictures are BIG (which, along with copyright issues, is also why I haven’t included any here).

Owning a house and battling damage from the elements is one of the many ways I’ve come to understand that, given enough time, nature always wins. This Flickr photoset of an abandoned amusement park in Ohio called Chippewa Lake is a beautiful demonstration of that axiom. Via kottke

The popular opinion of Annie Leibovitz is that it’s been a while since she’s done anything interesting (though the recent Disney Dream campaign is certainly fun). Whether you agree with that or not, Leibovitz could not have gotten to where she is without a fair measure of confidence and, as deemed by photographer Rob Haggart, [...]

A fantastic collection of pictures of kids with their science “experiments.” Just go to the page: I don’t want to ruin any by attempting to pick my favorites. Via kottke.org

I never tire of pictures of show dogs and their owners. The Times has two slideshows from the recent Westminster Dog Show: Just the dogs With their owners Curiously, the former slideshow is filed in Sports. The latter: Fashion.

Photographs from Korean artist Jeongmee Yoon show the pink/blue worlds of girls/boys. “The Pink and Blue Project” was at first motivated by my daughter. At five years old, she loves pink so much that she wants to wear only pink clothes and use only pink toys or objects. More of the Artist’s Statement at ARTINFO. [...]

Photograph by Eben: I was driving home on the Arlington in N. Berkeley when I saw this soul (dead, alas) in the middle of an intersection. I stopped to take her picture and was joined by a couple of women armed with rags who were going to drag her to the side of the road. [...]