links for 2009-10-20

This Venn diagram needs to go on my bulletin board.

These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

Not too bad set of instructions for making your own handstrap for a camera.

The majority of the world's farmers are women, so Shakesville presents a photo gallery of farming women around the world in action. Gorgeous.

Interesting case of accusations of photo fakery during Roosevelt's New Deal programs - echoing Republican protests against Obama's economic programs.