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...Photography Chromasia www.chromasia.com Instead of text, each daily post is a single (beautiful) photograph taken by amateur enthusiast David J. Nightingale of Blackpool, England. Tiny arrows at the top left-hand corner of the page allow you to view other images; to scan Nightingale's entire online portfolio (some 543 images to date), click on Thumbs. The Archives section offers a detailed description of each image, including how it was shot (which camera, type of lens, shutter speed, etc.). The Snowsuit Effort is also excellent; featuring close-ups of the individuals photoblogger Ryan Keberly meets on the streets of Detroit...
...that make calls but also handle data, video, music, fancy games and e-mail. Symbian, with all of 913 employees, is pummeling Microsoft in that growing market. Of the 14.4 million smart phones that shipped globally last year, 82.1% use Symbian and only 6.4% use Microsoft, according to Reading, England, research firm Canalys...
...luxurious as the upmarket structures created by the Scotland-based TreeHouse Company (www.treehousecompany.com), which look more like mansions than playhouses. The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating and electricity. The circular cedarwood dining lodge the company erected in an ash in West Sussex, England, for instance, has all that plus a telephone connection, a spiral staircase, 13 windows and a peaked roof. No wonder the private, $185,000 retreat outdoes any earthbound first-class dining hall. "Forty years ago, nobody envisioned things like jacuzzis and log stoves up in the trees," says John Harris...
...London Eye too. I love the playfulness of it." Eshun is as interested in work as he is in play. Journalist, broadcaster, cultural commentator, Eshun, 37, wears many hats and is about to don yet another: his first book, Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa, came out this month. It's an engaging memoir-cum-travelogue about a 2002 trip to explore his roots in Ghana. To his shame and disgust, he found that one of his ancestors was a slave trader, a discovery that both shook his world and, paradoxically, freed him from...
JOSHUA SELIG -- Dorset, England...