[via Jason Kottke]

Source: Every World Press Photo Winner From 1955-2011 (http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/every-world-press-photo-winner-from-1955-2011)
Related: All the World Press Photo Contest winners (http://kottke.org/12/02/all-the-world-press-photo-contest-winners) by Jason Kottke

Enter Jay Smooth:

[via illdoc1more]

You're talking about two intervals: a perfect fifth and [then] a perfect fourth. For example, if you're starting at middle C, you go up a perfect fifth, up to G. You go up a fourth, and you're back to C. This is the core relationship in Western tonal music, which is 99.999 percent of all music that is used in scores for anything that Western audiences generally watch. It's the basis of all pop music and Western classical music.

Source: Bear McCreary reveals the physics behind your favorite science fiction theme tunes (http://io9.com/5883406/the-physics-behind-your-favorite-science-fiction-theme-songs)

Below is Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.

…Combed his light-brown hair neatly in front of the mirror, and set off for Radio City. He had always thought he had the world’s dullest face, a thoroughly forgettable face with a look of docility that he could not understand, and a look also of vague fright that he had never been able to erase. A real conformist’s face, he thought…Really it was only his darker hair that was very different from Dickie. Otherwise, his nose—or at least its general form—his narrow jaw, his eyebrows if he held them right…He wasn’t really worried.

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Source: Composite sketches of literary characters (http://kottke.org/12/02/composite-sketches-of-literary-characters) by Jason Kottke
Related: The Composites (http://thecomposites.tumblr.com/) by Brian Joseph Davis

Casey Hopkins quickly made $1 million dollars to fund his project. Perhaps he said it best for what the future holds for fledgeling, creative entrepeneurs.

Goodbye middlemen, sayonara to the massive traditional barriers to entry... Hello bootstrapped projects like this, made without compromise, and that would otherwise never see the light of day.

After that, Merry went back for his rifle. An African lioness crawled under the livestock fence and ran south down the road then headed toward someone's home, so he shot her before she could go farther. Then he turned back, intending to deal with a black bear and a tiger along the roadway, but he was distracted by a cougar heading south, so he followed the cougar into another driveway where he met a male African lion coming the other way. He shot the lion while some other deputies shot the cougar. Soon he was instructed to patrol the border between the Thompson property and Interstate 70, and over the evening he shot another wolf, two more lions, a tiger, and—later on, after its hiding place was revealed by a fireman's thermal-imaging camera—a grizzly bear.

[via The Browser]

Source: 18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio (http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201203/terry-thompson-ohio-zoo-massacre-chris-heath-gq-february-2012?printable=true) by Chris Heath

And here's an introductory video.

Source: Clear: An Interview With Impending’s Phill Ryu (http://www.macstories.net/stories/clear-an-interview-with-impendings-phill-ryu/) by Frederico Viticci
Related: Realmac Software (http://www.realmacsoftware.com/clear/)
Related: Impending, Inc. (http://impending.com/)

This could easily be the case for point and shoot cameras as well. Replace the whole left side with common point and shoot cameras from Nikon, Canon, etc., but keep the entire right side as is.

[via Josh Helfferich] 

Source: Before and after the iPhone: (http://twitter.com/#!/Digeratii/status/165324320179109888) by Josh Helfferich

Source: 'Mad Men' season 5 minimalist teaser ad: Would Don Draper approve? (http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/17/mad-men-season-5-poster/)