Most days I don’t have that good of an excuse for being up obscenely late, but tonight doesn’t count.

There’s seventeen more exposures where that one came from – all 30-seconds via my Nikon D300.
Here’s today’s batch of Links You Need To Click…
On Wednesday night, I was scrolling through my RSS reader and checking out some articles of interest when I came across this post on ReadWriteWeb where Sarah Perez discussed a copyright infringement issue on photo sharing site Flickr. The issue at hand was a “Jokerized” photo of President Obama – “Jokerized” meaning made to look like “The Joker” in “The Dark Knight” flick – being pulled off the service for copyright concerns, namely that the familiar TIME magazine cover layout was built around the photo. Now I’m certainly not going to argue that particular issue here, but a main point in Perez’ article was whether this “transformative” photograph / artwork was something that would make it past a legal review. What happened next is the fun part.
As I continued reading the article – I typically read my posts in RSS if full feeds are available and click through to comment or read comments – I found a fascinating advertisement that took me to a poll on NewsMax.com, a well-known news organization typically identified as being on the conservative side of the political spectrum. The ad, as you’ll see below, might be considered a “parodied” look at Barack Obama with a medical cap on, with the link taking you to a poll focused on his health care policies.

So while we’re here, I think it begs us to ask the question as to whether this item (transformative or derivative – you decide!) would pass the same legal “test” as the “Jokerized” image.
Thought I’d share some photos we took last weekend out in Pottsville, PA at the Yuengling brewery. Definitely worth the drive, and it’s a pretty neat little town to check out, too. During the week you tour while the brewery is running, unfortunately not on the weekend – so no cool stuff to see going on, but fun nonetheless.
Vodkafish manages to destroy my ability to stop IMing things to people with his linkage to this disastrous showing of photos taken at various photo centers over the last few years. If you’re looking for hair references from the 70s and 80s, you’ve definitely come to the right place.
Dogsledding photos are up on Flickr. More later.
Why didn’t this guy think he would get caught taking cellphone photos of a woman who was nude in her tanning booth again? Just wondering.