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Today’s The Oregonian book review section featured a piece on “Power of the River”, a history book compiled by the Bonneville Power Administration. My curiosity led me to download the 300+ page PDF (130MB; but a lower-res version is also available) from http://www.bpa.gov/news/pubs/GeneralPublications/Book-Power-of-the-River-BPA-History-Book.pdf. The book contains a good number of excellent photographs of the Columbia River and BPA-related subject matter. I just skimmed some of the opening text, but it appears to be a pretty comprehensive history as well. As I have taken hundreds of photographs of the wind turbines, the river and the gorge, it was nice to see material shot from a vantage point different than my usual passenger car seat.

2013 Pulitzers in Photography

The 2013 Pulitzer prize winners in photography have just been announced, and they are shown here by the Los Angeles Times. Follow the links from within the feature story to see the works of the individual photographers.

Oscar Niemeyer’s Brazilian Architecture

If you don’t know the amazing architectural work of Oscar Niemeyer, you might want to start with this New Yorker article and slideshow. Be sure to click on the fullscreen symbol when you visit that page to see this stuff more properly.

Internet Mayhem

Today the Internet was hit with the largest distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack in its history. The massive disruption, which may have begun a few days ago, seems to have been brought on by a feud between a nonprofit international anti-spam service, SpamHaus, and Cyberbunker, an ISP (Internet Service Provider) in the Netherlands that purportedly specializes in spam generation and is willing to host anything, short of terrorism or child pornography, for Web publication. (Rumor has it that Cyberbunker is hardened against nuclear attack and can be self-sufficient in isolation for months.) You will surely be hearing a lot about this story today and in the days to come. Here are a few sample stories on this incredible dustup here and here and here.