A few links

'Intoxication' - charcoal of photo taken by Tim Koeth
Lets start off today with links to some sites -
I am going to indulge shamelessly in promoting the blog/websites of some people, but hey, one has to stick up for friends and family right.
Lets start with my wife's blog. For all you architecture fans out there, here is a blog which will look at life from an architectural point of view - for all you non-architects: well go read it and learn something new. In fact, she's just started a series where she's going to "tour through of the styles of buildings right from stone-age to the modern ones". Sounds fascinating? It is! Today was about a couple of buildings from Neolithic times.
(Here's a little shameless promotion - my wife was all India 73rd on the IIT entrance exam for architects, so I bet she knows what she's talking about).
After this series, I'm going to try and coax her to write a series of how architecture of a certain time was influenced by the prevalent culture of those times. If you think, this is an interesting idea, then help me convince her! And if it starts getting too heavy, maybe we'll throw in the odd bollywood review or two. Here's the link -
"Archi" facts by Shraddha.
You can find the link on the right hand side Links section too.

My room-mate is a very talented guy. Seriously, very talented. Not only has he built a cyclotron by himself (which makes Rutgers the only university in the world to have a cyclotron for undergraduate students to play with) but he is also an excellent photographer. Tim Koeth, who has recently featured in an article in "Physics Today" dedicated to him and the cyclotron, has put up some of his favourite photos on this website, Tim's photography. The lead-off photo for this post is one of his. Of course, he's used photoshop for this picture. That is one thing though that I'm not too fond of. I mean, he's a great photographer, and I have seen some of his pictures which look absolutely amazing. Yet, ever since he bought photoshop (2 weeks ago) he's been trying to fix images. Well, but you can't win them all....
If you like his work, then maybe you'll like his website, Tim Koeth. There is a link to more of his pictures way down in that page.

Okay, in case you think I'm being too much - here is a blog about photography by someone I don't know. Check out Jason's blog. There was this nice entry maybe yesterday for up and coming photographers - 5 tips. It was pretty much right on!