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Photo of a woman aircraft worker by David Bransby, June 1942

Today Flickr launches The Commons, starting with a pilot program with The Library of Congress. According to The Library of Congress blog, “out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist. The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over. We want people to tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves.” The hope is that this “is a model that other cultural institutions would pick up, to share and redistribute the myriad collections held by cultural heritage institutions all over the world.” Read Flickr’s blog post.

I love the colors and abstraction of this photo taken in a plane between San Juan and Florida by Esther Dyson.

Let’s not forget this. Slide by Kevin Kelly. Photo by Thomas Marban.

Monday, November 26, 2007 is Web Standards Day, “the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content. It’s easy to show your support for web design done right. Don a Blue Beanie and snap a photo.” Switch your profile picture in Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. and post your photo to the Blue Beanie Day group at Flickr.

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Nicole Gastonguay taught herself how to crochet using Crocheting for Dummies. “Being Queen Dummy myself, I only know one stitch. This is what happens when I use it.”

To all our American readers, Happy Thanksgiving!  The photo above is my sister’s pumpkin pie from last year. There’s a lot to be grateful for every year. I hope you’ll take the time to appreciate the good in your life and to share it with others. Here at PicoCool, I want to thank you for being a part of this new site and for being the source of the interesting content I have the pleasure to discover.

Found in the ”What is it?” pool at Flickr is this otherworldly photo by seabird1 of the glowing skins of a lemon and lime, lit from within with an LED flashlight.

”Denis Wood creates maps that are like novels: they try to describe everyday life. Here are some of the ones he tells us about in episode 110, “Mapping” on This American Life.” The map above shows what you might see “if, in the middle of a summer’s night, you were to lie down at the intersection of Boylan and Montfort Avenues and look up.”