If you attempted to check 390nm yesterday, you may have noticed you were redirected to a webpage explaining what SOPA is and why it is bad. 390nm lended it’s small help towards a cause undertaken by such giants as Wikipedia and Google. This cause is keeping the internet free of censorship in the form of opposing SOPA and PIPA. The fact that the United States senate is still attempting to pass such an Orwellian law, despite it going directly against the constitution, not to mention the pleas of nearly every expert in the field, is nothing short of deplorable. The bill has not yet passed, but nor has it been thrown out. All must stay vigilant, especially you Americans reading this. Write a letter to your congressman. Seriously.

In other news, this is the ugliest rooster I have ever seen in my entire life.

I know I just wrote about the Amazon fairly recently, but seriously the place is unreal. The diversity of plant and animal life is hardly exaggerated. I mean, look at the colour of these flower petals. It’s rare that you see synthetics that are that vibrant. The animal life is no less spectacular. I could show you pictures of caymen, or perhaps some more monkeys, but instead I have this shot of a predatory bird. To my Canadian eye, it looks rather like an osprey but I’m reasonably sure that is not the case. Any of you bird watchers out there feel free to enlighten me as to the species of this little fellow.

Looking at yesterday’s post about Ruby and the previous post about the camera cat reminded me of this photo that I took shortly before getting that particular roll of film developed. While behind the viewfinder taking this, an old man sitting nearby started rambling to me about how much he liked developing film. He hated taking pictures but would do it just so he could later develop the roll. I thought it was odd but he was a reasonably interesting fellow and I remember the conversation with fondness.