Wow.

By Christopher Williams

Monday March 12 2012

ON THE vast mobile internet battlefield, it ranks as a small, but significant, manoeuvre. Unlike its desktop forebear,Apple’s iPhoto app for the newiPaddoes not useGoogle Maps.

It is also the first of any ofApple’siOSapps to abandonGoogle Maps. Instead, iPhoto foriPad, an advanced photo editing app, relies on the OpenStreetMap Foundation, a British not-for-profit that offers free mapping data gathered by a worldwide army of 400,000 volunteers.

The switch was unannounced and came as news to the Foundation this week when iPhoto was released.

(via Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog)

Stunning photos from our past!

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Mocking Stock Photography

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Disneyland, The Happiest Place on Earth?

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by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

Winter has already taken root here in Minneapolis, but I haven’t let go of autumn yet. So I just couldn’t resist reblogging a small portion of this wonderful series of autumn photos by Jamie on her From Me to You blog, which she introduced with the caption: “As November slips away the last leaves fall on Central Park West making way for the winter air and snow filled trees…”

Be sure and view Jamie’s complete fall photo series on her site.

I have a sister in the Hudson Valley, and I have spent some time there. Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy!

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“Hudson River Valley Autumn” Inspired by John O’Donohue

by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

For Thanksgiving we’ll be releasing an encore of “The Inner Landscape of Beauty,” which, if I dare say so, is quickly becoming a classic in our program’s portfolio. We’ve received lots of moving responses to our guest’s thoughts and words over the years. And, this week Tom Warren, a listener from Westchester, New York, posted this lovely video on the wall of our Facebook page with the following introduction:

“Krista’s interview with John O’Donohue inspired me to put together a two-minute, video slideshow set to music, celebrating the beauty of autumn, with photographs I took over the last month or so in the Hudson River Valley outside of New York City. I hope you don’t mind my sharing it with the On Being community.”

Of course we don’t mind! And, we’re proud to share it with the rest of our audience who may not check in our Facebook page regularly. We love seeing our productions inspire others to produce new creative works and think or hear or see differently. Thanks Tom!

Great photos of smiling people in this set.

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The Contemporary Meta-Discourse of Politics: Stewart’s Rally for Sanity

Crane Beach, Ipswich, MA, June 30, 2010. Taken from the dune trails.

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DALAI LAMA BIRTHDAY PHOTOS

In celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday at his residence in Dharamsala, India, on July 6th, 2010.

Photos by Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL

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Darlene Garner (left) holds her partner, Candy Holmes, as she cries after the couple picked up their marriage license at the Washington DC Marriage Bureau today, the day that Washington DC legalized gay marriage.

(Photo: Associated Press)