Okay so I’m skipping over the Gummi Bears picture in my ongoing series of blogging my Flickr faves, but I found both of these around the same time, while I was on sort of a colour binge. The Gummi Bears I faved because I thought the title was funny; I’m sure there are way better Gummi Bear photos to be found all over flickr.

This photo, though, is amazing. They kinda look like jello shots, but I’m not certain. Anyway, the colors and the quantity make this photo pretty great.

could you please let me go?

Originally uploaded by mizuha

This one’s the first, I think, of many many rodent photos I’ve faved on flickr. This one is great because you can only imagine what the hamster is thinking as he tries to shove the entire cracker into his mouth-pouch.

My totally original, non-obvious conclusion: hamsters are cute!

Chasing Henrietta

Originally uploaded by schoolio.

An alarming number of my flickr faves are photos of strangers’ pets and other Internet animals. However, I am pretty sure this was one of the main reasons why the World Wide Web was invented, so I don’t really have a problem with it.

As you will learn from the owner’s caption for this photo, this is a pic of a dog named Moxie. I love how his energy leaps off the screen the same way he does as he fetches a toy called Henrietta the New Sexy Chicken.

(I’m all too familiar with the practice of over-naming fake chickens, having once owned a Pez dispenser top in the shape of a chicken head, which my high school friend dubbed Eduardo the Great Lover and Valiant Vigilante Against Anti-Capitalism, or something like that. I confess, I’m not sure what inspires people to apply racy/anti-Marxist adjectives to anthropomorphized poultry, but find it a bit too disturbing to worry about right now.)

Anyway, the overall adorableness of the doggie and his enthusiastic leaping prompted me to add this pic to my faves.

Where I’ve Been Lately

Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk.

Yeah this is crazy. He basically re-visited every site he’d been to in the last week or so, weeded out the sites with no favicons (or generic ones, like Blogger), and then screenshotted his tabs, one. row. at. a. time.

How could you not fave this? It’s like, the least a person could do after all the time he wasted doing it. That’s like, an hour of his life he’s never going to get back.

Much like the five minutes I just spent blogging this (to keep up my daily streak) is five minutes I will never get to use to work on my paper. Oh well.

4 month old pandas!

Originally uploaded by jadekingsley.

So, the next picture in my flickr faves is another one of pandas. As you can see, I was going through a bit of a panda craze at the time.

But can you blame me? First there’s the lovable, homegrown Butterstick, and then comes news from China that there was something of a panda baby BOOM over there, with 18 adorable furballs! [The sad part is that I think all of them were brought into the world via artificial insemination, because grown pandas kinda don't know how to go about it the natural way, and don't really even want to.]

Anyway, I liked this picture the best because it’s somewhat mysterious. Why is that little baby panda so dirty, when the other ones are clean? Still, he looks even cuter for it.

If Web 2.0 Applied to Real Life
Originally uploaded by darthservo.

I faved this when I was just getting into folksonomies and the wisdom of crowds, Web 2.0 craziness, and people were going completely nutso with the tags. *Every* web app had them, including us, whether or not they made any sense.

Yeah, that got old kinda quick.

I don’t love this photo that much anymore, but I’ll keep it in my faves just as a reminder of how crazy I was about folksonomies. I still believe in the idea behind this whole semantic web thing, but know it’s gonna be awhile longer before stuff like this will actually be of any use to anyone. And in the meantime, we’ll just poke fun at it. I mean, it is kinda funny, in a smiley-face way, if not wholly in a ha-ha way.