This amazing photo of a Japanese maple tree by ahp_ibanez reminds me of a favorite film, The Fountain.

The image above links to a cropped version for a 1280×800 macbook desktop background.

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Just saw this over at Joe Trippi’s blog,

If you haven’t already heard, a big win came over the weekend in the form of Franking Reform that will open the doors to allow Congress to log on and communicate over the web with their constituents and anyone else out in the cloud. One of the main advocates for the reform, the Sunlight Foundation has been pushing the issue through their Let Our Congress Tweet campaign and Open House Project, collecting hundreds of “signatures” in the first Twitter-based petition to take to lawmakers.

Thanks to the Sunlight Foundation, Congress can now use social media. This is a game changer. Very cool!

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