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Sullivan raves about how New York's political leaders in both parties have made gay marriage a real possibility this year: It's a BFD because it doubles the number of Americans with the right to marry the person they love, even if they are gay. That is one hell of a fact on the ground. It will almost certainly help in California. It will reveal even more profoundly that this does not mean the end of civilization, but is, more prosaically, a modest reform to strengthen the family, integrate the...

The Guggenheim Museum, 31 December 2000: ISO-100, 1/125 at f/4, Kodak DC4800, 12mm, taken here. I mentioned a while ago that only with my Canon 7D have I gotten digital images with about the same resolution as film. Even though I made this photo on a 3Mpx camera, I shot it at 1536x1024 because I had, I think, a 64 MB card in the camera, which could hold only about 300 shots. Still, the shot looks decent enough at Web resolutions. I spent part of the weekend organizing photos from the last decade in...

At a campaign rally in Burlington, Vt., 26 September 1992: Kodachrome 64, exposure unrecorded, Canon T-90 probably with Tamron 35-210mm at 35mm.

I'm not sure if this worked, but I liked the shot anyway. Trump Tower is on the right; the Equitable Building is on the left: 17 June 2011, ISO-100, 1/250 at f/5.6, 55mm, taken here.

Last one from Lisbon, on the plaza surrounding the Castelo de São Jorge: 13 January 2011, ISO-400, 1/250 at f/8, 55mm, here.

In honor of Parker's birthday: 1 October 2006, ISO-400, 1/200 at f/5.6, 18mm, Evanston, Ill.

The fuzzy dude turns 5 today: Parker's Petfinder mugshot, at 8 weeks old.

Andrew Binstock, editor of Dr. Dobb's, has a pair of editorials in praise of and instruction to create small classes: High levels of complexity, generally measured with the suboptimal cyclomatic complexity measure (CCR), is what the agile folks correctly term a "code smell." Intricate code doesn't smell right. According to numerous studies, it generally contains a higher number of defects and it's hard — sometimes impossible — to maintain. ... My question, though, is how to avoid creating complexity in...

I've always thought this photo looked cool: October 1985, Northbrook, Ill., Kodachrome-64.

Adam Mansbach's new book hasn't hit stores yet, but already Audible.com has it available for (free!) download, narrated by—wait for it—Samuel L. Jackson. Brilliant. Feckin' brilliant.