Fabulous images of flowers made with a common scanner.

From today's New York Times, about a man who discovered a new Michelangelo drawing in an old box:

"But early in his career Sir Timothy was an assistant curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, working on ceramics. As a small child he collected porcelain and was so obsessed that he used to go to bed with his cups and saucers, stroking them to determine by touch, in the dark, whether he could figure out which factories in France — Sèvres, St. Cloud, Chantilly — made what."

See? It's getting pretty steamy already.

This is the opening shot across the bow that is Salty Potato.