This just in: Microsoft Photosynth is finally out of beta and has gone public. It’s something which has loads of potential and is pretty exciting. It’s also something which words can’t do justice for. Just try it out for yourself if you have a lot of images to organize or navigate visually.

Jan Philip Scharbert, international jerk supreme has been busted tagging on to the Franz Josef Glacier by some camera-carrying English tourists. He wasn’t craftily carving the ice or anything like that – he was actually spray-painting it (and some surrounding rock walls). The man made him spend a day and a half cleaning up the mess he made while eco-tourists and eco-tour-guides heckled him mercilessly. Those camouflage shorts must not work as well as he hoped.

Lets keep talking about facebook, shall we? It would appear that the people creating the yearbook for some high school in the USA procrastinated and needed some photos for the yearbook in a pinch. They ended up snagging photos off of facebook to fill out their layouts and once they saw it in print, the students in said photos ended up somehow surprised that photos they post up on a social networking site could be found by somebody more than one degree outside of their social network. Go figure. Firstly, the yearbook editors should be properly sourcing material and not assuming that anything online is there for free use. There are some ethics involved in producing a publication. Secondly the students in the photos shouldn’t be so shocked that others can find their photos if they put them on the internet. Thirdly, is the hard-copy yearbook even relevant anymore; are friend-requests not the new yearbook-signing? Perhaps a sentimental artifact is desired but in that case, is the yearbook in it’s current form the best way to address this desire?

The Setting is Nathan Phillips Square. The time is three o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the twelfth of May. The weapons of choice are pillows. The expected outcome? Some ‘n00bs’ are about to get ‘pwned’ with some feathery headshots and the number of cameras will match or exceed the number of pillows.

Tonight is the night for Nuit Blanche to descend upon Toronto. Incase you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard we’ll remind you that it is this all night contemporary art thing. It is already looking to be absolutely huge and exciting. There is too much great work to mention so if you’re in Toronto between sunset tonight and dawn tomorrow morning be sure to check it out. We’re already pretty beat from last night’s huge CTF extravaganza but we still wouldn’t dare miss this. Sleep can wait.