This wonderful shot is from mathetdjam's photostream and was taken with a Canon EOS 300D with what I'd assume is an external housing.

Since my first trip to Hawaii, I've had a thing for photographs taken with a point and shoot half below the waterline. I personally use the Pentax WP series, because they are pocket sized. But newer models from Canon and Olympus are coming out that can be submerged to a depth greater than 30 feet, which is more than enough for deeper snorkeling or surfing or swimming or lounging around in a lake, river or on a beach. Anything greater than that, and you'll have to go with a plastic housing. Clunky but I believe some of these float (I could be wrong) and they're very sturdy.

But never mind the gear.

I love these shots because they remind me of how much life is under the surface of the briny sea, and that the vast majority of the ocean is yet undiscovered. The half-submerged shots below are some of the best I found on Flickr, and leave a greater impression on me than strictly underwater shots. Because what's down there becomes much more strange when we are looking at it in the context of not some endless blue background that fades to black, but the very world we travel on and through daily. It's the contrast between the border of the sea and land that both grounds me and causes my mind and imagination to reach out under the waves and want to know more.

If only I had access to submarine, with a giant camera on the nose, I'd surely show you more.

[SARAH LEE, SARAH LEE, ESOX LUCIUS, freerider!!, mathetdjam, Bushrat Steve, SARAH LEE, vanveelen, carib being, Mikkel Noe, Ed Fladung, bobby hugges, Fiona Ayerst, JennyHuang, Nuts in May, JJay, Special thanks to Odelia Lee for the research help]

By photographer Jean-Yves Lemoigne (along with whomever took care of the pixelation in post production), Sex Pixels was a featured set of shots from the third issue of Amusement magazine. Maybe it's just that I've watched too much flash video after growing up on 8-bit games, but the ladies are certainly striking even if not all that detailed. OK, and maybe labeling the nudes as "semi-tasteful" was polite exaggeration on my part. [DYT via Fabrik and trendsnow]

[Classics in Lego Flickr Set]

Wagner was in residence at the Baltimore Museum of Industry for the past two years, and took super-sharp shots of her favorite bulbs, chosen from the museum's collection of more than 50,000 examples. If you can't get to the exhibition, feast your eyes on a dozen of her photos in the gallery below. It's positively illuminating. – Charlie White

Gallery Site [Stephen Wirtz Gallery, via boingboing]

You remember slides, don't you? If you don't, the same company that sells Slide Lights offers transparencies which you can put into this lighting instrument as well.

The Slide Lights units are available in three different sizes, a 2 foot length ($183) which holds 13 slides, a 4 foot unit ($231) holding 25 slides and a six-foot fixture ($277) which can accommodate 36 slides. – Charlie White

Product Page [Gadgetstorm, via uber gizmo]

This week at Lifehacker: Get in shape with your Xbox or PS2. Automatically clean out temporary files on your PC. Filter out the RSS fluff on your mobile device. Get 10 free digital photo prints. Tweak out your 'pod with the best iPod freeware.

Your face is pasty, your eyes glazed, your thumbs sore and your butt soft from sitting inert in front of your console for hours on end. It's time to play a new game. Yourself Fitness is a diet and fitness program with a predictably creepy yet kinda cute cybergal "virtual personal trainer" who prescribes an exercise program and calls you a naughty boy if you skip a day. Yourself Fitness is available for the Xbox, PS2 or PC.

Never thought you'd see the day when a Windows VB script would do more good than harm, hmmm? Meet Janitor.vbs, a script that sweeps up X day-old garbage from a temporary holding pen for downloaded files you set up in Windows. Recover much-needed disk space and make sure your pirated movies expire after a week: set up Janitor.vbs to sweep up after you every night.

You're an RSS freak. Thousands of unread items mock you from your desktop newsreader every day. But you just want to see new posts on that blog by the girl you're stalking when you're on the go. Filter out the less important feeds and view only the good stuff on your mobile phone with Bloglines.

Photo-sharing app Flickr launched photo printing this week. To hook you on the Flickr crack even more, they're giving away 10 free 4x6 prints. This way Mom can get a hit without having to understand what "tag" or "Ajax" means.

Make video files, back up songs to your computer, create e-books or install Linux - all on your iPod. All that and a bag of chips over at the best iPod freeware list.

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