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  July 26, 2003


loveHaving invested many hours in 26 Things, I'm humbled by the creativity, professionalism and sheer artistry of photobloggers like these:

Concubine
Nukie
A Thousand Words
Photojunkie

A tip o' the lens cap to those that can evoke such wonder and emotion merely by rearranging pixels.

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First, do people look like their blogs? Liz Lawley says no. In my post last week I pondered how this blog would have been received if I'd masqueraded as an attractive female. So I put up a recent picture at right. Do I look like my blog?

Second, why are so many bloggers INTP's or INFP's? The Meyers-Briggs personality type test was designed to produce roughly equal proportions of the 16 different personality combinations. The blogger proportion of the above two combinations (introverted, intuitive, perceivers) is four times the expected proportion.

Third, is mankind doomed?

And an answer: I'm not related to John 'Red' Pollard, the jockey of Seabiscuit, or Jonathan Pollard, the spy, or Michael J. Pollard, the actor. If you want to know who I am related to, my genealogy site is here.

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