#5 Flickr

**A quick aside: I am obsessed with a card game called Magic: the Gathering. I have been for years. I'm a huge fantasy geek, and I love the game style, artwork, and flavour of Magic (the one with a capital M).**

Here is an enlargened rendition of Ittoku's "Scour" from Champions of Kamigawa. The card is a spell which erases an enchantment not only from the physical world, but alos from the caster's memory. "Scour" depicts that by the acryllic tornado annihilating the false picturesque landscape and leaving the real scene - a desolate and blighted land - i its stead. The mood: don't try and hide the grim reality under a pretty illusion.

I'll admit, I wasn't too thrilled when I discovered Learning 2.0 was using Blogger as its online journal system. I much prefer LiveJournal, which I used for many years without any hiccups. I have dabbled with Blogger in the past and been overall, underwhelmed. For one, hiding text under cuts to shorten message length is so much easier on LJ - to tny pieces of HTML and ta-da. But Blogger requires massive amounts of tinkering with no less than three different sections and huge slabs of HTML jus to hide a little bit of text. Unimpressive.

However, Flickr is basically the same as LJ, simpler, even. Things are looking up.