Whether making your own lens hood to create custom bokeh, breathing like a sniper to get a blur-free photo, or angling your body to look the best in pictures, Lifehacker shared some great photography hacks this year.

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Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You’ve seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You’ve heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the
world.

The Earth is built to last. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you’ve had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. This is a guide for those who do not want the Earth to be there anymore.

It’s fun to peruse old copies of Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Modern Mechanix, and similar magazines and laugh at the naivety of 1950s science. Everything was all, “Rockets! Space! Lasers! Together at last, on your toaster!” Really, it was a recipe for an inevitable letdown when jet-packs failed to show up by 1970. But sometimes Popular Mechanics just had bad ideas. Like, crazy, poorly-thought-out contraptions and scenarios that, even in the ’50s, made no damn sense whatsoever… More

1. Okay, okay! I take it back. Unf- you.
2. You say I’m a bitch like it’s a bad thing.
3. Well this day was a total waste of make up
4. Don’t bother me, I’m living happily ever after.
5. Do I look like a people person?
6. This isn’t an office. It’s hell with fluorescent lighting.
7. I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.
8. Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble wrap is cheap. You choose.
9. Why don’t you try practicing random acts of intelligence and senseless acts of self-control?
10. I’m not crazy. I’ve been in a very bad mood for 30 years.
11. Sarcasm is just one more service I offer.
12. Do they ever shut up on your planet?
13. I’m not your type. I’m not inflatable.
14. Stress is what you have when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t gone to sleep yet.
15. Back off!! You’re standing in my aura.
16. Don’t worry, I forgot your name too.
17. I work 45 hours a week to be this poor.
18. Not all men are annoying. Some are dead.
19. Wait…I’m trying to imagine you with a personality.
20. Chaos, panic and disorder…my work here is done.
21. Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.
22. You look like shit. Is that the style now?
23. Earth is full. Go home.
24. Aw, did I step on our poor little itty bitty ego?
25. I’m not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.
26. You are depriving some village of an idiot.
27. If a-holes could fly, this place would be an airport.
28. Look in my eyes…do you see one ounce of who gives-a-shit?

Hipstamatic – For lomo lovers. Mix and match your favorite combination of lens, flash, or film when taking a lomograph on your iPhone. More

Photographed on the lower Suwannee River. Yesterday I got a chance to go out and shoot for the first time in months. These guys are hard to shoot because they’re so skittish. This one stood perfectly still and at first I wondered why. Then I saw a panther just at the edge of the woods walking north. I could just barely see him and hoped he would come out in the open, at last he never did. That was the second time that day I got a glimpse of the panther.