Some of my ScienceBlog Colleagues 2008 OOPS!

Some of my ScienceBlog colleagues in NYC 2008.

Okay, a reader commented on this image, so I had to leave this here, but one of my colleagues who doesn't want to be revealed to the public was caught in the picture. So here's something different to look at -- one of my favorite pictures, that I have never found an excuse to use.

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Is that you in the front row? Would it be possible to get names to go with the faces?

That's got to be a Russian hamster invading Georgia, right? Kudos for your up-to-the-minute news coverage.

By biosparite (not verified) on 11 Aug 2008 #permalink

Could you not have simply blurred or otherwise distorted the face of the colleague in question in order to protect their identity?

For example in this photo of myself I recently posted on the richarddawkins forums...
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w272/HorwoodBeerMaster/HorwoodBeerHu…
...I've blurred out the face of my brother-in-law standing behind me (as I didn't want to post his face on the internet without his permission), using the picture editing feature on photobucket. Does flickr have something similar you could use?

Not that I'm dissing the armed rodent in any way (would I dare - it's armed!)