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Aiming "simply to show the multiple facets of Muslims' lives," this collection of images ranges from soccer players in Pennsylvania to religious pilgrims in Syria. Young girls in Thailand beam for the camera, members of the "Allah Made Me Funny" comedy troupe mug for the snapshot, and a traveler in Argentina gives the universal symbol for "everything's cool": the thumbs-up. With the ambition of "keeping ignorance away," HijabMan, the site's creator, presents colorful images of Muslims in workaday settings, surrounded by family and friends, enjoying their lives. Whether that means communing with a camel or watching the Super Bowl depends only on your access to desert creatures and whether or not you like the NFL.

One last note: As of this moment, A-Muslim-A-Day has slipped from its "a day" schedule. In fact, HijabMan hasn't added to the page since July. We hope this review adds to the comments coaxing HijabMan back into action!

Everybody seems to have a shoebox or two full of family snapshots. But Nicholas Osborn has about 100,000 photos in his apartment. And they're not even of his own relatives. For the past decade, Nick has collected vintage photos from flea markets and eBay, and he shares around 4,000 of his pre-1980s snaps on his web site, Square America, which we reviewed in 2005.

"I really wanted to collect fine art photography," Nick admits, "but couldn't afford it so snapshots seemed like a cheap, fun alternative." And these photos soon charmed him in their own right:" I realized just how amazing some of the photographs I was finding were—totally different from but every bit as interesting as anything you'd see hanging in a gallery."

The web site started simply as a way to organize this growing collection, especially as Nick saw themes developing. "I certainly never set out to collect photos of people sleeping," he notes, "but at some point I realized that I had over a hundred of them, and the site was a great excuse for me to get them all together in one place and assess what I have." Read the full profile...