Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

With Mubarak's resignation on Friday, celebrations began and anti-government protests died down: see LIFE's gallery Cairo: The Latest Pictures and TIME's gallery Hosni Mubarak: The Man Who Stayed Too Long. Also, see LIFE's The Week's Best Photos.

The winners and runners-up of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 have been announced: see and read more here or here.

You may have seen a few shots from this roll, but now Vanity Fair allows you to browse frame-by-frame through this exclusive last roll of Kodachrome film, as taken by Steve McCurry.

Think photo manipulation is a 21st century kinda thing? Dartmouth shows an interesting history of photo manipulation, with images ranging from 1860 (President Lincoln) to the modern day.

For its Civil War exhibitions, George Eastman House presents its motion picture collection, with stills, posters, and restored screen tests from films like Gone with the Wind, Birth of a Nation, and more. Read more here.

The artwork of controversial New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is now moving to Los Angeles to be shared by the Getty Museum and the LA County Museum of Art in a joint acquisition of about 2,000 photographs. Take a look here.

Ever notice how sharply hats died off? New York Times' gallery When Hats Had Heart offers a glance at the past.

MSNBC's Photoblog reveals its pick for Nature's Best Photography, depicting a hummingbird vs. a pit viper.

For an inspiring range of human experience (comprised of 70 individual stories), check out photographer Timothy Allen's images taken for BBC Earth's Human Planet here.

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