This weekend's New York Times Book Review poses the following question to its "Bookends" columnists:

On a recent trip to North Korea photojournalist Steve Gong covered the back of his 5D Mark ll camera with black electrical tape, put it around his neck and left the video function without the permission of government officials.

For the last four days, MUNI contractors worked around the clock replacing tracks at the corner of 30th/Church in San Francsico. It cost $3 million. Using a Canon A590, Ken Murphy made this incredible 12-minute time-lapse video of the construction.