Vortex, not at all, the web designer should be aware of photo rights and not assume they're for 'everything'. Especially because they're going to be used in a Very Professional website, not somebody's small store or business that wouldn't attract lawsuits for irregularities or rights grabs. As long as you're polite, I don't thing specifying how you don't want them used would be more than OK.

I would argue that it's the NE, actually. Midwest winters are too bitter and cold. Warm summers, beautiful autumns, lovely springs, and warm summers. But I'm also willing to admit my bias since that's where I grew up.

I think David's right that NE springs are often for shit, though. And that's why I said central midwest -- not so cold in the winter, right?

Please note, Washington, DC, is the only place I've lived out of the northeast, so I am not speaking from any experience of elsewhere, really.

Is is rude for me to say "I'd like these pics to be exclusive to our website, please don't use them for other sites."

I wouldn't even be that polite about it - I'd say in as formal legal language as you can "As the copyright holder of these images, I grant you an license to use these pictures for [amount of time] in [context]."

Northern New England has a bonus Mud Season, don't forget.

This is the best study ever!

Freedom to surf: workers more productive if allowed to use the internet for leisure:

Dr Brent Coker, from the Department of Management and Marketing, says that workers who engage in ‘Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing’ (WILB) are more productive than those who don’t.

I like that they made up an acronym for it. From now on, I'm going to be WILBing.

ALL HAIL THE PRET HOLIDAY LUNCH SANDWICH AND ITS AWESOMENESS.

Yum.

I'm definitely not more productive when I'm WILBing. Mainly because I use the Internet to avoid working.

Ooh, I was way wrong....

And I wasn't all that wrong! Okay, I had no idea no idea of the actual most populous cities (Istanbul? No freaking idea), but Moscow is the second most populous non-ocean-adjacent city. Total guess on my part.

I like how NYC is the 13th largest city in the world in terms of populaton, and the only other USA city to make the top 60 is Los Angeles at 47.

“People who do surf the Internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office - are more productive by about 9% than those who don’t,” he says.

Yeah, I think I'm probably beyond that 20% threshold.