July 02, 2009

Like a domino

Danilo sends a link to these pictures of an apartment building in Shanghai that toppled. (It didn't collapse - it fell over.) He writes, "It´s amazing... it´s almost intact!"

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The amazing thing is that it didn't collide with any of its neighbors. There are 12 pictures of it at the link.

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June 30, 2009

Epic kludges

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Robô gigante

Danilo writes from Brazil, "A friend of mine told me this is model RX78 of the first series of Gundam. It was built to celebrate 30 years of the series that has the same name."

CNet News has a slideshow about this giant 'mecha' in Japan.

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June 29, 2009

Animal 'toons

Mary sends a collection of 10 cartoons of animals.

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June 22, 2009

More photomicrography

Steve sends a link to this collection of photomicrographs.

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Nice toes

This reminds me of Michael Franks' song Popsicle Toes. And if you go here, you can hear Diana Krall's rendition of it -- mighty fine.

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June 20, 2009

Stretching the boundaries

Danilo sends a link to Chewing in Venice, a collection of sculptures by Simone Decker which are designed to look like chewing gum.

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If you follow the link to the collection, click the 'See photos' link at that page and then click on each photo to advance to the next.

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June 18, 2009

Dress rehearsal

Guess the vehicle this plate was found on.

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H.T. Daithi at MacRaven

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June 17, 2009

Safari adventure

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H.T. Mary

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June 16, 2009

China the beautiful

This is one of hundreds of photos of China. They're mostly cityscapes like this one -- including a large number of nice panorama. But there are some shots of the countryside, a couple of aerial photos and even 1 false-color satellite image.

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June 15, 2009

Sand castle competition

A collection of pictures of sand castles from (I believe) the Cannon Beach competition in Oregon.

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H.T. Carol

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June 13, 2009

Three questions

Three questions from a redneck engineer

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June 11, 2009

Pwned! (3)

Despair, Inc., the demotivational leader, nails it with this shirt for Government Motors.

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CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN.
THESE CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN SAD.

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June 10, 2009

Don't try this at home

Rob sends a link to a clever stunt.

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June 09, 2009

Cool billboard

One of the coolest advertisements we've seen lately is for Berger Paints. In a billboard for their campaign titled, Natural Colours, a live painter appeared to be painting the blue of the sky onto the billboard. It was achieved by cutting out strips that are the actual shape and size of the roller strokes. This is stop-in-your-tracks advertising. Love it!
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June 05, 2009

Repair mission

The Frame, a photo blog by the Sacramento Bee, has a collection of 16 photos of the recent Atlantis mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

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June 04, 2009

After the field trip

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H.T.: Rob

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June 02, 2009

Ersatz lion

From the site: "If you are a store owner from Brakpan (South Africa) & you are tired of people breaking into your shop on Voortrekker Road, what are you going to do? Simple, shave your dog to look like a lion."

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May 30, 2009

School's out

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Where the schoolmarm teaches, people sometimes give her small gifts at the end of a term. The bouquet above came from the family of one of her pupils. It's a monster: just under 3 foot high and its scents have filled the house.

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May 29, 2009

Funnies

Mary sends seven cartoons by Tim Whyatt.

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A child's prayer

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Hat tip: Tucson John (and Steve, who sent something very similar)

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May 28, 2009

More trompe l'oeil

John Pugh does some extremely impressive murals. Here's one called Art Imitating Life Imitating Art Imitating Life.

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May 26, 2009

Night scenes

This is 1 of 100 photos taken at night.

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Wall-E case mod

Russian Wall-E Case Mod (110 pics)

This project took 18 days from this Russian guy to accomplish. It all has began after he has watched that cartoon. An idea sparked thru his head "I want to build such thing to hold my computer stuff in it". A solid-metal Wall-E computer case, each detail carefully cut from the metal sheets processed and put in place.

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Judging from the photos, the man machined all the parts used in this case from aluminum plate.

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May 20, 2009

Still more juxtaposition problems

Daithi at MacRaven sends a link to this collection of badly placed ads.

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May 19, 2009

Very amusing

Awkward Family Photos. Here's a sample:

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May 15, 2009

Down by the sea

Mary sent 10 beautiful photos of ocean waves, taken by Clark Little. You can those 10 (and many more) at Mr. Little's online gallery.

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May 13, 2009

Slogan fail

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May 12, 2009

A walk through time

12 clever examples of photo superpositioning.

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May 11, 2009

Old school motivation

PBB sends this link to Mark Twain motivational posters

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May 07, 2009

Brussels in bloom

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May 06, 2009

Have a nice spider!

Spiders like this one live in Hawaii (and are non-threatening to humans).

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May 02, 2009

Raptors

One of the galleries at Miguel Lasa's photography site is this slideshow of hunting ospreys. 39 images in all.

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The mother of invention

"When they run out conventional masks"

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April 29, 2009

Proud Amaris

Model Amaris Brown of Detroit and stylist Kevin Carter of the Detroit suburb Farmington Hills at the International Fantasy Hair Competition. Her hair styling was called Proud Peacock.

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April 28, 2009

Blessed are the young

A relatively new beatitude from Herbert Hoover.

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Found at TigerHawk's site after his recent visit to the Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.

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April 24, 2009

Slide shows

A Canadian named Hartley Singer has a page where he's collected PowerPoint slideshows. There were 72 there when I visited. Here's one about odd sculptures that I ran through SlideShare.

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April 23, 2009

Fun with food

The inventor says, "it is primarily made by inserting dried spaghetti into the hot dogs and then boiling"

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April 22, 2009

Picassos of chess

There's a post at the Chess blog about unusual chess boards.

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April 20, 2009

Biggest ever

15 of the World's Largest Objects. This chair is reported to be in Manzano, Italy.

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April 18, 2009

Why you never kill a black snake

Tucson John sends 7 pictures of a black snake eating a rattle snake. Whoever sent the pix added, "The rattler was rattling the whole time!"

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April 16, 2009

B1509

A Young Pulsar Shows Its Hand

A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. At the center of this image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short. The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand.

In this image, the lowest energy X-rays that Chandra detects are red, the medium range is green, and the most energetic ones are colored blue. Astronomers think that B1509 is about 1,700 years old and is located about 17,000 light years away.

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April 15, 2009

Horse-dos

1 of 3 images at the site.

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Pictured: The hilarious (and utterly pointless) horses with hair-extensions

Sometimes things don't have to have a point - they just have to make you smile.

And these images of horses with hair extensions do just that.

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April 14, 2009

Reading the news

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April 11, 2009

Easter humor

Mary sends 10 cartoons about Easter

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April 10, 2009

Happy Easter redux

From 2005, it's worth another go.

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How bad is the economy?

Carol sends this picture with the comment, "Cats are so dramatic!"

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April 06, 2009

How the market works

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April 04, 2009

More New Math

A collection of clever 'equations'.

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Hat tip: PBB

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March 28, 2009

High speed photos

Here's one of 17 images from a slideshow of high-speed photography.

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March 26, 2009

Google Classic

Click the image for a larger view.

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March 25, 2009

More funny animal takes

A collection of 44.

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March 24, 2009

Signs of Spring

29 of 'em at The Big Picture

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March 23, 2009

Explain this image

A constantly-changing collection of pretty odd pictures.

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March 19, 2009

Hangover finalists

Tucson John writes, "What memories this brings back from younger and more foolish times. Although I don't think I was ever this bad. These are priceless." (They're also NSFW, so caution is advisable.)

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March 17, 2009

Wii Sit

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March 16, 2009

Under construction

The Daily Mail has a collection of Engrish signs and labels. This one is not the funniest.

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March 13, 2009

Artistic graffiti

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Banksy is a well-known English graffiti artist, possibly named Robert Banks. His artworks are often satirical pieces of art which encompass topics from politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti with a distinctive stenciling technique, has appeared in London and in cities around the world. [...] Bansky's website is here.

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March 12, 2009

And the grand total is...

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Another demotivator

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March 11, 2009

Most daring fashion ever

The NY Daily News has a slideshow of 32 fashion shots. I actually had a hard time picking the most bizarre one - there were many strong contenders.

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March 10, 2009

Changed corporate logos

What will corporate logos look like because of the economic crisis? Here are 20 possibilities.

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Thanks, Bill

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March 09, 2009

Fun with Amazon

How about a little more black humor? Rogier van Bakel made a collage of covers from 10 books about making money that Amazon sells. Here's one of 'em.

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March 06, 2009

Pyramid house

Danilo sends 4 photos of an unusual house along with a link to a satellite view in Google maps.

He writes, "This house is in Tatuí, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. I took this pictures while travelling. They say an egyptian lives there. Or perhaps a mummy!"

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March 04, 2009

Motherhood

Bill sends 7 images showing how tenderly (most) mothers care for their young ones.

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March 03, 2009

Extreme headset

Or radical earring (from Gizmodo):

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March 02, 2009

LHC panoramas

Peter McCready has made 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 QuickTime panoramas at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Warning: turn your audio down. For some reason, the audio is active in these.


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A dog's life (2)

Carol sends 6 cartoons about dogs by Mark Parisi.

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February 27, 2009

Pwned! (2)

Congratulations to Dixie, KAAL TV's contest winner:

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Don't forget to smile and wave

A funny bumper sticker

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Get yours here.

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February 26, 2009

Taking care of business

The Big Picture has a 45 pictures of people at work. The guy below works at a Swiss steel factory near Lucerne.

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Wedding dress of the year

Tucson John sends five images of this young woman in the "Wedding Dress of the Year, Key West style".

Looks like she's eager for the honeymoon to begin, doesn't it? The NSFW details on how this 'dress' was painted on her appear after the break.

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John says, "I thought maybe I should get married again. But then I thought, 'No, I think I want to become a painter.'"

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February 25, 2009

Getting to know you

This comes from the facebook page for the American Tea Party.

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February 24, 2009

More magic with chalk

Via the UK's Daily Mail, here are three chalk drawings done on roads & streets by a fellow named Edgar Mueller. They're a little larger in scope than Julian Beaver's drawings but they're equally impressive.

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February 20, 2009

Custom finishes

Here's one of the cars in DRB's Covered Wagons article about cars with unusual coverings. This truck's covered with wine corks. It's just one of several novel ideas there.

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They beat the carpet-covered car I posted about in March, 2005.

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Hi-yo, Stagflation! Away!

This week's Friday Funny at ReasonOnline.

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February 18, 2009

More sidewalk chalk drawings

Here are 27 pictures of sidewalk chalk drawings from Carol. Most - but not all - appear to be the work of Julian Beever.

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February 16, 2009

Visible heat

Here's a nice collection of infrared images -- 101 of them.

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February 13, 2009

Even more cute animal pix

Mary sends a collection of 21 cute pictures of animals.

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February 12, 2009

Mind your speed

Tucson John sends this warning message.

With the highway death toll continuing to increase, this will be the first year that Zero Tolerance Speed Cameras will be used. The new cameras look different than the regular cameras. I have included a photo so that you will be familiar with them. Make sure you do not speed when approaching one. Please take this warning seriously, as you will not get a second chance. Happy Motoring!


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February 11, 2009

15 unfortunate names for towns

At Oddee.com

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This one's for Timoteo

From Brian Dunbar's Space for Commerce:

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February 10, 2009

Children and their dogs

Here's an übercute collection: 17 photos of kids with dogs.

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February 09, 2009

Thank God you're a man

This is one of three 'Thank God you're a man' ads for Goldstar Beer that were designed as flowcharts.

Click the link to see the ad in its original size. (Here are links to the other two ads.)

Tip o' the hat to Bill.

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February 06, 2009

Thar she blows

A nice collection of photos of whales, apparently taken at Maui a couple of years ago.

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February 05, 2009

iPhone wallpaper

Here's a collection of 100 wallpaper images for iPhones. They're very nice images in many different styles: both photos and graphics.

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February 04, 2009

More funny pictures

10 funny pix at The Daily WTF. You'll need to scroll down the page a little.

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February 03, 2009

RTFM, dude

This has to be one of the best warning stickers I've ever seen. It appears on a Wintersteiger combine.

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January 31, 2009

Rural graffiti

I spotted this tree in central Texas last week.

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January 22, 2009

Nice T's

One of 30 nice T-shirt designs from Glennz Tees.

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January 20, 2009

Worth more than a thousand words

An interesting recap in PC World: Say Cheese: 12 Photos That Should Never Have Been Posted Online

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January 19, 2009

Close ups from far away

Another great collection at The Big Picture: 23 close-ups of Earth taken from orbit.

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January 16, 2009

More clever billboards

Thirty-nine clever ads on billboards, most of which I hadn't seen before.

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January 15, 2009

Summer in the Balkans

Katarina has 130 photos of Belgrade and Serbia up at flickr. It's a nice antidote to today's weather in the central US.

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January 09, 2009

Ice and snow

The Big Picture has 34 images of ice and snow, most of it in carefully-arranged forms. Many of the pix (including the one below) are from a Chinese ice and snow festival.

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January 07, 2009

No argument from me

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January 06, 2009

New motto for Illinois

So much for the 'Land of Lincoln.' If Blagojevich is convicted, that will be two successive Illinois governors who went from the State House to the Big House. (Click for a larger view.)

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January 05, 2009

Hong Kong at night

A very high resolution image (4670 x 2000).

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January 01, 2009

More vanity plates

A collection of 50 funny vanity plates.

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December 31, 2008

Happy 2009

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December 30, 2008

The 50 Worst

Since the Ford Edsel is marking its 50th anniversary, TIME has a slideshow of the 50 Worst Cars of All Time. The prose is entertaining as well as the images. (Who knew Briggs & Stratton ever sold a car?)

And then there was this, the Flyer, which is no more than a motorized park bench on bicycle wheels. No suspension, no bodywork, no windshield. It was actually a five wheeler, with the dinky 2-hp Briggs and Stratton engine driving a traction wheel on the back, like a boat's outboard motor.
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December 24, 2008

2008 in photos - Part 3

Part 3 of 3 in The Big Picture's photos for the year (40 pix).

This sequence of 12 frames was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over a span of about 45 minutes on March 12, 2008. In that brief time, Cassini covered almost 40,000 kilometers in its approach to a flyby encounter with Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn.
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December 23, 2008

2008 in photos - Part 2

A second set of 40 photos from The Big Picture.

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December 22, 2008

Theft of the Magi

XKCD about a month ago (not sure why it ran so early).

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December 20, 2008

2008 in photos

From The Big Picture. This is 40 photos in part 1 of 3.

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December 18, 2008

Wonderful photography

StuckInCustoms is Trey Ratcliff's photo-a-day blog. It's well worth a look. (He has a portfolio site here.)

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December 17, 2008

Photos by Reuters, 2008

A collection of 29 interesting photos from Reuters (at Photo Blog).

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December 16, 2008

Snowflakes

The New Scientist has a nice slideshow of snowflakes on display (13 total).

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December 11, 2008

Steampunk Star Trek

A collection of antique Star Trek wallpapers.

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December 09, 2008

I'm a sucker for puns

These Freudian Slippers are available from the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild.

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December 08, 2008

Conspicuous Christmas

The Most Expensive Christmas Trees in the World at the Luxury Real Estate blog. Like this 'tree' in Berlin 2 years ago: covered with 40,000 Swarovski crystals.

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December 05, 2008

Very nice

The Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008 at The Big Picture. It's at day 5 today.

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December 04, 2008

Before and after

From The Smoking Gun, two mug shots of the same person taken 5 years apart.

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December 03, 2008

LIFE on Google

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
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Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory

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December 02, 2008

His lucky day (II)

Bill sends a couple of pix of a one-car accident out west with the subject line: Wow!

In this picture you can see where this driver broke through the guard rail on the right side of the culvert (where the people are standing on the road, pointing).

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The pick-up was traveling about 75 MPH, from right to left when it crashed through the guard rail. It flipped end-over-end, bounced off and across the culvert, and landed right-side-up on the left side of the culvert facing opposite to the original direction of travel.

The 22-year-old driver and his 18-year-old passenger were unhurt except for minor cuts and bruises.

Now look at a second picture (after the break).

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December 01, 2008

Happy Holidays

At last: an all-season greeting card.

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H.T. Mary

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November 28, 2008

Oz from the air

17 aerial photos of Australia.

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November 27, 2008

Creative food work

What happens when you play with your food: a large collection of food shots at Dark Roasted Blend.

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November 25, 2008

Thanksgiving cartoons

Mary sends several cartoons about Thanksgiving.

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November 24, 2008

I remember this stuff...

and it looked just as bad then as it looks now. Here's part of a 1977 J.C. Penney catalog.

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November 21, 2008

Across the moon

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 20th.

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Glaring near the top of the frame, the shuttle orbiter Endeavour rockets into the night on the STS-126 mission. [...] To record the dramatic view, the camera was placed so the shuttle's flight path tracked across the Moon, from a vantage point in Indian River City, Florida.

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Bizarchitecture

50 unusual looking buildings from around the world.

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November 20, 2008

Small world

The Big Picture peers into the micro world with 32 photomicrographs.

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November 19, 2008

Weird vehicles

A post about weird cars - which includes a few trucks.

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November 18, 2008

More slow-mo

Here's a collection of nearly 40 images taken with high-speed cameras. And for a bonus, the page includes 11 video clips shot the same way.

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November 17, 2008

Juxtaposition (2)

More pictures taken at just the right angle (and right time).

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November 14, 2008

Serious vertigo

This image taken on the Golden Gate bridge appears in National Geographic's Traveler magazine. Follow the link for a larger image (up to wallpaper size, if you like).

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November 13, 2008

Summer's coming -

to Antarctica. The Big Picture has 32 images of the Antarctic for your delectation.

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November 12, 2008

Tattoos on scientists

Carl Zimmer has collected ~175 science tattoos at The Loom, a blog at Discover Magazine's site.

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This was one of my favorites. But it has a sad story associated with it.

In April, a reader named Abigail sent in this tattoo, with the following description:

My first year of college, I wanted to be an English major, and I took Intro Chemistry to fill the science requirement. The brief unit on thermodynamics made me fall totally in love. Entropy made sense to me - scientifically, philosophically. I became a Chemistry major and love every second of it. I got the tattoo to mark my rite of passage - Entropy going both ways, with its symble delta-S in the middle, all supported in the roots of Yggdrasil, the world-tree of Norse mythology (harking back to my English-lit days).

Today, Abigail's mother sent in this sad note:

Abigail is my daughter. I was with her when she got this tattoo last March, several months after she turned 18, while she was attending Reed College in Portland. It was an adventure for both of us. She came home for the summer in May, and four days later was in a fatal car accident.

I will be getting this same tattoo next week - Abigail's personal design - from the same artist. It will memorialize both my daughter and her intellect and passion for science and philosophy.

The world has lost an incredible mind. Thank you Mr. Zimmer for displaying this artwork and sharing it with visitors to this site.

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November 11, 2008

At the zoo

Here's a collection of signs at zoos.

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November 10, 2008

A prize winner

Bill writes, "I'm sure that you have seen pharmaceutical advertising in doctor's offices on everything from tissues to exam table cover paper. Well, in my book, this one should get the prize."

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November 07, 2008

Small World winners

A slideshow of winning photomicrographs taken for Nikon's Small World 2008 competition. These are some carbon nanotubes.

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November 06, 2008

The dog ate it

The New York Daily News has a collection of veterinary x-rays. Most are of dogs that have swallowed household items; this one really caught my eye.

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November 05, 2008

UT vs. Texas Tech

Maybe there's something to it, since UT lost Sunday (11/2).

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November 04, 2008

Steampunk PC

Scott sent a link to Jake von Slatt's Steampunk Keyboard mod.

But while I was poking around Mr. von Slatt's Steampunk Workshop site, I was taken by the Victorian all-in-one PC (below). It uses the keyboard mod, as you can see.

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November 03, 2008

Next season

on dancing with the stars. (Click for a larger view.)

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October 30, 2008

Geek o' lanterns

34 geeky jack o' lanterns.

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Dias de otoño

The Big Picture has a very nice set of 34 pix of autumn around the world.

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October 29, 2008

Pictures of the past

There's a nice collection at Flickr of color photos of the 1930s & 40s from the U.S. Library of Congress.

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October 28, 2008

Bumper sticker du jour (2)

On the car at the pump ahead of mine during a recent trip to the local filling station. I didn't hear any howling.

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October 27, 2008

A legal question

Tucson John sends the four pictures below (click any for a larger view).





And he asks, "Is this statutory rape?"

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October 25, 2008

What's the opposite of discount?

From The Daily WTF:

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October 23, 2008

Hungry Jack

Here's one of the reader-uploaded jack-o-lantern pix at the Post-Dispatch.

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October 22, 2008

Cute and funny

Upside-down dogs.

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October 21, 2008

World Animal Day

The Big Picture marks World Animal Day (Oct. 4) with 38 images.

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October 20, 2008

Creative food sculpture

Here. This is a representative sample of a good collection.

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October 17, 2008

And only good for a limited time

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October 16, 2008

No worries

An editorial cartoon from Michael Ramirez.

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October 15, 2008

Safety first!

Carol sends a slideshow of unsafe work practices with the comment that one of these, "is actually in the Sacramento airport baggage claim area"

When I found the same collection here, one of the commenters had written, "The picture of the baggage cart piled to the roof is actually a sculpture in the baggage area of the Sacramento airport. The bags and the cart are all securely fastened together and do not move. It's kind of a Christo-ish urban art thing."

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October 14, 2008

A blog for anything (5)

Check out The Brokers With Hands On Their Faces blog.

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October 13, 2008

Stop. Stop... Don't you dare stop

America's 10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs

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October 11, 2008

Bambi and Thumper

Carol sends 11 pix of a deer and a rabbit with the message "Bambi and Thumper really do exist."

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The photos are by Tanja Askani.

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October 09, 2008

Keep your jack-o-lanterns sober

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October 08, 2008

When biologists knit

From the aptly named Why Would You Knit That?! blog.

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October 07, 2008

That wasn't chicken

I'm guessing that a spell checker commandeered somebody's document.

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October 06, 2008

A little mathematical magic

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October 03, 2008

Defying gravity

A collection of 10 buildings that seem to defy gravity.

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October 02, 2008

Celebrity tattoos

79 people with celebrity tattoos. Some are very well done (better than the one below) - others, not so good.

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September 30, 2008

At False Kiva

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Yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day was pretty impressive. The image above was a single exposure taken in a cave at Canyonlands National Park in Utah, where False Kiva is found.

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September 26, 2008

More cool ads

39 creative advertisements.

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September 25, 2008

Surrealism

Ricardo Salamanca's Salamagica.

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September 23, 2008

Vintage iron

A large collection of photos taken by Brian Lawrence at the Antique Motorcycle Club of America's Vintage Motorcycle Swap Meet at Rhinebeck, NY.

Here's an oldie from Birmingham Small Arms, the largest producer of motorcycles at one time.

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September 22, 2008

Take a number

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September 18, 2008

After hurricane Ike

28 photos of the short - but eventful - life of Ike at The Big Picture.

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September 17, 2008

25 High dynamic range photos

Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly stunning pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion.
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September 16, 2008

Tour the solar system

Here are 9 posters about traveling to the planets done in a very retro style. The one for Mars is my favorite but this one's pretty cool too.

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September 15, 2008

Army surplus

What to do with old planes, copters and missles? Use them for advertising.

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Here's the missile collection.

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September 12, 2008

More juxtaposition

More images of funny coincidences.

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September 10, 2008

Landscapes

There's a nice collection of landscape images, arranged in a slideshow, here.

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September 09, 2008

Redneck gadgetry

John sends 11 images of redneck handiwork.

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September 08, 2008

More geeky license plates

23 shots of license plates.

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September 05, 2008

Food at the Olympics

Carol sends a set of 17 pictures like the one below. You can find them in a slideshow here.

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September 04, 2008

Funny signs

Some funny signs at Telegraph.co.uk.

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September 03, 2008

Silicon silliness

"The moral of this story," says Bill, "is just when you think you've seen it all -- wait a minute."

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"Breast implants for your tattoo?!" (Three more images after the break.)

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August 30, 2008

More Engrish

A large collection of signs in 'Engrish'.

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August 27, 2008

Military humor

One of 38 pix of military humor.

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August 26, 2008

Pimp your Lamborghini

Here's one of many photos of this hand-customized Lamborghini.

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The car was actually done in sharpie markers on the paint and then finished with a clear coat for protection. It took about 2 weeks total. Prestige (Lamborghini Miami) definitely shocked a lot of people when this car was first seen in California during the Concorso Italiano/Pebble Beach week. It attracted attention good and unfortunately bad everywhere it went.

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August 25, 2008

Beijing panorama

A 360° view of the Olympic stadium in Beijing

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Olympic humor

Mary sent this cartoon about super swimmer Michael Phelps.

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When I went searching for its origin, I found this site with 6 other Michael Phelps cartoons.

Update: Narayanan at Tech Spikes left a comment: 'Here are 14 more Phelps cartoons.'

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August 20, 2008

Sculpted hair

This comes from a collection of pix of 11 'head graphics'.

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August 19, 2008

It's not particularly aerobic

From a post titled The State of Exercise in America

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August 15, 2008

Dare to dream

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August 14, 2008

Large Hadron Collider

There are 27 images of the LHC at The Big Picture.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 kilometer (17 mile) long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is preparing for its first small tests in early August, leading to a planned full-track test in September - and the first planned particle collisions before the end of the year.
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August 12, 2008

Core memory

Core Memory is a nice collection of photos by Mark Richards. I believe they come from his book Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers.

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When I first got into this business in 1981, one of the machines I worked with was a Modcomp Classic. It came new with 512 KB of RAM (twice the RAM of the previous model) and a fast 16-bit CPU that was four RCA 4-bit processors in parallel. It had a front panel somewhat similar to the one above. (I could tell you about the old discrete-component, drum memory GE computer the Modcomp replaced but I don't want to tax your patience too much.)

To start one of these machines, you entered a simple program (a dozen instructions, say) into memory using the toggle switches on the front panel. Then you started that program running.

The program you toggled in would read the bootstrap loader, stored in ROM, into memory and start that. In turn, the loader would go looking for a boot device - a tape, a hard disk or even a card reader - and load the operating system into memory. As you can guess, this was a fairly slow process. A boot from disk that went quickly probably took about 5 minutes. If you used a tape drive (or a card reader) it took even longer.

We kept the boot instruction sequence written in machine language (hexadecimal) on the backs of punch cards on the inside of the cabinet doors. Those were the days, my friend.

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August 11, 2008

Life's a beach

Here's a slideshow of President Bush at the Olympics in Beijing. RHIP.

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August 10, 2008

An art deco sunset

When the afternoon clouds cleared off yesterday evening, I was struck by their shape, arrangement and color. Click for a larger view.

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August 08, 2008

Another priceless example

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Running stop light: $100.00
DUI: $350.00
Not wearing a seat belt: $150.00
Putting you & your girlfriend's photo on your fake drivers license? Priceless!

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August 06, 2008

Punny signs

A very good collection of businesses with puns in their signs.

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August 04, 2008

Wonder journalism

Carol sends this set of 17 curious newspaper clippings. I thought the first one was bogus but when I checked, I found an article about that lawyer in that newspaper.

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"This is an artist's conception of the Mount Pleasant High School football field Friday after an electrical transformer blew,knocking out the stadium lights."

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"We had no idea anyone was buried here."

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"I wouldn't do it again" says the hero, "she's been a pain this week"

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Here's the winner of a local dog look-alike contest. He does look exactly like his dog!

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July 30, 2008

Final preparations

This is one of 2 dozen photos at The Big Picture about the final preparations for the Olympics in Beijing.

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July 28, 2008

Earth from above

A nice portfolio of images by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. If you like these, poke around his site a bit; there are many others there but access to them isn't too obvious.

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July 25, 2008

Cool pools

A nice slideshow of custom pools at PointClickHome

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July 24, 2008

Thinking big

Take the huge dry lake bed. Choose a stick. Make the largest sand drawing on Earth.
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July 23, 2008

What has four legs and goes RI-I-I-ING?

Answer here.

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July 21, 2008

24 clever ads

At Toxel.com. Here's a martial arts studio.

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July 17, 2008

La chute

Here's a collection of photos by Denis Darzacq titled La chute. (It's one of 13 portfolios at his site.)

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July 16, 2008

A BIG image collection

This page has a large number of (mostly) aerial photos in large format: 1024x768. There are some very nice images there. This one is of Fisherman's Point in the Orinoco delta in Venezuela.

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Unfortunately, not a few of them lack captions so you can't tell what and/or where they are.

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July 12, 2008

Geek tattoos

A collection of 15 pix of geeky tattoos.

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July 09, 2008

Head painting

Taking face-painting to a new level.

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July 08, 2008

The moments before the pain begins

Jeff sends this collection of 9 images.

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July 06, 2008

From the cockpit

A collection of 10 photos taken from airplane cockpits. This one was taken in a P-51 Mustang.

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July 03, 2008

Last day on the job

Six images from Carol on this topic. Some, I gather, are causes of that last day while others look like results of it. (Click for a larger view.)










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July 01, 2008

How's your day going?

This photo from John looks a little bit odd since the foreground focus is sharp and the background's not; maybe the auto-focus caught the convertible.

But it's pretty funny nonetheless. (Click it for a larger image.)

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June 30, 2008

Wet stuff

A photoessay from Boston.com's Big Picture site: Water, Water, Everywhere

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June 25, 2008

Shuttle shots

Jeff sends a link to a collection of 12 or so images of Endeavour and the International Space Station.

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June 24, 2008

Puppy on wheels

This one's hard to beat in the cute category.


The puppy born without front legs who's now using model aeroplane wheels to get around

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Last updated at 12:26 PM on 23rd June 2008

This tiny puppy may have been born without front legs but there's no way that is holding her back.

Hope, the appropriately named two-legged Maltese puppy gets around by using a specially-designed device which features wheels from a model aeroplane.



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David - after immigrating to America

I don't know where this one came from.

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H.T.: A.E.

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June 23, 2008

A fungus among us

Here's an amusing rear window I spotted in traffic recently.

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Here's the site, for the curious.

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June 19, 2008

Soap bubbles

Isaac Newton would have loved this collection.

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Creative Review commissioned photographer Jason Tozer to shoot these pictures on behalf of Sony using its new Alpha digital camera.

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June 17, 2008

The great flood

I knew there'd been a lot of rain in Iowa recently but I hadn't given it much thought until I ran across this slideshow yesterday. Here's the banner from yesterday's front page of the (Iowa City) Press-Citizen.

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The Big Picture (at Boston.com) has a really good collection of images of the flood.

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June 16, 2008

More sand sculpture

Extreme sand sculpting has some very nice pix of sand sculptures.

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Time Mirror: the left is "looking into the past," the right is "looking into the future."

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June 13, 2008

The sky looking down

A photo essay from the Boston Globe's Boston.com:

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[...] One of the best features of the space program has always been astronaut photography, and I will take this opportunity to share some of the best photographs of Earth's skies, taken from above - way above (over 200 miles to be more exact). (15 photos total)


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June 10, 2008

Holding the sun

Mary sent a nice collection of images in this vein, which I found hosted at this site. (Along with many other sites - it's a popular topic.)

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June 06, 2008

Sushi art

This is 1 of 11 images at Toxel.com.

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June 05, 2008

What a tattoo

This picture of a tattoo appeared at the The Sun's site. It's quite a piece of work.

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June 03, 2008

More nice pix

(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos at Smashing

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June 02, 2008

The world's tallest Lego tower

The world's tallest Lego tower containing 500,000 bricks has been built at Legoland Windsor Castle.

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May 30, 2008

Still more motivational poster parodies

Here.

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Warning: the first comment reads, "Well, several of those are grossly offensive, and it would be nice never to see them again!" While I wouldn't call them 'grossly offensive', there are some that may not meet your standards for good taste, shall we say. And then there's the strong language.

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May 29, 2008

How hungry are you?

I'm thinking you'll be a lot hungrier by the time you get to this restaurant.

Mary sends a set of 9 photos (click any for a larger view) of a restaurant in China. According to her message, the meal is free if you make it to the top. It sounds odd to me but I'm not going to scale that mountain to find out. If you do, let us know.
















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May 27, 2008

One man's trash

is another's interesting collection of shadow images.

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May 22, 2008

Pixel art

Here's a nice collection of pixel art. It includes the image below (only 32 colors) which doesn't seem like most pixel art.

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Don't miss http://www.lovepixel.idv.tw/ with its incredibly detailed 10,000 x 10,000 image.

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May 19, 2008

SkyPlay

A clever collection of 60-odd images of the sky with other things superimposed.

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May 09, 2008

More funny pix

Yet another collection of funny images at Dark Roasted Blend.

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May 08, 2008

Eye test

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May 07, 2008

A well lit eruption

The Sun has photos and video of a lightning storm at a volcano in Chile.

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LIGHTNING spears a plume of ash above an erupting volcano — sparking a spectacular natural light show.

Storm clouds gathered over Chile’s Chaiten peak as it spewed the towering cloud of hot debris 12 miles into the sky.

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May 06, 2008

Living photographs

Several of Arthur Mole's photographs of groups of people arranged to depict objects or people.

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May 05, 2008

China from above

A photogallery of aerial pictures, taken by George Steinmetz, at National Geographic.

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May 02, 2008

A clever ad

For a Minneapolis realtor named Cotty Lowry. Click for a larger view.

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May 01, 2008

Office interiors

10 brilliant office interiors.

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April 26, 2008

Lake Shore Drive

Here's another great shot of Chicago at night. Andrew Roth writes at the Club for Growth blog, "If Al Gore saw this picture, he would probably let out a frustrated moan. When I saw it, I said, 'God bless capitalism.'"

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And when I saw it, I was reminded of this old song about Lake Shore Drive.

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April 22, 2008

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk

Mary sends this picture of "this year's presidential choices."

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April 21, 2008

Vintage modern

A contest at Worth1000 to present modern products in vintage styles.

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April 18, 2008

Nighttime in Flagstaff

This nice view of the Milky Way was the Astronomy Picture of the Day for April 16th.

This sky is protected. Yesterday marked the 50 year anniversary of the first lighting ordinance ever enacted, which restricted searchlight advertisements from sweeping the night skies above Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. Flagstaff now enjoys the status of being the first International Dark Sky City, and maintains a lighting code that limits lights from polluting this majestic nighttime view.
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April 17, 2008

Vintage ads

Duke University library has a site called Ad*Access, which is:

An image database of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

Here's an ad from the 40s for Ivory soap.

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Nokia N95 Photo Awards

Half a dozen nice images taken with Nokia smart phones.

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April 14, 2008

Happy Tax Day

Here's one of many funny cartoons at TaxGuru.net.

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April 12, 2008

Some assembly required

Here's a very nice set of 40-odd photos showing the process of assembling a space shuttle and its fuel tanks and payload, in preparation for launch.

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April 10, 2008

Funny license plate

Messenger (someone with a New Zealand e-mail address) sends this funny image.

Click for a larger version so you can read the plate frame.

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April 09, 2008

Ice buildings

Buildings made of ice at environmental graffiti.

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April 07, 2008

Ouch...

A cartoon by Mike Lester.

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Another funny tattoo

At RateMyLeftArm.com.

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April 04, 2008

The Windy City

Chicago at night from 36,000 feet.

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April 03, 2008

Fuelish humor

Mary sends this collection of 8 cartoons about the high price of gasoline.

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April 01, 2008

Americana

This is a nice collection of images of American life between 1939 and '69. (Warning: the banner ads at the site are definitely NSFW.)

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March 24, 2008

Let's hope the numbers were lucky

From another collection at The Daily WTF.

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March 07, 2008

Deadly combinations

What happens when you combine two of the Seven Deadly Sins? Here's a chart to help you figure it out.

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Here's a larger view.

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March 05, 2008

No sharp turns

Here's an interesting way to move a ladder. If this person made it without mishap, I hope s/he bought a lottery ticket.

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February 28, 2008

¿Puedes leer ésto?

A funny sign in Buenos Aires, posted at TripTouch by Dan Harris.

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February 22, 2008

Not the owl and the pussycat

Carol sends a shot of clear quill, 200 proof cute: seven images of a kitten and a parakeet.

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February 21, 2008

Monasteries

Here's a nice collection of monasteries around the world.

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This one, in Tibet, reminds me of Clarke's The Nine Billion Names of God.

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February 19, 2008

More cool caves

You'll probably like this collection of cave pictures if you liked the National Geographic collection.

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February 18, 2008

Cat humor

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February 15, 2008

A blog for anything

Sure enough, there's a blog all about bad tattoos. (And let's avoid the snarky remarks about redundancy, shall we?)

This is one of the better ones, I thought.

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February 14, 2008

Be Mine

Via Althouse (who says she plans to vote for Obama in the Wisconsin primary), I came across a collection of political valentines. Most were so-so but this one tickled my fancy.

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Now, if only one of those little hearts said "Yes We Can" :-,

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February 13, 2008

More cute animal action - VI

One of a large collection of animal pix at Dark Roasted Blend

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February 12, 2008

Maglev chair

A UK designer is about to take the wraps off a unique floating chair/recliner called The Lounger, inspired by the Landspeeder from Star Wars.

[...] the futuristic looking Lounger has taken 5 years to create and allows you to float above the base thanks to the use of repelling magnetic forces in the base and the lounger itself.

We are not talking a few centimetres off the base either but up to 14ins so that you get that whole ‘floating sensation’. That of course depends on how much you weigh. If you’re close to the 266lbs [19 stone] limit then maybe you should drop that to 4ins or less.

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February 08, 2008

Spelunking

National Geographic has a nice slideshow about cave exploration.

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Pro-Hillary

In the "Why settle for less?" sense. From Perry de Havilland at Samizdata (where I lifted the image, too):

Although I am rarely in enthusiastic agreement with Ann Coulter, I agree with her basic premiss [sic] regarding John McCain. Better to have the statist poison introduced by the Hildebeeste or Obrama than a Republican, because if McCain gets into the White House, that is the end of the Republican Party as anyone in the Goldwater or Reagan tradition will abandon them, quite possibly forever. The Republicans will be dead and gawd knows it will be a well deserved death.
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Anti-Hillary

This comes from somewhere in Mississippi, I gather. It appears to be a take-off on the bumper sticker with a similar legend, though this was the first time I'd seen it.

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February 05, 2008

Ice sculpture

Some really impressive ice and snow sculptures.

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January 29, 2008

Here's your sign...

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A road sign points the way to nearby towns Clinton and Prosperity in Newberry, South Carolina, January 25, 2008.

I think it's for real. Check this image from Google Maps.

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January 26, 2008

Parenting guide

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January 24, 2008

Most popular dogs

Here's more cute for you: this slideshow about Most Popular Dogs in America. (I think they mean most popular breeds since they don't actually identify any of these pooches.)

It's a Top Ten colleciton. What's your guess for the most popular breed here in the States?

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January 22, 2008

More clever advertising

A nice collection of images from 19 ad campaigns (and only a couple have appeared here before).

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January 18, 2008

Cool bridges

Here's one of 18 cool bridges - mostly standing but with a few in the planning stage.

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January 17, 2008

3000 photos

Interesting news in this post from Hit & Run

The Library of Congress just announced that it has put up 3,000 public-domain photos on Flickr and enabling tagging by all comers. It's a pilot project that could someday be extended to the 14 million photos in the collection.
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January 16, 2008

Clever beer ads

At thelandsalmon.com

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January 14, 2008

Funnier than WTF

There's a funny story behind this cake.

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January 11, 2008

Picture in picture

Nice execution on this picture-in-a-picture. Follow the link for a larger image.

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January 10, 2008

The Grand Natural World

This is the online gallery of Leping Zha, physicist and photographer, who makes some very nice landscape photographs.

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January 09, 2008

Ingenuity

A large collection of funny images of wild solutions to common problems

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January 08, 2008

Frosty's nose

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January 07, 2008

Science as Art

Beautiful nanotechnology images from the Science as Art competition

(Nanowerk News) The 2007 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting concluded in Boston on November 30. This was the first time that the popular Science as Art competition was held at an MRS Fall Meeting. Three first place and three second place winners were selected from the various entries. Some of the images are from the nanotechnology domain but most are micro-scale.

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January 04, 2008

Darth Vader

Who knew there was a collection of tricked-out Darth Vader masks?

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January 03, 2008

New Year panoramas

Here's a collection of panoramas from around the world made at New Year's; there are 10 (so far). The one below was made in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Cheap washers

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January 02, 2008

Arizona hospitality

I spotted this truck during my visit to Tucson last week. My guess is that the message is intended for snowbirds.

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December 29, 2007

Wellness tips

Carol sends 8 cartoons by Randy Glasbergen and writes, "Appropriate for the season."

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December 27, 2007

More Astronomy Pictures of the Year

Looking back over the past year, the editors of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) have decided to list 12 of the more memorable images posted to APOD in 2007. There was certainly no shortage of breathtaking images to choose from -- with robotic cameras orbiting Mars and rolling around its surface, the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn, space telescopes exploring the cosmos, and ground-based imaging with increasingly sophisticated hardware and software.
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December 24, 2007

Top 10 astronomy pix

This image comes from the Bad Astronomy blog's Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2007. This image is of two of Jupiter's moons, Europa and Io.

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Europa is the crescent on the lower left, and Io ... is the one on the upper right. The plume you see is from the volcano Tvashtar, which has been active for quite some time now. If you look right at the bottom of the plume, you can see molten sulfur glowing red. Two other volcanoes appear to be making some noise as we

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December 22, 2007

Best Visual Illusions of the Year

This one's called “The Illusory Contoured Tilting Pyramid”:

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December 20, 2007

The Bible according to Google Earth

This collection of 4 "God's eye views" is pretty interesting. The one below is Moses parting the Red Sea:

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December 19, 2007

Nature's Best

An 18-image slideshow of images from the Nature's Best Photography Awards:

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December 18, 2007

Funny street names

This image comes from a collection of Peculiar Streets around the World.

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December 17, 2007

Matt Stuart's photography

Nice slideshows of photos.

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December 12, 2007

Photo contest

One of many images from National Geographic's International Photography Contest.

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Holiday mixer

Here's an unusual sight.

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Background (and more pix) here.

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December 11, 2007

Funny prank

The funniest part is that it was there long enough to end up on Google maps.

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December 10, 2007

Tesla Tree

Peter at Tesla DownUnder has a "Christmas tree" powered by a Tesla coil.

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December 06, 2007

Great snow art

Here's a great collection of images of snowmen and other snow art.

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December 04, 2007

GigaPan

A site filled with panoramas, both exterior and interior. Here's part of a panorama of Pittsburgh.

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GigaPan consists of three technological developments: a robotic camera mount for capturing very high-resolution (gigapixel and up) panoramic images using a standard digital camera; custom software for constructing very high-resolution gigapixel panoramas; and, a new type of website for exploring, sharing and commenting on gigapixel panoramas and the detail our users will discover within them. The GigaPan website allows hosting and sharing all kinds of panoramas, and so the robotic GigaPan mount is recommended but is certainly not required to be part of this community.

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The GigaPan team is both diverse and large. Here we recognize the institutions that comprise our core team.

* Carnegie Mellon University
* NASA/Ames Research Center
* Google Corporation - Financial support for the Global Connection Project
* Charmed Labs LLC - GigaPan robot design and production
* DeepLocal, Inc. - Website design and production

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December 03, 2007

Decorating ideas

My, my... here it is December already. I suppose it's time for a couple of seasonal decorating suggestions (from Neal Boortz' Redneck Scrapbook).

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I thought this one was very well done (which is not to say I'd put it in front of my windows).
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November 30, 2007

Construction projects

Here's a collection of nine impressive new buildings that are either planned or under construction.

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This one will be called the Chicago Spire, if and when.

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November 28, 2007

To infinity and beyond!

Here's a nice collection of retro space art (mostly Russian) at DarkRoastedBlend.

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November 24, 2007

What a view

...of San Francisco Bay in this image by Kevin Ho.

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There's no better location to view the Golden Gate Bridge than from a Coast Guard C-130... Note the trail of dust left behind from our engines.

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November 21, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving (again)

This is a re-run from two years ago but since I find it so funny, you get to see it again.

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November 20, 2007

Lightning striking

15 Spectacular Lightning Images at digital-photography-school..com.

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November 19, 2007

McSundial

This sundial is one of many images in a series of Creative Ads at Dark Roasted Blend.

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Egg City

Egg stacking.

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