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!"
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
From ThereIFixedIt.com
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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.
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.
H.T. Daithi at MacRaven
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June 17, 2009
Safari adventure
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.
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.
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
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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May 29, 2009
Funnies
Mary sends seven cartoons by Tim Whyatt.
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A child's prayer
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.
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.
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.
Full screen recommended. 
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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 HandA 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.
Pictured: The hilarious (and utterly pointless) horses with hair-extensionsSometimes 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'.
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
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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
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.
Via:
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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.
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!"
All images are pop-ups: click for a larger view.
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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.
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
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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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.
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.)
H.T. Tucson John
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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.)
H.T. Mary
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October 30, 2008
Geek 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
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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."
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
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
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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.
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."
"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.
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.
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.
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
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!
H.T. Jeff
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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.
"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."
"We had no idea anyone was buried here."
"I wouldn't do it again" says the hero, "she's been a pain this week"
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.
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 aroundBy Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:26 PM on 23rd June 2008This 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.
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.
Here's the site, for the curious.
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June 19, 2008
Soap bubbles
Isaac Newton would have loved this collection.
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.
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.
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:
The Sky, From Above
June 9, 2008 11:34 AM[...] 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.
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.
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.
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.'"
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
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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.
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.
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
Click the image for a larger view.
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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.
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...
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
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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.
Via.
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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
Click the image for a larger view.
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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
Via.
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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.
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
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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.
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.
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.[...]
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).
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.
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.
H.T. MacRaven
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November 24, 2007
What a view
...of San Francisco Bay in this image by Kevin Ho.
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
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