May 25, 2012
Ultimate chick flick
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May 24, 2012
Choose carefully
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May 23, 2012
And they're off
A nice long-exposure shot of the yesterday's SpaceX launch.
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May 22, 2012
At Bikini Atoll
(Video)
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May 21, 2012
TGFB (10)
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May 18, 2012
Today's PSA (7)
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May 17, 2012
An unusual residence
Renovated Church Home in Kyloe, NorthumberlandA nondescript exterior and a yard dominated by headstones give no indication of the residential nature of this historic church in Kyloe, Northumberland. A couple decided to purchase and readapt the structure, investing nearly three times the purchase price into renovations over the course of several years.
Via Maggie's Farm
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May 16, 2012
When I was younger
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May 15, 2012
Pimp your ride (2)
Claimed to be from the Camel Haircut competition in Bikaner, India.
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May 14, 2012
Too much pier pressure
Photo before prom leaves Wisconsin students drenched
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May 11, 2012
Negative space
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May 10, 2012
Guess who
14 Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People
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May 09, 2012
Britain from above
Here's a nice slideshow of aerial photography at The Telegraph.
Old Sarum was an iron age hill fort dating back 5000 years and the site of Salisbury's first cathedral. (Britain from Above: Month by Month published by Dorling Kindersley. Picture: Jason Hawkes)
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May 08, 2012
Pressure-washed graffiti
Ethical Graffiti: Pressure-Washing Moss to Make ArtMost street artists add to the urban environment to make a statement. But Stefaan de Croock takes away instead: he uses a pressure washer to carve graffiti into the natural dirt and growth that cover our cityscapes, and the results are quite amazing.
Moss has a tendency to grow rapidly on concrete walls, especially when they're regularly damp. That's something de Croock—AKA Strook—takes advantage of. This series of images shows off his signature "subtractive graffiti", cut into a wall of moss outside the STUK art center in Leuven, Belgium.
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May 07, 2012
Think of the children
H.T. Jason, who caught this at the St. Louis Microfest.
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May 04, 2012
In old New York
Painters hang from suspended wires on the Brooklyn Bridge October 7, 1914 -- 31 years after it first opened
Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York CityAlmost a million images of New York and its municipal operations have been made public for the first time on the internet.
The city's Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database.
I think they meant 'Never-before-published' but we'll let it slide... This time.
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May 03, 2012
Aerial patterns
Seven interesting aerial photos
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May 01, 2012
World's Largest
From TwistedSifter.
When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA’s Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle, as the largest land vehicle in the world. It is 311 feet (95 meters) tall, 705 feet (215 meters) long and weighs 45,500 tons. The machine took five years to design and manufacture and another five years to assemble. [...] It takes five people to operate the machine.
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April 30, 2012
Don't look down (3)
Toilet hanging 15 stories in the air may make you hold it inIf you go into this impossible-looking, glass-floored bathroom just to pee, you might be throwing up from vertigo by the time you leave. The stylish lavatory, built atop an empty elevator shaft in a Mexican penthouse, hovers 15 stories up with a clear view all the way to the bottom
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April 27, 2012
Moment of impact
21 images capturing the moment of impact.
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April 26, 2012
Hyper-realistic pencil drawings
This is one of four examples here.
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April 25, 2012
Amsterdam's phaliic fountain
I suppose they're competing with the Mannekin Pis in Brussels
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April 24, 2012
"I have a clean..."
Groan...
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April 23, 2012
There's an app for that (3)
From The Joy of Tech
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April 20, 2012
Illustrated list, updated
Via David Thompson
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April 19, 2012
Blue skies
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April 18, 2012
Soviet space propoganda
Seven posters here.
Via The Agitator
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April 17, 2012
Spring in the Netherlands
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April 16, 2012
Summer's almost here
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April 12, 2012
Ugly buildings
The UK's Telegraph has 21 slides in a show titled Are these the ugliest buildings in the world? (Most are pretty ugly but I few of 'em I liked.)
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April 10, 2012
Caught my eye, it did
During yesterday's commute, I was amused to spot this customized license plate holder on a Volvo. (It's not Photoshopped.) I wonder if the middle-aged woman driving the car knows about this.
It's meant to advertise this dealer.
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April 09, 2012
Wait... what? (6)
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April 08, 2012
Peeps Show VI
The Washington Post presents a slideshow of its sixth annual Peeps diorama contest, which it calls Peeps Show VI.
Here's the winner: "OccuPeep D.C."
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April 06, 2012
Tacocopter
Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To Your Location
I suspect this is an April Fools' joke but it's amusing nonetheless. The "Lobstercopter" is alleged to operate on the East Coast.
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April 05, 2012
Hockey penalties
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April 04, 2012
All in the family (2)
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April 03, 2012
It's a record (6)
Rob Surette claims to have made the world's largest image made with Lite-Brite. He finished it in July, 2011.
Apparently, Rob's image beats Lori Kanary's ASICS Shoe ad, made in 2008.
(I didn't even know what Lite-Brite is until Wikipedia explained it.)
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April 02, 2012
A winning ticket
Via Instapundit
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April 01, 2012
The economic consensus
CHART OF THE DAY: No Wonder Nobody Takes Economists Seriously...
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March 29, 2012
F/A-22
This is one of four nice pix of the F/A 22 "Raptor" fighter plane.
H.T. Jeff G
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March 28, 2012
A pair of planes
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March 27, 2012
Little girl soldiers
One of eighteen photos in a NYT slideshow about young female military cadets in Moscow.
The young students attend the Moscow Female Cadet Boarding School No. 9 — which Mr. Kozmin calls “one of the elite military academies in Russia.” It is a state school, free to all who attend, though the competition to be admitted is intense.In addition to standard subjects, the students study the basics of military service including marching, military strategy and marksmanship. The school’s curriculum also includes sewing, ballet and compulsory choir practice.
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March 23, 2012
Pearl waterfall
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March 22, 2012
Great ad
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March 21, 2012
Don't look down
25 death-defying photos by Vadim Mahorov.
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March 20, 2012
A world without people
The Atlantic's In Focus photoblog has a collection of 41 photos of abandoned buildings and cities.
A view of the abandoned city of Prypiat near the failed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, on April 15, 2011. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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March 19, 2012
Say what? (2)
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March 16, 2012
Street art
From a gallery at Mighty Optical Illusions
H T Ms M
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March 15, 2012
Fling! (2)
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March 14, 2012
Lightning strike
From The Caudal Lure:
This kid was struck by lightning and survived. Unfortunately, or fortunately if you’re into body unique modifications, along with the lightning strike he received this permanent scar that looks like an evolutionary tree (pretty cool in my opinion at least). They’re known as Lichtenberg scars, or figures.
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March 13, 2012
Shed of the Year
This is 1 of 16 sheds in a slideshow at The Telegraph:
Garden sheds which have been converted into pubs, churches and museums are among the entries in a nationwide competition to find the Shed of the Year 2012 sponsored by Cuprinol. The contest has received shedloads of entries. We publish a few of our favourites here, but you can see all of the sheds that have been entered so far - and submit your own shed - at readersheds.co.uk.
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March 12, 2012
World Press Photo Contest
The Big Picture has 16 photos from the 2012 World Press Photo Contest Winners.
A photograph of North Korea's founder, Kim II-sung, hangs on a building in the capital of Pyongyang, North Korea, Oct. 5, 2011. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
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March 08, 2012
Nine Eyes
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View is a project by Jon Rafman featuring some of its interesting images.
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March 06, 2012
Unique driver's license
Via neatorama
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March 05, 2012
Paper hummingbird
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March 02, 2012
People pixels
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March 01, 2012
Snake noodling
Here's 1 of 9 pix about hunting snakes - bare handed.
H.T. Tucson John
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February 28, 2012
Snow patterns
This is 1 of 11 patterns in snow.
Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow PatternsArtist Simon Beck must really love the cold weather! Along the frozen lakes of Savoie, France, he spends days plodding through the snow in raquettes (snowshoes), creating these sensational patterns of snow art. Working for 5-9 hours a day, each final piece is typically the size of three soccer fields! The geometric forms range in mathematical patterns and shapes that create stunning, sometimes 3D, designs when viewed from higher levels.
Via The Agitator
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February 25, 2012
About $1.44 per square foot, I think
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February 24, 2012
Still water
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February 23, 2012
Clever staircase
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February 22, 2012
Wait... what? (5)
School Speed Limit Sign in White Lake Too Complicated?SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WJBK) -- Road signs are supposed to make driving safer for everyone, but one sign recently spotted in White Lake may go a little too far. [...]
The sign is located near Lakewood Elementary. Some drivers say it's just too complicated.
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February 21, 2012
Glass road
1 of 7 photos of a glass-floored walkway on Fontanel mountain (in China, I assume).
Via David Thompson
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February 20, 2012
What font is your cat?
H.T. Dave at MacRaven
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February 18, 2012
Arizona turns 100
Arizona became the 48th state on February 14th, 1912 so it had its 100th anniversary this week. Arizona Turns 100 is a nice collection of photos from around the state to mark the occasion.
San Francisco Peaks from Kendrick Mountain Fire Lookout Tower - Image Al_HikesAZ
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February 16, 2012
Shaolin monks
Shaolin Kung Fu Monks: Photo Essay. (Take it, Carl.)
Via David Thompson
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February 15, 2012
Rare photos
Rare photos of the old and the dead
Ian Fleming and Sean Connery
Via The Agitator
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February 14, 2012
An inappropriate Valentine
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February 13, 2012
Happy Valentine's Day
(I'm surprised I remembered this; it's been in the queue for two months.)
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February 11, 2012
The Nile valley at night
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February 08, 2012
That sound is the irony meter hitting its peg
Via Hit & Run
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February 07, 2012
Tiny
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February 06, 2012
The cats' house
40 photos of a house adapted for cats.
Via David Thompson
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February 04, 2012
Behind the scenes at Puppy Bowl VIII
I'm so out of the TV loop that I'd never heard of Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl, which is airing for its 8th time tomorrow.
Here are some pix from the production of it. If you like puppies, it's like smoking a rock of cute.
Via The Agitator
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February 02, 2012
It's a medical condition
Electile Dysfunction: The inability to become aroused over any of the choices for President put forth by either party in the 2012 election.
H.T. Mary
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February 01, 2012
Long train runnin'
RailPictures.Net - Copyright © Jeff Abbott
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January 31, 2012
Nice pair
Seriously cute elephants
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January 30, 2012
What the Internet is good for
Cute cat pix
H.T. Ms M.
How to build a tank for your cat.
Via The Daily What
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January 27, 2012
Twenty-oneth street
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January 26, 2012
Blue Marble redux
'Blue Marble 2012': NASA's 'Most Amazing' High Def Image Of Earth So Far. There's a 64 megapixel version available at the link.
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January 25, 2012
Finally - a fortune cookie that's right
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January 24, 2012
Clever billboard
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January 23, 2012
LOL
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January 20, 2012
Eye in the sky
A view of the Helix nebula from CNN's Light Years blog. It reminds me of Niven & Pournelle's The Mote In God's Eye.
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January 19, 2012
Retro risqué
Retronaut has a collection of 18 LP album covers with nudes from the 50s and 60s. A few are from mainstream releases but most are from novelty albums (like the one titled Music for Hangovers).
H.T. Ms M.
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January 18, 2012
Pirated from TheOatmeal
How to contact your Congressman and/or Senator.
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January 17, 2012
Mind the bridges
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January 16, 2012
On the rocks
Sailor Jeff sends this pic.
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January 15, 2012
Engrish WTF
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January 12, 2012
Armadillo lizard
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January 11, 2012
The 2011 winners
The Big Picture has the 14 National Geographic Photography Contest Winners: 2011.
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January 10, 2012
It's no ordinary sale
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January 09, 2012
Carved books
Seventeen images of book carvings by Guy Laramee.
H.T. Ms M.
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January 06, 2012
Floating house
Float Home in Seattle -- very nice-looking.
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January 05, 2012
Everyone's a critic
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January 04, 2012
Buick Streamliner
I had no idea this beauty existed. Check those curves.
H.T. Ms M.
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January 03, 2012
Atlantic Ocean Road
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January 02, 2012
The year in tweets
The 50 funniest tweets of 2011
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January 01, 2012
What a cake!
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December 30, 2011
Designer treehouse
One of several built by the Treehouse Workshop. (These 4 images are all of the same treehouse.)
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December 29, 2011
Central Park in New York City
Hi-res image here.
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December 28, 2011
On a roll
Cut out paper rolls by Anastassia Elias; these are 3 of the 34 that she's made from toilet tissue rolls.
Via imgur
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December 27, 2011
2011 volcanos
The Year in Volcanic Activity: 36 photos at The Atlantic's In Focus blog.
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December 26, 2011
Merry Christmas, baby
Bitter: a soon-to-be-divorced husband's card.
Sweet: a wife's Christmas surprise for her husband.
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December 24, 2011
The ultimate Christmas yard decoration
One of eight images in this collection.
H.T. Jeff G
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December 23, 2011
Awkward Christmas photos
One of fifteen found here.
H.T. Ms M.
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December 22, 2011
Nativity scenes
27 worst nativity sets: the annual, growing list!. Here's one made of cupcakes; another is carved from Spam.
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December 20, 2011
Tall tree
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December 19, 2011
Redneck Christmas decorating
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December 16, 2011
DYAC end of the year review
The 25 funniest autocorrects of DYAC's first year
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December 15, 2011
Modern tradition
From XKCD:
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December 14, 2011
The year in pictures
At The Atlantic's In Focus photo blog. This page is part 1 of 3.
A gunman identified as Michael Gonzales aims his pistol at local village politician Reynaldo Dagsa shortly before Gonzales pulled the trigger, assassinating Dagsa in Manila, Philippines, on January 5, 2011. Reynaldo Dagsa took this picture of his family on New Year's eve, moments before he was killed by Gonzales, who was captured on his camera together with an accomplice (man on the right). Police said they arrested both men charged in the assassination. (Reuters/Dagsa Family)
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December 12, 2011
Gives a new meaning to 'double wide'
The fastest and most inexpensive way to build a house. (31 pictures at the link.)
Starting with these...
and ending with this.
H.T. Mary
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December 09, 2011
Über cute
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December 08, 2011
Clever ads
70 Creative Advertisements That Make You Look Twice
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December 07, 2011
Passenger photography
100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows. Some are more striking than this one - some less so.
Via Instapundit
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December 06, 2011
News from Down Under
Even though I can't find this article online, this may be legit. Mr. Penberthy is a real journalist in Australia and the brothel has a place-holder site here.
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December 05, 2011
Whiteboard art
1 of 17 copies of famous artwork Bill Taylor's drawn on his whiteboard.
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December 02, 2011
Grand Falls, Arizona
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December 01, 2011
Your cup of tea?
A baby wombat in a tea cup.
Via David Thompson
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November 30, 2011
At the Great Wall
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November 29, 2011
All you ever need
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November 28, 2011
Moose heads
One of those doesn't-have-to-be-true-to-be-funny stories.
They dressed the mannequin like a hunter & tied it to the roof of the truck. The driver and passenger put on moose head costumes. Down the Maine Turnpike they went, causing about 16 accidents. They went to jail.
H.T. Tucson John
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November 25, 2011
Hideaway
Prints available here.
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November 24, 2011
Photographed or painted? (2)
By Roberto Bernardi.
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November 23, 2011
Likewise
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November 22, 2011
Photo contest 2011
This post at In Focus photoblog shows 45 entries in the National Geographic Photo Contest 2011.
This photo was taken in the Upper Antelope Canyon near Page (AZ) and it shows the amazing effect of the sand thrown in the air and struck by the rays of the sun. (© Angiolo Manetti)
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November 21, 2011
It's a record (3)
Well, this didn't take long... I posted an image of the previous record-holder last week. Who knew street chalk was so competitive?
3D Joe and Max x Reebok – World's Largest 3D Street ArtworkYesterday in London's West India Quays, Canary Wharf, on Guinness World Records Day, Reebok CrossFit has teamed up London-based street art duo 3D Joe and Max to complete what will go down as the world's largest and longest 3D street artwork ever (for now). The deceptively realistic piece measures 1,160.4 metres square and is 106.5m long, beating the previous 892.15metre square record set by China's Qi Xinghua, and will remain on display for the rest of today. (Nov. 18th)
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November 19, 2011
Angela Merkel on the Greek debt
The title of this amusing 'infographic' reads: The development of Greek public debt.
H.T. Danilo
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November 18, 2011
Photographed or painted?
Published by National Geographic.
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November 16, 2011
It's a record (2)
Chinese 3D artist Qi Xinghua's huge 3D painting, which is called 'Lions Gate Gorge', has set a new Guinness World Record as the world's largest 3D painting.His breathtaking artwork, created in a square in front of a shopping mall in Guangzhou Baiyan Wanda Plaza in Guangzhou, China, measures a staggering 23m wide and 32m long on the ground, while the wall it utilises is more than 6m high. It took him a month of painstaking work to complete.
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November 15, 2011
It's certain
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November 14, 2011
How to pet the cat
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November 11, 2011
Clouds
A nice collection of aerial photos of clouds.
Via David Thompson
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November 10, 2011
Underwater river
We are 30 meters deep, fresh water, then 60 meters deep – salty water and under me I see a river, island and fallen leaves… Actually, the river, which you can see, is a layer of hydrogen sulphide.
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November 09, 2011
What timing!
Angelo DeSantis took this picture of his cat with a mouse.
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November 08, 2011
Lego terracotta
At the Sarasota Chalk Festival.
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November 07, 2011
Attitude is everything
Here's a collection of 13 "doormats with attitude".
H.T. Mary
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November 04, 2011
Don't forget to duck
A driver survived having his car skewered by hundreds of steel bars in Taizhou, eastern China's Zhejiang Province. Yang Junsheng, 24, was driving at around 60km/h when he smashed into a truck carrying a full load of steel bars. At the moment of impact the bars shot backward, smashing through Yang's window screen. He says: "My mind was very clear at that second, and I immediately leaned down to the passenger seat When the car stopped I found the bars had filled in the space above me and the door at my side was poked open by the bars. The closest bar was only a few centimetres away." Yang escaped the incident with just a few scratches to his face.
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October 30, 2011
Great costume concept
But I wonder how well it wears.
From Reddit
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Hallowe'en PSA
Now that you're an adult, do the kids a favor and be like this person.
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October 29, 2011
Pop quiz
Source (via Coyote blog)
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October 28, 2011
Idle hands
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October 27, 2011
Company policy
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October 26, 2011
Age test (2)
Via American Digest
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October 25, 2011
Clever window sign
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October 24, 2011
Not found
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October 21, 2011
Soup of the day
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October 20, 2011
Cool hot air
Via Maggie's Farm
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October 19, 2011
Translation provided
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October 14, 2011
What a great sign
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October 13, 2011
Extreme jacuzzi
A group of 25 extreme jacuzzi enthusiasts have a soak suspended 150 metres above the ground from the New Gueuroz bridge in Switzerland. The event took about 2,500 hours to plan and a further six hours to assemble – all for 2.5 hours in the tub
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October 11, 2011
Think quick
H.T. Jeff G
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October 10, 2011
Street art
Made by TSF Crew.
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October 08, 2011
Autumn in Colorado
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October 07, 2011
Tough call
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October 06, 2011
Ever wonder?
How Weird Al would raise a child? Heh.
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October 05, 2011
Nicely done
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October 04, 2011
Better than one
Life has 15 images in a slideshow of two-headed animals.
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October 03, 2011
The eagle has landed
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September 30, 2011
Big storm at the big canyon
Nice.
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September 29, 2011
Tabular
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September 28, 2011
In the cockpit
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September 27, 2011
Musical architecture
A building in An Hui Province, China
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September 26, 2011
Autumn 2011
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September 24, 2011
Stairway safety
What?
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September 22, 2011
Frog bait
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September 21, 2011
Roger that
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September 20, 2011
Again with the funny signs
We haven't had any funny signs for a while. Here's a collection of 24.
H.T. Mary
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September 19, 2011
Yeow
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September 16, 2011
In Saturn's shadow
This is about 5 years old now but it's still striking. It's a composite of photos taken by Cassini over a few hours; multi-megapixel original here.
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September 15, 2011
Get out and enjoy nature
Here's 1 of 14 funny pictures about animals dealing with people.
H.T. Bill F
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September 13, 2011
Hot and dry
The Big Picture has 45 pix of the effects of the 10-month drought and the recent wildfires in Texas.
A cryogenic tank from the Space Shuttle Columbia was discovered in an evaporating lake bed on the shoreline of Lake Nacogdoches in east Texas, part of debris from the 2003 Columbia disaster, on August 3, 2011. (NASA/Nagodoches Police Department/Reuters)
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September 09, 2011
What your groceries say about you
This is 1 of 6.
What Your Groceries Say About YouWhenever I'm in the grocery store, I always tend to look at someone's cart and then immediately make a judgement about that person based on the contents of it. I think Webster's dictionary defines that as "Being an judgmental asshole," but so be it. Anyway, after one such trips to the grocery store I went home and fired up the ole' photoshop machine and did this.
H.T. Jeff G
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September 06, 2011
Age test
If you're old enough, you'll get this joke.
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September 02, 2011
Bent objects
Terry Border makes these small sculptures from wire and food (mostly). You can find more at his Bent Objects blog.
And if those pique your interest, you can find still more at Really Bent (The more graphic, black sheep cousin of Bent Objects). (His description.)
H.T. Mary
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September 01, 2011
Putting it all together
Conspiracy Theories Illustrated Using Plastic Model Kits. This is 1 of 5.
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August 31, 2011
Today's PSA (4)
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August 30, 2011
Heed your elders
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August 29, 2011
Tree Rorschach
Via The Agitator
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August 26, 2011
Beardly
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August 25, 2011
Hurricane season prayer
Via Maggie's Farm
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August 24, 2011
Unusual buildings
A few of the buildings in this collection of 80+ images have appeared here before but most haven't.
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August 23, 2011
Check your pockets
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August 22, 2011
Glass beach
One of 8 pix of a California beach.
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August 20, 2011
Dear Blank
One of six in an amusing collection.
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August 18, 2011
Post-It war
Post-It Battle of the Day: Employees of Ubisoft Montreuil, located just outside of Paris, decided to decorate their windows with Post-It note pixel art. Across the street, the folks at BNP Bank saw Ubisoft's (mostly game-themed) art and decided to one-up it with some creations of their own.Challenge accepted. Before long, the windows of both buildings were covered in sticky notes.
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August 16, 2011
Refraction
smsilton took this picture of an M.C. Escher sketch refracted through a drop of water and posted it at reddit.
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August 15, 2011
Leisure diving
Here at LeisureDive.com, we're dedicated to chilling out. Poolside, with a beverage, and in mid-air.
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August 12, 2011
Handy ads
This is one of 23 ads from AT&T for its cellular service. They all feature hand-paintings.
H.T. Mary
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August 11, 2011
Flaunt it if you've got it
The solar-powered bikini charges handheld devices.
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August 09, 2011
More cinemagraphs
Tripwire has a collection of 40 cinemagraphs.
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August 08, 2011
Honk for Granny
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August 05, 2011
Manhattan in the 40s
Sixty-plus images taken in Manhattan in the 1940s.
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Weird trees
Magnificent & Weird Trees at Dark Roasted Blend.
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August 04, 2011
Texas pride
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August 03, 2011
A good comeback
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August 01, 2011
Wire sculpture
The Realistic Wire Sculptures of Shi JindianThey might look like computer-generated images, but Shi Jindian's works are so real you can touch them. Using simple steel wire, the Chinese artist is able to create almost perfect replicas of anything from musical instruments to motorcycles.
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July 29, 2011
Res ipsa loquitur
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July 28, 2011
Road rage is everywhere
Why you shouldn't try to pass an elephant -- one of six images.
H.T. Bill F.
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July 27, 2011
Bodily fluids
10 Artworks Made with the Artist’s Own Bodily Fluids
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July 26, 2011
How hot is it? (2)
H.T. Bill F.
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July 25, 2011
Why men die younger than women
One of nine pix of stupid man stunts.
H.T. Steve R.
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July 22, 2011
Twitter light
Eric Fischer has geo-tagged Flickr and Twitter activity in areas (mostly cities) around the world and put the resulting images in a Flickf set. The scheme is: "Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both."
Not surprisingly, the results look like satellite photos of city lights - except they're not.
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July 21, 2011
DYAC faves
The Best of 'Damn You, Autocorrect'
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July 19, 2011
Zeppelin Eureka
Bernard Zee writes: I'm still giddy over having had the opportunity to ride in, and photograph the only Zeppelin in the United States. The 'Eureka' is one of a new breed of lighter than air ships manufactured by the Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH, and operated by Airship Ventures. Based out of Moffett Field (in Mountain View, CA), the Eureka offers sight-seeing rides of the Bay Area and Monterey.
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July 15, 2011
Got PMS?
This is one of several images from a California Milk Processor Board ad campaign.
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July 13, 2011
In the clock tower
A 7,000 sq.ft.apartment in New York City with 360° views. (Only $23.5 million.)
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July 12, 2011
The toaster
A large (22-foot) wall mural of a toaster made from toast.
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July 11, 2011
A map of the Universe
National Geographic provides one in a 23 megapixel image.
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July 08, 2011
Grown-ups
A slideshow in which parents' and children's heads are transposed. It's called Kindsköpfe (“Grown Ups”),
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July 07, 2011
Bulls in Pamplona
12 images in this slideshow of the San Fermin Festival that began in Pamplona, Spain this week.
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July 06, 2011
World War II
The Atlantic's In Focus photblog is running a 20-part retrospective of WW II. This is one of 45 images in Part 1.
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July 05, 2011
Fellowship of the Brick
A group of people won Best Group Layout for modeling all of Middle Earth in Legos.
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July 03, 2011
Fire in the sky
A nice composition by Chris Kotsiopoulos.
Fire in the sky! This is an image sequence containing 70 lightning shots, taken at Ikaria island during a severe thunderstorm.
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July 01, 2011
How to troll
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June 30, 2011
Nailed indeed
From XKCD.
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June 29, 2011
More sand castles and sculptures
17 sand castles and sculptures in this slideshow.
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June 28, 2011
Vintage geekery
Here's a Popular Science gallery of vintage tech from General Electric's archives -- some dating from Edison's day. This is an electric vehicle charger which is claimed to date to the turn of the century. (I assume they meant the turn of the last century.)
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June 27, 2011
Invisible tape
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June 24, 2011
Vintage submersibles
Ten vintage submersible cars at Popular Science.
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June 23, 2011
Miniature life
An interesting collection of 60 pix of miniature people, made by Christopher Boffoli.
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June 21, 2011
400 pounds per megabyte
And I hate to think how many dollars per megabyte. From Old Picture of the Day:
Today's picture is from 1956, and shows an IBM hard drive. This unit would be used to store information, not unlike your memory stick, thumb drive, or camera memory card. The hard drive pictured weighed over 1 ton, and was capable of storing 5 Mb or data. For comparison, it would take over 1,000 of these units to store the information held in a modern thumb drive.
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June 20, 2011
Face palm
H.T. Bill F.
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June 17, 2011
Endeavour's final mission
The InFocue photoblog has 38 pics from shuttle Endeavour's final mission.
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June 16, 2011
Puyehue
Time's LightBox photoblog has 14 images of Chile's Puyehue volcano
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June 15, 2011
Subways around the world
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June 14, 2011
Museum of Islamic art
Interior and exterior views of this museum, which is located in Doha, Qatar.
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June 13, 2011
Now we're talking
The Hoverbike. Its inventor thinks it can reach 10,000 feet and airspeed of 170 MPH.
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June 10, 2011
Out of control
The In Focus photoblog has 36 images of the Wallow fire in Arizona.
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June 08, 2011
Yugoslav memorials
Here's a collection of 25 war memorials built in the former Yugoslavia.
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June 07, 2011
Isn't it cute?
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June 06, 2011
Paper cuttings
A dozen figures hand-cut from paper. (Bad link fixed.)
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June 03, 2011
Husband of the year
Here's the winner of the Husband of the Year contest. Five runners-up here.
H.T. Tucson John
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June 02, 2011
Mind the guardrails
Tucson John sends four pix of a Chevy Suburban that "ate" 120 feet of guardrail on a Montana highway.. Luckily, there were no passengers and no one was injured. The Suburban was pretty well trashed, of course.
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June 01, 2011
It's a winner!
The first place winner in the Worst PPT Slide Contest
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May 27, 2011
Grímsvötn
The In Focus photoblog has 23 images of this volcano in Iceland.
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May 26, 2011
Spiky thing
The Post-Dispatch has a slideshow of hail stones which fell in yesterday's big storm in St. Louis. This one was taken by Tony Howell.
Two large large hail stones from storms that swept through the Southampton neighborhood of St. Louis on May 25, 2011. Photo via Twitter by Tony Howell / @scholarpreneur
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May 25, 2011
Nicely done illusion
From Today's Big Thing
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May 24, 2011
Meet Senor Mayhem
Motorcycles and mayhem at the Mexican Electrician Union protest in Mexico City
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May 23, 2011
Funny billboard
By redditor xtcg123. Here's a news report.
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May 20, 2011
Good advice (3)
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May 19, 2011
Creepy plants
10 Creepy Plants That Shouldn't Exist
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May 17, 2011
Big Muddy
The Big Picture has 33 images of this spring's flooding along the Mississippi. The fellow below is enjoying the fishing from his deck, normally 50 feet away from the river.
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May 16, 2011
The blue sky below
Spacewalks – the blue sky below us [32 Pics]. This is a collection of pictures of space walks, not just pictures from near orbit. But I particularly liked this one of the aurora borealis.
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May 13, 2011
Landmarks
Here's a nice collection titled The 50 Most Important Landmarks of the World. I don't know if I'd agree with that claim but it's a nice collection nonetheless.
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May 12, 2011
Kite photography
A nice collection of low-level aerial photographs.
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May 11, 2011
TGFB (5)
How to reproduce Van Gogh's Starry Night using bacon.
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May 10, 2011
Draw, pardner
The beer holster.
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May 09, 2011
Dogs of war
An interesting photo-essay at Foreign Policy about military dogs.
Dogs usually jump in tandem with their trainers, but when properly outfitted with flotation vests they can make short jumps into water on their own. A U.S. Navy SEAL, Mike Forsythe, and his dog, Cara -- pictured above -- recently broke the world record for "highest man/dog parachute deployment" by jumping from 30,100 feet.
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May 06, 2011
Where do the best grapefruit come from?
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May 05, 2011
Beautiful monsters
28 images of jellyfish and other aquatic forms.
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May 04, 2011
Ten strange places
Nice photos of ten unusual places. This one's called 'the eye of Africa.'
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May 03, 2011
Cinemagraphs
Very cleverly animated GIFs. Check it out.
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May 02, 2011
Think of England
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May 01, 2011
Who says you can't polish a banana?
A Japanese person named Yamaden carves bananas.
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April 28, 2011
TGFB (4)
A tutorial on how to make them.
Bacon RosesFlowers make a nice gift to the friend that needs a smile or for that special someone in your life. Roses are even better. But sometimes even roses don't cut it. Sometimes you need something a little more non-cliché, something...extraordinary... Sometimes, you need BACON.
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April 26, 2011
Always put the paint in the trunk
This is one of four pix of some folks who had 25 liters of paint in the back seat of their car -- at least until the collision.
H.T. Bill F.
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April 25, 2011
All robots
The Atlantic's In Focus photoblog has 33 pictures of all types of robots.
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April 22, 2011
View from above
Pics from Space as seen by Astronaut Douglas WheelockNASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock who is currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shares pictures of the Earth he snaps with the world through Twitter. Known to his nearly 68,000 Twitter followers as Astro_Wheels, he has been posting impressive photos of the Earth and some of his thoughts ever since he moved into the space station in June, five months after it got Internet access.
H.T. Steve R
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April 20, 2011
Now this is a tree house
The Minister's House in Crossville, Tennessee.
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April 19, 2011
iPad self-portraits
10 ingenious iPad self-portraits
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April 14, 2011
Where the buffalo roamed
Here's a big set of images made by John C.H. Grabill between 1887 and 1892 in the Dakota Territory and Colorado.
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April 13, 2011
Truth in advertising (3)
Seen in Perth, the photographer says.
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April 12, 2011
Poor choice of words
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April 11, 2011
Awesome frogs
Frogs are awesome.
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April 09, 2011
What a craftsman
Louis Chernot built this working 1/6 scale model of a Duesenberg SJ. It's roughly 3 feet long and took 5 or 6 years to build. Full story here, which includes many detailed pix.
Mr. Chernot built the 32-valve, straight 8 engine from scratch.
H.T. Bill F.
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April 07, 2011
A forest book nook
Here's an interior view (one of six) of an interesting library.
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April 06, 2011
Big bugs
A collection of 21 photomicrographs of insects by Steve Gschmeissner. He also has a large collection of public domain images here.
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April 05, 2011
More aerial photography
A nice collection of 35 aerial photos. This one shows a massively terraced hill near Bali, Indonesia.
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April 04, 2011
Missing the point
From Mark Perry, who wonders why people wear baseball caps backwards.
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April 01, 2011
Kyrgyzstan
A large collection of photos from Kyrgyzstan.
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March 31, 2011
Norwegian wood
This is a view of the Juvet hotel. It's one of 18 images of outdoor design in Norway.
Here's the Juvet hotel site. It's billed as Europe's first "landscape hotel". It looks pretty interesting but it also looks to be pretty remote from any cities.
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Chicago 1949
Here's a collection of photos taken in Chicago by Stanley Kubrick in 1949, when he was a young photographer for Look magazine.
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March 30, 2011
The USS J.F.K. at Malta
A nice aerial photo of this aircraft carrier docking at Malta and showing its size relative to objects on the land. Note that "Big John" is smaller than both the Enterprise class and Nimitz class carriers that have been built since she was.
Bigger source version here.
H.T. Steve R
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Heh (3)
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March 29, 2011
Japan, two weeks later
In Focus has a collection of images from Japan two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami.
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March 28, 2011
Bridges
As seen in Google Earth - here's 60 of them.
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March 25, 2011
Yippie-ki-yay
...in the Rhone valley of Switzerland. This is from a collection of photos by Yann Gross, who documented his trip to Horizonville.
By the means of a trip by motorbike in the Rhône Valley, the pictures are about the American dream. The myth we know through the medias and the movies. Most of the people I photographed haven’t ever been in the United State of America. They feel a sense of belonging to another culture that they don’t really know. Far from the Swiss stereotypes, the confusion of symbols and the lifestyle of the people take us in a strange atmosphere, a dreamed reality that doesn’t exist in facts.
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March 24, 2011
Pick your battles
H.T. Mary
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March 23, 2011
Venn Piagram
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March 22, 2011
Involuntary collaborations
Involuntary Collaborations: I buy other people's landscape paintings at yard sales and Goodwill and put monsters in them.
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March 21, 2011
Screw art
Andrew Myers makes portraits with screws using a 3D relief technique.
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March 20, 2011
Happy Equinox (3)
At 7:21 p.m. EST astronomical spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere. It almost slipped by me.
Cake image from What I Eat, Apparently.
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March 18, 2011
Catching some rays
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March 17, 2011
Before and after in Japan
ABC (as in Australia) News has an interesting page of interactive overlays of satellite images before and after the tsunami in Japan. The presentation really gives you a feel for the destruction.
H.T. Kevin H.
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March 16, 2011
Bad boy
H.T. Mary & Steve
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March 15, 2011
Carnival time in Brazil
Danilo sends a link to this photo, taken during Carnival in Brazil (which ended last Tuesday).
And the In Focus photoblog has a nice collection of Carnival pix from around the world, like this one from Sao Paulo.
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March 14, 2011
All about Pi
A local pizzeria.
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March 12, 2011
Woodies
Tucson John sends a bunch of pictures of wood-paneled cars. Marty North has a slideshow of them here.
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March 10, 2011
Now that's a CAPTCHA
TYWKIWDBI has a post about math CAPTCHAs.
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March 09, 2011
Health posters
This is one of nearly 7,600 posters at an NIH site. Some are retro, some modern, and they come from around the world. Many are in French and Spanish.
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March 08, 2011
At the dog show
The Big Picture has 34 pictures from the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
A Komondorak in the ring during the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)
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March 07, 2011
Industrial retro
A collection of vintage industrial ads, along with discussion about whether they were 'propaganda'. (?)
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March 04, 2011
The book surgeon
This is one of fifteen examples of books carved by Brian Dettmer. Many are more elaborate.
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March 03, 2011
Matchstick insects
By Kyle Bean.
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March 02, 2011
Zombies, aliens and robots
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March 01, 2011
Under Paris
A National Geographic slideshow about what's under Paris.
Behind the neat stacks of skulls, tibias, and femurs in the Paris catacombs lies a chaos of bones. In the 18th and 19th centuries the city dug up millions of skeletons from over-flowing cemeteries and poured them at night into old quarries.
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February 28, 2011
Snow Monsters
A collection of pix of the snow monsters of Japan
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February 25, 2011
Clever job ads
One of nine ads (from Germany apparently).
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February 24, 2011
Solar City tower
Bill forwards an e-mail with several images of the Solar City tower and the claim that it will be built near Rio for the 2016 Olympics.
Others say that claim is an e-mail hoax. But it's a striking design by the Swiss firm RAFAA, whether it gets built or not.
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February 23, 2011
Chevrolet billboards
Here's one of 20-odd Chevy ads on billboards around Detroit (so it's claimed).
H.T. Mary
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February 22, 2011
Terra cotta fire sale
The Forbidden Gardens in Katy, Texas (near Houston) is going out of business and selling practically everything.
This is 1 of 10 photos about the sale at the WSJ Photo Journal. There were nearly 6000 terra cotta statues, most of them at 1/3 scale.
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February 21, 2011
Mr. Innovative
There's a long, funny story associated with this image. It's all posted as a screen capture - here.
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February 18, 2011
I think I'd regret this
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February 17, 2011
Peter Rabbit, Tank Killer
Read the whole story here.
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February 16, 2011
They're out there
And probably looking for you.
Mercedes Benz Fashion Force Patrol CarAs fashionistas and celebrities pile into New York City this week for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, they might want to do a look over of their outfits before heading out. The reason? The fashion police just got themselves a brand new patrol car.
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February 15, 2011
Ski Poland
One of 39 pix at The Big Picture.
A skier is pulled by a horse during a traditional highlander's competition in Male Ciche, Poland January 30, 2011. (REUTERS/Marek Podmokly/Agencja Gazeta)
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February 14, 2011
More cute animal action - VIII
A 10-slide show of newborn animals.
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February 10, 2011
Today's PSA (4)
Law enforcement officers have been approached lately by people wanting to know how to identify meth labs. Here is a visual guide. It's pretty obvious which one is the meth lab.
H.T. Steve R
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February 09, 2011
Markets in everything (9)
Tucson John forwards an e-mail with this photo and the claim that the woman's selling margaritas and making $1250 per day at it. But other stories claim it's lemonade at $10 per customer. Pretty clever, no matter what the real deal is.
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February 08, 2011
Killer graph
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February 07, 2011
Sanitation truck slogans
1 of 18 images of well-labeled sanitation trucks.
H.T. Mary
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February 04, 2011
A good landing (2)
A car landed vertically in a snowbank in an accident involving several vehicles on Interstate 93 north of Salem, N.H. No one was injured.
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February 03, 2011
Google Art Project
Visit 17 museums in Europe and the U.S.. It's a collection of high resolution images of paintings and sculpture that can be panned and zoomed, as well as "Street View" type tours through the museums themselves.
This painting is at the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. Not as good as being there, but think of all you'll save on airfare.
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February 02, 2011
Not another 2 feet of snow!
H.T. Jeff G
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February 01, 2011
Ready to rock
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January 31, 2011
Truth in advertising (2)
This is a sample from this site, where you can design your own.
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January 27, 2011
Had enough of winter yet?
One of several funny pix.
H.T. Mary
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January 25, 2011
Good ideas
Tucson John sends some images of ingenious products. I suppose the one below isn't really a product but it's a clever idea.
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January 24, 2011
Inside Ralph Lauren's garage
This is one of twenty slides. He has a gorgeous collection.
A 1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa, center, surrounded by other Ferraris from the 60s, 70s, and 90s.
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January 21, 2011
Dakar 2011
1 of 42 images of the Dakar rally at The Big Picture.
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January 20, 2011
Snow in Music City
A recent Photo of the Day at The Agitator.
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January 19, 2011
Vintage aerial photos
Eduard Spelterini: Pioneer Balloonist PhotographerEduard Spelterini (1852-1931) received his license as a balloonist from the Academie d'Aerostation in Paris, 1877, where he lived a restless and glamourous life for a number of years. He began to photograph from his balloon in 1893 as a self-taught photographer and in the following thirty years put together a remarkable body of work.
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January 18, 2011
Simple animations
This is 1 of 10 animations of (mostly) common mechanical systems.
H.T. Tucson John
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January 17, 2011
Nice work if you can get it (7)
An older cartoon from The Joy of Tech.
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January 14, 2011
Funny things about ads
Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising
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January 12, 2011
Old school social networking
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January 11, 2011
Motown down
One of sixteen pictures of Detroit in Ruins at How to be a Retronaut.
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January 10, 2011
Rail pictures
I just came across RailPictures.net, the source of the image below. If you like trains, you'll enjoy their collection.
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January 06, 2011
"Tilt-shifted" Van Gogh
Van Gogh's Paintings Get Tilt-Shifted (12 pics)After seeing how tilt-shift photography could make real world scenes appear like miniature models, Serena Malyon, a third-year art student, decided to simulate the effect on Van Gogh's famous paintings. Using Photoshop, she manipulated the light and adjusted the focus to make us see these paintings in ways we could have never imagined.
Amazingly, nothing in these paintings was changed, added or removed. The incredible illusions are all created by the magic of Photoshop.
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January 04, 2011
Street food
11 images in a National Geographic slideshow.
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January 03, 2011
Funny headlines of 2010
The 50 Funniest Headlines Of 2010
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December 31, 2010
Vietnam's mammoth cavern
This comes from a National Geographic slideshow about a mammoth cavern in Vietnam. The thing is huge.
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December 29, 2010
Blue latex
A funny Venn diagram at Chart Porn: people who touch your junk.
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December 28, 2010
Oh, give me a home...
If you like your cute animals large and on-the-hoof, here are 15 pix of a pet buffalo. Some of them show the man and his buffalo riding in his car.
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December 26, 2010
An honest tattoo
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December 24, 2010
Nokopo joey
Here's a double-barreled dose of cute: two tree kangaroos in one picture, courtesy of the Post-Dispatch.
Baby kangaroo joey peeks out of mother's pouch at St. Louis ZooST. LOUIS -- She was born the size of a lima bean six months ago.
Now the little kangaroo joey is about the size of a small cat -- and starting to make herself a little more visible at the St. Louis Zoo.
The Zoo issued a press release Friday to gush about Nokopo, a female Matschie's tree kangaroo joey.
Nokopo, or "Noko" for short, has begun poking her head out from within her mother's pouch at the Emerson Children's Zoo at the Saint Louis Zoo.
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December 23, 2010
Looking like Christmas
37 photos at The Big Picture about Christmas events around the world.
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December 22, 2010
Until Niagara Falls
An article about some pictures taken in 1969 when the US Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Niagara river to dry up the American Falls for clean up and repair.
H.T. Bill F.
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December 20, 2010
2010 in pictures
The Big Picture has not 1 but 3 sets of images for the year. This one is from the Olympics at Vancouver in February.
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December 13, 2010
Good for what ails you
"The best medicine cabinet ever," says Steve F. Here's a kitchen with a wine cellar beneath a trapdoor.
Three more images after the break...
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December 10, 2010
The Nile at night
I believe this was taken from the ISS; it appears in this Twitter page, from "astro_wheels".
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December 09, 2010
Underwater sculpture
Danilo sends a link to this page about The Underwater Sculptures Of Jason deCaires Taylor
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December 07, 2010
I did
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December 02, 2010
Drug war in Rio
Danilo, who lives near Rio, mentioned in a recent e-mail that the police were "out of patience" with the criminals there. The Big Picture has 40 pictures of the result.
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December 01, 2010
Spirals
1 of 25 photos of spiral staircases.
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November 30, 2010
National Geographic's Photo Contest 2010
The Big Picture is showing 47 images from this contest. A great collection; it was tough to pick a single example.
A supercell thunderstorm rolls across the Montana prairie at sunset. (Sean Heavey)
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November 29, 2010
Earth as art
Here's an image from a collection of 22 images from Landsat 5 and Landsat 7, chosen for their visual appeal. This is the Mississippi river near Memphis, Tennessee.
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November 26, 2010
High-resolution panorama of London
Here's a snippet from an 80-gigapixel 360° panorama of London.. Impressive resolution; it looks like you could almost identify individuals.
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November 24, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving (5)
With luck, your family photo will look better than the twelve in this slideshow.
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Don't text and taxi
Steve R. asks, "How does one tell the boss 'I couldn't see a 737 in front of me'?"
An Airbus 330 collides with a Boeing 737 on the tarmac. Seven more pix below the break.
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November 23, 2010
Cheeky chipmunks
This is one of fifty pictures of chipmunks stuffing their cheeks.
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November 19, 2010
LIFE in the lab
28 retro-tech images in a slideshow at Life.com.
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November 17, 2010
Photogenic wildlife
Tucson John sends some pictures of meeting a deer. (This is a much better way than my recent pre-dawn encounter with a fawn. I don't know about the fawn but it cost me $2500 at the body shop.)
And of a white moose.
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November 16, 2010
Unsigned
A piece of art the size of a billboard that's titled Unsigned. (Linked page is in French.)
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November 15, 2010
Lascaux
The folks running the Lascaux cave site have very nicely done Flash version available. Great graphics, navigation and audio. Worth a visit if you have any interest in paleolithic painting.
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November 12, 2010
Aerial photography
Aerial views from all over the globe. (We had a link to a different collection of M. Arthus-Bertrand's photos a couple of years ago.)
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November 11, 2010
Veteran's Day 2010
Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. He is holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who was killed in the Korean War. Photo credit: U.S. Census Bureau.
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November 10, 2010
Durex markets XXL
This is 1 of 4 ads for Durex' new condom line.
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November 09, 2010
Geometry lessons
Here's one of four dresses using solid geometry designs.
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November 08, 2010
Subway history in pictures
The New York Times has a nice slideshow about the NYC subway, 85 images total.
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November 02, 2010
Plane pix
A nice collection of pictures of planes.
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November 01, 2010
Small World 2010
Nikon announces the winners of its Small World photomicroscopy competition for 2010. This one was number 12 (of 20).
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October 31, 2010
Trick or treat
Here's 1 of 90 body paint costumes. NSFW naturally.
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October 29, 2010
Light weight wheels
Gizmag has an interesting collection of pix of concept cars under 1000 pounds. I liked Honda's compressed air vehicle but these models from Nissan were more visually striking.
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October 28, 2010
Always wanted x-ray glasses?
Then here's the calendar for you: x-rayed pin-up models. The other 11 poses are a little more provocative.
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October 26, 2010
Ain't it the truth (3)
From GraphJam.
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October 23, 2010
A word to the wise (2)
Beware the blue shift.
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October 21, 2010
Airplanes and birds
This is one of eighteen pictures of aircraft after they've collided with birds. Some of the damage is surprising.
H.T. Steve R.
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October 20, 2010
Before and after
Der Spiegel has an interesting slideshow of East Germany, before and after re-unification in 1990 (37 images). There's also a related article: 20 Years of a Unified Germany.
And I can't resist adding: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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October 19, 2010
Fat's where it's at (5)
The Krispy Kreme bacon cheeseburger at the North Carolina State Fair. I don't think it outdoes the deep fried butter from Texas, but it's a contender.
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October 15, 2010
Northern autumn
1 of 35 pictures of autumn around the Northern hemisphere at The Big Picture. This one was taken in Pennsylvania.
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October 14, 2010
Clever designs
This plus sixteen other examples here.
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October 13, 2010
Strange taxidermy
If taxidermy is the right word for this.
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October 12, 2010
Realistic pencil art
Here's one of six realistic pencil drawings.
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October 11, 2010
Detroit Autorama 2010
Tucson John sent a collection of pix taken at Detroit Autorama 2010. Luckily, I found them all in a slideshow - although it's in PowerPoint form. Worth a look nonetheless, I think. There are many amazing custom rides. (Click the link or the image below to download the slideshow.)
Here's one of my favorites, called the Decoliner. Note the matching motorcycle, which can be stowed inside.
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October 08, 2010
Impressive animals
This is a group of ibex walking on the face of a dam in Italy. More photos at the link (along with a little debuking).
This is a forwarded email [...] that says big horn sheep were photographed walking across the steep wall of the Buffalo Bill Dam in Cody, Wyoming.The Truth:
The photos are real but were not taken at the Buffalo Bill Dam, according to a spokesperson at the Buffalo Bill Dam & Visitor Center, which is located about 6 miles west of Cody, Wyoming. She also told TruthOrFiction.Com that the location of the dam in the picture was in Italy and the animals in the photo were identified as ibex, not big horn sheep.These were actually photos of Alpine Ibex taken at the Lake Cingino Dam in the Italian Alps by Maurizio Piazzai, who posted them on the Internet.
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October 06, 2010
Scarification tattoos
A collection of 23 scarification tattoos. Most of them aren't this geeky.
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October 04, 2010
Flies like a bird
From a Business Insider article about Larry Ellison winning the America's Cup (my emphasis - JdJ):
"...the true star was his monster black-and-white trimaran and its radical 223-foot wing sail, which powered the craft at three times the speed of the wind, sending its windward and middle hulls flying well above the water."
Nine pictures of this beauty here.
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October 01, 2010
Animated trignonometry
Quick: sine or cosine?
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September 30, 2010
Funny license plate
In this vein, I'm reminded of a license plate I saw once that read 3M TA3.
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September 29, 2010
Urban bodies
One of ten pix of some performance art in New York City last weekend.
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September 27, 2010
Genital tattoos
Here's a collection of tattooed genitals and tattoos of genitals, split about evenly. Definitely NSFW - the one below is the only safe one of the bunch.
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September 24, 2010
Cheers!
40 photos of Oktoberfest in Germany (which began September 18th) at The Big Picture.
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September 22, 2010
Oops (7)
USAirways HOUSTON 26 AUG 2005 PARKING BRAKE SET BEFORE LANDING (all aboard safe, as far as we know).
Those must be some bodacious brakes to hold the wheels during touch-down.
H.T. Steve R
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September 20, 2010
Recycling close to the source
I don't know where this library is but it has a novel reference desk.
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September 18, 2010
At the time travel mart
They have an interesting assortment of goods for sale.
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September 14, 2010
Astronomy photos of the year
Nice photos in this contest held by Britain's National Maritime Museum (which includes the Royal Observatory at Greenwich).
Blazing Bristlecone by Tom Lowe
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September 10, 2010
A whole lot o' redneck
Mary sent one set of pix and Bill sent another. I've combined them into this set off 22 funny images. (A couple of them are obviously Photoshopped.)
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September 09, 2010
Bonus points for incongruity
This sign appeared at a counter-protest in San Diego last July; details below.
Super Heroes vs. the Westboro Baptist ChurchThey've faced down humans time and time again, but Fred Phelps and his minions from the Westboro Baptist Church were not ready for the cosplay action that awaited them today at Comic-Con. After all, who can win against a counter-protest that includes robots, magical anime girls, Trekkies, Jedi and... kittens?
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September 07, 2010
Flying 101
Kulula Airlines: Flying 101 liveryKulula (South Africa's favourite low fare airline), have recently released this fantastic new aircraft livery entitled "Flying 101". Kulula are well known for their fun marketing exploits and this one lives up to their high standards. Each part of the aircraft is labelled with humorous captions such as "Loo (or mile-high initiation chamber)" and "Landing gear (comes standard with Kulula Flying 101super-fly mags)". Click on the images to enlarge them.
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September 02, 2010
Ba-a-a-a-a
A nice pic by Giancarlo Rado (from his Flickr collection). This was taken in northern Italy.
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August 31, 2010
Oriental steampunk
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August 27, 2010
Oh my
A clever ad for a book.
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August 26, 2010
Clever tree carving
Here's one of 18 images of carved tree stumps on Galveston Island (after Hurricane Ike killed the trees in 2008).
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August 23, 2010
Chiseled in graphite
The UK's Telegraph has a slideshow of 17 pencil lead carvings by Dalton Ghetti.
H.T. Carol
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August 20, 2010
Vintage U.S. Park posters
Here's 1 of 8 at National Geographic:
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August 19, 2010
Why teachers drink
1 of 23 reasons why teachers drink.
H.T. Tucson John
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August 18, 2010
Warning labels
Journalism Warning Labels. Here's 1 of 10.
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August 16, 2010
Bus racing
10 photos at the Photo Journal of flat track bus-racing.
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August 11, 2010
Sand castle competition 2010
Here's a collection of over 200 photos of the Cannon Beach Sandcastle Contest (June, 2010). They're taken by George Vetter.
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August 10, 2010
A real-life Rosie the Riveter
The Denver Post has a collection of Depression-era color photos from the Library of Congress that were taken in the U.S.
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August 09, 2010
Fat's where it's at (4)
The turtle burger -- a hamburger wrapped in cheese and bacon, garnished with hot dog pieces, and then baked.
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August 07, 2010
A family joke
Hillary: "Have you had sex with Marc?"
Chelsea: "Not according to Dad."
H.T. Mary
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August 02, 2010
Call me
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July 30, 2010
Tour the USS Pampanito
Here's a series of 360° panoramas of this WW II submarine - inside and out.
She resides at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park these days.
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July 29, 2010
A bicycle built for brew
(as the Minneapolis Star Tribune called it.)
It's the PedalPub.
I can see pedaling and I can certainly see 'pubbing'. But mixing the two? If there was ever a situation begging for a Free Rider problem, that'd be it.
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July 28, 2010
BP logo redesign contest
One of hundreds of entries at logomyway.com
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July 27, 2010
Seat savers
Sold at Broadway and Mercer in NYC.
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July 26, 2010
Passive-aggressive showdown
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July 25, 2010
Imposter!
We're overdue for a cute animal picture.
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July 23, 2010
Hair of the dog
Danilo sends this clever animated comic. It comes from aencre, a French web comic site.
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July 22, 2010
Sunset eclipse
Astronomy Picture of the Day for July 15th. This was taken near Lago Argentino, near the Andes.
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July 21, 2010
srsly (3)
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July 20, 2010
Markets in everything (8)
Poster for a designated driver service in Minnesota.
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July 19, 2010
Just one glass a day - honest!
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July 14, 2010
What a headline (3)
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July 09, 2010
Arizona
Tucson John sends 11 cartoons about the new Arizona ID law with the subject line "I love Arizona".
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July 08, 2010
A hot dog in Texas
How hot is it in Texas?
H.T. Bill
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July 02, 2010
The Empire that was Russia
A nice collection of pre-WW II color photos taken in Russia.
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July 01, 2010
Unas rosas amarillas
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven...
but nobody wants to die.
H.T. Carol
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June 30, 2010
Waiting for the cat bus
From Nothing To Do With Arbroath. Click for a bigger image.
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June 29, 2010
Double strike
One of four interesting pictures of a storm in Chicago last week.
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June 28, 2010
Free to good home
Mary sends an interesting picture and story.
Free to good home. Excellent guard dog. Owner cannot afford to feed him anymore, as there are no more drug pushers, thieves, murderers, or molesters left in the neighborhood for him to eat.
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June 25, 2010
Truth in advertising
Tucson John sends a collection of 11 photos of funny shirts on unusually well-endowed women. Mostly SFW - but likely to appeal more to males.
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June 24, 2010
The right place at the right time
The ISS crew took this image on May 29th over the Indian Ocean.
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June 23, 2010
Happy belated solstice
Sunrise at Stonehenge on June 21st from Astronomy Picture of the Day. There's a much larger version there.
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June 22, 2010
The Book and Gun club
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June 21, 2010
Tiny monsters
Danilo sends a link to John Kenn's gallery of Post-it® note drawings. "A little scary in my opinion," he writes, "but very cool."
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June 18, 2010
Ingenious
Ingenious Flipper Bridge Melds Left-Side Drivers With Right-Side DriversHong Kong drives on the left side of the road, mainland China on the right. So how do you prevent crashes when driving between them?
[...] to quell confusion at the border and, more importantly, to keep cars from smashing into each other, the Dutch firm NL Architects proposed a brilliant, simple solution, the Flipper bridge.
The bridge does exactly what the name suggests: It flips traffic around. The key here is separating the two sides of traffic, using a figure-eight shape. One side of the road dips under the other, funneling cars that were traveling on the left to the right (and vice versa), without forcing them to encounter head-on traffic at an intersection. The bridge makes what should be a disorienting switch exquisitely easy.
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June 17, 2010
Drinking is like yoga
Carol sent a collection of pix comparing yoga to a drunken stupor. The Wayang Times has all eight.
Halasana Excellent for back pain and insomnia.
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June 16, 2010
Into the wild blue yonder
A cool image from the Bad Astronomy blog.
An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle patroled the launch area as the Space Shuttle Atlantis roared into space on its final flight in May. Check out the shadow of the plume on the ground!
Here's a monster version: 1724 x 2100.
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June 15, 2010
Taiwanese health care plan
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June 14, 2010
Fusion
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June 10, 2010
At the BP station
Heh.
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June 09, 2010
Be prepared
"Four long weeks" of the World Cup start today.
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June 08, 2010
Life's a beach
From the WSJ Photo Journal
Sonja Daniel wore a gas mask while sunbathing on a beach at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Baldwin County, Ala., Sunday. (Kate Mercer/Mobile Press Register/Associated Press)
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June 04, 2010
A bad week in fact
The Big Picture has 34 photos of the damage the Guatemalans have been suffering recently.
A rough week for GuatemalaIn just the past seven days, residents of Guatemala and parts of neighboring Honduras and El Salvador have had to cope with a volcanic eruption and ash fall, a powerful tropical storm, the resulting floods and landslides, and a frightening sinkhole in Guatemala City that swallowed up a small building and an intersection.
The sinkhole caused by the rains of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala City is estimated to be 30 meters wide and over 60 meters deep. The sinkhole formed Saturday, swallowing a clothing factory about three miles from the site of a similar sinkhole three years ago. The clothing factory had closed only an hour before it plunged into the Earth.
H.T. Paul B. and Danilo
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June 02, 2010
Lighter than hair
The Big Picture has 31 images of balloons and blimps. Most of the balloons are lighter-than-air craft but some are more prosaic.
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May 28, 2010
The backpacking cat
Kitty the Most Adventurous Backpacking Cat in the WorldKitty is perhaps the most adventurous cat in the world. She is the beloved cat pet of a French couple/explorers, Guillaume and Laetitia who are on a mission to travel from Miami, US to Ushuaia, Argentina purely on foot.
More pictures here. 2 minutes of video here.
H.T. Carol
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May 27, 2010
No gulls
From Friends of Irony.
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May 26, 2010
Git R Done
One of my favorites at White Trash Repairs.
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May 25, 2010
The Kama Sutra of currency
Here's the least explicit of 10 ancient Roman coins with sex scenes - sprintia
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May 24, 2010
Only in China
16 items that only Chinese WalMarts carry.
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May 22, 2010
Best of Show
The Fug Girls Pick the Loopiest Red-Carpet Outfits of CannesThe sound you hear is the sobbing of thousands of French lingerie-store proprietors, crying over how easily one of their many pairs of expensive, bespoke knickers could have taken center stage in this particular look. Ms. Muz's American Beauty shower curtain is certainly in keeping with the fact that her film, Tournée, is about burlesque — she herself is a well-known burlesque performer — but the fact that she's completely and totally starkers underneath it, in public and in broad daylight, is vintage crazy. Stay classy, Cannes. By which we mean, please don't ever change.
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May 20, 2010
More funky product names
The UK's Daily Mail has a collection of 16:
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May 19, 2010
Doodle 4 Google
This drawing is by one of the 40 regional finalists (in grades K - 12) in Google's Doodle 4 Google contest - where new designs for its logo are invited. Vote for your favorites, if you like.
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May 18, 2010
Maddie's hobbit hole
Maddie Chambers built a doll house-size model of Bag End, Bilbo Baggins' home. Here's the first of many pictures she's taken of it.
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May 15, 2010
Prom photo fail
140 funky prom pictures (including a few we've seen here previously).
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May 13, 2010
Walking tornado
I believe this was spotted in Jarrell, Texas in the late 90's.
H.T. Paul L.
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May 11, 2010
That's a volatile market
Here's a t-shirt that's available here.
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May 10, 2010
Slick scraping
The Frame has a collection of pictures of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 07, 2010
Count your blessings (2)
Mary forwards a message that says, "Every day we have something to be thankful for."
"Today we are thankful that the photographer was not standing on the other side."
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May 06, 2010
Ultimate ambigram
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April 30, 2010
Roadkill
Tucson John sent a set of images of a snake chowing down on a lizard with the claim that it happened near Cloudbreak, Arizona. But there doesn't seem to be a place in Arizona called Cloudbreak.
I found the same pictures with the claim they were taken near the Cloudbreak mine in the Australian outback.
Believe it or not, this snake got itself outside of the entire lizard. If you want to see all 11 images, they're here.
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April 29, 2010
Chiseled in stone
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April 27, 2010
Quite a view
This is the lead picture in The Big Picture's Earth Day 2010 image collection.
The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth created to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of our planet. Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
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April 26, 2010
Joined at the hair
From the WSJ's Pictures of the Day photoblog (for April 22nd).
Models wore designs by Mexico’s Alexia Ulibarri at a fashion show in Mexico City Wednesday. (Claudio Cruz/Associated Press)
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April 23, 2010
Painting by touch
This collection of paintings was made by a Turkish man named Esref Armagan, who's been blind since birth.
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April 21, 2010
More from Eyjafjallajokull
Another batch of impressive images of Eyjafjallajokull (35 of 'em) at The Big Picture.
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April 20, 2010
Missing the boat
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April 19, 2010
When the volcano blows
One of 18 images of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano at The Big Picture.
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Quite a light show
Ms. M sends a link to today's Astronomy Picture of the Day, this striking image of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland.
As a bonus, she includes a link to a Flickr gallery of volcano pictures.
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April 16, 2010
Civil engineering reference
This one's been sitting in the queue for quite a spell. I think it came from either Timoteo or from Tucson John.
For a larger image -- just in case you're having trouble reading it -- visit here.
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April 15, 2010
No lock needed
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April 14, 2010
Happy Tax Day (2)
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April 13, 2010
Half time at the dog show
H.T. SteveR
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April 12, 2010
Egg yolks
Here's one of 12.
Mmm... poached eggs!
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April 11, 2010
World's best buildings
A slideshow of 15 modern buildings at The Daily Beast. Each of the 15 slides has a brief bio of the architect.
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April 08, 2010
April in St. Louis county
We've had an unusually warm (and dry) April so far. The flora is responding beautifully. Those are daffodils (I believe) beneath the red bud tree.
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April 07, 2010
Unusual Google Earth photos
Here's one of a collection of 22 - they're pretty interesting. This one shows the "Google Escher" effect.
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April 06, 2010
360° Utah
Mary sends a link to Utah3d.net, which hosts a collection of 360° panoramas of scenes in Utah. This one is of Double Arch in Arches National Park.
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April 05, 2010
Painting people
This image comes from Alexa Meade's photostream at Flickr. To make paintings of people, she paints the people and then photographs them.
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April 02, 2010
Peeps show IV
The Washington Post's fourth annual Peeps Diorama Contest drew more than 1,100 sugar-inspired entries. Here's a slide show of their favorite 38.
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April 01, 2010
Bejeweled (2)
Photos of sleeping, dew-covered insects.
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March 31, 2010
Best sign ever?
From NerdNirvana.org:
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March 29, 2010
To the highest bidder
From Mark Perry's Carpe Diem
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March 24, 2010
The Flake Equation
There's a particularly funny cartoon at XKCD today that I'm sure Michael Crichton would have liked.
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March 22, 2010
Book structures
Book InstallationsIn past we have seen artwork created using books as medium, but it never occurred to us that even installations can be created using books until we saw these. These are the creations of artist Bendtsen. Bendtsen creates a series of architectural "installations" using books
H.T. Ms. M
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March 20, 2010
Paris in 26 gigapixels
Here - comprising 2346 images. It's claimed to be the world's largest photo.
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March 18, 2010
Getting the most out of your vehicle
Mary sends 13 examples of transportation optimization.
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March 17, 2010
WHY
This is the Wally-Hermes Yacht and it's quite a piece of work. Here's a collection of photos of it.
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March 10, 2010
Contest photography
The Big Picture had a collection of some of the entries in National Geographic's International Photography Contest 2009. The Big Picture editor chose the ones he liked. In this one, there are a mahout and his swimming elephant.
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March 09, 2010
Apocalypse Cake
Daithi sends a link to Apocalypse Cake, which you'll need to visit to appreciate. The photo below shows Jonestown Kool-Aid Cake.
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March 08, 2010
More motivation
A collection of 18 snarky 'motivational' posters.
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March 05, 2010
Storm damage out west
Tucson John writes
"With all the news lately about the subzero weather and snow that the Midwest and East Coast areas are experiencing, we shouldn't forget that Tucson has also had its share of devastating weather in the last couple of weeks.
Below is a photo showing damage to a home from a recent storm that passed through the Tucson area. Many a bingo game was played in this very spot before its untimely devastation. It really makes you cherish what you have and reminds us not to take life for granted."
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March 04, 2010
Scott's shots
Scott Ellis has a nice portfolio of nature photos at his Zenfolio site.
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March 03, 2010
Over the castle
Three US F-15s following a German F-104 over Neuschwanstein. 5 megapixel version here.
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March 01, 2010
Fake potholes
Mary sent a message with pictures of fake potholes and the claim that they were placed to slow speeders. But it appears their real purpose is to advertise shock absorbers.
A clever idea in either case.
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February 25, 2010
Sleeping newborns
The amazing pictures of snoozing newborns
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February 24, 2010
It's stuck all right
Alan Henderson is selling shirts with this design (and a bumper sticker) at Cafe Press.
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Mom was right
Remember when your mother warned you never to take candy from a strange man? This is the guy she was talking about
H.T. Mary
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February 22, 2010
Year of the Tiger
The Big Picture has a collection of photos from the Chinese New Year celebration earlier this month. Most of them are from China but the one below is of a tiger in Jakarta.
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February 18, 2010
Nailed
Vlad Artazov's Nails' Life (37 photos)
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February 17, 2010
One clever dog
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February 16, 2010
Had enough winter?
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No sense of humor
Get a larger view of this student's detention slip here. This is a good example of why I'm not a teacher. I'd probably have laughed aloud.
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February 13, 2010
A word to the wise
It's Mardi Gras parade day in St. Louis and Carnival started at dawn in Rio.
And Mary sends this reminder why middle-aged women shouldn't party too hearty.
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February 11, 2010
How it works
Mary sends this "flowchart for government:"
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February 09, 2010
A little nostalgia
Here's a page titled When a car was a car and a train was a train, with 6 pictures of steam locomotives and antique autos. (The early 50's Chevy pick-up in this picture brings back several memories.)
H.T. Tucson John
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February 08, 2010
Long live the Queen
Here's a page with a collection of photos of Queen Elizabeth II with every U.S. President since Harry (The Buck Stops Here) Truman. She's been queen since 1953. In three more years, she'll mark her Diamond Jubilee -- as her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria did.
H.T. Steve
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February 06, 2010
Record rattle snake
Steve sends some pix of this monster rattlesnake which was caught in St. Augustine, Florida. The article about it -- where there are more pix -- says it was 7 feet, 3 inches. It looks longer than 7 feet in this image.
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February 01, 2010
Happy Palindrome Day
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Tree house
This comes from a French site. Translated, the notes read:
This beautiful project, entitled Wilkinson Residence, is visible in the forest of Portland. With an architecture in perfect harmony with nature, this house built in the trees was conceived by creator Robert Harvey Oshatz.
A little more detail, including a floor plan, here.
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January 28, 2010
Still at work
This is from At work, part 2 at the Big Picture.
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January 22, 2010
Miss him yet?
Surprisingly enough, an Obama voter sent me this. (But I don't think it means she's changed her mind about GWB.)
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January 21, 2010
More French graffiti
There are hundreds of pix of graffiti in Paris in this Flickr collection.
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January 19, 2010
The Sky's the Limit
A collection of 25 images of skyscrapers and urban scenes at Slate. This one was taken in Paris in 1997.
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January 16, 2010
More clever ads
At DRB.
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January 14, 2010
Snow rollers
I'd never heard of snow rollers but a National Weather Service office in Spokane has a collection of pictures of them, taken in Idaho.
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Stop whining
Steve sends 11 images of deep snow in Quebec.
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January 13, 2010
Awesome dunes of Mars
Another dose of Martian awesomeThat is not a closeup of my chin before I shave. It's Mars, a dune field in the far north; at latitude 83.5° to be precise, less than 400 km (240 miles) from the north pole. The eternal Martian wind blows the heavy sand into dunes, and you can see the hummocks and ripples from this across the image. The sand on Mars is from basalt, which is a darkish gray color. The red comes from much smaller dust particles which settle everywhere.
But what are those weird tendril thingies?
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January 12, 2010
Doggie door suprise
Steve sent a couple of these pictures to satisfy your thirst for cute. The doe allegedly followed the beagle through its doggie door and then made itself at home. The other picture (and a related video) are here.
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Branded as scholars
Carpe Diem picks up an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:Given that he holds a named chair "for the study of capitalism" [BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at George Mason University] it is perhaps not that surprising that Pete Leeson was a keen economist even as a teenager. When he was 17, he had supply-and-demand curves tattooed on his right biceps. "People think it's fun and that I'm an oddball for having it," says Mr. Leeson. "One of my favorite things about it is the chance it gives me to talk to total strangers about economics." That, he admits, might confirm his "dorkdom," but so be it.
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January 10, 2010
Frozen fantasy land
The Big Picture has a collection of photos from the 26th annual International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin, China.
Here's a news video about the festival.
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January 08, 2010
Hacked stop signs
At urlesque.com. Some of them look like Photoshop jobs but they're still amusing.
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January 07, 2010
Most expensive car smash-ups
Tucson John sends a link to this collection of 10 expensive car crashes. Here's a Ferrari Enzo (what's left of it) after impact at 196 MPH.
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January 06, 2010
Still more funny signs
The TimesOnline has a slideshow of 20 funny signs from around the world.
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January 05, 2010
What's this?
Seems to be happy, whatever it is
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Best sand sculpture?
Jack sends a link to WhatPoll.com, a site that's - you guessed it - all about polls. It's worth a look. Here's one from a poll for the best sand sculpture.
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January 02, 2010
Analemma
This was the Astronomy Picture of the Day for December 20th. It reminded me of Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
If you went outside at exactly the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun appear to move? With great planning and effort, such a series of images can be taken. The figure-8 path the Sun follows over the course of a year is called an analemma. This coming Tuesday, the Winter Solstice day in Earth's northern hemisphere, the Sun will be at the bottom of the analemma. [...] With even greater planning and effort, the series can include a total eclipse of the Sun as one of the images. Pictured is such a total solar eclipse analemma or Tutulemma - a term coined by the photographers based on the Turkish word for eclipse. The composite image sequence was recorded from Turkey starting in 2005. The base image for the sequence is from the total phase of a solar eclipse as viewed from Side, Turkey on 2006 March 29.Credit & Copyright: Cenk E. Tezel and Tunç Tezel (TWAN)
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January 01, 2010
The Top 10 Top 10
Rhymes WIth Orange is one of my favorites.
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December 31, 2009
2009 in photos
This is 1 of 120 or so photos from the The Big Picture. See parts 1, 2, and 3.
Before the Iranian election, a supporter of main challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi forms a heart shape with her hands to indicate her support, while wearing green ribbons - the color of the party, amidst a festive atmosphere at an election rally rally in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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December 30, 2009
Send in the clowns
The Telegraph's Picture of the day for 17 December 2009
Clowns pose for a photo during an annual pilgrimage at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City
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December 27, 2009
Markets in everything (5)
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December 24, 2009
Beer bottle evergreen
A giant Christmas tree was made with 1000 Heineken beer bottles. Seen in front of the Nanjing road mall in Shanghai.
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December 21, 2009
Outsourced
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December 16, 2009
Says it all
The original owner of the 2BG2FAIL license plate, Robert Kindler, a vice chairman at Morgan Stanley who is one of the firm's top mergers and acquisitions advisors, has a new license plate! [...]Kindler [...] whose jokes on Wall Street are legendary – when he worked at JPMorgan, he had shirts made up mocking the firm's slogan: "One Firm. One Team. Bribe a Leader." — sent me his old 2BG2FAIL license plate in the mail. It came with a note saying that he had ordered the plate as a satirical reminder that "no one is too big to fail."
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December 12, 2009
Oddly specific
A whole site dedicated to all those funny pictures of signs.
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December 08, 2009
Storm trooper search
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December 07, 2009
Best Christmas decoration ever?
Rob sends this picture of The Best Christmas Decoration Ever.
Here is the story that went along with it.
Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after two days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down.First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn’t realize that it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of the many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn’t take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.
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December 06, 2009
Bad attitude
No prize in the neighborhood decorating contest for this one.
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December 01, 2009
Foodscapes
Carl Warner has a site featuring his photography of food. Click on the green Foodscapes box at left.
(It's a Flash site and it wants to set your browser window to your screen width -- not maximized -- so be warned.)
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November 27, 2009
Now this is a shotgun wedding
One of many unusual photos from Wedinator.com. (This one's more tasteful than most.)
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November 25, 2009
What a beauty
Tucson John sent another batch of images of the new Hoover Dam bridge this morning -- and it looks about the same as it did in the last set.
But John included two shots of El Alamillo bridge in Seville, Spain that piqued my interest.
That bridge was designed by architect & structural engineer Santiago Calatrava. Señor Calatrava has designed similar bridges in Redding, California and in Jerusalem.
This image of the El Alamillo bridge was taken by Mary Ann Sullivan, who has a nice collection of pictures of it (along with notes about its design).
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November 24, 2009
Expensive disasters
Jeff sends a link to this collection of the 11 Most Expensive Catastrophes in History at Chris Pirillo's site.
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November 23, 2009
Unusual churches
St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church is one of 20 unusual churches in this collection.
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November 19, 2009
Where Viagra ships from
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November 18, 2009
Holiday decorating tip
It's that time of year: here's a way to save yourself some time and effort.
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November 17, 2009
Unseen Sahara
National Geographic has a nice slideshow of the work of George Steinmetz in the Sahara.
But what really piqued my interest was how Mr. Steinmetz gets his aerial photos. He flies the most minimal powered 'chute rig I've ever read about. Here's a description from his site. (My emphasis.)
Most of the aerial photos you see on this website were taken from the seat of the lightest powered aircraft in the world, a motorized paraglider. The aircraft consists of three components: the “wing” of a paraglider (similar to an aerobatic parachute), a back-pack mounted motor, and a single-seat harness that ties the three pieces together. It is launched by laying the paraglider out on the ground behind me like a kite, and with the motor idling I run forward, inflating the cells of the glider as it rises overhead.Check out the photos at his site. Here he's pictured taking off. You can all of his craft in this photo (aside from the ends of the chute).
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November 16, 2009
At the frontier of scientific imaging
What is this? Find out at Gizmodo.
Thanks to Rob
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November 15, 2009
Shadow people
An interesting result from a simple operation.
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November 12, 2009
This would get your attention
Steve sends some pix of a commuter jet that was struck by lightning.
Or was it a fire in the cockpit? There's some discussion about it at PlaneBuzz, where you can see a couple of other images.
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November 11, 2009
Laziest dog ever
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November 06, 2009
What? No tire iron?
The Giant Knife from Wenger. I think you could buy one.
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November 05, 2009
The miracle of life
Late-breaking Halloween news; full-sized version here.
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November 04, 2009
How to spot a hunter with a DWI record
It's that time of year.
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November 03, 2009
Saturn at equinox
The Big Picture has a great collection of photos of Saturn, its rings and its satellites.
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November 02, 2009
Weird clouds
Here's a nice collection of unusual clouds (plus one volcanic plume).
Thanks to Danilo.
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November 01, 2009
Autumn 2009
My brother sent this picture of our father that appeared in the Peoria Journal Star, his local paper.
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October 29, 2009
More Halloweeny dogs
From Mary
11 more after the break...
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October 28, 2009
Best Halloween costume of the year?
At Deadspin
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October 27, 2009
More reasons why dogs hate Halloween
Seventeen of them in fact: here
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October 26, 2009
Not his better half
Another mug shot from The Smoking Gun.
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October 21, 2009
His Little Eye
Danilo sends a link to Willard Wigan's site where his micro-miniature artwork is featured.
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October 20, 2009
World Animal Day 2009
The Big Picture has a collection of 41 pix for World Animal Day this year. Here's a baby gibbon.
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October 15, 2009
More pet costumes
A slide show of costumed pets at Washingtonian.com.
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October 14, 2009
Why men don't live as long as women
20 images in a pictorial essay.
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October 13, 2009
Better than crop circles
Nearly 20 images of Japanese rice field art.
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October 08, 2009
California countryside
I was taken by this image of the California countryside near San Jose.
Via Maggie's Farm
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October 06, 2009
Would you?
If you were around in 1919 and came across this poster:
I mean, seriously, would you quit drinking?
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October 05, 2009
Redneck fire alarm
Hat tip: Mary
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October 02, 2009
The Invisible Man
This is one of eleven images of Liu Bolin, who makes himself invisible by painting himself - no Photoshopping, no trick photography. Just paint.
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September 30, 2009
Have you ever been this tired?
Tucson John sends a megadose of cute: 27 pictures of worn-out critters and children.
26 more after the break...
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September 28, 2009
Orange Sydney
The Big Picture has 26 images of Sydney during the recent dust storm.
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September 26, 2009
Hack your ride
When I stopped for gasoline this week, this vehicle from Wisconsin was parked next to mine. Someone had turned his Volvo sedan into a Ranchero-like vehicle for hauling toys.
There was a motorcycle in the back of the Volvo and on the trailer it was pulling were an ATV, a bicycle and (I believe) a go-cart. Since I didn't talk to the driver, I don't know what was up with the three horns at the front of the car.
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September 24, 2009
Brother, can you spare a buck?
A collection of 25 funny signs used by beggars. We've seen a couple of them here before but most were new to me.
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September 19, 2009
Balloon glow
Balloon Glow happens in St. Louis' Forest Park the night before the The Great Forest Park Balloon Race. This photo comes from last year's event.
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September 17, 2009
In flight
40 images of aircraft, ranging from a home-made helicopter in China to a hot air balloon in Germany at The Big Picture.
The Spanish Air Force's aerobatic team Patrulla Aspa perform during an aerial exhibition over San Lorenzo beach in Gijon, northern Spain July 26, 2009.
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September 15, 2009
Awesome manipulation
Awesome Photo Manipulations by Jan OliehoekJan Oliehoek is a photo manipulator now located in Leiden, Netherlands. Jan's works always surprise people by showing unexpected and interesting combinations. This Dutch talent is also an expert of combining work with fun, something we can learn from besides his awesome Photo Manipulations techniques. Want to see more insight? Check out the interview we conducted below!
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September 14, 2009
Let sleeping cats lie
Where do cats sleep? Wherever they like.
13 more after the break.
Tip o' the hat to Mary.
And meet Lucky...
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September 11, 2009
Unfortunate indeed
36 pix of restaurants with unfortunate names.
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September 10, 2009
Still more tattoos
Danilo sends several interesting tattoos. This first one is done ASCII-art style; there's more about it here.
Seven more after the break.
Black light tattoos:
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September 09, 2009
GraphJam
Music and pop culture in charts and graphs.
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September 08, 2009
Nice image work
Erik Johansson does nice work on photo retouching. Here's one example (of 39) from his gallery.
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September 04, 2009
Gaudy airliners
DRB has a collection of colorfully painted airliners. Naturally, Japan Air Lines is all over that idea. But most of the images are more striking than this one.
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September 03, 2009
Don't run that red light
Steve sends some pictures of the runway at the Gibraltar airport which intersects a road - complete with traffic signal.
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September 02, 2009
Nifty stairs
Seventeen Stairs that are More Cool than You.
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September 01, 2009
How bad is your job - really?
8 jobs must of us would probably prefer to avoid
H.T. Bill
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August 31, 2009
Still more funny animals
'These are actually good,' writes Carol about these 14 funny animal pix
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August 27, 2009
The eagle and the swan
Steve forwards some pix of a swan being attacked in mid-air by a bald eagle.
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August 26, 2009
Who're you gonna believe...
Me or your lyin' eyes? The two images below are identical.
Mark Perry at Carpe Diem has a post about the two towers illusion that appeared here two days ago. And he has links to many others as well. I particularly liked this one, called the break of the curveball.
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August 25, 2009
What a ride
News from Door County, Wisconsin via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A motorist sits precariously on the Maple-Oregon Bridge in Sturgeon Bay after getting stuck on the bridge as it opened Thursday. The motorist safely went on her way after the bridge was lowered. Police are hoping she'll call to explain how she managed to get stuck in that position.
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August 24, 2009
The year's best
Scientific American says this was the year's best optical illusion. The two towers below are two copies of the same image.
I'm not sure which year they referring to; the article was published in May 2007.
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August 21, 2009
They're right!
These are pretty offensive. You've been warned. 15 Most Offensive, Banned and Rejected Ads.
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August 19, 2009
RTFM (2)
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August 18, 2009
No fingerpainting
Here's one of eleven signs on this topic at PassiveAgressiveNotes.com.
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August 17, 2009
Sculptures in motion
A collection of photos of the work of Peter Jansen.
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August 14, 2009
Keep in touch with Facebook
Found in TJICistan, where it's admitted that this may be bogus but it's also claimed that this is definitely funny. The evidence supports that assertion.
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August 13, 2009
You call that art?
ABC News has an interesting online quiz: Is it art or not? It mixes modern art with children's work to see if you can tell the difference. I wasn't very successful at it.
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August 12, 2009
Living bridges
An interesting photo essay (with video) about bridges in India made from living tree roots.
The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. This tree produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and can comfortably perch atop huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the rivers themselves.
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August 11, 2009
Truck spills
Truckspills.com: The website of [...] things spilled on the road by trucks.
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August 10, 2009
Getting old is tough
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August 07, 2009
My other car...
This is part of an ad campaign available to Cooper dealers.
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August 06, 2009
Still timely
Here's a "demotivaitonal" poster that was making the rounds about a year ago. (Click for a larger view.)
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August 04, 2009
Lightning
The Big Picture has 26 pictures of lightning. This one was taken at Lake Lecco, Italy.
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August 03, 2009
Great movie moments with Obama
Rob & Mary (separately) sent spoofs of well-known movies, like the one below. There are 6 of them here.
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July 30, 2009
New bridge at Hoover Dam
Tucson John sends this picture of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. It's a little out of date: the concrete arches are now touching, according to this article.
Taking shape, the new bridge at the Hoover DamCreeping closer inch by inch – 900ft above the mighty Colorado River – the two sides of a £160million bridge at the Hoover Dam in America slowly take shape. [...]
The arches are made up of 53 individual sections – each 24ft long – which have been cast on-site and are being lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons.
The arches will eventually measure more than 1,000ft across. At the moment, the structure looks like a traditional suspension bridge. But once the arches are complete, the suspending cables on each side will be removed.
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July 25, 2009
Homonyms are hell
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July 24, 2009
Landscapes (2)
milouvision.com is a portofolio site for David Baker. This page has a large number of images (745, I think), most of which are landscapes - with the odd architectural and portrait shot thrown in.
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July 22, 2009
Impact!
Jupiter Adds a FeatureMauna Kea, Hawai'i—Jupiter's got a brand new mark. Something slammed into the gas giant leaving a dark bruise in the planet's atmosphere, scientists at Keck Observatory confirmed early on the morning of July 20 Hawaiian Standard Time.
The observation, made with the Keck II telescope, marks only the second time astronomers have seen such an impact on the planet. The first collision occurred 15 years ago, when more than 20 fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) collided with Jupiter.
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July 21, 2009
Signs, signs, everywhere signs
Elf n' safety warning: You could die laughing at these amazing pictures of the Nanny State stating the obviousIt may seem obvious that things left out in the rain will get wet.
Not obvious enough, though, for authorities in central London, who have responded to the danger of damp public benches by sticking notices on them, warning: 'Caution: seats may become wet.' [...]
Scroll down for a sample of ludicrous signs put together by the Manifesto Club. 'Attention Please' features examples of official overcaution messages collected between autumn 2007 and the end of last year.
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July 20, 2009
Bad paintings of Barack Obama
Paul says, "Some of these had me howling."
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July 18, 2009
Time to fly
I believe they're talking about traveling to Thailand but I could be wrong.
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July 15, 2009
When the eagle landed
The Big Picture has 40 images about the Apollo 11 mission.
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July 10, 2009
Pimp your garage
At Jalopnik, there're 15 examples of garage door wraps.
Here's a cheeky product to simultaneously camouflage your trash-heap garage and annoy your neighbors — "Style Your Garage." Printed tarps to wrap over the garage door with stuff like Ferraris and SR-71 Blackbirds on them.
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July 09, 2009
No regrets? (2)
Bill sends more pix of tattoos and body modifications - 19 in all.
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July 08, 2009
The passing of a giant
A funny picture from Rob.
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July 07, 2009
Weather advisory
Rich sends this message: "When you walk out the door in the morning and see this in the sky, just go back inside, have another cup of coffee, and stay home. It's NOT going to be a good day."
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July 06, 2009
Smart Car mods
Mary sends some amusing images of mods for the Smart Car. They're all Photoshop work -- not real body kits, unfortunately. The 6 images are here - including the 'Smorvette', 'Smamborghini', 'Smerrari', two 'Smorsches' and the 'Smaudi A3'.
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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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November 16, 2007
Earthrise redux
Wow! Moon Probe Captures 'Earth-rise' in High Definition
By SPACE.com Staffposted: 13 November 2007
08:50 am ETA Japanese moon probe has replicated the famous Apollo-era "Earth-rise" photograph with modern high-definition imaging.
The Kaguya spacecraft, also called Selene, has been orbiting 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the moon since Oct. 18.
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November 15, 2007
Don't back up
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November 14, 2007
Georgy porgy
GEORGE the hedgehog looks more like a porky-pine after scoffing his way to FOUR times the average size.He was handed to a wildlife sanctuary in Leatherhead, Surrey, by householders worried he must have an illness.
In fact George, who weighs nearly five pounds and measures more than 31 inches around, was just fat.
Staff are putting him on a six-month diet.
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November 13, 2007
Perfect timing II
More perfectly timed pictures - 25 in all. This set isn't all about sports, as the first set was.
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November 12, 2007
Watch the watts
A clever ad from Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned electric utility.
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Tokyo Motor Show
The folks at MSN write, "The Tokyo Motor Show consistently features some of the most unusual and outlandish concept vehicles on the show circuit. The editors onsite have culled through the choices and picked our favorites." One of those was the Honda PUYO pictured below.
Check out the slideshow.
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November 08, 2007
Iran in pictures
Abi has put up 103 images of Iran at Picasa. It's a nice collection.
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27 aquatic animals
At the Bounty Fishing blog.
Via.
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November 07, 2007
Decorated water towers
Crooked Brains has a collection of artistic water towers, including Collinsville's famous Catsup Bottle.
The one above is in Austin, Texas. No surprise there, they're just Keeping Austin Weird.
But it's not painted on the tower. Instead it was a real-time projection of an eyeball onto the tower done last New Year's Eve. You can see video of the event at YouTube.
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November 05, 2007
Otro mundo
This was a PowerPoint slideshow by Luis Garrido about the amazing building boom that's going on in Dubai. It's 43 slides and was originally called Dubai Otro Mundo. Someone evidently translated the Spanish text to English at some point.
We've seen a few of these slides -- the ones about the indoor ski resort -- here before. Despite that, it was interesting enough that I cranked it through SlideShare.net to produce the show below.
Don't miss the proposed rotating skyscraper project, starting at slide 40. And slide 38 looks like something out of Niven's Ringworld.
H.T. Carol
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November 02, 2007
Good lookin' wheels
The UK's Telegraph asks: What's the most beautiful car of all time? They have a nice slideshow there of their picks.
But it's a no-brainer, IMO. It's the Jaguar E-Type above; the only car (to my knowledge) that's been permanently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art. Sweet to look at and even sweeter to drive.
Via.
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November 01, 2007
More demotivation
Bill sends some a few more examples of demotivation posters - the one below being my favorite. It looks like they came from either a collection at Worth1000.com or from this collection (which has hundreds of them).
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October 31, 2007
Happy Hallowe'en
This image comes from digital-photography-school.com
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October 30, 2007
Dense indeed
OrangeGuru recently returned to blogging and he posts here about some photos of Hong Kong by Michael Wolf. Many of them reminded me of scenes from The Matrix.
Doing a little googling, it appears that these probably came from Mr. Wolf's work Architecture of Density. You can find Wolf's site here.
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October 29, 2007
Jar head
A.E. sends a link to this seasonal decorative piece.
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October 26, 2007
The Clintons
Ann Althouse posted this Photoshopped image of the Clintons that I found amusing.
The original picture appeared in the L.A. Times. The text is a quote of something Hillary said (last year, IIRC).
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October 25, 2007
Young Gallery
The Young Gallery in Brussels exhibits photography and has a large collection of images by various photographers at its site. This one is by David Drebin.
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October 24, 2007
Goodbye Art
Phil Hansen does some projects he calls goodbye art that he makes with odd things: pine cones, small candles and (shown below) the grease from french fries.
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October 19, 2007
How to Deal with Trick-or-Treaters
Another Basic Instruction from Scott Meyer. This is the first of four panels.
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October 18, 2007
International Photography Awards
Phottle blog has a very large collection of impressive images that won Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards.
This one took second place in the Annual Report division. It's called Building the Supertanker (John Rae, New York).
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October 17, 2007
Do what?
Carol sends this amusing image of a bloodhound that seems to feel put-upon. Click for a larger view.
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October 10, 2007
Rocket geeks
Two guys in Amarillo built and launched a 1/4 scale Colonial Viper (from the series Battlestar Galactica).
They did up the christening proper-like at their local Hooters.
And one of them has a pretty nice astrophotography site.
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October 05, 2007
Perfect timing
Perfectly Timed Sports Pictures.
Via.
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October 04, 2007
Wallpaper
Bored Night has a nice collection of 80-odd high-res (1600x1200) photos taken at US national parks.
Via.
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October 02, 2007
Going up
DeputyDog has a collection of interesting elevators: images, some description, and a few video clips. This one is the Bailong elevator in China, the tallest outdoor elevator there is.
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October 01, 2007
Luna at high resolution
This is a very nice high resolution image of the Moon; click for a 1600x1200 view . I don't know the source.
Via.
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September 29, 2007
The Arctic
Here's a slideshow at Time.com of photos from a new book.
In his new book, 'Nordmeer', photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov explores the northernmost reaches of the globe. His photographs reveal a world of breathtaking beauty and unremitting hardship.
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September 26, 2007
Pictures of Mom
These images came from a PowerPoint slideshow that's making the e-mail rounds. I cherry-picked the ones I liked and those follow. The slideshow is allegedly composed of images taken by Sunita Williams, a USN officer & NASA astronaut. But I have some serious doubts about that claim; see the final image for the reason.
Click any image for a larger view.
A Saharan sandstorm blowing into the Atlantic
The Straits of Gibraltar
The terminator in Africa & Europe
The Black Sea
The Red Sea
The terminator in North America
This one was titled, "Our planet in the middle of the universe at night."
(Gee, sure is dark here in the middle of the universe, eh? Dark all around the globe, in fact.
For a CG image of what this should look like, see this page)
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September 25, 2007
More dust pix
A little over a year ago, I linked to a slideshow of pictures Scott Wade drew in the dust on car windows.
Here's more of the same in a different collection; this saguaro scene is the first of 21 images. I don't know whether Mr. Wade did these.
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September 21, 2007
A time sex thing?
A collection of the 20 Worst Engrish ever.
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September 19, 2007
Scenic Arizona
Here's 1 of 26 prints by Robert McDonald in a gallery at Arizona Highways. The mountains are this one in this one are the San Francisco Peaks, just north of Flagstaff.
[This isn't a plug for Arizona Highways -- I just like the images.]
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Clever advertising
Click for a larger image.
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September 15, 2007
Big holes
A collection of photos of very large holes in the ground. Most are man-made (mines) but two are natural.
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September 12, 2007
Soccer mice
A Swiss company called Pat Says Now, has released a collection of mice in the form of a woman’s body. These mice can be accessorized with soccer t-shirts for 5 national teams: England, Brazil, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Via.
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September 08, 2007
Pimp your paddy
From Pink Tentacle, here's one from a collection of pix of Japanese rice paddy art.
Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This year’s creation — a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji — has begun to appear (above). It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September.
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Manhole covers
And who knew the Japanese took such pains to decorate their manhole covers? This is one of 10 images at FunForever.
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September 05, 2007
Wal*Mart: Masters of Irony
Here's a Wal*Mart store in Berlin, Germany that's located on Karl-Marx StraBe. Whoever picked this site should have gotten a bonus.
If only we could see the Always Low Prices banner...
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September 04, 2007
That's not safe
Here are some pictures of unsafe situations.
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August 31, 2007
I live on a big round ball
This is one of many images from the Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment #3, or SABLE-3. These guys ran a balloon up to 117,500 feet (22 miles), taking pictures every minute on the way up.
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Leaf art
This is an image of a leaf painting by Kazuo Akasaki. It's composed of naturally-colored, undyed leaves. There are several other examples and a video clip (in Japanese) at Japan Probe.
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August 30, 2007
It's not a bug
Dave at MacRaven sends a link to this picture of one of the funniest vanity plates I've seen.
Jay Garmon writes at TechRepublic, "It’s at times like these that I really lament the demise of the classic Volkswagen Beetle. Plus, mad props to the software development humorist who got that vanity plate."
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August 29, 2007
Body mod
Top 10 physically modified people
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August 24, 2007
A blog for anything
Alexander Zakharov has a blog named A Soviet Poster A Day. It features some nice artwork along with explanations of the posters; the legend on this one means, "To fly higher than all, farther than all, faster than all!"
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August 20, 2007
Old ads
Weirdomatic has a collection of 30-plus odd old advertisements.
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August 17, 2007
Balloon festival
This is from a 360° panorama taken at a balloon festival in Bristol, England.
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August 16, 2007
Crabbing
A slideshow about crabbing in the Bering Sea.
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August 15, 2007
Carved crayons
Pete Goldlust's crayon carvings remind me of pencil carvings.
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August 07, 2007
Under the ice
Time magazine has a nice slideshow called Life Beneath Antarctic Ice, featuring photos taken by Norbert Wu.
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July 27, 2007
Aerial photos
Here's a collection of interesting aerial photographs - 15 total.
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July 25, 2007
A long train
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July 24, 2007
Bridge
This image comes from one of the exhibits at the London Design Festival Click on the image to the slideshow for the exhibit called Bridge or visit the main site to find the entire gallery.
This truncated description appears to be all that's available.
Bridge, by Michael Cross, is a series of steps that rise out of the water as you walk across them, as if walking on water. On entering the exhibition the visitor is met by an empty expanse of water with one step at its edge: stepping on to it forces it......
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July 23, 2007
More juxtaposition
A collection of 15 unfortunately placed ads.
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July 22, 2007
Summer time
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July 20, 2007
Bug pix
Here's a very interesting collection of photos of (mostly) insects by Cyrus Khamak.
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July 19, 2007
Fake or foto?
Here's an interesting way to while away a few minutes. Take this quiz to see if you can tell the real photos from the computer-generated images. I managed to get 8 of 10, but it was tough going.
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July 17, 2007
Crazy car crashes
A collection of 45 photos of vehicular mishaps (some probably Photoshopped).
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July 16, 2007
Small World again
I had a post about Nikon's annual Small World photomicrography competition a couple of years back. This year they're taking votes on their collection of images. (It won't influence the official judging, which was completed in May.)
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July 13, 2007
Church signs
A collection of 15 funny church signs.
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July 12, 2007
First Corinthians tattoo
This preview of a lower back tattoo comes from the Accordian Guy. Click to see a larger image.
Via.
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July 09, 2007
Beautiful photography
Let's Take Pictures! is one of the slickest Flash sites I've seen. I know that the W3C purists discourage using Flash (with reason), but when it's done well it's very impressive. And this site's done extremely well.
It's a way to post & display photos. And it contains a very international & striking collection, like this beauty which was taken in Maine.
Via.
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Great ads
I don't know how many of these ads are legitimate and how many are from Photoshop, but they're pretty funny regardless of their sources.
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July 05, 2007
Botany Photo of the Day
The University of British Columbia in Vancouver has a Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research. And the Garden/Centre has a web site featuring the Botany Photo of the Day.
Here's a recent sample.
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July 02, 2007
Julian's place
I recently learned that the ever-popular Julian Beever, Mr. Pavement Picasso himself, has a site of his own. There you will find many of his sidewalk chalk drawings, along with a few other things he's done.
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June 29, 2007
One day in space
There's a really nice collection of 37 images at Dark Roasted Blend showing space shuttle Atlantis' rendezvous with the ISS. Most of them are of the astronauts or the craft, but this one is sunset over the Pacific ocean.
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Rudy's chance to save America
Lou sends this interesting image and subject line.
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June 27, 2007
Time to check the want ads
If you're the one operating the crane when this happens, you may not be operating the crane tomorrow. Value of the craft reported to be $2.5M.
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June 25, 2007
lolcats
Check them out at I can has cheezburger?
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June 22, 2007
What's wrong with this picture?
Via.
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June 18, 2007
Tape casting
Carol sends several images of "scotch tape sculptures", including the one below. A little googling revealed that these are made of cling film (plastic wrap), packing tape and Scotch® tape using a process that Mark Jenkins came up with for making street art.
You can find a nice collection here (keep scrolling down).
If this fires your imagination, here's a tape casting tutorial that tells you how to do it (also courtesy of Mr. Jenkins).
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June 15, 2007
Google in 20 years
Image from Flickr.
H.T. MacRaven
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June 14, 2007
Street View
An interesting post at Mashable.com:
Top 15 Google Street View Sightings
May 31, 2007 — 11:05 AM PDT — by Stan SchroederGoogle’s Street View feature for Google Maps, which enables users to see certain parts of several big US cities through panoramic images, has caused a new trend: StreetSpotting (we just invented that). We’ve gone through the avalanche of reports about funny, weird or even sexy things spotted on Street View, and chosen 15 that we like most.
Via.
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June 12, 2007
Gigapixel Chicago
Click on the image to visit Scott Howard's photography site. Then click on that image to zoom in... and in... and in. The image is 67,000 x 15,000 pixels and comprised of 194 separate pictures that took an hour to shoot.
I was surprised that I could nearly make out the faces of people in the amphitheater of the Shedd Aquarium (at the left side of the image). There are two other equally impressive megapixel images at his site as well: Sydney and Machu Picchu.
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June 11, 2007
More cute animal action - V
This colleciton of two dozen images comes from A.E. Most of them were new to me.
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June 06, 2007
Great graffiti
Via pressesc.com, I found these images of graffiti at flickr (each image links to its flickr page).
Photo by aperte
by striatic
Photo by gilles_itzkovitchklein
Photo by southtyrolean
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June 04, 2007
More crazy tattoos
I found another collection of crazy tattoos at Living in the Whine Country. Some are very definitely NSFW, so be warned.
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May 31, 2007
Modelleisenbahn
Actually, this incredibly detailed, 1/6-scale railroad model was built in Britain and not in Germany. I don't know whether it runs as well; maybe it's only for show.
This is one of 57 (if I counted correctly) images of a model built by Peter Shaw that appear in the UK1:6th Collectors Club forum. The final image includes Mr. Shaw and gives a sense of scale.
H.T.: A.E.
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May 29, 2007
Tasty
It's a Mazda Pi (to 27 digits):
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May 24, 2007
Dark sky
Here's a very small version of a nice panaroma of the night sky in Death Valley, California.
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May 15, 2007
Crazy Tattoos
OddWeek.com has a collection of images of 20-some crazy tattoos -- the World's Craziest Tattoos, it calls them. The one below isn't the craziest one, but it struck me as a pretty weird tattoo to wear on your throat.
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May 14, 2007
More of the Deep
We had The Deep recently, a book about the unusual species found in the ocean. Now we have a documentary film called Deep Jungle. One of the species of fauna found in the jungle is this "chicken-eating spider."
Yeef. How'd you like to find this fellow in your henhouse?
The crew of scientists and cinematographers was pleased to discover a previously unidentified species of tarantula, dubbed “the chicken-eating spider,” in Peru.
Via Althouse.
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May 09, 2007
What would Richard Feynman do?
This image (click for a larger version) comes from WellingtonGrey.net. I believe it's part of the Miscellanea collection there and is one of many funny flow charts.
Based on his autobiography, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, I think this about covers it.
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May 07, 2007
Spherical panoramas
Here's a collection of two dozen spherical panoramas . They're scenes in southern California and other parts of the western US. The one below was made at the Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona.
Via Lileks.
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May 04, 2007
The Deep
A collection of images taken deep in the ocean that appear in a book titled The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss. Click on the Gallery icon.
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May 02, 2007
A bad idea?
A.E. says, "Now here's a bad idea." about a motorcycle with dual controls, the subject of this post at Modern Mechanix ("Yesterday's tomorrow, today.") The whole site's chock-a-block with articles from old science and technology magazines.
I thought it was sort of an interesting idea myself. But I was just giving my son his first lesson in how to ride last Sunday.
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April 30, 2007
How many farmers does it take...
to tattoo a pig? Here's a collection of six images of some tattooed pigs at a page titled artfarm china.
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April 28, 2007
Location, location, location
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April 24, 2007
April showers
A picture of a rainstorm as it rolled up the valley this evening. (Click for a larger image.)
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April 18, 2007
So far out
Ann Althouse recently took a trip that included Austin and this is one of the photos she posted. It reminded me of Carol's telling us about the "Let's Keep Austin Weird" campaign there.
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April 17, 2007
Something else I never expected to see
A monster Rolls... (Click for a larger image.)
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April 14, 2007
Playing with your veggies
Carol sends a collection of 12 images. They're all pop-ups.
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April 11, 2007
Biloxi ingenuity
Some clever work with a chain saw. Here's 1 of 10 images from The World According to Carl:
Several live oak trees in the median of U.S. Highway 90, Biloxi, Mississippi that died as a result of hurricane Katrina received new life at the hands of a skilled chain saw artist.
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March 22, 2007
360° Moscow
Someone's published a 360° panorama of Moscow (done in QuickTime).
Via CFG blog.
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Bumper sticker of the day
Here's an amusing bumper sticker I caught at the local QuikTrip when I stopped for coffee.
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March 15, 2007
Balloon art
I don't know where they came from, but Carol sends these 32 images of balloon artwork:
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March 08, 2007
More cute animal action - IV
Nine more images of cute animals.
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February 28, 2007
A warning sign
Carol sends this series of images as a guide for: How to tell when your feet smell.
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February 26, 2007
More cute animal action - III
Still more of that cute animal stuff.
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February 09, 2007
A cloud-capped mountain
But I don't know which mountain it is.
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February 08, 2007
Porcelain process control
John's wife told him this was evidence that males can be trained.
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February 06, 2007
Shazam!
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February 05, 2007
More cute animal action - II
Here are nine more images as a follow-up to last montht's More cute animal action post.
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February 01, 2007
Vandals like Tetris too
Via A Welsh View.
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January 30, 2007
The cruelest tattoo
Tucson John sends this image of a young woman with a cruel tattoo. Click the image for a larger view.
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January 25, 2007
Desert Sky
I'm not sure what this is, but it looks pretty striking.
Update: Paul writes, "Looks like a trail from a rocket test to me.
See others at:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020926.html
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2005/23sep05/mammana3.jpg
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/rockettrail.shtml"
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January 24, 2007
From the right angle
This comes from a collection of 14 funny images at CyberNetNews forum.
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January 22, 2007
Sandwich art
GadgetGrrll sends these 21 samples of sandwich art with the question, "How could you eat one?"
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January 17, 2007
Apollo
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January 16, 2007
Unusual buildings
This comes from a slideshow at AOL's Money & Finance site. It's one of 17 interesting images.
Via A Welsh View.
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January 11, 2007
Real Life® cute animal action
CALI, Columbia -- Ana Julia Torres kisses Jupiter, an African lion she rescued malnourished from a circus six years ago, at her Villa Lorena animal shelter, in Cali, Colombia. Ana Julia Torres is the owner of the 12-year-old shelter that rescues sick and mistreated animals from all over Colombia. (01/08/07 AP photo)
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January 09, 2007
More cute animal action
It's been awhile since we've had any cute animal pix. Here's a collection of 10.
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January 08, 2007
Funny ads on buses
A collection of 21 funny ads painted (I assume) on mass transit buses.
Via A Welsh View.
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January 03, 2007
Flying bullets
A cartoon via Lou.
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January 02, 2007
Redneck glare shield
Thanks to Brian, we have a pic of this example of workspace ingenuity.
There's nothing like a little cardboard to add that special hi-tech touch.
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January 01, 2007
Dog's perspective
Carol sent a set of 8 cartoons about dogs by Mark Parisi but since Mr. Parisi licenses the publication rights, I'll limit myself to one and a link to his site.
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December 22, 2006
Winter funnies
8 funny cartoons courtesy of A.E.
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December 11, 2006
Random pix
Steve F sends this collection of 10 funny images.
Bad judgment
Built-in airbags
What a shot!
Desperate housewives
That's gonna hurt
Hard at work...
Loud enough? (How to screw up an RX-8...)
Don't tailgate!
Sad cat (how crazy do you have to be to get into a shower with a cat?)
Bummer, man...
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December 10, 2006
Clever marketing
J.R. sends 11 images of clever marketing and packaging:
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December 06, 2006
This old house
Here's an interesting collection of photos that were taken by house inspectors, collected in a PowerPoint slideshow. There are some pretty excellent examples of FUBAR home repairs in this collection.
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December 05, 2006
Juiced mayo
The folks at Nike are marketing a new golf ball they call Juice. They've put up several slo-mo clips at their site of this new ball being fired at different objects. As in this image of what happens when one of the balls hits a jar of mayo...
Via CFG blog.
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December 04, 2006
Glass wings
Steve R. forwarded a couple of images of glasswing butterflies, which led me to a set of 10 at Hemmy.net.
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November 27, 2006
Until Niagara Falls
Click for a larger version of this satellite image of Niagara Falls.
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November 22, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving
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November 21, 2006
Hard-to-find toys
The Thanksgiving weekend traditionally marks the start of the shopping season for Christmas. Rob sends a message about toys that may be hard to find this season.
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November 20, 2006
Cute dog postscript
The More cute dogs post struck a nerve: Tim writes, "I took this a few weeks ago of son #3 and our dog. Obviously more recent than the one in the article, but certainly no less cute."
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November 17, 2006
More cute dogs
Here's one of fourteen Cute Dog Pix at the world-wide web home of Kalamazoo Animal Rescue:
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November 13, 2006
BMW for sale
Lou sends this picture with only the subject line above - so your guess is as good as mine.
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November 09, 2006
Top 100
An archive of the top 100 images from the Hubble space telescope. (I don't know whose "top 100" this is, but it is impressive.)
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November 07, 2006
Sexist humor
A funny animated GIF from Carol.
Have you ever wondered how a woman's brain works? Well, it's finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration (click for a larger image):
Every one of those little blue balls is a thought about something that needs to be done, a decision or a problem that needs to be solved
Good thing a man's brain requires only two balls.
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More sexist humor
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November 06, 2006
Flickrshow
A slideshow of very striking images compiled from photos at Flickr.
Via A Welsh View.
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November 03, 2006
Not far to look
Rob sent this image last week with the comment, "Funniest thing I have seen all week."
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November 02, 2006
Granny knows
A funny - and well done - comment on politics from Mary. Click for a larger image.
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November 01, 2006
Lava or lightning?
A striking image from Payson, Arizona, with many others at Zullo Photos' site.
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October 31, 2006
More reasons dogs hate Hallowe'en
Last week's collection of Hallowe'en dogs seemed to be fairly popular, judging from the logs. Here's another collection of 25 more, for those who are interested.
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October 28, 2006
3D pumpkin carving
Here's a tutorial on 3-D (relief) pumpkin carving, with several sample images.
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October 27, 2006
Interesting jack-o-lanterns
Steve R sends 6 images of jack-o-lanterns.
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October 26, 2006
For Sale
Carol sends this set of 6 images with the subject line above.
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October 24, 2006
Team Sandtastic
Carol sends a link to Team Sandtastic's Professional Sand Sculpture site. There're a bazillion images there -- this isn't the best one by a long sight.
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October 23, 2006
Why dogs hate Hallowe'en
Time for more seasonal cuteness. Steve R. sends these 12 images showing why dogs hate Hallowe'en.
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October 18, 2006
Another scandal in Washington?
Carol forwards this message:
All of the evidence is not in, but it appears that Secretary of State Rice may have been sleeping with President Bush. I'll send details when they become available.All I have now is this photograph.
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October 17, 2006
Paperwork
Peter Callesen has a site with some really impressive artwork made all of paper. This particular piece is called Down the River.
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October 13, 2006
Nice collection
Mike sent 13 very nice photos taken at the Jones Beach Air Show near New York City. (From Memorial Day 2006, I believe.) But since we can find them hosted here, let's use that guy's bandwidth. Here's a sample:
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October 12, 2006
Quite a costume
Kevin Kelm's MechaWolf - standing 9' 4" (2.85 meters) tall.
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October 11, 2006
Take off!
A striking time-lapse image of a plane taking off at Airliners.net.
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October 09, 2006
The last photo
One of 7 images in a collection called The Last Photos I Ever Took.
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October 05, 2006
More Blue Angels
Steve R sends four more Blue Angels pix to augment the collection of Blue Angels at San Francisco images. All images are pop-ups.
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October 04, 2006
½ price sale
Lou sends these curious images from Colorado Springs. Must have been one heck of a divorce.
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October 03, 2006
Zen crossword
Few things beat a good joke about Zen. This one comes from True & Useful.
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October 02, 2006
Spinach bust
A.E. sends this topical cartoon that appeared in The Sacramento Bee.
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September 29, 2006
Demotivation
Rob sends a link to a page featuring de-motivational posters.
Warning: a couple of these push the boundaries of taste pretty hard -- even more so than this one.
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September 28, 2006
Light bulb time
A.E. sends an old joke in a new form.
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September 26, 2006
Rodavia da Morte
Seven images of a road cut into a cliff in (I believe) Brazil.
Via A Welsh View.
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September 22, 2006
F-14: The Final Flight
Jeff sends a link to F-14: The Final Flight, a collection of 100 images of the F-14 Tomcat which is being retired from service.
Arabian Gulf (Nov. 22, 2003) – An F-14 Tomcat assigned to the “Checkmates” of Fighter Squadron Two One One (VF-211) launches from the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Milosz Reterski.
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September 21, 2006
Getting around the US
Steve F sends a PowerPoint slideshow, titled Getting Around Our Country, that contains 72 images of scenery and animals (and one person). Most of them are pretty striking photos. I pulled the images out and they appear below. (All these images are pop-ups.)
If you want to view the PowerPoint - complete with audio track - all 5.6MB of it is here.
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September 13, 2006
Fire rainbow
Snopes says, "This is a real photograph of an atmospheric phenomenon known as a circumhorizon(tal) arc, the example shown above was captured on camera as it hung for about an hour across a several-hundred square mile area of sky above northern Idaho (near the Washington border) on 3 June 2006."
H.T. to Steve R.
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September 12, 2006
Driving hazard
I'm driving along on the highway at 65, minding my own business, when out of nowhere there appears this big crack in my windshield!
I leaned to the right; then I leaned to the left. But I couldn't seem to ignore it...
There just ain't NO words for this!
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September 08, 2006
Engineering quiz
Lou sends this test of what you remember from strength-of-materials class.
A backhoe weighing 8.1 tons is on top of a flatbed trailer heading east on Interstate 70 near Hays, Kansas. The extended shovel arm is made of hardened steel and the approaching overpass is made of commercial grade concrete, reinforced with 1 1/2 inch steel rebar spaced at 6 inch intervals in a crisscross pattern layered at 1 foot vertical spacing.
The truck is traveling at 75 MPH. The bridge is stationary. The ambient temperature is 95° F and there is an easterly wind at 12 knots. Assume no braking by the truck driver.
How far into the bridge will the backhoe travel?
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Final approach at SFO
Here is a great image (pop-up) of a Lufthansa 747-400 and a United 757-200 that were on simultaneous approaches to runways 28L and 28R at San Francisco (SFO). The separation requirement for flying parallel and simultaneous approaches is 225 meters (about 750 feet). These two aircraft are at a safe distance for the approaches they are each flying.
This incredible illusion is due to the 747 being three times larger than the 757, being slightly behind the 757, and the depth of field limits of a telephoto lens.
Tip o' the hat to Steve R.
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September 07, 2006
The smoking room ceiling
"This is pretty good," says Steve R.
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September 06, 2006
Hang up and drive
A.E. sends this set of six cartoons about cell phones and driving.
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September 01, 2006
Bad news
Mary sends these images of situations you'd rather not be in.
Some we've seen before but most were new to me.
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August 29, 2006
Fair warning
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August 24, 2006
Dis the ref
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August 22, 2006
Attention ball collectors
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August 15, 2006
Spirit over St. Louis
Steve R sends a link to this image at the Air Mobility Command's site. This image also appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week, during Air Force Week at Scott Air Force base (which is just east of St. Louis).
B-2 Spirit flies over St. Louis
A B-2 Stealth bomber from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., flies over the St. Louis Arch on Aug. 10. The B-2 flyover was one of several events celebrating Air Force Week in St. Louis. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Justin D. Pyle)
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August 11, 2006
Speaks for itself
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August 09, 2006
A love story
This 80-year-old woman was arrested for shoplifting. When she went before the judge he asked her, "What did you steal?"
"A can of peaches."
The judge asked her why she had stolen the can of peaches and she replied that she was hungry. The judge then asked her how many peaches were in the can. She replied that there were six.
The judge said, "Then I'll give you six days in jail."
Before the judge could actually pronounce the sentence, the woman's husband spoke up and asked if he could say something.
"Very well," said the judge. "What is it?"
"She took a can of peas too."
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August 07, 2006
Chinese air liner
Well, here's a switch. Our regular aviation correspondent sends a message about a new tire design. But's it's all right because Rob fills in for him with this message about maintenance practices for Chinese airlines. (All images are pop-ups.) Rob forwarded a message that read...
If you have a fear of flying then better not consider winging in a Chinese Airline. Check this out!You retired Boeing engineers (and soon to be Air Creebec) out there do yourself proud, knowing the kind of abuse some foreign carriers give their equipment and those planes keep on flying.
For anybody who is not familiar with a jet engine, a jet fan blade should be perfectly smooth. You might want to think twice the next time you fly on a Chinese airline.A pilot for a Chinese carrier requested permission and landed at FRA (Frankfurt, Germany) for an unscheduled refueling stop. The reason soon became apparent to the ground crew: The number 3 engine had been shutdown previously because of excessive vibration, and because it didn't look too good.
It had apparently been no problem for the tough guys back in China: they took some sturdy straps and wrapped them around two of the fan blades and the structures behind, thus stopping any unwanted windmilling (engine spinning by itself due to airflow passing thru the blades during flight) and associated uncomfortable vibration caused by the suboptimal fan.
Note that the straps are seatbelts.... how resourceful! After making the "repairs", off they went into the wild blue yonder with another revenue-making flight on only three engines! With the increased fuel consumption, they got a bit low on fuel, and just set it down at the closest airport (FRA) for a quick refill.
That's when the problems started:The Germans, who are kind of picky about this stuff, inspected the malfunctioning engine and immediately grounded the aircraft. (Besides the seatbelts, notice the appalling condition of the fan blades.) The airline operator had to send a chunk of money to get the first engine replaced (took about 10 days).
The repair contractor decided to do some impromptu inspection work on the other engines, none of which looked all that great either. The result: a total of 3 engines were eventually changed on this plane before it was permitted to fly again.
And soon they will export their cars to America, be sure to buy one of those quality machines so you can increase the trade deficit.
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August 03, 2006
New summer release
From the Sailor:
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August 02, 2006
Last day on Earth
Dave at MacRaven sends this image with the subject line "A photo of two small children's last day on Earth." (It's a pop-up.)
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July 25, 2006
Right close
Steve R passes along a message with 5 images of a fighter jet crashing (presumably a Russian craft). The message read, "Pilots were lucky. Don't know about the people on the ground. Don't know where this is."
"One heckuva an ejection seat. Look at that downward vector, then see how high the parachutes are in the follow-on slides. This is what you would call .. right close!"
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July 22, 2006
Gastronmic journey
A curious slide show at the BBC News site about someone in search of the "ultimate edible challenge". Here's a tasty Klingon dish:
Actually, it's only Chinese deep-fried scorpions.
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July 19, 2006
Strange statues
A collection of ~90 images of interesting statuary from around the world (including one from the old Busch stadium, I believe).
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July 18, 2006
Clever GIF
By someone who obviously had too much time on his or her hands:
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Family sticker
Somewhere along the line someone wrote, "You've seen those kid's activity stickers on the rear glass of Mom's/Dad's vehicle with the kids' names under them; you may even have one or two of them. They're everywhere.
"I like this one. "
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July 15, 2006
Interesting image
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July 12, 2006
Nice mod
Steve R takes a break from the planes to send this case mod.
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It's all in your mind
says Rob, talking about these 7 ads. This first one comes from Volvo.
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July 06, 2006
Jeans too tight?
Another illustrated rhetorical question from Rob:
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June 30, 2006
What's the common factor?
Nine images my sister sent me.
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June 28, 2006
Bugs
Here's a collection of 30 high-resolution images of insects (and a couple of images of a frog).
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June 26, 2006
The Swiss Plan
One of eight plans for winning the World Cup in this PowerPoint slideshow sent by Steve R. (Only 500 KB.)
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June 22, 2006
The world at night
A nice collection of 60 images taken at night, mostly of cityscapes.
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June 21, 2006
Happy Solstice
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June 16, 2006
Squirrel magic
"I'll count backwards from 10 and when I say '1', you'll rise! 10... 9... 8..."
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June 15, 2006
16 reasons
Not to drink with "friends."
Serious collegiate-type hijinx -- some NSFW.
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June 14, 2006
Albino peacock
All right, Dave, I'll see your peacock and I'll raise.
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June 08, 2006
Another Top 10 list
From urinal.net, what else would you expect? The Top 10 Most Fascinating Urinals, a collection ranging from the International Space Station to Antarctica.
Here's an hand-crafted example from a collection in San Francisco:
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June 07, 2006
Ultimate Cute-A-Thon
All right, you seekers-after-cute-animal-pictures, here it is: the Big Kahuna of Kute. It's 47 images that Carol sent.
I have no idea where she found all these - and, naturally, it will take a while for all of them to load.
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June 02, 2006
Great plate!
I don't often get envious, but I'd sure like to have a license plate like this one:
From the Club for Growth blog.
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May 30, 2006
More cute
"More 100 proof cute!" says our contributor.
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May 29, 2006
Convair 8801
Steve R sends this image of "A beautiful old bird doing a high speed low pass." (Click for a larger image.)
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May 27, 2006
Cheaper than gas
Carol sends this image.
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May 15, 2006
Gas prices
Carol sends this collection of editorial cartoons.
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Very sad
J.R. sends this message about a little girl who lost her goldfish.
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May 13, 2006
Tree kangaroo
Dave sends a link to a post at orangeblog about tree kangaroos with the subject line "You want cute?"
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Avian Flu in Florida
Rob (and others) sent this image showing an outbreak of avian flu in Florida:
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May 06, 2006
Will somebody please...
While I'm not one of those who think that President Bush should be impeached, I'll admit I was amused by this protestor's sign.
Tip o' the hat to Rob.
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April 25, 2006
Spectacular
says CodeWritinFool. Click the image to visit the site.
On this day a rare February Rainbow was seen here in Northern Missouri at sunset. This rainbow was visible over much of the area and was noticed by many people. It was seen as a partial bow in some areas and completely full and even double in others depending on where the rain was falling. The photos on this page were taken at the Elam Bend Conservation Area near McFall, Missouri.
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Please help
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA -- A man who would only identify himself as a hitchhiker from New York sits on a street corner in the Georgetown section of Washington DC. The man said lots of people take a look at his sign referring to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and some leave spare change. (04/25/06 AP photo)
Via WFTV.
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April 21, 2006
Old age is tough
"...but implants last forever," says Steve F.
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April 18, 2006
Talkin' serious cute
Porcupine babies:
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Size matters
"Which of the three cup sizes pictured below excites older men the most?" asks Rob. (SFW.)
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April 12, 2006
Happy Easter
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April 07, 2006
Landing strips
Steve forwards some images from Airliners.net with the question: "How would you like to land your big old plane on these strips?"
The images are all pop-ups.
Hamilton Island, Australia
Heimaey Island, Iceland
Majuro atoll, Marshall Islands
Macau, China
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April 05, 2006
For dogs, cats & you
A.E. sends a link to KookyChow.com, an amusing gallery about some pretty bizarre food. She advises checking out the whole archive.
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April 04, 2006
Overload!
Someone collected 17 images of overloaded vehicles (of all types) on this page at Ezprezzo.com.
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April 03, 2006
Top 15 skylines
Luigi Di Serio's picks for the best skylines in the world. His Number 1 Skyline was Hong Kong's.
The page has 18 images (since he includes three runners-up).
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March 31, 2006
Aviation Nation 2005
Steve, our guy for great plane pix, sent a collection of images taken by Richard Seaman at the 2005 air show at Nellis AFB last November. Here's one below of three generations of fighter planes.
You can also find a set of pictures of this show at Flickr.
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March 30, 2006
The man she forgot to google
An amusing shirt at T-shirtHumor.com.
Via A Welsh View.
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Sons who make their dads proud
Steve R sends us 12 examples.
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March 29, 2006
Striking image
Dave writes, "I know how much you like good photos, and I ran across this one yesterday on Wikipedia. The subject matter is scary as Hel, but the photo itself is one of the most striking I've ever seen. It makes great wallpaper, too, for those of us who worry about nuclear annihilation or asteroid impacts...."
Click the link or the image to see and download a high-resolution version.
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March 21, 2006
Budget body armor
Dave sends this image with the comment, "from my son-in-law, who got it from a buddy still in Iraq."
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March 20, 2006
Pictures of walls
An interesting collection of photos of graffiti - and you can submit your own images as well. This one comes from Champaign, Illinois.
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Need bait?
Jeff says this ad appeared in one of his sailing magazines.
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March 16, 2006
Office memo
Please note that at this year's company picnic only one drink will be served per person.
Please bring your own cup.
H.T. Dave.
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March 09, 2006
Try the freasuse
A funny Engrish menu:
Via Dave Barry.
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March 08, 2006
Puppy Mover Monorail
OK, it's been too long since we had a shot of 100-proof cute. Here's the Puppy Mover Monorail.
Via ZPi.
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March 07, 2006
Bird-watching practice
This is amazing! Until now I never understood how to tell the difference between male and female birds.
Which of these two birds is a female? Study them closely.
Now see if you can spot which of the two is the female.
It can be done - even by someone with limited bird-watching experience.
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February 28, 2006
Good day at Broken Bow
Four pop-ups of a monster alligator gar (8' 10" - 327 lbs) that was caught in Oklahoma last spring.
Here's a video clip (WMV) of the fish being landed.
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February 27, 2006
Bad flying
Steve R sends a PowerPoint collection of aviation mishap images. Here's one of 20:
And here's the whole thing (1.4MB).
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February 24, 2006
Clever tattoo
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Truck art
J.R. forwards six images of trucks decorated with trompe l'oeil murals, like the one shown below. These have been making the e-mail rounds for awhile now and Snopes has the full story on them.
They were part of the Rhino Rolling Ad Award '05 competition in Germany. If you visit the Rhino site, you'll see 42 other images like this one.
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February 23, 2006
Always blame the dog
One last Cheney joke, courtesy of my sister.
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February 21, 2006
World Press Photo Contest
OK, here we have a bona fide set of "Photos of the Year." It comes from the World Press Photo Contest. This image below is of a commemoration ceremony for last year's tsunami victims.
Via Club for Growth blog.
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February 16, 2006
Superbowl
Steve F sends this image. I know there are at least a couple of serious Maxine fans out there.
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February 15, 2006
Life cycle
Steve F sends this animated GIF with the comment "Watch closely."
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February 13, 2006
Lemon festival
Menton is a town on the French Riviera, very close to Italy. Its annual Fête du Citron (Lemon Festival) features large-scale objects made from lemons, oranges, grapefruit and limes -- such as the castle below, which appears to be 7-8 meters tall at its peak.
This image above comes from a slidedhow (HTML) at the site. And there are photo galleries of past festivals from 2000 to 2005.
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February 09, 2006
More rednecks
Rob says, "Some old, more new. Worth a gander." (Many are pop-ups.)
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February 07, 2006
Speculation
Lou sends this picture with the comment, "Pure speculation, but I think somebody came home early."
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February 06, 2006
Along the autobahn
Advantages of driving in Germany:
1) Cars are in much better condition because of tough inspections
2) Licenses are much harder to get, with much better driver training
3) The autobahn speed limit is "whatever's safe" up to 155 mph
Disadvantages of driving in Germany:
1) When you fly off the road at 120+ mph, you find out why oak was once used as armor on ships
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February 02, 2006
Best sign ever in a store
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More images
Carol sends a PowerPoint slide show titled "Pictures of the Year." I'm not sure which year is meant, since the images appear to span several years. But that quibble aside, it's a nice collection of 61 images that ranges all over the map.
Click the image to view or to save. It may take awhile: the file's 3.5MB.
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January 30, 2006
Avian flu signs
How to tell if a flight from Asia carries the bird flu virus:
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January 27, 2006
Desert skiing
I don't know where this came from or who wrote the text, but it is an interesting series. Thanks to Rob and Steve. Images are pop-ups.
An engineering masterpiece in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Well, wonder no more. The reason gas is $2.39 a gallon is that's a price we drivers are collectively willing to pay and distributors are collectively willing to sell at - as Don & Russ at Cafe Hayek or Jane at Asymmetrical Information will tell you. It's an auction: not a price-controlled market.
But that aside, this desert ski resort is a good demonstration of marginal costs and profits. I read recently that the Saudi's marginal cost to pump another barrel of oil is a little over $1.00. And Bloomberg's tells me that oil contracts are running around $66 per barrel this week.
Now when you're selling a lot of something for 66 times what it costs you to produce (ignoring the middlemen), you amass a big pile o' dollars and you can afford little extravagances like this ski resort.
Or even big extravagances like this underwater hotel (also located in Dubai). - JdJ
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January 25, 2006
Quarter horse
Steve F sends this animated GIF with the note, "I don't make 'em; I just pass 'em along."
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January 23, 2006
Ashes and snow
An interesting Flash-based art project.
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January 13, 2006
Stealth aircraft
Steve R writes, "Beautiful shots of the B-2."
There are sixteen photos of a B-2 named The Spirit of New York, taken by Richard Seaman at an Edwards AFB airshow last year.
Mr. Seaman writes (my emphasis):
The air force's preference for very tame demonstrations is largely due to the high cost of each aircraft - somewhere between $2.2 and $2.4 billion apiece, making it by far the most expensive plane in the world. ... it's sobering to think that this plane is actually worth about twice its weight in gold, a pretty penny if ever there was one!
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January 11, 2006
Best ever
The best license plate ever. (Click for a larger image.)
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January 06, 2006
Water pistol
Scott says this caused him a 'WTF Were They Thinking?' moment.
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January 05, 2006
Nature photos
Here's a sample from the National Wildlife Federation's annual photo contest.
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December 30, 2005
CAF air show
Steve sends a link to pictures from the 2005 CAF air show in Midland, Texas. (CAF - Commemorative Air Force.)
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December 21, 2005
Cute overload
Check it out at cuteoverload.com.
Via DiClerico.
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December 20, 2005
Proof
Mary writes, "I have the proof of global warming."
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December 19, 2005
Paris at night
Here's a 360 degree panorama of Paris at night.
According to Google's translator, the legend means "Click on the arrow in bottom on the right to make ravel Paris under your eyes..."
Via A Welsh View.
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December 08, 2005
Friends
artheart sends these six images with the message "Nothing replaces having a friend."
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December 07, 2005
See a giraffe?
Keep staring at the picture and you will see a giraffe. (It may take a few seconds.)
Tip o' the hat to J.R.
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December 01, 2005
Scenic images
Here's a view of the Copacabana beach in Rio (via Yahoo News/AP):
And Scott sent this nice shot of the CNN CN Tower:
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November 29, 2005
Why we love pets
Our contributor, who adores cute animal pix, writes:
Speaking of pets, last night Brad and I went to "game night" at the home of a couple we recently met (in our dance classes). They have FOURTEEN cats. They were all in the basement while company was there, but because I wanted to see them, they let them up just before we left to go home. There were some real beauties in that bunch. I didn't see all 14 because several of them hide when strangers are in the house.
Here's the first of 12.
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November 25, 2005
10,000 words
...according to our contributor's subject that read, "pictures are worth a thousand words." He sent along these 10 images to demonstrate. (Most are pop-ups.)
This first one reminds me of a fairly obscure song titled You Can't Blame the Wreck on the Train You Can't Blame the Train.
No tip for that valet.
Mr. Submarine, meet Mr. Iceberg.
When the sign says Falling Rocks, it means Falling Rocks.
How ruin a perfectly good Ferrari.
Fearless...
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November 23, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving
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November 21, 2005
At the bar
Via orangeblog.
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November 18, 2005
A Polish barbershop
Our contributor writes, "I am going to Poland for a haircut."
I'm not sure what to make of this. If you visit the URL in this first image - hotcut.pl - it's a portal for an erotic site. So I wouldn't bet that this hair salon really exists. But that said, these images [thumbnails] aren't X-rated. They're just pix of the usual scantily-clad, attractive young women you'd expect to find working in any barbershop.
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November 14, 2005
Small world
Click the image for a slideshow of photomicrographs in Nikon's Small World competition.
The Nikon International Small World Competition first began in 1974 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope. Since then, Small World has become a leading showcase for photomicrographers from the widest array of scientific disciplines.
Via A Welsh View.
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November 10, 2005
People in disguise?
Our contributor writes, "Awww..."
It's still more cute animal pix; most are thumbnails. Here's the first of 13.
How to smile...
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November 08, 2005
Novel men's room decor
I'd read about this, but this is the first image I've seen of it. Click for a larger version.
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November 04, 2005
No caption needed
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November 02, 2005
Pictures of the Year
Here's the first of 20 in a collection of images someone put together in a PowerPoint presenation. They're all thumbnails - click for larger views.
Here's the original PowerPoint, if you want a copy.
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The juggler
A clever animated GIF.
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October 30, 2005
Happy Hallowe'en
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October 26, 2005
When pumpkins go bad...
If it had been a snowman, you'd have been thinking of Calvin & Hobbes.
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Surviving Rita
Two views of surviving Hurricane Rita (which both involve quantities of beer, surprisingly enough). Click either for a larger version.
Redneck Hurricane Survival Kit
Toilet paper...........................................check
Bud Light..............................................check
Keystone Ice...........................................check
Budweiser..............................................check
Red Dog................................................check
Misc. other bottles of alcohol.........................check
Piece of plywood to float your old lady and booze on...check
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October 24, 2005
When a costume is just wrong
A collection of 5 examples (all as bad as - or worse than - this first one):
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October 20, 2005
Bikini war continues
The "anti-teroris" bikini war:
From Tim Blair -- where there's a story to go with it.
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AirShowFan.com
Bernardo Malfitano runs a site named AirShowFan.com and he's posted over 200 of his favorite high-resolution images here.
Here's one of them, scaled down from its original 1200x900 size.
Via Master of None.