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. 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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