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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