Photos of Interest
Again, my weakness for cute animals takes hold. I
saw a piece
on Yahoo News about a
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baby kangaroo born in a zoo in Argentina, a
canguro blanco. The only photo they have
is small:
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Folded from a single, square piece of paper. It even has the
cerebellum!
Source: Origami
Page, by Brian Chan
HT:
href="http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/2007/11/predicting-the-.html">Grow
A Brain
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A guy was sitting at a stoplight, minding his own business,
when a wrecking ball crashed into the trunk. The man was not
seriously injured.
The wrecking ball was being used in demolition, but apparently had a
defective cable.
HT: DNA
Lounge.
href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07191/800583-85.stm">Meadville
mishap defines wrecking ball
One breaks loose, goes on tear near college
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
By Steve Levin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Alex Habay was in his Ford Taurus, stopped
at a traffic light in downtown Meadville, Crawford County, yesterday
morning, thinking about…
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This one is good for several seconds of enjoyment.
Source:
href="http://www.moillusions.com/2007/10/infinite-zoom-coast-illusion.html">Mighty
Optical Illusions.
What will
href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/solar_farm_wagon_small_bi.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890">they
think of next?
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Combat-de-phelsumes-sur-un-bananier.JPG">This
photo is from the Wikimedia Commons featured pictures
section.
It depicts Two
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Phelsuma_laticauda"
title="Phelsuma laticauda">gold dust day geckos
(Phelsuma
laticauda laticauda) fighting on a banana plant in
central Saint-Denis, Réunion.
The photo was taken by Thierry Caro. It
carries a creative commons share-alike license. It is
available in
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This is from a site on Medscape, Infosite. It is a multimedia
program about
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/10/update_on_nrp104_less_potentia.php">Vyvanse®
(lisdexamfetamine dimesylate), a long-acting amphetamine. The
video is positively mind-blowing:
This shows a person who is about to take a Vyvanse capsule.
Next we see the capsule going down the esophagus.
Pretty much everything in the educational material has
already been covered here and elsewhere (
href="http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2007/07/vyvanse-watch.html">1
href="http://richardgpettymd.…
In this case, peace won.
Marisa Crockett speaks to an Albuquerque
Police Department officer at UNM about her free hugs project to travel
across the United States in her bio-fueled car, offering hugs and
hoping to get the word out about her recycling program. The officer was
responding to a complaint, but momentarily left after a few friendly
words, Tuesday, October 2, 2007.
(source)
This is a photo of star trails over the
href="http://www.friendsofthebosque.org/">Bosque del Apache
National Wildlife Refuge. The anomaly in the upper
left is an "
rel="tag">Iridium flare," a reflection from
an
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title="Iridium (satellite)">Iridium communication
satellite.
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Some people are amazingly creative...or thirsty.
(
href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=854&num=5">Source)
If you are willing to settle for a two-dimensional desktop
experience,
and you love The Matrix, this might be fun.
The image is an animated GIF, so it is big. (Sorry
to the
dial-up users.) The real thing works much better than the
animated GIF shows.
The howto is
href="http://geekhacks.com/2007/09/13/screensaver-as-a-desktop-wallpaper/">here.
If you want the three-dimensional version, you'll have to use
href="http://compiz.org/">compiz fusion.
It is not for Windows, even Vista, and not for Mac OS X.
You have to use Linux. What are you waiting for?
Anyway, here is the…
This is a regular photo of a tiger at the
href="http://www.cabq.gov/biopark/">Albuquerque Biological
Park.
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The
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is on Flickr, taken by Glen.
The one below is altered to contain a hidden image. It is
from
href="http://www.moillusions.com/2007/09/tiger-woman-illusion.html">Mighty
Optical Illusions by Vurdlak.
The hidden image is one of those that jumps out at you, once
you finally see it.
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This is Theo at his desk, during the first day of Kindergarden, at Eberwhite.
This picture shows
href="http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/float1.html" rel="tag">Hurricane
Felix 2007 after attaining category 5 status. You
can see a video of it, growing as it approaches Central America, at the
NOAA site,
href="http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/sloop-wv.html">here.
Background info is at
href="http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2007/09/here_we_go_again_hurricane_fel.php">The
Intersection (
href="http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2007/09/a_scary_intensification_record.php">more).
Chris Mooney points out that Felix now holds the record for…
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Shows what can happen when you withhold cheezburgers.
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indicates that the lizard survived.)
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