Jesus and his Hydrofoil
After flipping his hydrofoil, young Jesus quickly leaves the scene before his old Father finds out!
Iceberg
Jakobshavn Fjord, Greenland, 2007
At four miles (six kilometers) wide and several thousand feet thick Jakobshavn Isbræ disgorges icebergs like these faster than any other of Greenland’s glaciers. Its output, accelerated by global warming, totals some 11 cubic miles (45 cubic kilometers) of ice each year.
Natty Light
Let the beer snobbery begin!
I snapped these pictures on a warm summer night about a month ago.
909lb Squid joins “The View”
I still love “The Onion”.
www.theonion.com/content/news/900_pound_giant_squid_joins_cast?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
Hidden Dangers
“Hidden Dangers”
The danger appears to be hikers not wearing pants. Unless I’m missing something.
Rasterbatorium Stairwell
This is the famous stairwell at the Rasterbatorium library, where Arthur G. Halliwell was murdered.
Tasmanian Devil
“Yulgilbar is the first devil pup born at the sanctuary since 1995. ”
There is much more cuteness to be found here.
Mandarinfish
The mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus, not to be confused with the similarly named mandarin fish) is a small (~6 cm/2.4 in), brightly-colored member of the dragonet family, popular in the saltwater aquarium trade. The mandarinfish is native to the Western Pacific, ranging approximately from the Ryukyu Islands south to Australia..
Wallpaper size:upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Synchiropus_splendidus_2_Luc_Viatour.jpg
Eurofighter over Seville
Spanish Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon flying over Seville. Interesting places in the pic: Sevilla FC home stadium and Plaza de España (U Shaped building in park, used in Lawrence de Arabia and Attack of the Clones).
Smexy AK-47
Wow. Just…wow. Check out the stuffed dragon on top of the desk. Not to mention the open food packages all over the floor.
Wald Nissan-R35-GTR
As if the R35 wasn’t already sufficiently riced out… Enter Wald Intl…
www.carzi.com/2008/09/01/nissan-r35-gtr-modified-by-wald-international/
Bright Bolide
Tags:APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: On September 30, a spectacular bolide or fireball meteor surprised a group of amateur astronomers enjoying dark night skies over the Oklahoma panhandle’s Black Mesa State Park in the Midwestern US. Flashing past familiar constellations Taurus (top) and Orion, the extremely bright meteor was captured by a hillside camera overlooking the 2008 Okie-Tex Star Party. Astronomy enthusiast Howard Edin reports that he was looking in the opposite direction at the time, but saw the whole observing field light up and at first thought someone had turned on their car headlights. So far the sighting of a such a bright bolide meteor, produced as a space rock is vaporized hurtling through Earth’s atmosphere, really is a matter of luck. But that could change. Earlier this week the discovery and follow-up tracking of tiny asteroid 2008 TC3 allowed astronomers to predict the time and location of its impact with the atmosphere. While no ground-based sightings of the fireball seem to have been reported, this first ever impact prediction was confirmed by at least some detections of an air burst and bright flash on October 7th over northern Sudan.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0810/20080930bolide_edin.jpg
Ice Hikers
photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/c/crevasse-glacier-mclain-700972-xl.jpg
Ice Hikers, South Islands, New Zealand, 2002
Hikers negotiate a crevasse on Franz Josef Glacier in South Island, New Zealand. This highly accessible river of ice begins in the peaks of the Southern Alps, but flows some 8,000 vertical feet (2,400 vertical meters) into the lush rain forest of New Zealand’s Westlands National Park.
Reverse Weeaboo
I enjoy an occasional anime show, but the people that obsess about this stuff make me pity the human race as much as rednecks.
Turkey Spill
Tags:Cute As Hell Animals, Dark Humor, Humor, Sad :(, Wallpaper, WTF
Hundreds of turkeys cower in the cold and rain Friday morning after the truck they were in spilled down the west bank of Cass County Highway 35 south of Rollag, Minnesota. The driver of the truck was killed in the accident.
Joseph Albert – Ludwig und Malwine Schnorr von Carolsfeld – Tristan und Isolde, 1865
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld and his wife Malvina as the title characters of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, sometime during the opera’s initial run, though, given the demands of early photography, most likely not in an actual performance. The opera was extremely difficult on its leadsâ€â€it had to be delayed when Malvina temporarily lost her voice, and Ludwig died three weeks after the fourth show.
More on the medieval story of Tristan Iseult:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_and_Iseult
Wolaver’s Pumpkin Ale
Some things should not be made into a beer. I’ve yet to taste a pumpkin ale that was worth drinking.
New US Army Weapon XM-25
www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/08/xm_25_judge_dredd_smartgun/
I know what I’m asking for this Xmas…
