random bits

frangry: This is a curling iron. Get your mind out of the...

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:51:00 -0500

frangry:

This is a curling iron. Get your mind out of the gutter, you perv.

Photo

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:22:28 -0400

2010 Sand Castle Competition

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:21:53 -0400

2010 Sand Castle Competition:

From Shey’s Posterous.

Mosque protest There is no mosque being built on the site of...

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:03:20 -0400

Mosque protest There is no mosque being built on the site of Ground Zero. It’s a simple fact, but one that news consumers can be forgiven for missing as they her hourly cable news updates and scan the headlines about a growing—and increasingly heated—national debate over the construction of an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan. An MSNBC spokeman said that describing the project is a “show-by-show decision,” but CNN and Fox News haven’t yet responded to the Upshot’s efforts to get them to explain their frequent use of “Ground Zero Mosque” to describe the planned building at the center of the furor. But the New York Times has explained why the paper of record has shied away from that designation—and the nation’s largest print news service, the Associated Press, has offered an account of how it tries to describe the project in text and headlines alike. (via News outlets split in describing mosque - Yahoo! News

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21 Creative Examples of Reflective Photography | Inspiration

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:33:16 -0400

21 Creative Examples of Reflective Photography | Inspiration

Many beautiful photographs on this Chinese website

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:55:47 -0400

20张表达自由的感觉的摄影照片 | 创意悠悠花园

dendroica: birdnerd: dangel799: anotherangler: Roseate...

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:03:30 -0400

dendroica:

birdnerd:

dangel799:

anotherangler:

Roseate Spoonbill

What a cool bird :)

Smart Car | Bike Lock « Comunicadores | Onde as novidades...

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:19:05 -0400

Smart Car | Bike Lock « Comunicadores | Onde as novidades comunicativas se encontram!

dendroica: birdnerd: birdsbirds: Hummingbird flight is...

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:00:22 -0400

dendroica:

birdnerd:

birdsbirds:

Hummingbird flight is astounding and brilliant.

Green Violetear - Hummingbird

Man’s favourite recreational drug suddenly gets much...

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:09:14 -0400

Man’s favourite recreational drug suddenly gets much stronger with extreme beers

"You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better..."

Mon, 24 May 2010 14:25:00 -0400

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

- Dr. Seuss

He said it first, I borrowed it yesterday when toasting my bride.

35 Splendid Examples of Forced Perspective Photography |...

Wed, 19 May 2010 11:40:32 -0400

35 Splendid Examples of Forced Perspective Photography | Fotografie, Fotos, Listen | Dr. Web Magazin

landscapelifescape: Merida, Venezuela El arbol magico / The...

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:12:36 -0400

landscapelifescape:

Merida, Venezuela

El arbol magico / The magical tree (via *atrium09)

The past comes to us in tantalizing fragments — a bone here, a...

Wed, 12 May 2010 23:48:37 -0400

The past comes to us in tantalizing fragments — a bone here, a footprint there. But of all the fragments yet discovered, perhaps none is so tantalizing as the one published in the journal Science last week: the Neanderthal genome. Neanderthals have perplexed and intrigued us ever since the first bones were discovered in a cave in what is now Germany, in 1856. Who were they? Why did they vanish? Neanderthal and human skeletonsJames Estrin/The New York Times A reproduction of a Neanderthal skeleton, left, and a modern Homo sapiens skeleton, right. Over the past century and a half, our picture of them has become less blurry, more distinct. From their bones we know that Neanderthals were bigger and stronger than us “anatomically modern humans,” and they had larger skulls that boasted prominent eyebrow ridges. They appear to be the descendants of a lineage that separated from ours around 400,000 years ago, wandered out of Africa, and lived across Europe and central Asia. The last of the Neanderthals lived on the Iberian peninsula, dying out sometime between 37,000 and 28,000 years ago. (via Kissing Cousins - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

Read on, its fascinating.

Baron Von Tollbooth / Flowers of the Night When I listen to...

Wed, 12 May 2010 23:32:00 -0400

Baron Von Tollbooth / Flowers of the Night

When I listen to old tunes like this, and think what a wonderful life I’ve had, how much music I’ve loved and forgotten - now that makes me smile. Rock on.

The Thrill is Gone - Jerry Garcia & David Grisman All I can...

Wed, 12 May 2010 23:22:00 -0400

The Thrill is Gone - Jerry Garcia & David Grisman

All I can do is wish you well…

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s..."

Wed, 12 May 2010 23:19:59 -0400

““Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.” The Lorax, Dr. Seuss”

yo quiero kitty love!

Wed, 12 May 2010 00:43:33 -0400

yo quiero kitty love!

Sporting a reproductive “skyline,” a new species of...

Sun, 09 May 2010 23:54:58 -0400

Sporting a reproductive “skyline,” a new species of jellyfish is like nothing else known under the sea, a new study says. Shaped like flying saucers, both males and females of the new jellyfish have gonads on the outsides of their bodies, unlike any of the approximately 3,000 other jellyfish species known to science. Gonads are the reproductive glands that produce sperm in males and eggs in females. Arranged in a “crater” at the center of the jellyfish’s top side, the gonads, upon close inspection, resemble “skyscrapers in a downtown business district,” said Lisa-Ann Gershwin, curator of zoology at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Australia. (via FOXNews.com - Strange New Jellyfish Like Nothing Else in Sea

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It has been argued by mythologists and historians of religion...

Sun, 09 May 2010 10:49:20 -0400

It has been argued by mythologists and historians of religion that the first great deity to be revered by ancient peoples was likely equated with the planet beneath our feet. To the Greeks she was Gaea, without parents, forming directly out of Chaos. Although given various names by different people, she is the Mother-Goddess, a common denominator in traditions throughout time and around the world. Many Native Americans simply refer to her as Mother Earth. For every one of us, our mother is, without doubt, the person we most identify with out mortal existence. Our fathers are essential too, but it was our mothers who issued us into the world, nourished and sustained us onto our individual pathways of life. Inside our human mothers, each of us came into form, cell by cell, organ by organ, organized into breathing, thinking individuals capable of functioning by ourselves. Similarly, the atoms and molecules that make up our individual DNA and the material that flows through us as air, water and food, to keep us alive is the substance of Mother Earth. (via Ditto – A Mother’s Day Tribute to Mother Earth | The EcoSpheric Blog

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