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Archive: April 2007

	Lovely Ladies of Yesteryear (in Color) Page 2: Glamour, Fashion and Fun
	Lovely Ladies of Yesteryear (in B&W) Page 1: Glamour, Fashion and Fun
	Cool Ads, Issue 5 (Cont.) Page 2 - Love & Romance
	Cool Ads, Issue 5 Creativity and (wonderfully twisted) imagination
	Red Sheep of Scotland Do Androids Dream of Painted Sheep?
	Stealth Ships "M-80 Stiletto", "Sea Shadow", and others
	Kamchatka - The Magnificient Russian Far East Wilderness without bounds
	A Tight Race with a Plane Formula One car "Spyker F8-VII" takes on F-16 fighter jet!
	Cold War: Gas Mask Fashions Close Calls of the Nuclear Age
	The World's Strangest Vehicles Definitely not your "soccer-mom minivans"!
	Tank Accidents! I am invincible!!.. Not quite.
	X-Ray Art From Gothic to Eerily Beautiful
	Cool Murals & Painted Buildings An exercise in urban psychedelics
	Retro Technology: Cold War Phones Plus Dialup Computer Mods
	Super High-Speed Trains Shinkansen "Bullet Trains" of Japan, and more
	Animals Having a Blast! -Part 3 It's a zoo out there
	Cthulhu Live and Prosper H. P. Lovecraft's "little monsters"
	Dry Valleys of Antarctica Journey through the otherworldly landscape
	Mammatus, Lenticular & Other Extreme Clouds plus "Stormy Skies" update
	Lords of the Logistics, Part 3 Neccessity is the Mother of Invention
	Surreal & Spectacular Art of V. Kush Dream-like, glowing landscapes
	The Rotating City Futuristic city is in the works for Dubai - with rotating towers, floating and "flying" villas.
	Top Office Pranks and April Fool's Day Hoaxes
	Spiders! (Closeup Photos) Some rather pretty "mug shots"
	Funny Signs, Part 4 ...and weird directions

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The Iranian women's air force rocks my socks off. As far as the "Women Keep Your Virtue" video is concerned, I'm posting that tonight. That's bloody awesome.
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Ditto. That Harry Enfield piece was awesome! Comedy at its best. Thanks Avi!
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That first ad made my day. There's a whole story with that one.
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I love the dog-slimming ad. Wahahaha!
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You have been ReeVue'd
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These are just fabulous! My son and I love the 'where does your world end?' ads.
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Really nice.
All your job is more than very good.
My best greetings
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Real interesting photos! Good Job! http://www.xarj.net
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This should be banned gadget.
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wow... certainly a good addition...
quite unreal
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The world in its most black nightmare.Another dimensoin of our too logical life.
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Ick.

The animals may not mind, but I would.
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I have seen colour spotted sheep on the hills in Yorkshire, exactly like LadyAnne47's pic.

These aren't dyed for fun, tho'. They put a chalking harness on the rams, each ram getting a different colour chalk. This is how the farmers know which ewe was bred by which ram.
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I saw some dyed sheep up the north of Ireland. I think blue dye was used then. Irish football fans are less patriotic perhaps...
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That is so cool and interesting.
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These animals are meant to be used for their wool and perhaps meat. I think dying them is unnecessary and cruel.

Fred Smilek
Email- Fred_Smilek@yahoo.com
Webpage- http://sites.google.com/site/fredjsmilek/

Fred Smilek is the acting president of the Society to Save Endangered Species. It was founded in 2006 by Fred Smilek along with his two best friends Charles and Jonathan.
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There is also the Swedish Navy 'Visby' class corvettes.
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Your 'mystery' photo looks like a scale model testbed for the US Navy's Zumewalt class destroyers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD%28X%29)
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here is more about the 'mystery-ship':

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/dd-x-sea-jet.htm
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Awesome stuff, Avi!
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some infiormationd found on google

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/dd-x-sea-jet.htm

http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMV/2005aug0252.html
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Hi, hope that I'll be a little help with the "mistery photo" (stealth ships). Look here - https://orangeon-line.pl/ecarewww/info/logout.do
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sorry, wrong link, here's the right one: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/dd-x-sea-jet.htm
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Thanks for solving this!
I'll include the info soon...
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Your mystery photo is a sub.

http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowStory.aspx?StoryID=200503
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Er, the only clandestine purpose the Sea Shadow was ever used for was R&D. It's a testbed. The actual ship was not used for
the Bond film; doesn't have a helicopter
pad.
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That ship i'sn't the bond ship, the bond ship has a flat top. Here's a pic of the real bond ship:
http://www.shanklinsailingclub.btinternet.co.uk/ali/boats/stealth.jpg
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Do you have a Google Earth link for this place?
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try this:
53° 7'29.81"N
158°47'37.30"E
and zoom out a little
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What an extraordinary landscape!
Kamchatka is also hone to some of the world's richest salmon runs. Photos from the August National Geographic story here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/kamchatka-salmon/olson-photography
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1: That Su-30 is Russian, there is a Russian flag on the tail.

2: The cargo plane is taking off, not landing.
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That cargo plane is also a C-17, not a HC-10. And it is indeed taking off, can be spotted at the dustcloud behind the aircraft. Landing aircraft only produce a dustcloud at touchdown.
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Low flying aircraft???
You are lacking insane Portuguese flyby with an Airbus A310 at Portugal Airshow 2007, in Evora!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rYfhC9ft_hk

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=et4AutqDPVo
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxYSYliCFY
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=BWdDHGEMQ2Q
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Hi.

I believe the "End of the World" time line comes from the Times Online.

I found it on this page, with attribution.
http://www.vhemt.org/buttyes.htm

Love this blog by the way. Always something interesting.
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The Soviets detonated the largest nuclear bomb ever at 50 megatons which was an astounding 3,000 times the explosive power of Hiroshima.
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that timeline is pretty silly. after all, if there was all-out nuclear war or an asteroid strike, presumably the endangered species and fish stocks et al would be seriously effected. not to mention the "pollution" such events would cause...
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@jaake

considering the era the timeline was made the government and public at large were still pretty naive about the total effects of a nuclear war, let alone something really random like an asteroid strike. I mean, hell, nobody is still sure what an all out nuclear war would do to the earth today.
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That post-apocalypse timeline is just plain silly.

Humans are pretty damn tough omnivores. We can eat almost anything, except trees and grasses; however, we can eat pretty much anything that eats trees and grasses.

To kill us, you'd have to kill a very large number of Earth's species. We could become extinct, but so would most other mammals (certainly anything over 5kg), most birds, most existing reptiles, and a lot of marine life.

You'd be left with a planet of plants, bugs, fish, and a few small mammals and slimey reptiles. Sure, it'd recover, but it would take a loooong time (millions of years).

I've never understood the whole 'humans are bad, nature is good' self loathing. Utterly weird. If you think humans are bad, I recommend that you start by topping yourself.
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"...know more about gas masks than modern generation." Pfff, I "Wear it once", but I'm not "get scarred for life."

"To scare yourself even more" find info about "Drop-shot", "Broiler" and several other plans of nuclear attack on Russia. Those plans has become more bloodthirsty with each next year before Russia invented its own a-bomb.
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