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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Chicken Pool



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Chicken Pool

To some birds playing billiards comes naturally:



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Ha ha


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Interesting tree illusion


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Gnarly Wood


(image credit: Elle)

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Slightly Extreme




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Update
Actually, his kind of swimming is quite safe. Read the article about it here

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Cool Shot of the Day
(in cooperation with National Geographic magazine)

One-Day Old Magpie


(image credit: National Geographic)

Photo by Jiri Anderle -
This one-day-old magpie in Moscow, Russia, thinks that I'm her parent.

Cashew Nuts


(image credit: National Geographic)

Photo by Ashok Verma -
This is a shot of freshly picked cashew nuts--some still attached to the fruit that provides nourishment for their growth.

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Mixed fresh links for today:

2 New Continents of... Garbage Appear on Earth - [unreal]
Living Jewels: Beetle Tech - [cool site]
10 Disasters that can end it all any minute - [fascinating]
Iran's wind-towers: ancient air-conditioners - [interesting]
Magical Light Photos, and how it's done - [photography]
Most frightening ancient weapons - [history]
Wonderful Tensegrity Structures - [cool art]
Ducks on an escalator - [fun video]
Effortless! Some mornings are better than others - [cool video]

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Giraffe Baby!

Read the article here. Newborn giraffe Margaret at Chester Zoo, UK is considered to be unusually small for her species.






(images credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Also see Newborn Hedgehogs, Baby Kangaroo & Baby Squirrel

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Spaced Latte


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2008 New York "Dances of Vice" Festival

2008 New York Dances of Vice Festival will be taking place on February 8th and 9th. The festival is featuring the cello rock ensemble Rasputina as the headlining act in the exciting context of a gothic/Neo-Victorian costumed ball. The event will attract enthusiasts of the vintage lifestyle, steampunk, gothic, glamour and neo-Victorian communities.



Additional festival highlights include live victorian fencing demonstrations, puppet operettas, an art gallery, musical saws, and much more.
Dances of Vice is otherwise a monthly 1920-30s dance and cabaret night in New York City.

Some of the Victorian/Steampunk costumes can be viewed at Cosplay (some nsfw):










(images credit: cosplay.com)

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Weird & Wonderful Things in Laos

Check out great Laos travel photos by David Hartstone:




(images credit: David Hartstone)

IR photography highlights the 13th century structure in Ponsavan, Northeastern Laos.

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Br-r-r-r!!

Last week in Canada was truly freezing (minus 50C windchill). This week is much better, though.




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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The pictures of the people bathing at the edge of a waterfall were taken at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. It is quite safe to chill out in the shallow rock pools right by the edge. Quite a breath taking experience indeed. Great collection of pictures. Thanks.

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Anonymous travelina said...

The baby magpie with its mouth open and the odd cashews photos are made into online jigsaw puzzles that you can play on the National Geographic site (pages 3 and 4):
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/yourshot/jigsaw-puzzle.html

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  • I`m guessing... toilets?
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  • The logical answer would be linked the earlier note about them possibly being on a trade route, they were probably used to collect rainwater so it would help travelers or some sort of message courier with water so they didn't have to run off path as much trying to find water.
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  • Ye olde warp zone.
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  • the rainwater thing doesn't really fit, otherwise there wouldn't be any lids
    also, they would probably be more evenly spaced rather than clustered about.
    I addition, there used to be lots of smaller ones but the ones that were small enough to be moved have mostly been stolen.
    There's a fantastic story about how they were used to make sake and covered with the skins of fallen enemies, but the guides keep telling you they really don't know, although their best guess is that they were tombs, either for actual bodies or for ashes
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  • They're drums. Stretch a skin, tie it in place and bang it with a stick. Woomba-loomba! Woomba-loomba! Boombadoomba BOOM BOOM BOOM!
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  • They where used by MACV-SOG to capture demons.
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  • Apparently they were used to store alcohol left for weary travellers along specific trade routes. But some of the other tales are much more entertaining.
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  • Definately ovens. Clustered about where there were farming villages. The remains of the housing just eroded over the years.
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  • Toilets IMHO
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  • I agree with the genius who said they're little tombs for ashes or whatever body parts would fit in them.
    My uneducated guess is that they were made after a battle. My Buddhist friend from Thailand said that most people are buried in tombs if they can afford it.
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  • My father who is from Laos used to tell stories of ancient armies who would use these jars as containers for grain, however without further evidence one can't really know.
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  • After watching the Alien movies it's pretty obvious what these are for. Wonder if there are still some in the ones with the lids.
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  • I'd go with either ovens or storage of some sort. I doubt it's rain water, but it's possible that water was collected for crops
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  • Ancient India humans (royality)were cloned in Jars . Kuravas 100 brothers born on the same day but process described from jars.
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  • About the STS-75 "Tether Incident" video, what we're seeing are objects close to the camera, which is obvious for a couple of reasons:

    Their fuzzy outline, when supposedly moving behind the tether is more in keeping with small particles near the camera going out of focus.

    If some of the "ufos" were a mile in size, they would have been visible from the ground. Hundreds of amateur astronomers were watching it, and none of them saw any "ufos" flying around the tether.

    There is having an open mind and leaving your mind so open that your brain falls out.
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  • I do not know anything about this dog on the gun, but there seems to be a tradition:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=503870&in_page_id=1811
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  • Kedamono:
    yes, this is how legends about ufos originate; good illustration.
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  • I do not doubt that the objects in the "Tether Incident" are indeed smaller debris closer to the camera, but why do they appear to go behind the tether? Is the tether image burned into the camera chip (like tube style cameras of old)? You would think that NASA would have better cameras than that.
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  • If you check out the full videos of the tether incident, you can see that the tether breaks and coils up - but in the footage allegedly showing the ufos, the tether is poker straight, and there is no perception of distance or scale. The suggestion is that this is very zoomed in footage of something else. It also appears that the ufo footage is tacked on to the end of the NASA footage, it doesn't look very official
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  • Well, in the documentary "ufo's, the greatest story ever denied" on Google Video, you can hear that they were filming with an infrared camera instead of a normal camera, that may be an explanation why we can't see them with our eyes, I find it a very interesting video, and imo it's not your regular debris... why would debris become translucent and then solid, have a spoken shape which changes sometimes! and they all look the same, It's like you drop food in an aquarium, and all the fish come to see what's new (that's how the former nasa guys says it in the documentary :)

    The tether stretched out and is way further than in the beginning, why it is so wide, i don't know :)
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  • After studying the footage more I must admit I'm even more confused. When the tether snapped, it bunched up at one end. There's no evidence of that in the "UFO" footage. All of the UFOs seem to be traveling on linear paths which would be consistant with debris in space, but it's coming from all directions. Weird.
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  • Regarding the picture of the dog on the gun.

    Sinbad was the mascot of the US Coast Guard Cutter Campbell. As for the insignia on the gun, it is not political confusion but a indicator of the number of engagements by the cutter.

    Mor information is availabe here:
    http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/Sinbad.html
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  • I believe in UFO's. But I believe this is dust.
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  • The debris "translucent and then solid" because it's coming in and out of focus. Try it yourself if you don't believe it - stick a small spot on the window and take pictures of the world beyond. If you focus on the spot it'll be sharp and solid, if you focus in front or behind it'll appear translucent.

    The tether clearly coiled up as it relaxed - so what we're seeing isn't twelve miles long but a much shorter coil which appears straight because the turns of the coil are closer together than can reasonably be resolved at that distance.
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  • Does anyone know about some analysis of the tether video? I googled the incident but all I found was a lot of people blindly screaming at UFOs without any kind of analysis.
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  • @ Skipweasel

    Look again, and look closely, i don't mean translucent when zooming in or out, they are actually changing from transparent to semitransparent and solid, like you see in some under water creatures too, there's this "glow" going through them. Not all of them show this behavior but some do, and you can also see this happening as in some "dots" (the smaller ones) just appear out of nowhere and disappear into nowhere, inside the camera-angle...

    I know things become sort-of transparent of blur if you zoom in next to a near-by object. Just look closely again, and you'll see what I mean with translucency
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  • Start looking at 5:40 on the left side of the video, you'll see what i mean, there are also close-ups during the rest of the video
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  • The Nazi DOG is obviously an AMERICAN dog on top of a captured nazi weapon.
    The letters on the helmet USCC? USCG?
    are United States ?Coast Guard?
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  • Thanks for the info about the dog - it's updated now.
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  • Yes, the debris is probably floating in and out of shadows, causing the appearing disappearing act, and as for going 'behind' the tether, it's simply the sensitivity of the camera being very high. The tether is really bright, but the sensitivity isn't really uniform, and the over-saturation of the tether blots out the less bright debris. The same noise was made over the black crosses on the camera lens on the moon, they disappeared over white astronaut suits because of the over-saturation, and people claimed they were on the set background.
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  • I think the pulsating, blinking effect in the video is just those pieces of debris rotating in the sunlight. They reflect different amounts of sunlight as they rotate.
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  • I think the ultimate solution, which is to quit and look for another job, was left out intentionally.
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  • OldSailor from www.marinebuzz.com:
    If possible delegate your job. Train persons under you or your team mates also. Many times we try to do all jobs ourselves as we feel the other person may not do it correctly. By training your team mates and by instilling confidence in them jobs can be completed successfully in time.
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  • This is what I translated it to.

    1) Don't do much
    2) Take cigarette breaks
    3) Do small things not big ones
    4) Spend more time at the water cooler
    5) Solve problems instead of finding them
    6) Sleep in

    OK, OK, I messed with the details a little.

    Good advice
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  • Yay Danielson (the dude in the tree)!!! He definitely is one way to get less stressful (but not everyone's cup of tea).
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  • @oldsailor: great point about delegation. Some people finds it hard to delegate because they feel that no one else can do it as well as they do - which is probably right.

    But if you don't give others a chance to try, then they'll never have a chance to improve and you'll continue to be stressed out with too much to do.

    So make a choice...
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  • Do something really Dumm and Stupid at least once a month. Its good for
    the Soul, tempers our pride and can be a lot of fun.
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  • More accurately, "the only mammal known to be insensitive to burning sensations"
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  • yes, Marc - also it's so extremely sensitive to touch...
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  • Thats realy amazing.
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  • Now i have a firm believe that nothing goes wasted.
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  • Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. That's where the palace in the lake is located.
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  • That picture which is labled incomprehensible,it is in czech lang. and I suppose it could be from MFF UK,where I study.It is by the way mathematic.(Most probably math. analysis)
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  • The uncomprehensible picture is almost surely from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Prague.
    Apart from this I heared there is also one professor who writes on the blackboard with chalk in his right hand and straight after he cleans it with a sponge in his left hand. The students really have to write fast...
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  • So many clever tiny guns.

    I'm sure that in ten or fifteen years we'll get to see the array of PDA, laptop, blackberry and cellphone pistols currently deployed against the supervillains of the world.

    (Once they've been replaced by nano-gadgets, of course)
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  • The last big one, by the way, is Finnish WW-II Era anti-tank-rifle Lahti L-39 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahti_L-39)
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  • I think for the ring gun you mean it uses a 0.06 round, not a 0.6. That would probably break your finger..
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  • To coho - there are already mobile phone guns, and tazers, too!
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  • Looking at the instruction manual for the "gun inside the suspenders", it seems that it was meant to be fastened to the underside of the forearm, and worn underneath a suit or similar. From this position, it would be fired by tilting the hand back, presumably with the aid of a wire connecting the trigger to the button it is shown with.
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  • The man in the last picture with the anti-tank rifle looks damn happy :)
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  • The "walking stick" gun is actually a riding crop, not a walking stick.
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  • Any chance of getting a wider shot of the "saddle clasp pistol" in use? I can't figure out where it is mounted or how it operates. It looks in the second photo like it's mounted in back of the cantle, which makes no sense to me unless you want to shoot your "podner."
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  • I'll have to look...
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  • Coho blackberry,pda,and cell phone stun guns already exsist. I am shore someone has already made one of the above into a gun, the flashlight shot guns are pretty cool too.
    http://wwwShopStunGuns.com
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  • Nice :-)
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  • Better design but why te page is so long even though it shows very few elements in page?
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  • Hello, I'm new. I just wanted to say that I love the new look.
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  • You know, you should hide the face in the coffee beans up there, lol.
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  • New look is great!
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  • Those clouds occur a couple of times a year (source: SMHI, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) over scandinavia and in Sweden they're called "pärlemormoln". Here's an article with picture in swedish: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=147&a=736636&rss=1399
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  • Here is another Snopes article regarding the cruise control story:

    http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp
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  • thanks guys, i updated it
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  • You really should be wondering how they can drive anything else but Ladas in Yakutsk.
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  • Have you seen the movie Airplane? The pilot joke is much when they do it in the movie.
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  • I've seen the same phenomenon in the north of sweden, over the arctic circle. they told me they're called "mother of pearl" clouds.
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  • nacreous means like nacre, which IS mother of pearl! so you're right swedish dude!
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