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Monday, March 03, 2008

Don't Fight Monday!



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Don't Fight Monday!

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Today's pictures & links:
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Making a choice between two environments:


(photo by Sasha Serdtzeed)

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Private Moon Light-Box

Spectacular urban art by Leonid Tishkov & Boris Bendikov:







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

The Eskimo Nebula


(image credit: National Geographic)

Photo by Koushik C.

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Mixed fresh links for today:

Gadgets for the Modern Spy - [geek tech]
Giant Huddles of King Penguins - [nature]
Works of Insane Architectural Genius - [architecture]
25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies - [videos]
Hanging a "guilty" five ton elephant - [weird]
At the core of snowflakes, bacteria - [science]
Cool Sci-Fi Manga: Biomega - [downloads]
Tupolev Cold War Heavy Bomber: great footage - [video]
Airbus A320 near-crash due to crosswind - [wow video]

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Moon in stunning detail
(click to enlarge)


(photo by Neil Carboni) - via

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Unlucky Windshields, Extremely Lucky Drivers

Wow... imagine how the driver must've felt:





This one is an obvious street art, but pretty neat:



Update:

The forked Volkswagen is a part of the Royal Deluxe (see our article) performance in Iceland.


(image credit: Gillimann)

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Strange Food

Addition to our "Strange Food" article:



Eggs in peril:


(image credit: Ariel Bariel Long)

Rose Pelmeni (tortellini)


(art by Sergei Voichenko, Vladimir Zessler)

Watermelon Duck:


(photo by Stanislav Volyazlovski)

Squid Cabbage:


(original unknown)

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Pest in the house:



No more pests in the house:



?? (Half-Life is here)



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Stiltwalker Troupe

An interesting stiltwalker group "Strange Fruit" from Australia performs in Vienna and New York. The poles are 13-foot-high - swaying...




(Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)



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Silliness:


(art by Genevieve Gauckler)

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9 Comments:

Anonymous Gordon Freeman said...

The crowbar/headcrab image is a reference to the game Half-Life.

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Anonymous glyphobet said...

I posted the image of people on stilts to spydentify to see if anybody there knows what it is:

http://spydentify.com/#177

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Anonymous Gordon Freeman said...

Wüstenrot, Germany

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

@gordon freeman: This is in Vienna, Austria. Wüstenrot is a company :)

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Blogger Clem___o.O said...

the last is made by Genevieve Gauckler :
http://www.g2works.com/

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Anonymous 256 said...

The colourful moon image is by Neil Carboni http://ncarboni.home.att.net/Astrophotography.html
(I saw it the other day on the venerable APOD, here: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060907.html)

I hadn't really thought, until now, about how odd it is that the moon seems to be a completely monochrome world. What the picture shows is, in fact, the slight variations in colour exaggerated.

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Blogger Gillimann said...

The forked Volkswagen is a part of the Royal Deluxe (google it) performance in Iceland.
My photo of the same car:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2082/2104794414_bc0be46924.jpg

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Blogger alvarhillo said...

The location is Madrid and the group is strange fruit. An australian street theater group. The performance is called "on the field" I see it and I liked a lot

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

great info, thanks - updated the page.

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