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I ove the last one. It´s really than life
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Is not ove, it´s love. Sorry.
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Great photos on the Beijing Olympic construction projects, Avi! For more in-depth reporting on mind-blowing scale and speed of these projects, check out the May National Geographic special issue on China, with an article by Ted Fishman on China's urban construction boom. In an interesting turnaround from the situation in the US, where most of our products are Chinese, in Beijing all these new architectural designs are from Western companies, which sometimes doesn't sit too well with Beijing's citizens; "Some people in China—including Chinese architects—believe their country has become the Western architects' weapons testing ground":
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/05/china/architecture/ted-fishman-text
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Thank you Marilyn, I added the link to this great article inside the post.
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I am sorry you feel the need to rip into China like the rest of the media - Obviously us Westerners don't like up and coming competition (China) or, for that matter, oil producing countries (where do I start?).
I was very happy to see Micheal Palin (arguably a man of the world) interviewed yesterday and when asked to coment on the Tibet issue, basically wouldn't, and even suggested after speaking to many Tibetans (including the Dalai Lama himself) that there would be a lot in it for them.
I am sick of idiots who read the propaganda press and think they know it all.
Oh I think the cartoon at the end really say's it all doesn't it? Whitout China us Westerners would not have many things we take for granted.
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Without China,you may can not buy ur bread!
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"Whitout China us Westerners would not have many things we take for granted."
Westerners can still have things that they take for granted. Just wait till us in the USA have to pay $50 for a broom, made in Europe! Happy times are coming!!!!!!!!
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the dalai lama has said breaking off from china would be bad economically for tibet, but a sovereign state, led by the dalai lama is ideal for china and tibet.
the only propaganda is coming from china.
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Looks like a tarsier.
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Mystery animal looks like a slow loris.
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It's a slow loris.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_loris
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Cute! Definitely a slow loris -
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It is a slender loris. As in this link, http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Slender_Loris_Gasps_For_Survival_As_Urban_India_Expands_999.html
It's the actual picture to boot. Cute!
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Thank you guys. Updated the info.
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The "Corporate Culture" drawing looks like a Bill Plympton creation.
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The 'sea dragon' is actually a Triops -- they are pretty cool, you can keep them as pets (buy kit on Amazon)... they have 3 eyes and like to do loops. Also one of the other 'dragons' (slender brownish one with spines) is a Polypterus/Birchir. Both are pretty prehistoric but part of the modern aquarium trade. Arowanas similar I'm surprised they didn't show up (capable of jumping to catch and eat small birds)...
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"Hope this aquarium has thick glass:"
That's actually a sculpture by Damien Hirst called The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hirst-Shark.jpg
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Catching a whale shark (pic #2) is really a shame. One less you can admire while diving...
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I grew up in tropical Australia, often swimming and surfing in the open seas. I always took a casual, almost fatalistic approach to the dangers of shark attacks, never really thinking about it much except for the little blip of nerves after I saw Jaws for the first time.
But looking deep into the mouth of the shark in that amazing picture, and seeing the inside walls of it's body made a strong shudder run up my spine... what was I thinking! Getting attacked by that would be truly terrifying...
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The first pic in the "ugliest of the bunch" looks like a fish I caught when I went fishing in prince william sound. I think my uncle called it a lordy. I'm gonna see if I can find the pic.
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the last drawing comes from the following artist http://VegasMike.deviantart.com/art/Incredible-Giant-Crab-Redux-38936734
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That one fish at the beginning looked like some space alien. I've never even seen catfish so huge. Your pics of crazy looking fish is awsome!
Robin
http://letscatchreelbigfish.blogspot.com/
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The photo of the Grouper emerging from a school in front of the diver is one of my all time favourites. The original is a National Geographic and is published in one of their online galleries. Thanks for a fun collection. Dark roasted blend keeps me coming back.
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Thank you guys for all the extra info, post updated.
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Check this out, my real estate agent caught this one http://flyangler.ca/forum/uploads/post-58-1156214062.jpg
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LOL! That 'fish between legs' picture is wrong on just so many levels!
./h
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The "friendly whale" is actually a porpoise and a mammal, so it actually wouldn't belong with these fish.
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aren't morels mushrooms?
the eel looks like a moray...
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"Asking for trouble " is a Koi and probably not all that big. The biggest Koi are only 3 feet or so. I have many myself and they do that when they want food.
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excellent post! really enjoyed it
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What's so great and funny about a photograph of Japanese in the middle of destroying another beloved, endangered creature?
Fish are beautiful, they don't deserve to be hoiked out of their environment by some dick-head in a stupid hat who thinks it makes him special and paraded in front of a camera while they slowly suffocate.
Photographs that included animal cruelty are becoming a regular occurrence on this site, it seems.
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Amazing pictures. Thank you.
And thank you, internet, for giving the freedom to post drivel to slam what others enjoy. *points upward*
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My beliefs aren't drivel; they are based on the fact that as a species we have (well, some of us at least) have evolved beyond the hunter-gatherer role of our past.
I find it both pathetic and disturbing that you 'enjoy' photographs of species being slaughtered. I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find some excellent bull-baiting photographs on here, and across the internet you can find some more sources of enjoyment; dog fighting, bear baiting, dolphin slaughter...
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The men eat too much wild fish. So I think it is only fair, if a shark bites men in response to this unneeded violence.
There are much better solutions to ease the hunger, instead of fishing innocent fish !
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it's great photo. You can make your article more popular to primary Indonesian Social Community site at InfoGue.com. Get more traffic from Indonesian community members by installing INFOGUE widget.
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you are right, all animals are innocent, and, might i add, beautiful, even the lowliest worm has the gorgeous breath of nature in himself.
but what does that mean? that i should eat grass the rest of my life?
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bashing bulls all over the streets and arenas, THAT'S cruelty. and dog fights and similar things. but simply killing an animal for food, without the cavemen-type torture and gloating, is a normal and one of the most natural things, i think. just like sex, talking, walking, thinking. i admit, i'm a hypocrite, i like meat, but i don't won't to see the way that the animal died. but even if i did see it, i'd most likely shake the feeling in a couple of days and be myself again. eating meat.
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Most of these would be great with chips
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tony, you're right. your beliefs aren't drivel. they're more than that; they're complete and utter BS. Go back to your commune, hippie.
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that image of the shark is actually an art exhibit.you can tell by the wrinkling in its skin due to the alcohol used to preserve it. quite amazing in person.
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The "friendly whale" IS indeed a whale - a Beluga, White Whale or Sea Canary. It is the only whale with a flexible neck, and is closely related to the even more peculiar Narwhal or Sea Unicorn, so called because of its single straight spiral tusk which can be nearly as long as the whale's body.
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Hey, I used to have a Born to be Chicken in my old neighbourhood. Not bad food.
Here's another cute restaurant sign for you. Not photographed well because I was standing outside an imposing massage parlour with security cameras.
http://www.daehanmindecline.com/digital/20080419hoehyunhighrise/49.JPG
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The mysterious road markings in Poland are normal vahicle "No Stopping" warnings, obviously to keep drivers from blocking the bus stop.
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There is a restaurant in Taichung, Taiwan, called the Marijuana restaurant. The sign features a brightly-colored cannabis leaf and the word "marijuana". I'll look around and see if I can find a picture somewhere.
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One sign did in fact make a great deal of sense.
It was offering women who might be tempted to throw their newborns in dumpsters, to turn them over to an social agency.
Perhaps, there were cases of this being done before at that location.
It is bizarre how many teens dont think to do this. There have been a number of high profile cases
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Look carefully in the distance of the zig zag line and you will see a pedestrian crossing, this is the same pedestriam crossing warning sign as they have in Australia too.
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The T.Hanks image on the bin is in Quick, a Belgian Fast Food restaurant chain.
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http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2671/p17cl4.png - this is sign from Poland and like Rallymodeller said it forbids ordinary drivers to stop near bus stops.
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Those lines on road are common in Croatia too. That means it is the place where bus stops and you cannot stop or park car there. That spot always has to be clear so the bus can "dock"
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in the Netherlands those zigzag lines indicate the driver to slow down (to a stop). they aint a rule but more a subliminal help.
u mostly find them approaching crossings here, not at busstops.
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those zig zag lines are also used in Switzerland (they tell you not to stop there) in Croatia, in Slovenjia and we have them here in London, too, on the bus lanes. Maybe they look odd in America, but here in Europe are really popular!
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Cabbages and Condoms is a famous restaurant in Thailand run by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) of Thailand to promote condom use. My parents went there on vacation.
http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/pda/ccrest.htm
The "don't throw your baby in a dumpster give it to a fireman or a nurse" Probably has to do with "safe haven" laws that allow "a parent to legally surrender newborn infants 7 days old or younger at a hospital, police station, or manned fire station without facing criminal prosecution."
http://www.babysafehaven.com/
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This one cracked me up while in Kusadasi, Turkey.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85719180@N00/2435875014/
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The sign about rebirth is from Ranathambore, Rajasthan, India.
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Great pics
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Saw most of these before, but still great pics.
http://www.bestsnippets.com
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Wow, I've driven past Cramp's Liquors. It's near Burlingon, NJ. I always thought it was a funny name. Now it's e-famous!
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"Could be the famous Banksy's work:"
I think this picture is pretty powerful...Gaspump handle with tank treads shooting blood....
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There are some crazy signs in China - the infamous
'Baby' one is pretty good...I love the 'worldwide delivery' one, too... :-) Cool site by the way!
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more then half of these pictures are photoshoped......
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Checked your other posts and I am subscribe now! great blog!
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On the door of the server room of our school is (and for as long as I can remember, has been) a sign that says:
"Bitte atention! This room is fullfilled mit specialelectronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights."
All the previous admins have been students of our school like me, and we have excellent German and English programs, so I can only count this as a creative attempt at mixing the languages... thought I'd post ot anyway.
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Actually The T.Hanks Is From Vinnie's Pizza In Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY (N.9th And Bedford)
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The 9th sign from the bottom with a lots of japanese characters (and with the "This sign is to prevent foreign tourists from getting lost"), has something written in italian which reads:
"Stà sul senter ostia",
and can be translated (probably from a venetian dialect) into:
"Stay on the signed path, goddamit!"
;)
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The 9th signage with the turns:
FIRST SIGN:
Left turn allowed from left lane. Parking structure can be accessed from left lane.
Right and through movements allowed from right lane.
SECOND SIGN:
Left and U-turn allowed from left lane. Trucks cannot make the U-turn.
Right and through movements allowed from right lane.
THIRD SIGN:
For those who did not see the first sign, a parking structure is to the left.
The 12th Picture with the clover leaf:
Simply means that you can't make a straight right due to construction. Follow the diagram.
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On sign 14 (lots of speed limits), this is at a border crossing.
This means the following:
TOP LINE:
On separated freeways/highways, speed
limits as follows:
Cars 110 km/h
Motorcycles, Buses: 90
Trucks, autos with trailers: 70
SECOND LINE:
On secondary roads (can't see the exact designation)
Cars/Motorcycles: 90, Buses/trucks/trailers: 70
THIRD LINE:
On local roads, speed limit 60 km/h
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The sign with "This sign is to prevent foreign tourists from getting lost" is from the blue mountains near Sydney, Australia
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Great info, thank you!
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Update: somewhat alien to Americans, this kind is often seen in Europe to mark "no parking" space.
Those are NOT "no parking spaces". The lines are drawn in a way that they get closer to eachother at the end, when you drive over them a constant speed, it looks like you are speeding up (kind of an optical illusion). It's used near pedastrian crossings or busstops to improve safety.
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it's not poland, it's germany!
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In Austria these zigzag markings are used specifically to mark driveways, basically saying: "Don't even think of parking here, it#s my friggin' drive!". I guess it is indeed related to the bus stop in the picture (the blue/white/black sign is the typical Eastern European pictogram for bus stop).
The red circle with the blue sections is indeed a "no parking/stopping anytime" sign, but it#s missing one blue slice :-D
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Amazing funny picture!)
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RUSSIAN ARMY MEETS NEMESIS!!
That video made my day!
Thanks to whoever found the clip, and thanks to Avi and the DRB crew for keeping up such a great site. People always ask where I find such gems, and the answer is always DRB! You save me hours of web scouring to find great content! My wife and I actually spent our fifth anniversary in Bolivia based of a couple of posts here at DRB. Keep up the great work!
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Thank you Travis - more wonderful things to come!
How did you like Bolivia? Send us some pics by email if you want.
Cheers
Avi
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This is got to be the most unforgettable post out of all that you have done.
WOW
You deserve this Digg Homepage in fact, hope it becomes your biggest ever
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You wrote "the emerald cockroach wasp has... papal young" :)
Is this a typo, or do you regard the Pope as a giant parasite? :D
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Okay, so it’s not fun to be a snail, or a crab, or a cricket. But what about poor homo sapiens? Please don’t tell me you think we don’t have our own, completely unwelcome passengers. I’ve already mentioned botflies, pinworms and tapeworms. But they are just freeloaders. They aren’t driving the bus that is us like these other manipulative parasites do.
I commend your refraining from making the obvious lawyer jokes.
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Robert - thanks for the laugh!
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Pretty sure that gondii parasite is responsible for "cat ladies". Sure it makes you clumsy, neurotic, and insecure, but it also makes you unable to smell cat urine and makes you LOVE the idea of having a bunch of cats around...Making it more likely for you to die in the presence of a bunch of hosts that would nibble on you.
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Roaches don't have brains. Bad science at play here.
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Ads in the air, using artificial clouds? Just no. Don't. Bury it in some cellar archive and never think about this again, dear companies. Plus, helium? Helium is way more serious as a contributor to the greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide. So: double don't!
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Wished we had known you were doing this piece.
We have some photos of an ad campaign that features women's silhouettes as clouds
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You can send them our way, we'll update with your credit. Thanks!
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I'd be interested to know where Alex is getting his information. Helium is a noble gas and as such, rarely reacts with anything. It also does not accumulate in the atmosphere (despite large scale manufacture) like carbon dioxide. The only danger of helium is an extended period of breathing pure helium can quickly result in death due to oxygen starvation.
As for a the clouds, it's a great example of lateral thinking and hopefully will make its creator quite wealthy.
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Helium foam as (basically) a temporary lighter-than-air aircraft is a really interesting idea! Depending on how easy it is to transport the equipment for making it, how easy it is to create a viable shape, lifting power per volume, etc. this idea might have many more uses than just advertising stunts.
I also have to wonder how a client would feel if they shelled out for, say, a giant Swoosh logo over London, but then found that it had blown out down the Thames estuary before anyone saw it...
And I agree with Mr Smith on the improbability of helium being a greenhouse gas. I certainly can't find anything to support the claim, anyway.
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The railroad tracks are such narrow gauge that I suspect it's from a mine of some kind. Further, the overgrowth on the tracks leads me to believe it's been abandoned for quite a while.
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The railroad track is a short-narrow gauge that used to be popular in pre-independent India. The school-dress (white+blue) is very common in schools around rural areas. I'd say an educated guess would put this somewhere in the North-Eastern area of India. Perhaps Shillong, or near Darjeeling.
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I'm willing to bet those "twilight clouds" are the result of aerosol spraying. Google images "chemtrails".
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the house of people is also the parliament of romania
A couple of nitpicks:
The name of the former Romanian dictator is commonly spelled Ceausescu, not Chaushescu (although the pronunciation sounds similar).
Dom Narodov sounds suspiciously Russian, the Romanian language, however, is not related to Russian, but Latin.
Further to Dom Narodov: in Romanian, the building is called Casa Poporului.
yeah, what he/she said! :)
I got a book about the Vulcan raid on Argentinia for Christmas. It's a really good read. Still the furthest bombing raid ever! Damn argies still think the falklands are theirs!
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