This page perhaps contains more hilarity than you've seen all week
I know, it's not very modest headline, but hey, what if it's actually true? Some images here are so great, that they might stick with you for 24 hours or more (but then again, you might be already so jaded by Fark / Reddit Image section combination that nothing short of picture of.... say, newly-discovered alien gangster worms getting drunk in the middle of Brooklyn, will move you.)
Animals don't care about any of that, and routinely put up their best expressions for the fun of it, or simply to live and to communicate. The fact that it later becomes a work distraction for thousands of bored office workers (and a fertile ground for the subsequent LOLlification) is just an inevitable byproduct.
We'll start traditionally with "The Cute, The Weird and The Ugly" section - Cute comes first (an adorable baby sloth):
(originals unknown)
Sun Bears or Malayan Sun Bears are the smallest bears in the world (more pics... this one does not seem very happy) -
That is an awesome group of pictures you have put together. I will be sure to share & Digg this page with all my animal lovers. Thank you so much for a great post and God Bless.
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.
In the first years after WW2, when Holland (and other west-european countries) were littered with old malfunctioning aircraft bombs, some people build fences out of (loaded!) bombs
The brick children emerging from the brick wall isn't really a fence per. se. Its a sculpture here in Charlotte NC. I will admit I did find it a bit creepy at first glance, but its actually quite cute.
The scottish sheep fence is obvious to me. He had literally hundreds of 2 foot boards, a sheep can easily scale/jump a 2 foot fence so he did the next best thing and just stuck them all together.
Lastly I have that freakin mattress that the sculpture was made from! Its like almost antique and its one of the first boxsprings with uncovered coils. The frame is exceptionally strong, In fact I only kept it because my plan was to cut it in half and put hinges on it to make a crazy chair/couch. Of course mine has no rust. Nice pics/idea.
the magnets on the car reducing weight by 50%. hehe. lets see.... traction on the road reduced by 50%. hence stopping, turning, and traction have been reduced by 50%. thanks for making the world an unsafer place.
also as for having less weight doesn't mean it has less mass. so it will still take the same energy to accelerate.
no if you changed the polarity of the magnets so that it pulls you into the road you would gain traction and could stop much sooner. say by 50%.
The link to the North Korea pictures had to be the creepiest lot I've seen in a while... especially the four-lane highway with one car and one bike... and that's it. The movie theatre with the leaders' pictures nailed up where the movie screen should be was creepy too... and the pics of the people... I haven't seen so many scared eyes in a long while. :( Lips smiling, eyes terrified. Eep.
Guy in the glasses is Anatoly Vasserman, champion of the "What-Where-When" TV show, one of the smartest guys in ex-USSR. He is A.K.A. Onotoley, icon of the hackers attacked VKONTAKTE.RU (russian clone of facebook).This photo was uploaded to the all hacked groups with caption "Onotoley is raging".
Now if only someone could figure out a way to attach four of these things together with some kind of carriage in the middle ... now THAT would be something.
Have you checked out the Bombardier company's concept unicycle? Hydrogen cell for power, anime styling. Good pictures at http://www.gearbits.com/archives/000336.html
I can't imagine who would want to live in a place like that. You would never own your bit, only rent it, and you couldn't do anything serious to personalize it. Talk about the Neighborhood Association from Hell. Of course, I wouldn't mind if large numbers of other people went to live in one and left the real land open for people who appreciate it.
I highly recommend anyone interested in it to do check out arcosanti if they find themselves north of phoenix.
Sure, the project has mostly stalled in a larger sense, but is still self supporting. One thing the pics don't capture is the experience of being in those buildings, very unique, and very refreshing in a sense. It was early summer when I visited, very hot out, and yet quite cool and comfortable inside, without any AC on. The internal distribution of thermal energy and movement of air felt much more fresh and alive than the artificial cold tomb-like experience of most of Phoenix's large buildings that time of year.
Aesthetics aside, Soleri has a gift for creating true living spaces.
Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket... Having an entire city in one structure leaves the entire population very vulnerable to a variety of disasters: fire, epidemic, power failures, enemy or terrorist attack, etc., not to mention the attendant problems of utilities, waste disposal, emergency evacuation, and maintenance. Some ideas look a lot better on paper than in reality.
They aren't such a clever idea, 1 million people crammed in, what if a bomb goes off in a very important place, you could have up to 1 million casualties!
I've always thought that Solari's megacities were to some extant a reactin to Frank Loyd Wright's Broadacre City; a vison of continent ecompassing sprawl. PT: actually his vision was a bit more heterogenous. The exteriors aren't very uniform because building really only provides a concrete slab and basic infrastructure. Everything else would be built by the individual "condo-owner."
These are all grand ideas that lead to something bigger. While the concerns raised by the commenters here are all valid, these represent the first step in being able to colonize other worlds once they are determined to be able to sustain life, or we have developed the capacity to make other worlds sustain life.
Arcologies like this provide us with an opportunity, built on Earth, to discover the flaws, problems, logistical hurdles and potentials for disaster that exist in the designs prior to building them in space and sending them, fully loaded, to another world, or building them on that world. If they can be made stable in an environment that is already relatively stable, they have passed the first step towards being able to support human life elsewhere in the universe. It is only a few more baby steps to design them in such a way as to be able to survive elsewhere and/or travel there under their own power and land safely.
To those who dismissed the idea's based on fear filled sentiments, I am profoundly sorry. A bomb can cause 1 million casualties due to the close proximity of the living quarters? Damn, all it takes is a bigger bomb, which you know each country is always developing and the benefits of being spread out are lost, and the cons are all thats left. Destruction of natural ecosystems around the entire world have been destroyed based on people wanting to own "their" piece. At least with arcologys nature has a better chance of surviving. And humans still just have human problems, like thinking you need more than you have. Americans wake up to the world your part of please.
Another cult complete with a saintly founder who enjoys his own opulent private quarters (with desert swimming pool) while his acolytes do all the drudgery trying to get his unwieldy designs to work.
He nowadays passes his time making styrofoam models for the trademark wind chimes. Incidentally, his eco-friendly minions directly invest molten metal into the styrofoam sending gouts of poisonous black hydrocarbons into the otherwise pristine high-desert skies.
"Thinking globally but acting locally." What a crock!
Mainly someone said this seems like putting all your eggs in one basket - well think about it this way: Earth = One Basket. We need to spread out and this is a logical primer.
Next to the guy who said leave land to the people who appreciate it. The point of this is to give everyone the opportunity to appreciate land not divide it up and fence it off and 'customize' it.
There will never be enough land to go around and some of the best land is taken by people who assume they have a right to keep it from everyone else.
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the weimeraners in clothes are by William Wegman.
The enormous bird cage remember me a spanish joke:
What do a two hundred pounds bird on to a branche? ¡TWEET,TWEET!
Funimals?
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haha, i like all the monkey pics!!!
Great pictures, good work again
Gr. Mieg
That is an awesome group of pictures you have put together. I will be sure to share & Digg this page with all my animal lovers. Thank you so much for a great post and God Bless.
why, thank you :)
What is the 13th pic from the top? And is it real???
Those monkeys with the green faces look like they're members of some anarchist liberation front.
Whats the 3rd animal from the top anyone know?
what a blog!
LOL
- Tuure Koivikko
The poor monkey of the "bath time"... ha, ha.
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktgHmtfv6yE dogs really can be funny :)
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