Candidates Dancing Frenzy

Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Candidates Dancing Frenzy! Obama and McCain (and a mysterious visitor) square off in a dance marathon - you choose the winner! url On a related note, here is a site If the World Could Vote, which tries to get a more global sense in this voting. Today's pictures & links: Vintage Poll Counting Machines (image credit: modernmechanix) ------------ Snake Fence Tony Acevedo strolled out into his backyard to find this snake in a fence with a bird in it's mouth. No idea how the snake caught it. (photo by Tony Acevedo from the Dominican Republic) ------------ Time Machines Don Pezzano makes incredible pieces... time pieces... time machines. Slightly hallucinatory. (image credit: Don Pezzano) And, as though just looking cool is not enough, these art items are built using downed International Space Station components. See the whole set. ------------ Cool Shot of the Day (in cooperation with National Geographic magazine) You have to see this image large (click it) - then you'll see the birds there... Photo by Jason Tamure - a sunset over the gannet colony at Muriwai Beach, New Zealand. (image credit: Jason Tamure, National Geographic) And we just have to mention the spectacular view from California's coastal Highway 1, south of Santa Cruz (just been there this summer...) Photo by Dhiman Kheerak: (image credit: Dhiman Kheerak, National Geographic) ------------ Mixed fresh links for today: Mistakes and Blunders of Science - [fascinating] Radical Bed Designs - [furniture] Tangled Kelp Forests - [nature photos] Problems with the new NASA Ares Program, more - [space] Alternative approach to launching NASA missions, more - [space] Star Wars Character Gadgets - [geek tech] Hard boiled egg extraction from its shell... wow - [cool video] Chocolate Love - [fun video, nsfw?] A Man with three buttocks - [fun video] A community for financial news, ideas, and tips - [promotion] Interview with Avi Abrams on BornRich - [DRB News] ------------ Great transportation for witches at Halloween ------------ Spell With Flickr This site allows you to write anything you want - with Flickr-hosted photographs of letters, in random style: ------------ Speed Racers Somebody watched "Speed Racer" once too many times? These are neat concepts, though: The "Formula Zero" racecar, from Mercedes-Benz - More info Audi Calamaro - More info Peugeot Blade, from Peugeot Design Contest 2008 - More info Oskar Johansen's Peugeot 888 - More info Argentine Esteban Peisci's Xtreet, runs on three spheres! - More info ------------ It's the beginning of the end when you see things like this ... (image via William M. Tsutsui ------------ City Mound Neat limited edition print by Kiel Johnson at POV Editions: On a side note, they recently launched an open call for artists and image for submission, check it out ------------ Animals vs. modern stuff (image credit: Heru Suryoko) ------------ Great Quizzes How many MPG does your body get? - Click here to find out WARNING! This is addictive: Short Term Memory Checker - Click Here ------------ Good Kitten, Evil Kitten Self-explanatory: ------------ Mystery Plane This is really weird... note the wide windows at the front, unfinished tail. Photoshop or not, what do you think? (images via) UPDATE: According to this forum, this is a shortened mix between Boeing 747 and DC9, used in the counter terrorism training. (thank you Alister) ------------ Abraham Lincoln in a stormy mood... (image via) ------------ (image via) READ THE PREVIOUS ISSUE! -> Permanent Link......+StumbleUpon ...+Facebook