Bunny and Hedgehog

Drum Master

Toasted Head and Orangina

On a recent trip to the super market, these two items caught me by surprise.

Crayons – For Colouring and Shit, Yo

Enceladus up close

See more: www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/enceladus_up_close.html

The Art of Wayne Barlowe

Happy Hallowe’en!

God Prefers Athiests

Perroquet

www.showstudio.com/project/perroquet

Meaningful Graffiti…

…or not

Amazing Comet Holmes

Explanation: One year ago, Comet 17P/Holmes amazed sky watchers across planet Earth. A stunningly rapid outburst transformed it from a faint comet quietly orbiting the Sun with a period of about 7 years to a naked-eye comet rivaling the brighter stars in the constellation Perseus. Its largely tail-less shape, as in this wide-angle view recorded on November 11, 2007, became well-known to astronomers trying to unravel the mystery of the comet’s surprising outburst . Still, Comet Holmes had a dim ion tail that was seen to separate from the bright coma. In this image, the separated tail creates the illusion of a reflection nebula. It appears as a faint bluish haze right of center against a background of stars in the loosely grouped Alpha Persei Moving Cluster.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0810/17P-Holmes_cook.jpg

Pandhof in Utrecht

www.flickr.com/photos/edwinek/19368815/sizes/o/

Monster

Venus of Willendorf

24,000 BC ‒ 22,000 BC Found near Willendorf, Austria. Discovered in 1908 by by Josef Szombathy. Made of limestone and tinted with red ocre.

The Venus is not a realistic portrait but rather an idealization of the female figure. Her vulva, breasts, and swollen belly, are heavily pronounced, suggesting a strong connection to fertility. Her tiny arms are folded over her breasts. The figure has no visible feet, her head being covered with circular horizontal bands of what might be rows of plaited hair, or a type of headdress.

The nickname, urging a comparison to the classical image of “Venus,” causes resistance in some modern analyses. According to Christopher Witcombe, “the ironic identification of these figurines as ‘Venus’ pleasantly satisfied certain assumptions at the time about the primitive, about women, and about taste.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf

Spartafly

over 9000 hours in MS Paint

The Art of ZdzisÃ…’šaw BeksiÃ…’žski

Happy Hallowe’en!

SLOTHS TURN

Sloths are cool too.

Did you mean ‘Children Asses’?

btjunkie.org/search?q=shivvering+isles

This sceen cap was taken by my fiance as he was trying to find the Shivering Isles expansion. I spat my water out and couldn’t stop laughing.

And yes, it still comes up with that result.

Have I ever clicked that redirect search?

brb, party van

Smooth Pooch

Hey Babe… How YOU doin…?

Sarah Palin Drops Puck

I wonder if she will be booed again, when she drops the puck tonight for the LA Kings@ St. Louis Blues game.

Pretty sure “hockey moms” wear hockey jerseys to games.

Only One of These Is Correct

Who knew

Bill Shapiro writes to Romenesko: I’m the former managing editor LIFE (the newspaper supplement version). After The Speech last night, I couldn’t help recall our third cover featuring McCain and…. Take a peek. I think you’ll find it very fun and rather prescient.

When we shot this photo for the third cover of LIFE (the newspaper
supplement version) back in September of 2004, we never dreamed we’d actually see it play out….or even anything this close.

As the election neared and it was becoming clear that every vote would
matter, we decided to ask a wide range of famous Americans why there were stepping up to the ballot box. We photographed Madeleine Albright, Manny Ramirez, Andre 3000, and Tucker Carlson (who told us, “People vote when they feel threatened. So it’s a good sign, in my view, that half the country doesn’t vote in the presidential election”) among others. Of course, we photographed John McCain and Tina Fey together. He was thrilled to meet her and they got along very well: They had lunch and he gave her an impromptu tour of the Senate building. Makes us wonder if when McCain met Palin for the first time, he said, ‘You know, you remind me of someone…”

Opeth

mhm.. Good band.

Adam and Eve – Muslim style

SOHO’s Uninterrupted View of the Sun

Explanation: Launched ten years ago this week, SOHO (the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory) still enjoys an uninterrupted view of the Sun. Twelve sungazing instruments on board the spacecraft have explored the Sun’s internal structure, the extensive solar atmosphere and solar wind, and discovered over 1,000 comets from a remarkable orbit around a point about 1.5 million kilometers directly sunward of planet Earth itself. At that location, known as a Lagrange point, the gravitational influence of the Earth and Sun are equal. With scientific instrument teams distributed around the world, the SOHO operations center is located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Mission operations are planned through March of 2007 to allow the study of a complete 11-year solar cycle. Contributions from SOHO’s instruments are represented in the colorful montage image. Happy tenth anniversary SOHO!

This was APOD’s POD in December of 2005.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0512/soho10_hill_f.jpg

Your opinion

Keep it to yourself….

Peaceful Place

I think Thoreau would approve.

Batcake

This cake was close to 300 lbs. All the figures were edible. Some bastard has cut it.

Confetti Cakes

Whale Waste

I don’t know what happened… the page was in russian, so if anyone here speaks russian, I would like and explanation!

Robberfly

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robberfly

Bsharri, Lebanon

Red Alert 3 Female Cast Wallpaper

Hedgehog is NOT Impressed

Another Anteater Pic

Aaay! Fuck you I’m an anteater!

Saturn Devouring His Sons

by Francisco Goya
More about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son

Just because you can reproduce…

Just because you can reproduce, doesn’t mean you should.

Maris Pacifici

The Maris Pacifici is believed to be the first printed map of the Pacific. It was published in Abraham Ortelius’ 1589 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered to be the first true modern atlas.

Wallpaper size: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Ortelius_-_Maris_Pacifici_1589.jpg

Headless Prom Queen Halloween Costume

This is a Halloween costume we made for my daughter: the Headless Prom Queen. The town I live in has a parade & costume judging contest for the kids. She took first place…. well, for her age group. But! one of the judges told us, if they could have picked an overall winner for the day, it would have been her. The stares and laughs she got were priceless. She had a blast. And no, she’s not some crazy freak kid; last year she was a princess, the year before a bumble bee.

Great Orion Nebulae

Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, also known as M42, is one of the most famous nebulae in the sky. The star forming region’s glowing gas clouds and hot young stars are on the right in this sharp and colorful two frame mosaic that includes the smaller nebula M43 near center and dusty, bluish reflection nebulae NGC 1977 and friends on the left. Located at the edge of an otherwise invisible giant molecular cloud complex, these eye-catching nebulae represent only a small fraction of this galactic neighborhood’s wealth of interstellar material. Within the well-studied stellar nursery, astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar systems. The gorgeous skyscape spans nearly two degrees or about 45 light-years at the Orion Nebula’s estimated distance of 1,500 light-years.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0810/M42_hallasNr.jpg

Rupert, the baby deer delevered via c-section

www.snopes.com/photos/animals/rupert.asp

www.kittymowmow.com/2008/10/01/introducing-deer-little-rupert/

Unfortunately he didn’t survie.

Bird Eating Giant Spider

www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/10/22/easpider122.xml

Scotoplanes

Guaranteed to give you nightmares.

CFR Puppets

Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) Dinner Tab

From the land of the $100,000,000,000 note. Hope it was delicious at that price!

Tiki God!

Was looking in the drink menu at Sam’s By The Sea here on Okinawa, had to snap a pic of this for Tiki!
Look, Tiki! Only 700 yen! (735 after tax! :P)
Shame this isn’t one of the drinks where you got to keep the cup, otherwise I might have ordered one.

Russian Boob Ceiling

They don’t get much bigger than these.

And I’m not buying the “Leaking upstairs plumbing” line either.

Via Inventor Spot

chainsaw kitty

Magnetic Air Car

A new take on an old idea. An air powered car, with an on board compressor turned initially, by a magnetic motor powered by a high endurance, high efficiency automotive battery, and in steady state, by recycled compressed air.

Individually, all of these components, air powered cars, compressors, etc., already exist. Combine them with a little “Secret Sauce” and you get… The magnetic air car.

So far so good. Except for one thing. They claim that once in motion, you will get an *unlimited* driving range out of their combination. Supposedly without somehow violating the laws of physics.

Personally, I can see the potential for an extremely efficient system here, but *UNLIMITED* driving range? Unless that secret sauce is pixie dust or something, I’ll believe it when I see it.

Via: The Red Ferret Journal
Sauce: Magnetic Air Cars
More Info: Almaden Times Weekly

A Wonderful World

God’s revelation

Yamaha Midnight Star

This is my new 2008 Yamaha Midnight Star (V-Star 1300 , or XVS1300A)
The bike rides beautifully. For the price, it’s one heck of a
monster. I have nothing against Harley or American bikes, and
will own one eventually. The girl posing on the bike is a good
friend of mine. The purpose of the pic is the leather jacket
she is wearing. A friend in Argentina makes leather/fur goods.
They sent me some and requested some photos so I did a photoshoot
and decided this picture was probably worth posting.