T’pol

T’Pol is the first Vulcan officer to serve a prolonged term on a human vessel. The previous record was 10 days; by comparison, T’Pol served aboard the Enterprise for ten years (2151-2161). As a Sub-Commander serving the Vulcan High Command, she was stationed aboard the Enterprise in April 2151, as an observer to Captain Jonathan Archer and his crew, whom the High Command insisted were not ready for interstellar space exploration. After the success of the Enterprise’s initial mission led to the vessel being given an extended exploration mandate, T’Pol requested to stay aboard.

T’Pol remained aboard the Enterprise despite several attempts by her superiors to recall her to Vulcan. T’Pol’s decision brought considerable scrutiny upon her from her superiors, and increasing support for her from her captain; she ultimately resigned from the High Command and accepted a field commission from Starfleet in 2154, resulting in her being given the Starfleet field rank of Commander.

One horse power

George Bush’s heart

Red Tulips from Aperturo

Red Tulips, two different styles, but same flowers. Compliments of Aperturo!

Pug – DO WANT

Burning Cross

A real burning cross for the holiday season!

source:
store.afa.net/pc-10000310-11-christmas-cross.aspx

Lenin Boat

Just WTF is going on here?

eHarmony Failure

Sorry.
Your application to join our match-making service has been rejected.
You failed question #14: ‘What do you like most in a woman?’
‘My Dick’ was not an acceptable answer.

Hassan II Mosque

The Hassan II Mosque (Arabic: Ù سجد الحسن الØ-اني‎) is a mosque located in Casablanca, Morocco. Designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau and built by Bouygues,[1] it is the second largest in the world (after the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca). It stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic, which can be seen through a gigantic glass floor with room for 25,000 worshippers. A further 80,000 can be accommodated in the mosque’s courtyard. Its minaret is the world’s tallest at 210 metres (689 ft)

Wiki Article
Wallpaper size

Painted Light

Not sure what that is but it’s cool looking.
flickr

Euhadra peliomphala

Wiki, Wallpaper size
Euhadra peliomphala is a land snail endemic to Japan. The species exhibits exceptional geographical variation in its mitochondrial DNA.

The Tata Nano… the $2500 Car from India

The Tata Nano is a proposed city car †a small, affordable, rear-engined, four-passenger car aimed primarily at the Indian market †first presented by India’s Tata Motors at the 9th annual Auto Expo on January 10, 2008 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India.

Tata targets the vehicle as the least expensive production car in the world †aiming for a starting price of 100,000 rupees or approximately $2300 US.

Newsweek identifies the Nano as a part of a “new breed of 21st-century cars” that embody “a contrarian philosophy of smaller, lighter, cheaper” and portend a new era in inexpensive personal transportation †and potentially, “global gridlock” . The Wall Street Journal confirms a global trend toward small cars, which includes the Nano.

The prefix “Nano” derives from the Greek root ‘nanos’, meaning dwarf †as with nanometre. “Nano” also means “small” in Gujarati, the native language of the Tata family, founders of the Tata Group.

Core i7 is here!

nom nom nom nom

More Pictures from Meramec Springs

Some more pictures I took.. I really like the closeup macro on my camera (in case you haven’t seen me state that the other million times I have…) The only issue I have with it, is it likes to focus in on one small area, for detail and tends to blur the rest. Either way, these aren’t bad for 7MP shots. I had to resize each one to ~50% of it’s original size in order to upload to M[C]S.

Religion Cards

My Girlfriend Sent Me Apple Pie… in the Mail

All the way from Boulder, Colorado, to Glasgow, Scotland. I am quite happy. It’s bloody delicious too! Damnit, now I need to get her something better… than Apple Pie mailed to me on a whim. She’s incredible, I’m so damn lucky.

Gift From Glasgow 01

Consultant Jeff Downie revealed that, on average, staff at Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital are stitching up one slashed youngster every SIX HOURS.

And he fumed: “Kids at this age should be worried about pimples but instead have horrible scars across their entire face.

And it seems no one is safe from the rising tide of violence. Jeff told us: “Recently I treated a lad who’d just come to Glasgow to study. He was jumped and slashed in the face. He’s scarred for life.

Carcassonne

I visited Carcassonne w/ my family when I was 12 or 13. I always thought it would be so cool to live in a walled city…it’s medieval.
Found here

pygmy tarsier – furby

Restored: First Image of the Earth from the Moon

Explanation: Pictured above is the first image ever taken of the Earth from the Moon. The image was taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbiter 1 and heralded by then-journalists as the Image of the Century. It was taken about two years before the Apollo 8 crew snapped its more famous color cousin. Recently, modern technology has allowed the recovery of higher resolution images from old data sources such as Lunar Orbiter tapes than ever before. Specifically, recovery of the above image was initiated 20 years ago by Nancy Evans, and completed recently by Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing who lead the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project. Images like that above carry more than aesthetic value — comparison to recent high definition images of the Moon enables investigations into how the Moon has been changing.
APOD

Google Rocks

I was doing a search for “it ticketing system” and I saw this autocomplete before it went up. Sometimes, google scares me.

Wonder Woman at the club

Check out the bulletproof bracelets… I’ll be SuperNom

Domino’s Gets Us One Step Closer

TiVo Delivers Domino’s

Drying Mud, Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia

Mud baking in the hot Indonesian sun nearly reached the rooflines in a village in Sidoarjo, East Java. In 2006, a fracture deep within the Earth, likely caused by local natural-gas drilling, triggered a massive release of hot mud that lasted for months and buried the region.
NGeoPOD

Marisa Miller

Albino Peacock?

Wallpaper size

Another Do Not Hump

I hadn’t actually considered it before reading the warning.
flickr

Kansas Classrooms

“We won’t be using safety glasses this year in shop class. I believe that anyone who gets a wood chip in their eye had it coming.”

Ducks, Ducks, and MOAR DUCKS

I thought these duck pictures were a little better than the Hundreds of Ducks post.
(the duck army belongs to a friend’s husband, and the other was taken by my mother at our local “carnival”)

Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado

Explanation: What’s happening over the horizon? Although the scene may appear somehow supernatural, nothing more unusual is occurring than a setting Sun and some well placed clouds. Pictured above are anticrepuscular rays. To understand them, start by picturing common crepuscular rays that are seen any time that sunlight pours though scattered clouds. Now although sunlight indeed travels along straight lines, the projections of these lines onto the spherical sky are great circles. Therefore, the crepuscular rays from a setting (or rising) sun will appear to re-converge on the other side of the sky. At the anti-solar point 180 degrees around from the Sun, they are referred to as anticrepuscular rays. Pictured above is a particularly striking set of anticrepuscular rays photographed in 2001 from a moving car just outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA.
APOD

Real Life Bambi & Thumper

Assimilate This!

Wheelchair Basketball Slam Dunk

Dog Socks

Aerial View of Bora Bora, Tahiti

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Hoppy goodness from the people of The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.

Gir Makin Waffles Wallpaper

These have peanuts and soap in ’em!

Cargo Helicopter

Saw this outside my work today…I have no idea what kind of helicopter this is, but it sure was loud and looked pretty bad-ass!

Always Otters

“Atheism: It always leads to war with the otters.”

Nooo!

Random internet animals

Zebra Intercourse Exhibit

Sleeveface – Vinyl Album Art

via: www.sleeveface.com/

The Pregnant Man

Thomas Trace Beatie, a transgendered man born Tracy LaGondino, reversed hormone replacement and carried a child to term. He had not menstruated in 8 years. His wife, Nancy Beatie, developed sympathy pregnancy and was able to breast feed their daughter, Susan Juliet Beatie. He also did not appear to shave during the pregancy.

Transformer Motorcycle

I was going through some images from January 2006 and found these. My buddy from Ireland came to visit that month and brought this to me for Christmas. 🙂

It’s some generic transformer toy but the fact that it’s supposed to be the motorcycle I owned at the time makes it pretty kewl.

Blue eyed kitty

Are his eyes really that blue or is it from processing or something?

Black Cat Bath

Am I the only one who never gives my cat a bath? I can only remember once or twice giving any of my cats a bath, and that was due to fleas.
Found on flickr

Tree Frog, Pacific Islands

A tree frog shows off its broad and effective grip while clinging to a tree trunk in the Pacific Islands. Frogs—particularly tropical species—are vanishing at alarming rates, in part due to disease epidemics attributed to climate change. Amphibian skin is incredibly thin, making frogs acutely susceptible to changes in temperature, humidity, or water quality.
NGeoPOD

Love Jesus

Love Jesus, or he’ll fucking kill you.

Got it at this place, via Debunking Christianity

Fomalhaut b

Explanation: Fomalhaut (sounds like “foam-a-lot”) is a bright, young, star, a short 25 light-years from planet Earth in the direction of the constellation Piscis Austrinus. In this sharp composite from the Hubble Space Telescope, Fomalhaut’s surrounding ring of dusty debris is imaged in detail, with overwhelming glare from the star masked by an occulting disk in the camera’s coronagraph. Astronomers now identify, the tiny point of light in the small box at the right as a planet about 3 times the mass of Jupiter orbiting 10.7 billion miles from the star (almost 14 times the Sun-Jupiter distance). Designated Fomalhaut b, the massive planet probably shapes and maintains the ring’s relatively sharp inner edge, while the ring itself is likely a larger, younger analog of our own Kuiper Belt – the solar system’s outer reservoir of icy bodies. The Hubble data represent the first visible-light image of a planet circling another star. .
APOD