Photos of Interest:
A new world record has been set: The previous record for hanging spoons on a human face was 15. Joe Allison "smashed" the record with 16. He's only 16 years old. He thinks that when his forehead is a little...
Posted on April 6, 2008 6:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a nice bit of Scandinavian design. But take another look. Notice the ST segment? HT: Neatorama....
Posted on March 16, 2008 3:17 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I noticed this photo on Flickr... A smile is always worth something....
Posted on February 28, 2008 7:54 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There are no cash rewards, and no instant fame. But I have looked at a great many "best photo" series, and this is the most enjoyable. Why? Because every single one of the photos is in the public domain. It's...
Posted on January 28, 2008 8:13 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deputy Dog has a post detailing "5 unbelievably cool research facilities." The one shown here is the Z Machine, at the Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Sandia Labs have more than one location.) This device produces X-rays. Sure,...
Posted on January 21, 2008 8:40 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Previously, I posted a photo of noctilucent clouds, as seen from earth. Now, NASA's Earth Observatory Newsroom presents us with a photo of the same phenomenon, as seen from a satellite. These clouds appear when ice-crystal-laden clouds for high...
Posted on January 8, 2008 11:49 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I feel bad: I am infringing on Karmen's territory. She put up a delightful fractal Christmas tree for everyone. And she opened the Chaotic Utopia Curio Shop to meet all of your fractal needs. Be sure to check it out,...
Posted on December 25, 2007 7:14 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sometimes there are nice sunsets....
Posted on December 23, 2007 9:29 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you have cats, and you put laundry on the bed, and leave the room for 15 seconds, this is what happens. They own the place....
Posted on December 21, 2007 11:28 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a brain MRI animation, showing sequential slices of the brain, from top to bottom. It was a featured image at Wikipedia. This was created by a Wikipedia user, Fastfission. The explanation follows: Made from an fMRI scan...
Posted on December 20, 2007 6:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Amuse yourself for a few minutes: The Neural Correlate Society has compiled its list of ten finalists for the year's best optical illusions. My favorite is the Bouncing Brains....
Posted on December 19, 2007 9:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is another irresistable panda video; I got this from Neatorama, who got it from A Welsh View....
Posted on December 18, 2007 12:25 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is an albino squirrel, as featured in the Daily Mail. They have a gallery of such photos here, including an amazing albino peacock. Also, check out the winners of the National Geographic photo contest....
Posted on December 15, 2007 1:41 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is an artisan at Pitbull Armory who makes armor for people, primarily for Society for Creative Anachronism events. But he also makes armor for dogs. And horses. And he's "made history" by making armor for a squirrel. Here's the...
Posted on December 10, 2007 9:14 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a penguin photographed at the Frederiksberg Copenhagen Zoo (København Zoo). Photo by morols, on Flickr. Click on the photo to navigate to a much larger version ("all sizes" link above the photo)....
Posted on December 3, 2007 7:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is a whole series of photos illustrating this unusual relationship. It originally was posted in the Boston Herald, but that page is no longer with us. The text and photos still can be found at Fresh Pics. Some...
Posted on December 2, 2007 8:30 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bosque del Apache is a somewhat famous site for people to go to see migratory birds as they (birds) fly south. I believe these are snow geese (Chen caerulescens), but I am not sure. Flickr has a lot of...
Posted on November 25, 2007 11:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Golden Retriever is the finest breed of dog in the world. These dogs are smart, and noble. I don't have any dogs right now, but if I do get a dog, it will be a Golden Retriever....
Posted on November 18, 2007 7:20 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Tilly is an eagle that has been trained to fly with a pair of video cameras. The cameras weigh less than 30 grams and can transmit video signals more than a mile. I gather this was shown on Aminal...
Posted on November 13, 2007 11:26 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Chinese pistache, Pistacia chinenesis, is the most frost-tolerant of the Pistacia, and is relatively drought-tolerant as well. It is prized for the vivid autumn color of the leaves....
Posted on November 13, 2007 7:25 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There are just a few splashes of color left in the garden....
Posted on November 12, 2007 8:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yes, it is a Darth Vader ballon. Photo by Vincent Maurin. Taken in St-Julien-lès-Gorze, Lorraine, France. The caption: "Created by a Belgian."...
Posted on November 11, 2007 11:11 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is an Osteospermum var Vanilla Spoon. Photo by code poet, on Flickr. In addition to the white ones, there are purple ones. I want a purple one....
Posted on November 7, 2007 7:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a photo from the space telescope Hubble, as shown on National Geographic's site. The conglomeration of the two galaxies is known as Arp 87....
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Posted on November 5, 2007 7:25 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Again, my weakness for cute animals takes hold. I saw a piece on Yahoo News about a white baby kangaroo born in a zoo in Argentina, a canguro blanco. The only photo they have is small: So I tried to...
Posted on November 4, 2007 7:56 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Folded from a single, square piece of paper. It even has the cerebellum! Source: Origami Page, by Brian Chan HT: Grow A Brain...
Posted on November 3, 2007 11:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus). Photo by Jungleboy, on Flickr. ...
Posted on October 30, 2007 9:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A guy was sitting at a stoplight, minding his own business, when a wrecking ball crashed into the trunk. The man was not seriously injured. The wrecking ball was being used in demolition, but apparently had a defective cable....
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Posted on October 30, 2007 12:32 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a storm over Chaco Canyon. Photo by swirling miasma, on Flickr. It shows an effective use of a wide-angle lens. ...
Posted on October 22, 2007 6:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This one is good for several seconds of enjoyment. Source: Mighty Optical Illusions....
Posted on October 22, 2007 3:24 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What will they think of next?...
Posted on October 14, 2007 7:45 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This photo is from the Wikimedia Commons featured pictures section. It depicts Two gold dust day geckos (Phelsuma laticauda laticauda) fighting on a banana plant in central Saint-Denis, Réunion. The photo was taken by Thierry Caro. It carries a creative commons...
Posted on October 11, 2007 10:48 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is from a site on Medscape, Infosite. It is a multimedia program about Vyvanse® (lisdexamfetamine dimesylate), a long-acting amphetamine. The video is positively mind-blowing: This shows a person who is about to take a Vyvanse capsule. Next we see...
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Posted on October 8, 2007 11:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In this case, peace won. Marisa Crockett speaks to an Albuquerque Police Department officer at UNM about her free hugs project to travel across the United States in her bio-fueled car, offering hugs and hoping to get the word out...
Posted on October 7, 2007 10:40 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a photo of star trails over the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. The anomaly in the upper left is an "Iridium flare," a reflection from an Iridium communication satellite. Photo by Fort Photo on Flickr. His Flickr page (click the...
Posted on October 3, 2007 7:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some people are amazingly creative...or thirsty. (Source)...
Posted on September 22, 2007 2:42 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you are willing to settle for a two-dimensional desktop experience, and you love The Matrix, this might be fun. The image is an animated GIF, so it is big. (Sorry to the dial-up users.) The real thing works much...
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Posted on September 15, 2007 7:20 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a regular photo of a tiger at the Albuquerque Biological Park. The photo is on Flickr, taken by Glen. The one below is altered to contain a hidden image. It is from Mighty Optical Illusions by Vurdlak....
Posted on September 14, 2007 6:36 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Posted on September 11, 2007 5:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo by Fabio Gismondi, on Flickr. I am not sure exactly what these things are. They appear to be wooden curios in a shop. I can't decide which is my favorite....
Posted on September 9, 2007 10:24 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is Theo at his desk, during the first day of Kindergarden, at Eberwhite....
Posted on September 5, 2007 11:33 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This picture shows Hurricane Felix 2007 after attaining category 5 status. You can see a video of it, growing as it approaches Central America, at the NOAA site, here. Background info is at The Intersection (more). Chris Mooney points...
Posted on September 3, 2007 2:16 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My pick from Flickr; this is a Pogona vitticeps, or Central Bearded Dragon. The species is found in central Australia. Photography by Joachim S. Müller. The tags indicate that the picture was taken at a reptile zoo in Germany....
Posted on September 3, 2007 11:03 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shows what can happen when you withhold cheezburgers. (The caption indicates that the lizard survived.) photo by Chickenboots....
Posted on August 29, 2007 7:05 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My non-expert identification of this: desert spiny lizard, Sceloporus magister....
Posted on August 28, 2007 6:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From Cellar Image of the Day......
Posted on August 27, 2007 9:13 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
These things are hard to photograph. They are faster than I am, that is for sure. Out of about 30 shots, at least a few were decent. These are said to be the smallest birds in the USA. They...
Posted on August 20, 2007 9:18 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Spent part of the afternoon trying to get better pictures of the woodpeckers, but I am not happy with any of the pictures I got. So here is someone else's picture: I think it is easier to get pictures of...
Posted on August 19, 2007 8:05 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Next to the headline "Corporate America Braces for Market Fallout," is a photo, selected at random, of a guy diving in front of some skyscrapers. It is not intended as an illustration for the article, but at first glance it...
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Posted on August 16, 2007 2:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some people did not believe that the picutre of the surfing dog was real. I can't prove it either way, with respect to that particujlar dog, but I did find a video of a different dog surfing. This might give...
Posted on August 13, 2007 9:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here it is again, with unsharp mask applied, and increased contrast....
Posted on August 12, 2007 1:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am now sure this is a ladderback. The photos are not very sharp, having been taken through a window screen, but it still was fun. The cat was going nuts. That's how I knew there was something outside....
Posted on August 12, 2007 1:42 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
That, by the way, is a cobra's head in the man's mouth. Courtesy of Sky News "We've scoured the globe for some of the best, strangest and most dramatic photographic images..." They quipped that snake charming is "a dying...
Posted on August 10, 2007 4:42 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since the last one of these I did was kind of scary, I decided to do one that is not so scary. It is just plain weird. But there is an interesting story to it. The female is on the...
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Posted on August 10, 2007 8:25 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is featured at the PNAS site. It appears to not have a permanent link, but it currently is the PNAS Featured Image on their PNAS in the News page. The caption: The intromittent organ of male seed beetles...
Posted on August 7, 2007 11:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Put this near the top of things you don't want to do to yourself. This woman developed fever and abdominal pain, but did not disclose to her physician what she had done. That was her second mistake. The oval...
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Posted on August 6, 2007 12:12 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
LA Times photo by Stephen Osman Buddy, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, catches a wave while surfing Rincon Point in Santa Barbara County, north of Ventura, Calif....
Posted on August 5, 2007 8:14 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This little gal was in the garage. It's a green toad, Bufo debilis....
Posted on July 27, 2007 11:13 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
OK, here's another front-yard bird....
Posted on July 27, 2007 12:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This bird was in my front yard a couple of days ago. It flew away before I could get a better picture....
Posted on July 27, 2007 8:36 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
These are sooo precious... The one on the left is the cub. They are Owston's Palm Civets, Chrotogale owstoni ......
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Posted on July 26, 2007 5:45 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I was reading about the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency, got curious about albinism, and ended up finding this picture of a white lion. It is distributed under a creative commons license, attribution required. The photographer is Stano Novak. The...
Posted on July 24, 2007 12:33 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This image shows what can happen to your retina from a sudden increase in venous pressure. What could cause such a sudden increase? Jumping straight down, followed by sudden upward acceleration. The patient initially had 20/400 vision in the affected...
Posted on July 23, 2007 2:39 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As reported in the journal, The Lancet, a man has been found who had a small brain, but a normal life. The article is subscription only so I am not even going to link to it. But it is still...
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Posted on July 22, 2007 11:55 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is marketed as a brush to be used for shampooing dogs. However, it is also very good for dry brushing of cats. It is particularly effective at getting those extremely fine hairs from the undercoat. It is also...
Posted on July 21, 2007 12:21 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Allerca hypoallergenic cat... is a hot commodity right now. The company claims a 15-month waiting list for the $4,000 pets. They supposedly have many virtues: An ALLERCA GD cat's personality is very sweet and affectionate, thanks in part to...
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Posted on July 5, 2007 11:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Red Panda has a Latin name that suggests it is a cat. It is not, being more closely related to bears and raccoons. They are similar to the more famous Giant Pandas, but sufficiently distinct so as to have...
Posted on June 30, 2007 11:41 PM
