Photos of Interest

Again, my weakness for cute animals takes hold.  I saw a piece on Yahoo News about a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Buenos-Aires/photo//071102/photos_od_afp/d6b664898c02c8a712b81c441e343e56//s:/afp/20071102/od_afp/argentinaaustraliaanimalkangaroo_071102005235;_ylt=AuUk1l0pYqwPyI7YihPOxZmhOrgF">white baby kangaroo born in a zoo in Argentina, acanguro blanco.  The only photo they have is small: href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Buenos-Aires/photo//071102/photos_od_afp/d6b664898c02c8a712b81c441e343e56//s:/afp/20071102/od_afp/argentinaaustraliaanimalkangaroo_071102005235;_ylt=…
Folded from a single, square piece of paper.  It even has the cerebellum! Source: Origami Page, by Brian Chan HT: href="http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/2007/11/predicting-the-.html">Grow A Brain
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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. HT: DNA Lounge. href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07191/800583-85.stm">Meadville mishap defines wrecking ballOne breaks loose, goes on tear near college Tuesday, July 10, 2007 By Steve Levin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Alex Habay was in his Ford Taurus, stopped at a traffic light in downtown Meadville, Crawford County, yesterday morning, thinking about nothing,…
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This one is good for several seconds of enjoyment. Source: href="http://www.moillusions.com/2007/10/infinite-zoom-coast-illusion.html">Mighty Optical Illusions.
What will href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/solar_farm_wagon_small_bi.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890">they think of next?
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Combat-de-phelsumes-sur-un-bananier.JPG">This photo is from the Wikimedia Commons featured pictures section.  It depicts Two href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Phelsuma_laticauda" title="Phelsuma laticauda">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 share-alike license.  It is available in href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Combat-de-phelsumes-sur-un-bananier.JPG">Full…
This is from a site on Medscape, Infosite.  It is a multimedia program about href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/10/update_on_nrp104_less_potentia.php">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 the capsule going down the esophagus. Pretty much everything in the educational material has already been covered here and elsewhere ( href="http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2007/07/vyvanse-watch.html">1 href="http://richardgpettymd.…
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 about her recycling program. The officer was responding to a complaint, but momentarily left after a few friendly words, Tuesday, October 2, 2007. (source)
This is a photo of star trails over the href="http://www.friendsofthebosque.org/">Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.  The anomaly in the upper left is an " rel="tag">Iridium flare," a reflection from an  href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_%28satellite%29" title="Iridium (satellite)">Iridium communication satellite. href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" title="Click this link to find out details of the Creative Commons license associated with this image."> src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" alt="There is a…
Some people are amazingly creative...or thirsty. ( href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=854&num=5">Source)
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 better than the animated GIF shows.   The howto is href="http://geekhacks.com/2007/09/13/screensaver-as-a-desktop-wallpaper/">here. If you want the three-dimensional version, you'll have to use href="http://compiz.org/">compiz fusion.  It is not for Windows, even Vista, and not for Mac OS X.  You have to use Linux.  What are you waiting for? Anyway, here is the video…
This is a regular photo of a tiger at the href="http://www.cabq.gov/biopark/">Albuquerque Biological Park. href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tejedoro_de_luz/1382289147/"> The href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tejedoro_de_luz/1382289147/">photo is on Flickr, taken by Glen.   The one below is altered to contain a hidden image.  It is from href="http://www.moillusions.com/2007/09/tiger-woman-illusion.html">Mighty Optical Illusions by Vurdlak. The hidden image is one of those that jumps out at you, once you finally see it.
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This is Theo at his desk, during the first day of Kindergarden, at Eberwhite.
This picture shows href="http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/float1.html" rel="tag">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, href="http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/sloop-wv.html">here.  Background info is at href="http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2007/09/here_we_go_again_hurricane_fel.php">The Intersection ( href="http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2007/09/a_scary_intensification_record.php">more).  Chris Mooney points out that Felix now holds the record for shortest…
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class="inset" alt="Flickr. By Chickenboots. Creative Commons License" title="Flickr. By Chickenboots. Creative Commons License" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/148054501_759fdbdd9b.jpg" border="0" height="375" width="500">Shows what can happen when you withhold cheezburgers.  (The href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dah-sab/148054501/">caption indicates that the lizard survived.) href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" title="Click this link to find out details of the Creative Commons license associated with this image."> src="http://…