On Wednesday, National Geographic selected its Best Environmental Photographs of 2010. Above, frogspawn nestles at the bottom of a Hungarian lake and a hummingbird faces down a viper.
Full winners gallery here, plus links to related pics.
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36 examples of fonts taken from classic sci-fi, books, movies and TV shows. How many do you recognise?
Answers here.
Finished already? Try the rock band eye test.
Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon whereby the mind perceives significance in random stimulus (hearing hidden messages in records played backwards, seeing faces in clouds, etc.)
This amazing, (un-retouched) photo of condesation patterns on the windows of her Texas office block was taken by Esther Radican.
It’s nothing. Just your mind playing tricks.
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From today’s editorial in the Guardian:
‘When financiers joked in 2008 that the only difference between bankrupt Iceland and hard-up Ireland was one letter and a few days, they got it wrong – the mess the Emerald Isle is now in is so much worse.’
Ouch.
‘…all the way down, Dublin ministers have promised voters that things are about to get better. Those emergency loans to the banks – that would sort it. These savage spending cuts – that would do the job. That decision to pretty much guarantee the entire banking system (with practically no questions asked) – this time for sure. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Like a body flung off the roof of a skyscraper, the Irish economy has just kept on falling.’
Ditto.
‘…being open for business at all costs does not work well for small countries with homogeneous economies. And it really does not work with dozy policymakers.’
Game over.
Not to mention Dil Wickremasinghe. Pffft! Snicker! Oh wait, no that doesn’t work.
(Ta, Diddley)
Yesterday, Google treated us to a search-doodle celebrating 50 years of the Flintstones.
Cute. This next thing, not quite as cute.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZvHiiWFbBU&feature=player_embedded#!
Fred and Barney endorsing Winston cigarettes in 1961. The ad was pulled in 1963 halfway through the original series run (by Winston, not Hanna Barbera) following the birth of Pebbles.
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTIoezhRS3g&feature=player_embedded
Iran has unveiled three squadrons of new flying boats. This one, the Bavar 2, has a machine gun, missile launcher and surveillance cameras.
‘As for its criticisms, the Bavar 2 has been accused of being very “kit,” as in it looks like a watercraft you could have ordered online and assembled yourself’.
Also, it doesn’t fly very high. And it’s fairly loud, as stealthboats go.
Research continues.
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