'Free Tibet' flags made in China - The Irony news.bbc.co.uk — Workers said they thought they were just making colorful flags and did not realize their meaning. But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper. (Shows how well things are kept under wraps over there)More... (Apple) |
flickr.com — Some cool graffiti on Philip Street in Bedminster, Bristol, UK. More... (Arts & Culture) |
Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear [ With PIC ] www.dailymail.co.uk — A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish.More... (Pets & Animals) |
What laptop does Steve Ballmer use for his presentations? flickr.com — What laptop does Steve Ballmer use for his presentations? Right...More... (Apple) |
xkcd.com — I'd add an apt description, but in the rush to post it on Digg, I haven't actually read it yet.More... (Comedy) |
flickr.com — You never see it coming until it's too late.More... (Pets & Animals) |
Two Views of Earth Show How Far We Have Come www.space.com — SPACE.com wishes all its readers a great Earth Day with two photos that show how far mankind has come while riding Spaceship Earth. The left photo of Earth was the first taken from the weather satellite TIROS-1, on April 1, 1960.More... (Space) |
grza.net — There goes the nintendo neighborhood.More... (Gaming Industry News) |
An Extreme Close Up of an "Iris Melanoma" - Eye Tumor [Pic] www.eyetumour.com — Iris melanoma patients usually have no symptoms. The tumor might be noticed by the patient, their family, or by the eye care specialist (during a routine eye examination).More... (General Sciences) |
What Ansel Adams Saw Through His Lens travel.nytimes.com — Adams first visited Yosemite in 1916 when he was 14 years old. On that trip, he hopped up on a tree stump to take a photo of Half Dome, then stumbled, headfirst, and accidentally pushed the shutter release. The upside-down image remained one of Adamsâs favorites, he wrote in his autobiography.More... (Arts & Culture) |
Eight of the Worldâs Most Unusual Plants [PICS] www.divinecaroline.com — Weird is relative. What seems weird to me might not seem weird to you. In the plant kingdom, however, there are definitely some species that most people would acknowledge are highly unusual. Some of my findings follow....More... (Educational) |
Revealed: Britain in Color Displayed for the Very First Time www.dailymail.co.uk — At the start of the 20th century, the art of photography was rather more limited - to black and white images, with various shades of gray in between. Now, for the first time ever, vivid vintage pictures of a world still largely unexplored ( in color ) were revealed to a mesmerized public.More... (Arts & Culture) |
The Large Hadron Collider - Hi Res www.gridpp.ac.uk — The Large Hadron Collider is a large physics project buried 100 metres underground on the French/Swiss border at CERN. It is based in a 27Km long tunnel and this picture is an artist's impression of the tunnel with an aerial view of the CERN site in the background. The red ring is marking where the tunnel is. More... (General Sciences) |
Could the Universe be a Gigantic Brain Cell? sprott.physics.wisc.edu — One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light years across. One shows neurons in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated image of the universe. Together they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different phenomena.More... (General Sciences) |