Remember To Take Off Your Mask When Entering the Bank
Non-holiday masks, are okay! Found at Russell [Flickr]
Original post by Alex
Archive for Pictures
Fantastic Photo of a Volcanic Lightning Storm
Not only is Chile’s long dormant Chaitén volcano now erupting, but it is creating some amazing volcanic lightning storms. All I can think of when I see the picture is “wow”, so here’s a better description of the phenomenon from the article:
“The mingling of lightning and ash seen above may be a ‘dirty thunderstorm.’
The little-understood storms may be sparked when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume collide to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms. (More: Volcanic Lightning Sparked by ‘Dirty Thunderstorms,’ Study Finds” [February, 2, 2007].)”
Star Wars Typography
Just. How. Awesome. Is This. Behold, the Darth Vader typography, created by David Friedman of Ironic Sans.
And another one by Justin Crisostomo:
Also on Neatorama: Miss Baskerville Typography Shirt by Matt Sutter
Original post by Alex
Fractal Furniture by Takeshi Miyakawa
That’s fractal 23, a chest of drawers by Japanese furniture designer Takeshi Miyakawa. I’m guessing from the name that it has 23 drawers (indeed, if you count them, it makes sense) but to make use of them all,
you’d have to put it in the center of the room!
Link - via
Boing Boing
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Original post by Alex
Mother Love
This photgraph, originally from Cute Otters, shows an otter mom proudly displaying her offspring. It was one of many incredibly cute images of different kinds of animal mothers posted at The Pet Blog. Link -via the Presurfer
(image credit: SY Dration/Cute Otters)
Original post by Miss Cellania
Why do Thousands of Toads Cross the Road?
Photo: Yangtse
There was a sight to be seen at a bridge in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China a couple of days ago: the migration of thousands of toads!
Thousands of toads were spotted at a bridge in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China, on May 9. According to local expert, the toads were enduring a mass migration because of the depleting oxygen resource in a nearby river.
From the pic it seems like the chance of survival for the toads are not looking good on the road too…
Link - Thanks Jee!
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Original post by Alex
The Epic Journey of the KATRIN Main Spectrometer
Photo: KATRIN Main Spectrometer
In November 2006, the people of Leopoldshafen, Germany, saw the spectacle of their lives:
It looked like an alien spaceship, but it was actually the main spectrometer of the KATRIN experiment, a project that will try to to measure the mass of the electron neutrino in 2009.
The spectrometer was built 400 km (250 mi.) away in Deggendorf, but when they wanted to transport it, they found out that it was too big for the roads and the canals, so the spectrometer had to travel the nearly 9,000 km (5,600 mi.) journey through Austria, Hungary, Romania, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Netherlands and finally back to Germany!
