August 8, 2007 • 3:42 pm 0
Another image from the Wow! Flickr image pool: this is just a really appealing image
Image credit: originally uploaded by goshiva
For contrast, here’s two totally natural shots of a dune in Namibia at dawn and dunes in Libya at sunset.
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August 5, 2007 • 7:16 pm 8
Here’s a Sunday Night Quiz for you!
What is it?
(yes, some of you may already know. Don’t give it away, eh?)
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• 5:13 pm 1
Created using the HeroMachine Superhero Generator
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August 4, 2007 • 9:08 pm 5
That’s some great blaming by my friend baroquestar and her trusty digital camera. Check it out here.
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August 1, 2007 • 4:05 pm 5
Today is the official birthday of all racehorses in the Southern Hemisphere.
Asked why it was essential to have all horses celebrating their birthday on the same day, Mr McCulloch said it was more of a racing tradition than anything else.
“So that all the two-year-olds change over to three-year-olds and all the three-year-olds change over to four-year-olds at the same time.
Because you have two-year-old races and three–year-old races so it just makes it convenient that everything changes over on the one day.”
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• 3:53 pm 3
Image credit: Vulpes vulpes, originally uploaded by Robert Silverwood
I cheated a bit for this one – instead of my usual random trawling through the Wow! image pool I deliberately looked for one with a fox in it, because of the story I heard on the radio about the increasing population of foxes in Sydney and other Australian urban congomerations. They’re all over the place, following green zones and stormwater drains right onto the beaches and into the national parks.
If only they weren’t so fatal to our small native mammals (there are concerns that a breeding pair might finally have made it to Tasmania, last redoubt of the eastern quoll). Foxes are amazingly adaptable and whenever I have seen them in the wild I’ve been amazed by their beauty as well. But we don’t have the large predators to keep their numbers in check, so baiting it must be (unless we take Professor Dickman’s idea seriously – reintroduce dingoes instead, and use llamas and alpacas as watch animals to protect livestock against the foxes).
Anyway, watch out for your own pets if you’re in an area where foxes are being seen – someone will be putting down baits, guaranteed.
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July 25, 2007 • 5:19 pm 4
Originally uploaded by fluxn, and part of the image pool Wow! on Flickr
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July 19, 2007 • 10:57 pm 3
I don’t know quite how my son managed this, taken a few hours ago (because he’s very keen on lolcats and wants to submit photos of our cat to I Can Has Cheezburger? for glory’s sake).
Originally uploaded by the togster
My husband’s suggested caption is “I Seez Cheezburger!”
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July 18, 2007 • 5:00 am 3
I have mentioned on occasion that I like to trawl the Flickr image pool WOW! for interesting photos. The photo below, apart from being beautifully composed, spoke to me simply by evoking the great white cold so effectively. It’s not quite that cold here, but yesterday was Sydney’s coldest day in 20 years. It’s the first time in ages that I’ve found frost caked on the roof of my car parked out front.
Image Credit: boats, bergs and fog, originally uploaded by Coastal Eddy.
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July 9, 2007 • 3:11 pm 0
Check out this Worth-1000 competition to produce a Photoshopped medical anomaly.
Most of them are a bit of fun, but I prefer the more subtle ones:
Have a poke around Worth 1000 while you’re there. Check out Archaeological Anomalies, Alternate Explanations, and Bizarrchitecture 7.
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