Amusing the clowns since 1973.
I am 6ft tall, take pictures of rocks, and love you, and you, and you, and you, and definitely you. I recently moved over here to Tumblr, but you can see all the old BIAYF goodness here.
Si Scott is back with some amazing drawings and this time its wasps, flies and bees in flight, in the series he has called Airborne
This is too cool. I want one.
10 Science-Fiction Heroes Who Don’t Need Origin Stories - io9 I didnt realize it, but I agree. I don’t need to know everything about my heroes. Stop spoon feeding me! :)
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Say it ain’t so!! :( via io9.com: Swans are a species that mates for life - supposedly. British naturalists were stunned recently to discover that two mated swans at a Gloucestershire wildfowl sanctuary had gotten divorced, and returned to the sanctuary with new mates. According to BBC News: [Wildlife research officer Julia] Newth said the old pair had not acknowledged each other with any signs of recognition or greeting - even though they are occupying the same part of the small lake. As for why they may have split, she said: “Failure to breed could be a possible reason, as they had been together for a couple of years but had never brought back a cygnet, but it is difficult to say for sure.” This only the second time in 40 years that observers at this sanctuary have recorded a swan divorce. Usually swans only choose a new mate if the previous one has died. Now that animal-tracking technology has gotten so much better, however, we may see more “unexpected” animal behavior that previous generations of researchers were unable to observe. In other words, swan monogamy might be a lot more like human monogamy than we thought: Rife with cheating, divorce, and mate-swapping. via BBC News Image via Mike Hewitt/Getty
TO freaking cool. I love seeing the “old” way of doing things. By old I mean not electronic, computerized, motorized, etc…
This takes water poured in to the bottom and the thin sheets of wood wick the water up into them, where it evaporates. An all natural, no moving parts humidifier. cool!
Really amazing and creative body of work. Inspiring! Rodney Smith studied under Walker Evans at Yale. He only watches movies made before 1947, and you can tell he pulls much inspiration from them. (via NOTCOT.org)
Best treehouse I’ve seen, by far, in a long time. Can I rent it please? :)
Ahhh… I love this photo set. For today’s entry, an exercise in contrasts: Fire and Ice. Fire can be a life-sustaining, constructive element, or, at worst, a powerfully destructive force - something we humans continue to use, play with, and struggle to control. Ice is closer to the natural state of the universe, cold, still and lifeless. Earth’s orbit lies in a “Goldilocks zone” where we may seasonally experience icy environments, but never freeze completely. Collected here are several recent alternating photographs from around the world of both Fire and Ice. (40 photos total)Fire and Ice
This is the best
