The sun

"The image shows the corona for a moderately active Sun, with some (red) hot active regions in both hemispheres, surrounded by the (blue/green) cooler plasma of the quiet-Sun corona. Notice also the north polar-crown filament, the trans-equatorial loops, and the coronal hole in the south-east (lower-right) corner of the image and the smaller one over the north pole. This image shows the solar corona in a false-color, 3-layer composite: the blue, green, and red channels show the 171Å, 195Å, and 284Å wavelengths, respectively (most sensitive to emission from 1, 1.5, and 2 million degree gases). (TRACE Project, Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research, NASA) "



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Mark Twain

from Quotes of the Day

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

wow cool

by Brian Skerry

WoW

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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Alan Corenk

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Letters from the past.

More than 1,000 pages of handwritten letters from 1947 to 1948 by an American woman who witnessed and described in detail the Allied Occupation of Japan have been discovered in Nebraska and recently obtained by The Japan Times.

"The letters are interesting because they tell a lot about how an ordinary American woman at that time felt about Occupied Japan, being exposed to a totally different culture,"

It came from outter space....

....well we put it there first.


Its a tardigrades also knwo by the much cuter name of Water Bear. The artical floating about the web say its the toughest living thing on this planet, and now orbiting us.#

The papers abstract reads as:
Vacuum (imposing extreme dehydration) and solar/galactic cosmic radiation prevent survival of most organisms in space [1]. Only anhydrobiotic organisms, which have evolved adaptations to survive more or less complete desiccation, have a potential to survive space vacuum, and few organisms can stand the unfiltered solar radiation in space. Tardigrades, commonly known as water-bears, are among the most desiccation and radiation-tolerant animals and have been shown to survive extreme levels of ionizing radiation [2, 3, 4]. Here, we show that tardigrades are also able to survive space vacuum without loss in survival, and that some specimens even recovered after combined exposure to space vacuum and solar radiation. These results add the first animal to the exclusive and short list of organisms that have survived such exposure.

For more friendly comments etc: Wired
It's one small step for Tardigrada, and one giant leap for the animal kingdom: The toughest creature on Earth has survived a trip into space.

Except for a few hardy strains of bacteria, any other creature would have been destroyed -- but tardigrades handled the voyage as though it were a dry spell on their local moss patch.

"They have claws and eyes. They are real animals. And this is the first time such an animal was tested in space," said Petra Rettberg, an Institute of Aerospace Medicine microbiologist.

Better known as water bears, tardigrades are eight-legged invertebrates visible to the naked eye and found throughout the world, making them a biology class favorite........

An Animal

This Picture is from one of my fave blogs :)


Stuck In Customs

Abit about Trey Ratcliff from the man himself

American Political Cartoons

From the left: Lalo Alcaraz


Tony Auth


Now from the right:



Lisa Bensen



Scott Stantis

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Franklin Booth, born 1874 and raised in Indiana, was an artist who worked mainly with ink and a pen. His works are composed of thousands of lines, whose careful positioning next to one another determine the density and shade of that particular region. His unusual technique was the result of a misunderstanding: As a boy, Booth scrupulously copied magazine illustrations which he thought were pen and ink drawings. In fact, they were wood engravings.^[1]

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recool (really cool)

Hmmmm

At first i was like so what, but then it just made me want sushi, i just love the way the eggs look.
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

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A funny

http://xkcd.com/471/

Upbeat

Hehe

I love this!!!

This by a guy called Scott Campbell
I know all of these great show downs but two, so cool!!!

Good Bye Del Martin

Del Martin was a lesbian activist, recently she married her partner of 50 Phyllis Lyon, it was mentioned in the articles at the time that her health was not so well. Sadly It was reported yesterday that she had died.
RIP Del and are thoughts are with Phyllis and wishing her strenghth.

My Visit to the Zoo!!!

Well on sunday i paid my first visit to London Zoo, it took over four hours to go round, but it was well worth it.

Tony Ariawan

Soooo Pretty

Hand painting by Guido Daniele

Guido Daniele paints on peoples bodies, he does a pretty good job, but his hand painting tis very cool

lolcat

IT made me laugh

This is by an artist called Chris Ryniak.

On a personal note...

After a year i bit the bullet paid off my uni and in the next week i will get my degree .....and later a proper job....and a new flat....more books...etc :)

Echidna sex secret revealed

Yes that's right a video about Echidna sex.
Oddly enough i was shocked by the male Echidnas penis.
Echidnas belong to the same order as Platypus. It lives in Oz and lays eggs and is not related to anteaters.
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A little something from xkcd

I thought everyone did this, and if not Morgan Freeman then atleast Robert 'Bobcat' Goldthwait.
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By Kaloian Toshev
I am not a great fan of her work but there are some cool pictures and then there is the above of Bjork, which i love, because well ITS BJORK!!! whats not to love. I will admit that a picture of Bjork in the medium of jam done by a 4 year old chimp with ADD would rock my boat.

This photograph is by Pieter Hugo. And yes the guy in the photo is smoking!!! I mean poseing with a hyena.
Pieter grew up in South Africa and has been making a name for himself.

Here is a well known photo from one his projects called: LOOKING ASIDE: SOUTH AFRICAN STUDIO PORTRAITS

The wonderful Blanc Fonce gallery

I like i love what more is there to say.