Death Penalty Around the World

This will mean different things to different people. Which way does your noose swing?

Starship Sizes

Forget size ... Lexx is the coolest looking ship around!

Iraq War in Cartoons

2006 in Pictures

From the BBC, Time, MSNBC, World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, and Reuters State of the World.

Things to Do in China ...

... when you're bored or completely phished!

Rendered Art

Check out some really cool rendered art.

Sunset on Mars

From NASA.

Forn Policy

Earth from Space

This is a high resolution image of Earth from space. Taken in 2004 by NASA.

Orion Deep Field

An Orion Deep Field image taken by Robert Gendler, can be seen at NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day site. Check out more cool images here.

Creative Advertising

Check out this post on Hemmy.net -- some creative advertising from around the world. Pretty cool, innovative and smart.

What if Humankind Disappeared

Click on the picture to see what would happen if we all disappeared from the planet.

Newsweek Covers

What America sees from their media is different from what the world sees ... why? Can't Americans handle the truth? Or is this just more evidence of the dumbing down of America?

City in 2 Hours

Check out these cool shots of downtown Toronto, taken over two hours.

Long Exposure Shot of Aircraft Taking Off

This is a cool photograph. Stolen from Airliners.net.

Russia and America: No More Cold War

Photograph of a US F-15C Eagle from the 12th Fighter Squadron based at the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, flying next to a Russian Tu-95 Bear Bomber of the Russian 137th Air Army. The F-15C Eagle was in the air as part of NORAD's response to a Russian training mission on the west coast of Alaska. [Source: NORAD]

Centre of the Galaxy

Check out this high resolution image from NASA's JPL of the centre of the galaxy. Stunning.

Coke's Fellatio

Coke eventually pulled this advertisement their flagship product after retailers complained about the hidden image of a woman and a penis in the ice cubes.

Schizophrenia

These paintings were painted by Louis Wain, who had a thing for cats, over a period of time in which he developed schizophrenia. You can see how his perception of reality changed over time as the illness took hold. [Source: The Huxley Institute.]

Unreal CG

Click the thumbnail to see the larger image. This is not a photograph. It's computer generated. For more, visit the CG Society.

Miniature Earth

The statistics are from the 1990s, taken from the UN and NGOs operating around the world. If anything, the numbers have probably gotten worse. Pause for a moment, click on play on the clip above. If you remain unmoved, you're a person the world needs less of.

Russian Anti-American Propaganda Posters

Wasn't the cold war a whole lot more fun than fighting terrorists?

Atlantis Docking to ISS

Here's a really cool image of the space shuttle Atlantis docking to ISS recently. The Sun is the background. Look at the image full-size -- the specks -- look closely. Cool!

Images of the Middle East

Check out this site for some photographs from the Middle East before the second world war.

Astronomical Scale

Getting too big for your britches ... click on the images above to get back to reality. [These were stolen from Tim Iacono's site.]

Cool Picture of the Moon

Check out this absolutely amazing picture of the Moon. The image was made by a gent going under the moniker, NoelC, over at Broadband Reports. This image is a composition of shots of the Moon and background stars, with the Moon hypersaturated to bring out the colours.

Rumsfled's Delusions

Palm Island

This is Palm Island, an engineering masterpiece, captured from space by the IKONOS satellite. This is one of three large artificial islands being built off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. This one is almost completed. The purpose? To make this the biggest tourism attraction in the world. Hmm ... tourism .. in the Middle East.

Space Imaging

This high resolution image of Venice was taken by the IKONOS satellite -- the world's first high-resolution, commercial earth imaging satellite. Check out the Space Imaging site for more, absolutely cool photos, from space.

Naboo

Check out this high resolution image of Naboo, from Star Wars. This and other really cool art can be found at DUSSO.

The Ads of the World

This is a cool site!

Non Sequitur

Just when is the right time to cut your losses and call it quits?

First Successful Permanent Photograph

It may not look like much, but it took a full day exposure to accomplish this back in 1826. It was taken by Nicéphore Niépce. Read more at Wikipedia.

Dilbert on the IIT

Ann Coulter via Non Sequitur

Do you think Ann Coulter would be smart if she figured out that the reason her dumb-ass-mouth can spout such shit without getting a hard slap across the lips is because of progress made by liberal thinking people? Or would she still be a dumb-ass?

And is Ann Coulter an anorexic?

Updated: August 12, 2006

Wisco has reported that the International Herald Tribune has pulled the above cartoon. Why? They think it could potentially offend people. Read more at Wisco's.

Free High Resolution Wallpapers

Check out InterfaceLIFT ... a site that hosts some amazing, high quality wallpapers. Decorate your desktop, why doncha?!

Doonesbury

Choices ... ha!

Volcano and Aurora in Iceland

This image looks so unreal, but it's quite real. This was take in Iceland by Sigurdur H. Stefnisson, of the volcano Hekla erupting -- the aurora just happened to be there.

Nature Fights Back

Want to know what happened to this bike? See the series here.

Lightning Storm in Toronto

Wednesday night's lightning storm in Toronto, as captured by Sam Javanrouh from his kitchen. Cool! Check out the high resolution version from his site.

Lenticular Cloud

Check out this cool cloud formation near Mauna Kea, Hawaii, taken by Peter Michaud of the Gemini Observatory.

Binary Sudoku

Sent to me by a slacker correspondent.

Schrödinger's Comic

LMAO! from xkcd.

Brain Power

Schrödinger, Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, Compton, Bohr, Planck, Curie, Lorentz, Einstein, Langevin, and more ... at the 1927 Solvay Conference of Quantum Mechanics.

Big Hole

I just found about this via reddit.com. It's a big hole in Russia -- a diamond mine apparently, in Eastern Siberia, near the town of Mirna. It's about half a kilometre deep and one and a quarter in diameter. It's interesting -- in a horrifying kinda way.

The Universe in a Year

What if the entire 14 billion years of the universe's existence was compressed down to 1 year? Not surprisingly, everything we care about would only happen in a few minutes on the last day of this cosmic year.

Software Patent Poster

Amazing Cloud

Amazing cloud photo. Not sure who took it, and where it's from.