Faces of Terror

These images were taken from EastSouthWestNorth's The Children of Iraq. The entry has an exhaustive collection. I couldn't finish looking at all of them. It was too emotional ... too disturbing. It brought me to tears.

Snow Day!

Feb. 6, 2008 Snow Day
It snowed today ... lots!

Soldiers View

Iraq is horrify for us far away from it ... how is it for the soldiers? Check out this post at you.presscue.

Holy Shit!

There really isn't much more to say about this pic.

Poachers Should be Shot

From the BBC: The female rhino survived for 35 hours after being shot twice and having her horn sawn off at Kazrianga National Park in India.

Mars Pic

I was led to this link of a Mars photo at space.com. The caption reads:

NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007. Several bloggers and other enthusiasts have pointed to a tiny structure (red circle) on the Martian surface as a human figure and thus evidence of life on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University.

I thought it was quite ironic, the Google Ad that was dispayed to the right of the image.

Hello Kitty AR-15

I can't explain this. See details here.

Winter

There was snow today -- just a lot of snow fell to open 2008. So we went for a walk. Check out the photos (and previous winter shots).

Tarzan in the Jungle

15 square kilometer of rain forest disappears every minute.

The Age of the Consumer

Text: It's pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, buy it, and bring it home, is considered to be less effort than what it takes to just wash the spoon when you're done with it. Unfortunaltey, no one likes to wash dishes ... and it's so damn cheap to buy a plastic spoon.

1 GB, 20 Years

There was a time, when 1 gigabyte actually meant something. When having 1GB of something, actually, well, it meant something. It gave you bragging rights. It screamed 1 billion! These days, for the "gimme right now generation," it's just something else from their older sibling's generation for them to sneeze at. Me, I appreciate that 1GB from 20 years ago. No, you couldn't carry it around in your pocket -- but boy could you hurt somebody with it!

Barn

Yes, this is a barn.

The Milky Way

As seen from Death Valley.

Living in Three Centuries: The Face of Age

Mark Story has captured 72 faces, of individuals who have lived through three centuries. The faces of age is remarkable -- each capturing more than the normal lifetime of stories. Check them out, and read their stories.

The thumbnail on the right is of the oldest living man in the USA. At 112 years old, he saw combat in WWI, where he earned the Victory Medal, the Occupational Medal, and the French Legion of Honor. He has seven children, and worked as a superintendent of a Sunday School class for 75 years. He never smoke, drank or took any kind of medicine. He drove his car until he was 106 years old, and only stopped after his kids hid his car keys.

Arts, Design Blog

Check out some really cool images from teh Arts, Design Blog.

Stop Victimizing With Reason

I found this amusing. Go on ... click the thumbnail. It won't hurt, unless you don't like reason.

The World, According to the Europeans

Click on the thumbnail image to see a map of Europe, in the Year 1000. This was the world ... albeit, a very Eurocentric view of the world.

Avatars

Avatars and the people who make and use them. For the details of the images above, check out the New York Times.

Space Shuttle from ISS

Here's a very cool shot of a space shuttle launch, as see from the International Space Station.

G. Ross Lord Park

I took some photos yesterday at the G. Ross Lord Park, at Dufferin & Finch. Some of the shots came out pretty good.