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Old Pictures of Bohemian Grove

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:44:00 +0000

Interesting Images of Antarctica (82 Pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:30:00 +0000

Photos by NASA

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:32:00 +0000

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The 25 Greatest Moments In Bathroom Graffiti History

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:24:00 +0000

Astonishing Photos of the Empire State Building Under Construction

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:08:00 +0000

All these photographs show the construction of the Empire State Building. It is a 102-story skyscraper in New York City that is located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Being 1472 feet (448 metres) tall, this was the tallest building in the world for over 40 years since its completion in 1931. Only in 1972 when the North Tower of the World Trade Center was built, the Empire State Building was deposed as the world’s highest skyscraper.

Sand demons!

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:45:00 +0000

Girls with Freckles (115 pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:14:00 +0000

Girls with Freckles (115 pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:51:00 +0000

Iranian Peoples (98 Pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:31:00 +0000

Gouache, Gesso & Ink On Paper

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:09:00 +0000

Remembering the Fallen

On the Hunt

Gettin the Drop On Em

A Colorful Past

Surrounded By Imitations

Picturing the Sound

Spreading the Love

Will Not Forget

I'm New Here

Join the Free

The Shells We Choose

Killer Grills

Welcome to the Club

Slightly Concerned

We Will Be Together Soon

Last Leaf Left

Getting Some Color

Unexpected Encounter

Another Lost Voice

Escaped From The Cops

Size Matters

Having Trouble Sharing

Folding Under Pressure

Minds Racing

Heavy Grooves

Still Finding Traces

Keeping An Eye On Us

Fumbling the Weaponry

This Old Neighborhood

Lucky I Guess

Trying On Something New

Never Stayed Long

New Neighbor

Upgrades

Still Puzzled

Momentary Lapse of gravity

Everything In Its Right Place

Off the Grid

Still We Celebrate

Dont Stop Til U Get Enuf

Only the Hits

Race for the Prize

As Your Flame Fades

The Trouble With Mixtapes

There Goes the Neighborhood

Remembering Your Smile

I Dont Mind Sharing

With Just a Moments Notice

It's OK for Now (but I wouldn't want to raise kids here)

In the Hot Seat With You

A Home By The Water

Trying to Adapt

The Glorious Distraction

Adversaries

Boots Aint Made Fer Runnin

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Last To Go

Sign of the Times

Oh My!

Pulliing the Pin

Just Out of Reach

My New Friend

Mii Madness The Office

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:17:00 +0000

Inventionland Coolest Place in the World to Work

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:14:00 +0000

The Littliest Chatroulette Terrorist Ever [Pics]

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:25:00 +0000

National Gallery of London Paintings (104 Pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:06:00 +0000

Hollywood 100 years ago

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:34:00 +0000

The Size Of Our World

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:55:00 +0000

Anti-Theft Lunch Bags

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:27:00 +0000

Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are zipper bags that have green splotches printed on both sides, making your freshly prepared lunch look spoiled. Don't let a sticky-fingered coworker or schoolyard bully get away with lunch theft again!

Material: Food-safe reusable and recyclable LDPE
Dimensions: 6.875h × 6.625"w

Quantity: 25 bags per package

Minimalist Pokémon Wallpapers

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:06:00 +0000

Photos Made by an Astronaut (159 pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:35:00 +0000

Celebrities who Look Similar (92 pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:22:00 +0000

Lindsay Lohan and Donatella Versace

Shrek, James Gandolfini

Tony Hayward, Michael Sheen

Wonder if Gossip Girl's Blake Lively is a fan of her look alike Ke$ha's song Tik Tok

Jenni Farley, Jersey Shore

Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Chad Smith, Will Ferrell

Portia de Rossi, Drea de Matteo

Pee Wee Herman, Alan Cumming

Elijah Wood, Mischa Barton

Since Kenny, Al Yankovic

Mila Kunis, Vanessa Anne Hudgens

Roselyn Sanchez, Nicole Scherzinger

Robin Williams, Bono

Amanda Peet and Lake Bell

Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly

Stephen Colbert and Bob Saget

Peter Jackson, Jason Segel

Robert Pattison and this Troll Doll

Adam Duritz, Bob

Elias Koteas, Christopher Meloni

Paris Hilton, Sesame Street bird

Amber Rose, robot clone

Perhaps Gossip, John Mayer

Lauren Conrad, Carmen Electra

Adam Sandler, Bob Dylan

Brian Baumgartner, Greg Isdaner

Mickey Rourke and Tim Robbins

Hugh Jackman, Clint Eastwood

Whitney Thompson

Dr. Phil McGraw looks like a Q-tip

Carrie Fisher, Leona Helmsley

Zooey Deschanel, Katy Perry

Susan Boyle, Julia Child

Donatella Versace and Janice

Zoe Saldana, Thandie Newton

Kate Olsen, Gollum

Jon Heder, James Blunt

Dave Gahan, Shia LeBeouf

Mike Tomlin, Omar Epps

Jason Wahler, Colin Farrell

Jennifer Coolidge and Renee Zellweger

Ron Perlman

Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison

Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman

Brad Pitt, Robert Redford

Mandy Moore and Emile Hirsch

Tom Sizemore, Michael Madsen

Eva Marcille (aka Eva Pigford), Terrence Howard

Patricia Arquette and Emilie de Ravin

Pamela Anderson and Chucky's bride Tiffany

Kofi Annan, Morgan Freeman

Jennifer Connelly, Daniel Day-Lewis

Danny DeVito

Ali Larter and Diana Krall

Dave Coulier, Jeff Daniels

Johnny Damon, GEICO Caveman

Anna Korv and actress Cate Blanchett

Isla Fisher and Amy Adams

Joanquin Phoenix, Vincent Gallo

Ryan O'Neal and William Shatner

Denis Leary and Lauren Hutton

Wesley Snipes, John Salmons

Jon Stewart and comedian/actor Richard Lewis

Ray Romano and Sanjay Gupta

Anil Kapoor, Eric Dane

Mark Ruffalo and Vincent D'Onofrio

Krysten Ritter and Anne Hathaway

Nadya Suleman and actress Salma Hayek

With these platinum wavy locks, rocker Courtney Love looks like a poor man's Madge

Wendie Malick, Kate Walsh

Helena Christensen, Cameron Diaz

Sandra Bernhard and Janice Dickinson

Josh Duhamel, Johnny Knoxville

Erika Christensen, Miley Cyrus

Kelly Lynch, Angela Kinsey

Jeff Daniels and Bill Pullman

Cox Arquette and Nelly Furtado

Robert Buckley, Dermot Mulrony

Paz Vega, Penelope Cruz

Javier Bardem, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

arker Posey, Sarah

Kathy Ireland and Denise Richards

Evan Rachel Wood has known to be chameleon-like with her many shades of hair color, but her jet black 'do eerily resembles burlesque star Dita Von Teese, who also dated creepy rocker Marylin Manson.

America Ferrera, Jordin Sparks

Eva Longoria Parker, Vanessa Marcil

Ali Larter, Tatum O'Neal

Kyra Sedgwick and Julia Roberts

Gary Busey and Nick Nolte

Leelee Sobieski and Helen Hunt

Johnny Depp and Skeet Ulrich

Actress Laura Linney, Megyn Price

Yosemite Panorama Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:42:00 +0000

Hetch Hetchy Reservoir

Half Dome Cable Route

On the hike to Half Dome

Flat Half Dome Summit

Looking from Half Dome Summit into the Main Valley (Glacier Point, Sentinel Dome, El Cap visible)

Looking from Half Dome into Tenaya Canyon (left) and Little Yosemite Valley (right)

Back of Half Dome (left), Liberty Cap (middle) and Nevada Falls from Panorama Trail

Glaciert Point (left) and Half Dome (right) from Panorama Trail

Panorama from Glacier Point (Half Dome, Nevada and Vernal Falls)

Glacier Point (Half Dome and Tenaya Canyon)

Liberty Cap and Nevada Falls

Mono Pass

Parker Pass

Lower Cathredal Lake

Upper Cathredal Lake

Panorama from Sentinel Dome

Signature Celebrity Poses (32 pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:28:00 +0000

Olivia Wilde

Blake Lively

Lady Gaga

Kim Kardashian

Taylor Swift

Katy Perry

Jessica Biel

Rihanna

Miley Cyrus

Emmy Rossum

Megan Fox

Beyonce Knowles

Mischa Barton

Paris Hilton

Vanessa Hudgens

George Cloony

Jennifer Lopez

Scarlett Johansson

Tila Tequilla

Fergie

Tyra Banks

Hayden Panettiere

Sienna Miller

Victoria Beckham

Travis Barker

Nicole Kidman

Lindsay Lohan

Lisa Rinna

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag

Pete Wentz

Scientist Pours Molten Metal Into Ant Nests

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:57:00 +0000

A plaster cast of a large Pogonomyrmex badius nest. This nest consisted of 135 chambers and 12 meters of vertical shafts. The top-heavy distribution of chamber area and spacing is typical for the species, as are the helical shafts and the decrease of chamber size with depth.

Superficial chambers from Pogonomyrmex badius nests of increasing size, shown in side and top views. These “chambers” are probably produced by a modification of the behavioral program producing shafts throughout the deeper portions of the nest. Note the increasingly interconnected and loop-like morphology as the shafts become extended and enlarged.

A. The descending shafts of Pogonomyrmex badius nests form a helix. B–D. Chambers are constructed outward from the outside of this helix, so that the intersection between chambers and the helical shaft forms an angle between 25 and 70°. The angle may be either right or left of vertical (compare A and B with C and D). E–F. Chambers are initiated at the outside of the helix as small, flat-bottomed niches.

Chambers of Pogonomyrmex badius nests become more lobed in outline as workers enlarge them. Chambers begin as small indentations in the wall of the shaft (left). Large chambers often appear to wrap around the shaft (right).

The ratio of the actual perimeter of Pogonomyrmex badius nest chambers to the perimeter of a circle of equal area estimates the complexity of the chamber outlines. Most of this increase results from an increase in the number of lobes. Because the largest chambers are located in the upper third of the nest, the greatest deviations from circularity occur in this part of the nest.

Casts of Pogonomyrmex badius nests of increasing size: (A) a very small nest with a single vertical chamber series and shaft; (B) a medium-small nest with the beginning of a second vertical series and shaft; (C) a large-mature nest with 4 vertical series and shafts. The right nest (C) cast is of dental plaster, the middle (B) of aluminum, and the left (A) of zinc. The middle cast is incomplete, the lowest chambers having failed to fill with metal. Its maximum depth was probably intermediate between the large and small casts.

The total chamber area of Pogonomyrmex badius nests grows more slowly than does the population of workers that excavate the nest. For every 10-fold increase in the number of mature workers, the area increases 7.5-fold. The space per workers therefore decreases as nests grow. However, workers are very unevenly distributed within the nest.

The uppermost portions of a medium-small Pogonomyrmex badius nest (top) and a small one (bottom). Note the ribbon-like descending shaft in the larger nest, but not the smaller.

Pogonomyrmex badius nests grow through the addition of chambers, chamber enlargement and nest deepening. Patterns are shown by decile (increments of 10% of the maximum nest depth) and colony size class. A. More chambers are added in the upper regions of the nest than the lower. B. The mean size of chambers at each depth increases with nest size. C. The combination of increased numbers and mean size of chambers greatly increases the total area in each decile, much more in the upper regions than the lower. D. The increase of total area and maximum depth are proportional, so that the distribution of the percent of the total area in relation to the percent of the maximum depth does not change much as colonies grow. In other words, the size-free shape of the depth-area distribution does not change with colony size.

The vertical spacing between Pogonomyrmex badius nest chambers increases to a maximum in the 7th or 8th deciles then decreases again. This pattern does not change much with nest size because nest deepening and chamber addition occur simultaneously, preserving spacing. One nest in size class 2 contained outliers in the 5th and 6th deciles. None of the other size classes were different in how spacing varied with depth.

The proportional decrease in chamber area with depth of Pogonomyrmex badius nests is similar no matter what the colony size. Every 10-fold increase in depth is associated with a 75% decrease in summed chamber area in the decile (note log-log scale). Depths are the mean depths for each decile and size class. None of the slopes are significantly different from each other: slope of the log-log regression was - 0.59. Intercepts were: size class 0 = 1.69; size class 1 = 2.40; size class 2 = 2.72; size class 3 = 3.09; size class 4 = 3.35. These estimate the area at 1 cm depth, and have only mathematical reality. Actual mean areas in the uppermost deciles were 38, 190, 516, 1700 and 2670 cm2 for size classes 0 to 4, respectively.

The depth of shaft branch points is deeper in shallower nests of Pogonomyrmex badius nests than in deep ones (A), but is independent of total nest area (B).

Each additional vertical series of chambers of Pogonomyrmex badius nests contributes less to the total chamber area because the mean size of its chambers is smaller than higher series.

Plaster casts of Pogonomyrmex badius nests excavated by 250 workers taken from the uppermost chambers, the middle-depth and the bottom of a mature nest. Each group was penned in an escape-proof enclosure for 4 days, after which workers coming to the surface were recaptured, and a plaster cast of their nest was made. The figure shows one of 4 similar replicate sets.

All measures of nest excavation were highest for the older workers taken from the top of a mature Pogonomyrmex badius nest, intermediate for the middle group and lowest for the youngest group from the nest bottom. A: rate of excavation, as grams of plaster per worker per day; B: cm of shaft per worker per day; C: number of chambers in nest.

Most of the differences in the size of the excavated Pogonomyrmex badius nests were associated with the number of workers actively digging. Only actively digging workers could be recaptured at the surface as they brought up soil to discard. Younger workers from deeper in the nest were rarely recaptured. Because replicates began with varying numbers of workers (125 to 250), digging rate is plotted against fraction recaptured.

The carbon dioxide concentration in air taken from Pogonomyrmex badius nest chambers of increasing depth. The concentration in the deepest chambers is about 5 times that at the surface (2 replicates). B. The distribution of nest area by decile is roughly the mirror image of the carbon dioxide concentration, suggesting that the carbon dioxide concentration gradient might serve as a template for nest excavation and worker assortment. The steepest gradient is in the top half-meter or so, and this is also the zone with the most rapid decrease in chamber area.

A. The “ant hotel” used to test the depth preference of young and old workers. B. Initially, each “hotel room” contained 25 young workers taken from the bottom of a mature Pogonomyrmex badius nest, and 25 old workers from the top (each also contained 10 larvae and pupae). Each chamber thus contained 17% of each age group. After allowing 4 days for reassortment, old workers moved upward so that a large proportion of them were recaptured in the upper chambers. The downward movement of young workers was less dramatic.

French Nuclear Test Licorne (Pics)

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:56:00 +0000

French nuclear test codenamed Licorne, which was fired on July 3rd, 1970 .

Freeze Bubbles

noreply@blogger.com (Crack Two) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:42:00 +0000

It's very cold tonight, so we played with bubbles. If you blow them upwards enough they have time to freeze on the way down.

Often with beautiful frost-feather patterns.

The "moons" are unfrozen bubbles in the background. Not all bubbles freeze, I guess due to lack of nucleation sites.

The nacreous look was more pronounced with the first bubble solution we used, but it ran out.

Chasing bubbles round a very icy garden (we'd made an ice-slide right down the path), in the dark while looking through a viewfinder is surprisingly hard.

The bubbles always seem to freeze from the top down. I think this is because the sky radiates a lot less heat than even frozen grass.

Framing or focus - you choose.

I never thought I'd get this shot.

The debris from a burst is like a tiny bit of thin gossamer.