Apparently a little boy at the San Francisco zoo dropped his :
This site has some great pictures of big horn sheep on the face of the Buffalo Bill Dam in (appropriately) Cody, WY. Here is a greate sample:
Last weekend was Brickon 2010 in Seattle. There is a huge flickr pool of some of the creations there. Woot collected some that caught their eye. Here is one of my favorites:
Lego Torosaurus (formerly triceretops)
National Geographic has 13 really amazing photos of strange sea life. Below is an example:
Photograph courtesy A. Fifis, IFREMER
Yeti Crab
Its fuzzy, winter-white coat might look at home in the Himalaya, but the yeti crab was discovered skittering around hydrothermal vents about a mile and a half (2.4 kilometers) under the South Pacific off Easter Island (map) in March 2005.The 6-inch (15-centimeter), blind crustacean—officially Kiwa hirsuta—is among the more than 6,000 new species discovered during the Census of Marine Life, a ten-year effort to document all sea life that concluded Monday.
Life has been busy, and obviously my initial posting storm here has subsided for the time being. In apology, here is a video of cats playing with catnip:
I have kind of wanted to do this since seeing the commercials for the Air Multiplier on television. So, thank you Dyson.
I’ve always found abandonned cities to be very interesting, though the closest I have personally gotten to one is a layover in Detroit. So far I am resigned to experiencing them through the Internet. DirJournal has a good series on more famous abandoned places, such as San Zhi below:
San Zhi, Taiwan
It also has a section on Gunkanjima, Japan:
Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima (meaning “Battleship Island”) is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility.
Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 and began the project, the aim of which was retrieving coal from the bottom of the sea. They built Japan’s first large concrete building, a block of apartments in 1916 to accommodate their burgeoning ranks of workers (many of whom were forcibly recruited labourers from other parts of Asia), and to protect against typhoon destruction.
As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in the 1960s, coal mines began shutting down all over the country, and Hashima’s mines were no exception. Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine in 1974, and today it is empty and bare, which is why it’s called the Ghost Island. Travel to Hashima was re-opened on April 22, 2009 after more than 20 years of closure.
Gunkanjima, Japan
The author on this blog post was able to actually tour Gunkanjima, and has some interesting pictures from inside the abandoned city:
Gunkanjima Interior
