From flickr

“These were on display in the National Museum. They’re made from the glass insulators on the top of power poles, in the very recent past, in the top end of Australia. “

From the The Isenheim Altarpiece, painted between 1512 and 1516.

Click to enlarge.

Detail:

I downloaded every episode of 30 Rock, Madmen, and Fringe.

I used The Pirate Bay to do it.

I shared my bandwidth and hosted these files for others to download.

It was illegal.

I watched the shows.

There were many examples of product placement in almost every episode.

I recently bought some things at stores.

There, let’s call it even.

Russian Brides and the Men Who Love Them

All photos borrowed from http://bride.ru/

The ten inkblots of the Rorschach test printed in Rorschach’s Rorschach Test – Psychodiagnostic Plates (Hogrefe, 1927):

Plate 1:

Plate 2:

Plate 3:

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Plate 5:

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Plate 8:

Plate 9:

Plate 10:

This is a scabies mite:

The female mite lays her eggs on the skin of a human, causing a reaction and inflammation.  This is exacerbated when the mother begins burying the eggs under the skin causing intense itching

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Face Mites!  These live on your face and inside hair follicules and on your eyelashes:

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Dust Mites.  They live in your pillow:

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And now a pretty one: The Peacock Mite.  These live on citrus fruits:

From “Fruit”  by Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler

Japanese researchers monitoring the activity of giant jellyfish in Chinese waters are warning of a potentially historic and catastrophic invasion this year.

— PinkTentacle.com

New from LaserShot Inc of Houston Texas — The Convoy Skills Training System (click image below for video demonstration):

Below are screenshots of Virtual Battlefield 2, a videogame used for training by the US military.

Below are some screenshots of MetaVR’s Virtual Afganistan Village:

“This virtual village and its surrounding mountainous terrain give users the ability to conduct ground combat simulations, such as sniper and forward air controller (JTAC) exercises, with a high degree of realism.”

Check out this video of a helicopter sniper training system (the top right quadrant shows a video of the simulator with one guy wearing a headmounted display and another equiped with a sniper rifle with a video display scope).

Check out the pirate bay today:

http://thepiratebay.org/

If you follow the link it takes you to:

http://iran.whyweprotest.net/

“This forum aims to be a secure and reliable way of communication for Iranians and friends. Use it to discuss what is happening in Iran. Post in the forum either anonymously as a guest, as a registered user, or login with your facebook-account. We are not a government agency, nor are we Iranian. We are simply the internet and we believe in free speech.”