Throb

Hype Cycle

...sounds like what I ride to work in the morning.  But no:

via TechCrunch

The big picture

Starbucks

FREEDOM!

Halloween in California

Greetings

Beep boop boop

Magdi

Purrrrrrrrr

Bush in Brazil

Signs Fiction

Ooo... 1 2 3 pages of funny signs at the fabulous Dark Roasted Blend.

Protesting mime

Beasts of Steel

Check out these neat metal animal sculptures...

Bill Nye

22 Step Program

Lightning Doodle!

Nifty animations drawn with light pens. This has got to be hard/tedious, but the results are stunning.

Graffiti

Hitler Kitties

Hm. About a year after discovering Hitler puppy, somebody points me toward a whole blog about similar looking cats. Mewling little fascists. Puns galore.

Get smart quick

Rob Gonsalves - Seamless Pictures

Success

Random happy composition on my desktop right now

Brains

NASA's Year in Images

One of the best things that come out of my tax dollars: NASA's Year in Images.

Mr. Mechanical

I know probably everybody in the world has already tripped across this somewhere else, but I wanted to put a picture of this incredible posable mech guy thing (from here) on my site, so I did it.

Crazy Planet

Cartoons from one of my favorite blogs. I particularly like the name of the protagonist.

Rejected "Love is..." Comics

More here.

Freud

Where mermaids come from

Lovecraft Circus

Open Wide

I don't know what this is, but I think I want one.

Kind of glad I don't have a car

Ha

Flickr faves

I forgot to put in the crystals

Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.

Hurricanes

My friend Jesse forwarded me an email containing this awe inspiring collection of pictures of Hurricane Katrina rolling in.

[EDIT] I don't think some of these are Katrina any more. Maybe none of them are. Anyway. I'm changing this post. More info in comments. [/EDIT]

Wooden Mountain

JINMO does it again:

Safety First

A collection of hilarious condom ads I finally got around to reading through. Goodness.

High-speed Photography

This (person/group?) shoots incredible high-speed photography... and they've documented their technique! One day I'll own a house and test the patience of my neighbors with a setup like this. Via

These are just screaming for some photoshopping. Guess I have a project this evening.

Also

Mojo

Love this portrait of Melissa, one of the favoritest people I know:

Thank you internet!

Stupid pictures from random culling expeditions:

Hey!

Sex Maniac

I don't have anything to say, so I thought I would entertain you with this letter to Dr. Ruth.

Hitler Puppy

One of Mark's friends had this on his Flickr page. I like the comments, but I reeeeally like the picture.

Optical Illusion

Click on this. Stare at the center. Perceptual neatness ensues. All that's really happening is a blank spot that rotating around the circle. Blink.
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Update: You have to click on it! Otherwise it's just a picture. :)

Burning Man

Revenge of the Sithies

Sex

Violence

High Heel X-Ray

Cellphone cartoons from The New Yorker

More...

Autumn Whitehurst

Love this illustrator. I'm going to go right home and see if I can make something in this super fresh style. Click on the picture for a drooliscious gallery!

The Good

Jinmo

I love this guy Jinmo. He found me on Flickr, added me to his contacts, and has been writing nice comments since... and his artwork is bad ass! Anyway, here's his stuff.

Deconstructing Lichtenstein

Found a site dedicated to comparing Lichtenstein artworks and the originals from which they're taken. Sometimes the originals are better, imho.

Peeled Photographs

Radiohead art

Found a huge online repository of images related to the band Radiohead. Beautiful.

Complexification

Oh, the neat things you (that is, someone other than me) can do with a few algorithms and a big brain:

Complexification (and posters)
Levitated
Processing

Blast from the past

My dad's awesome. When we had a family reunion back in November he brought with him a disc for me containing hundreds and hundreds of old family photos... all of them annotated and ordered in a spreadsheet index. Finally I've gotten a chance to go through all of these and I must say I'm astounded. What a trip to see old pictures of people you know. I'm tempted to get a pro Flickr account and upload the whole slew of these, but I'm not sure they're of general interest enough... plus I'd have to figure out how to convert the notes and tags that he's included in his index into Flickr tags. Anyway, in honor of Dad, here's a few pics of him hamming it up (as he would say) before all most of his hair fell out:

Random found images

Transparent Alumina

...for all your whale shipping needs. I guess somebody's actually figured out how to make a transparent aluminum-type substance.

Mt. St. Helens

Yesterday:

Today:

Lottery

Sticky

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World Bandwidth Usage

Loonatics

Bugs Bunny and crew are being updated and set in the future (AD 2772) in a new cartoon from Warner Brothers, "Loonatics," coming this fall according to the Wall Street Journal. Most of the comments I've read about this so far have been negative, but I think people who can't reimagine a classic are fuddy-duddies who hate America. Anyway, it can't be any worse than the "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips"-type stuff that came out of the '40s...

Holons

This might be a bunch of hoohaw, or just one of many ways to wrap the world up into a neat quadrant, but I did find myself liking this image. I found it in a big attempt to understand blogging. In my opinion the author misses the mark by failing to mention that attempting to categorize blogs is like trying to categorize people: really only useful for eugenics, belly laughs, and marketing.

Bugs!

Kenn Wingle takes super close pictures of insects and spiders.

Yesterday I discovered iScooper, an app for Mac OS X which will let you download collections of pictures like this all at once. I'm like a kid in a candy shop... with a gift certificate.

Funny findings

Some random things that cracked me up recently, in no particular order:

Splash!

Trengove Studios makes fake food and splashes out of plastics. Wonderful.

2004 US Budget Chart

This is cool, a big (1.7 MB) graphical layout depicting where your tax dollars are going.

The Ossuary in Sedlec

This site has incredible pictures of a church in the Czech Republic decorated with around 40,000 sets of human bones.

Evolution Stickers

Handy stickers for use on textbooks containing controversial content, or worse, those which fail to mention Intelligent Design.

Disruptive Pattern Material

A drool-worthy site selling a book full of research on camouflage. And these supercool figurines:

I think they also stand upright.

From the about page:

DPM (Disruptive Pattern Material). DPM is an encyclopaedic art book that charts the history of camouflage from its roots in nature, through to its adoption by the military, and on to its current popularity and use within modern civilian culture. Divided into two books totalling 944 pages, no other title offers such comprehensive coverage of this multi-faceted and highly engaging subject.

Bonzai!

A couple of outstanding sites on bonzai. I'm moved beyond words:

Worlds Within Worlds
Worlds Within Worlds 2

Dr. Seuss

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