rd67:

Hawaiian Volcano Landscape
post by jchip8

Just an amazing shot…

Horsetail Firefall

“Horsetail Falls is a small seasonal waterfall that only appears in late winter and early spring. It flows over the east side of El Capitan, so as a backdrop it has one of the most impressive walls of granite in the entire park. Then – only for part of February, and only when the sky is clear – the very last sunrays of the day selectively linger on the falls, lighting it up with a golden glow that makes the water look like lava.”

Beautiful :) Yosemite :)

Thx hilker:agenerousdesigner:(via Wiggum03)

The Bloody Truth: How to Interpret Blood Spatters (via wiredscience)

1 Angular
If the victim was on the move, drops hit at an angle. The more oblique the impact, the longer the drop’s tail. The head points in the direction the person was traveling.

2 High Velocity
Misty, diffuse spatter is created by external force greater than 100 feet per second — which usually means a gunshot, an explosion, or (seriously) a sneeze.

3 Hair Impact
A traumatic impact between head and surface tends to leave a stain with feathered edges, like someone squished a loaded paintbrush against the wall.

4 Hair Swipe
If the smear fades out in one direction, the head was likely bloody before contact. The lightest edge of the swipe points in the direction the head was traveling.

5 Fabric Swipe
More fluid than hair swipes, these stains sometimes display the imprint of the bloodied clothing. T-shirt weaves are often the easiest patterns to decipher.

Interesting :)

thx mabelmoments

mabelmoments:

Professional Landscape Category.

The colours of the earth by Pawel Mlodkowski from Poland.

Picture: Pawel Mlodkowski / Courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010 (via)

I can’t really tell what this is, but it’s beautiful.

mabelmoments:

erinmargrethe:

krazysmearedlipstickcokewhore:

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Well, there goes my summer vacation.

Not if you stand in front of the bushes.

Hahaha this is one of those signs that begs defiance…I like the idea of signs that forbid things that just aren’t gonna happen - but then maybe in this place, it does happen haha

muroo:

rocketboom:

This is not a painting, it’s a photograph of a real-life model dressed up as a painting via media.leeward.hawaii.edu

cool :)

Caño Cristales, a river in Columbia’s Sierra de la Macarena (via The Most Psychedelic River on Earth | Environmental Graffiti)

Click through for lots of pics; Would like to see more of this…travel here, and have a little river that I could decorate this way….

BBC | Freak waves spotted from space

During a three week period they detected 10 giant waves, all of which were over 25m (81ft) high.

Crazy! Didn’t know this kind of thing was possible. Freak waves exist…

‘Modern Family’ Actress Julie Bowen

This woman is 40. That’s right. 40. Look up other pictures of her. Did she find some magic anti-aging serum?

Facts about poop…

For example, I didn’t know it was possible for poop to be 26 feet long….

via jordantumbles:www.onlineschools.org

jordantumbles:

Brokeback He Man.

I always knew He Man was gay.

Camel Rock, Tassili National Park, Algeria…

Just cool…never seen anything like it - and that’s why it’s worth posting…

You can see other rocks shaped liked camels or odd creatures at webecoist but this one was the best, imho. More on that lovely Algerian National park here…

Geezer Crossing « Make My Mood

I like this because the sign very much reflects reality, yet at the same time, it’s fun. I like it when fun things rest on truth, but have a layer of meaning underneath.

Diamonds Aren’t an Investor’s Best Friend - WSJ.com

“Diamonds are a marketing gimmick as much as anything else. Most men feel they have to give a diamond ring when they propose—even though, as anyone knows after a moment’s thought, the only woman worth buying a ring for is the one who doesn’t care how much you spent on her ring.
The biggest winner in the diamond game is the Oppenheimer family, which runs De Beers, the Standard Oil of the diamond world.
Nicholas Oppenheimer, the billionaire in charge of the company, admitted this week that most of the sales growth in the U.S. over the past decade has been the result of clever marketing campaigns.
There’s no logical reason why you should have to cut a check to Mr. Oppenheimer’s family, or even to their competitors, in order to ask your girlfriend to marry you on Sunday. But you probably will anyway. Most of us do. Marketing is a powerful thing.
Russell Shor, senior industry analyst at the Gemological Institute of America, has some advice. Pear-shaped diamonds can often seem bigger than round ones of the same number of carats, he says. And small differences in clarity are often less visible to the naked eye than differences in color.”

As this graph shows, diamonds have been a terrible investment over the past 30 years. You might think that a diamond ring would rise in value over time, but no… it’s just money sitting there that could otherwise be used for something else. It’s one of the great cons that everyone should buy one - if I was a girl, I’d tell my guy not to spend a lot - I’d feel stupid with some expensive rock that never rises in value…

Having said that … of course it’s possible diamonds may rise in the future… I can only infer that diamonds are plentiful enough that we haven’t reached any sort of shortage yet - this is in stark contrast to gold which is marketed as a substitute for money and whose value has skyrocketed…

Made me laugh haha

via http://www.makemymood.com/2010/02/02/makes-pimp-fashion-look-reserved/

Porcupine Mountains Waterfall, Michigan

beautiful…

kevinnuut:

30 Examples of Urban Decay.

I didn’t expect this from Web Design Ledger, but they are doing a collage of urban decay photography in their latest post. Beautiful.

There is just a surreal quality to this picture set.

szymon:

I think one of the best WWF campaigns

Yeah, if I saw this, I’d click on it…

lickystickypickyme:

This is a living dog.
A puli.

gawd.

via

thingslikethat:

Plitvicka Jezera National Park is one of Earth’s jewels. This mountain valley holds many large emerald lakes, each of which drains into the next in spectacular series of waterfalls.

This pic is pretty famous. It’s been blogged about a lot, but this is the first time that someone has put the location on the pic. Turns out this national park is in Croatia, and the color of the water is constantly changing based on the mineral content. I think it’d be great to experience this in person….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plitvice_Lakes_National_Park

landscapelifescape:

Forget Energy Star and LEED, Green Building is Passivhaus : TreeHugger

“It is hard to believe, but this “mountain hut” in Austria needs next to no heating; it is all done with body heat, cooking heat and passive solar heat. it is an example of a Passivhaus design, built to a standard developed by the Passivhaus Institut in Germany.”

damn impressive :)

hotyellowfellows:

willw2:

hookingupinhanguk:

Anyway, I think there’s something to be said for a kind of “interviewing” process, and I think that it seems less desperate than falling into a relationship. It’s just like, okay, we talk all the time, we spend all of our time together, we have sex… Let’s just call it a relationship. (Not to say that all relationships that start this way are bad, that’s far from the case.)

What happens if you date for a few years? Are you just going to fall into marriage as well? That happened to a friend of a friend. It happened to a family member of mine. And you know what? Neither of those relationships have any passion. In both of those marriages, there’s someone who wants out but doesn’t want to hurt the other person.

With the interviewing process — and I hate calling it that but that is what it is — you’re getting what you want. You can still do that in a casual way without it seeming so “these are my requirements, do you fit them” about it. With this method, I feel like it’s just going after what you want rather than settling for what’s there, just because it’s there. If you’re out meeting other people, you’re less likely to dwell on someone who’s all right but is just there. You can find someone you LIKE.

Hmm….yeah, a little, but I just feel like most of your interview questions usually get answered in natural conversation…and if you have an “interview” frame of mind when you’re talking to people, you’ll have less fun….

Also, thx for your perspective in general ; it was interesting to hear that story about your friend … I know what you mean about chance sometimes playing too big of a role….

mabelmoments:

Hercules the liger poses with Ragani Ferrante from TIGERS (The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tigress. Picture: BARRY BLAND / BARCROFT MEDIA. via telegraph uk

Such a great pic :) He looks so pensive. And the contrast between head sizes…

misbi:

Apple’s new tablet is almost as unimpressive as its name: “iPad”. Honestly, I prefer tampons.

hahaha … islate sounds dorky though; I wonder what else they could have named it; Apple Sketch. I mean you can make fun of that. Apple Tab? I actually think the product is kind of cool - I mean you can hold movies and books really close to our face - It’s a whole new way of interacting with a device - - if you can get over the whole tampon thing - which is clearly a challenge…

hookingupinhanguk:

I just finished reading this, and it has a wealth of information that would be extremely useful to any single person, not just straight girls (as long as you’re okay with reading a bright pink book). It’s really easy to read, and is very well-organized.  She also doesn’t sound like a huge douchebag like a lot of the guy PUAs do.

Here are some things that stood out:

- She offers a lot of opener examples.  These are generally questions that a guy could answer (“My friend went on a date with a guy, and he wants her to meet his friends for the second date.  Is that too soon?”  or “My friends and I are arguing over who is the best James Bond.  What do you think?”)  Whatever.  The content doesn’t matter much.  What does matter is to make sure it is an opinion and not a simple yes or no question, so that you can build rapport.

- Be neutral when opening.  Don’t make eye contact with someone before you approach them.  It has to look like you just happened to be near them and needed their opinion on something, or wanted to know the time or something.  If you express interest, it becomes awkward, boring, you look desperate, and the person being hit is now in the position of power.  You don’t want the person to know you’re hitting on them.  (Other PUAs also say to add a time constraint to avoid this.  “I can only stay for a few minutes, but I was wondering if…”)

- Phones are lame.  (This seems to be less of a problem in Korea where people love to text.)  It makes sense, though.  You meet someone, get their number.  Wait a few days to call, miss them and leave a message, wait, wait, wait, and lose interest.  She suggests that when it’s time to part, make a date then and there.  “Actually, I’m not big on phones.  What’s your schedule like this week?”  Then exchange numbers just in case.

- Increase your numbers.  Many girls believe that there aren’t enough good guys around, which isn’t true.  If you are meeting more guys, you have a much higher chance of finding the good ones.  (This is especially relevant for us in Korea who don’t speak fluent Korean.  The more you meet, the more likely you are to find someone who you can communicate well with.)

- If a guy does anything you don’t like, he flakes, is an asshole, DROP him.  By increasing your numbers, it is much easier to find a guy that fits your requirements.  She says to make your “List” of things that you absolutely will not settle for, and things that your perfect mate can’t be without.  (Examples include: height, religion, intelligence, etc.  It can be anything that is important to you, just make sure it is on your List for the right reasons.)  For me, I have certain preferences regarding a guy’s dress and appearance, but feeling an attraction can trump those.  I do, however, know I could never seriously be with a hardcore Republican.  That would go on my List.

- Screen for the important things ASAP (but as subtley as possible).  It is much better to find out he is not what you’re looking for in the first thirty minutes, rather than on the second date.  And if something is necessary to you, don’t settle for anything less!  If you really only want to marry a Jewish guy, don’t continue to date a Catholic just because you don’t think you can find someone else.  She suggests meeting as many people as possible so it’s not as easy to settle.

- Last, but not least: be confident!

Next I’m reading a book about the science of sex.  I’m filling my brain up with lots of useful info in my time of abstinence so that I’ll be ready to take over Seoul when I return.  Ye-yeah!

First off, this is a great book summary, and it’s thought provoking, and thank you for posting it. My 2c:

First off I can empathize with the desire for some girls to use techniques to meet guys - however, I think it’s the wrong approach. Let’s start with the premise that you actually have to devote all this time to interviewing guys - to me that kind of smells of desperation. I’m not sure it’s the right thing to do. I actually feel like girls would be a lot more successful if they just embraced two of the values that my ex believes in who is super successful at picking up guys. First of all she likes having fun and sharing things. If she’s out, she’ll just share something about her life - it’s a great way to build a rapport - or she’ll just joke around and have fun. That’s builds trust. Second, she doesn’t really even look for relationships - it’s sort of the last thing on her mind. She tends to fall into them. I think that’s actually a better approach.

mabelmoments:

Anna Studer with Shahzarah the lion in the living room of her Tell City, Indiana home. Picture: DAVID WHITE / BARCROFT MEDIA. via telegraph uk

This is just staggering. The same article says “ The Association of Zoos and Aquariums estimates that up to 12,000 tigers are being kept as private pets in the USA”

Who are these people? Why don’t we see their tigers and lions frolicking about on their lawns?

This is a whole slide show of big cat love - oh and also chimp love, hyena love, and more…

The big cat owners give you all sorts of helpful tips like:

don’t stand against the side of the cage. Like any other cat they want to say hello and any cat will always give you a rub against your leg. The white tigers are 600 pounds and if you are standing next to the side of the cage then when it comes up to say hello then it will break your hip.

America!

mabelmoments:

Taylar (5) & Alex (8) Terranova, in their garden in Dallas, Texas, on the swings with their elephant, Congo Picture: DAVID WHITE / BARCROFT MEDIA. via telegraph uk

Just your everyday playground elephant.

This family should charge admission! I want to play with that thing.

stras:

bethlehems:

(via streethawk)

I hate passive aggressive. Be direct or don’t waste my time because I’m not playing the game.

15 Embarrassing Moments in Politics - Oddee.com

more pics if you click on the link. :D

Recidivism Rates of US Prisoners Based On Initial Crime

thx tumbledore:

“Taylor Momsen the 16-year-old star of the hit CW show “Gossip Girl” showed her complete indifference when asked about the so called “tragedy” in Haiti. While promoting her new celebrity fragrance at Victoria’s Secret in New York, Taylor was asked about her thoughts on the earthquake in Haiti and she replied:

“Um, right now I’m trying to just finish my record and getting through the last season of Gossip Girl for right now. So not so much thinking about that.”

I say good for Taylor! It is refreshing to see a celebrity not looking to boost their image by pretending to be a humanitarian every time a tragedy strikes.”

(via Taylor Momsen Tells Haiti To Piss Off | Celeb Jihad)

hahaha Satire is always better if it sits atop a few grains of truth. Celebrities can be pretenders.

jordantumbles:

We’ve Been Wrong About Fish Gills All Along!

They are not primarily for respiration, or breathing rather they evolved for removal or toxins and regulation of the proper concentrations of elements in the body.

Clarice Fu, a zoologist from the University of British Columbia in Canada, led the study and publisher her results in the Royal Society Journal, Proceedings.

When Dr. Fu studies fish larvae she noticed that when very young most of the respiration occurred transdermally (across the skin) and the gills were primarily used for excretion of ions such as sodium, chloride and potassium.  It was not until the larvae enlarged such that the surface to volume ratio of these larvae rendered it more difficult to exchange sufficient ions through the skin.  At this point gas exchange switches to the gill.

What does this mean?

Well, 2 things really:

1) The organ we refer to as “the gill” is evolutionarily more closely related to the kidney than, what we has previously thought, the lung.

2)  We must continue to keep our minds agape, operating under the assumption that, we know very little.  Further, that what we do know, may very well be incorrect.

obsessivecompulsive:

msg: hat tip to Hiten

boys v. girls

OMG, this is such a stereotype perpetuating crap-job. I just tried this on google for the hell of it, and guys are just not that misogynistic. While it’s always fun to perpetuate a stereotype, it’s much more fun to destroy one. Well maybe this list is just exaggerated a bit…Here’s the real one…

so cute :)

muroo:

lalanii:

awww

bettyada

this makes me want to nap more…

thx jordantumbles:

A new kind of cleavage is born….anyone wanna suggest a word for this?

mabelmoments:

thetalkinghead:

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Hahaha, this was just funny to me… I found the original article….it divides the amount Google and Microsoft are paying Twitter by the total number of tweets to come up with a value per tweet… well you could argue that’s an incorrect premise as there are many ways to monetize a tweet…. you know there are so many articles that are full of BS - it’s funny to see one that was actually completely retracted….

It was kind of shocking to me that some people could make 10,000$ per tweet….

Sean Rad, chief executive of Beverly Hills-based ad network Ad.ly, has signed up 20,000 Twitter users who get paid for placing ads in their tweets. To determine the size of the payments, the startup has developed algorithms that measure a person’s influence. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian, with almost 3 million followers, gets $10,000 per tweet, while business blogger Guy Kawasaki fetches $900 per tweet to his 200,000 fans.

mabelmoments:

Basra, Iraq: Shia Muslim worshippers, stained by their own blood from self inflicted wounds, hold knives during the festival of Ashura. Photograph: Nabil al-Jurani/AP. via guardian uk

jordantumbles:

You must click on the photo and experience the full-screen shot here.

jordantumbles:

Who wants to guess whats happening here?

Ok…I will tell you.  In areas of the world that receive a lot of snowfall, often men will get in the trunk of the car during a short trip to increase traction on the rear tires. This was taken in Skopje, Macedonia on December 19, 2009.

Escaped prisoner taunts police on Facebook

Instead of hiding away from police Lynch has set up a Facebook account complete with a photograph sticking his middle finger up and boasts about eating 12lb steaks and his home being so warm it feels like the Caribbean.

thx mabelmoments:

mabelmoments:

elefantastico:

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Busted.

Nice dress « Make My Mood

Modern Architecture - Cloud 360 Observatory (4 pics) - My Modern Metropolis

More beautiful architecture :)

Kenny Kellogg: Great day at the Niners Game. Loved this jersey.

Modern Architecture - Reaching Toward the Heavens (6 pics) - My Modern Metropolis

An example of how architecture and buildings can be beautiful… :)

May 19th - Beard of the Day: Windmill Beard Guy - Second City Hockey

The Chapel that Rises 280ft from a Massive Lava Plug | Environmental Graffiti

More pics after the click through….

According to wikipedia, which redirects lava plug to volcanic plug…. “A volcanic plug, also called a volcanic neck or lava neck, is a volcanic landform created when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano”

hilker:

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mabelmoments:

crowth:

People sometimes wonder why other apes and monkeys, though having lived alongside us for millions of years, haven’t evolved at the same pace as we humans. But it seems, contrary to our self-regarding arrogance, that it is they who have beaten us to evolutionary perfection.

(Thanks, Maria)