Truly Amazing Pictures...

On a slightly different note, here's some pictures which put everything into perspecitive:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12...ent_1.html

Some compelling pictures of just a fraction of the weapon systems now in use, or in development, by the US military:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yahooeditor...509360830/

Makes you realise how helpless we still are in the face of nature:

People seemed to like the Hubble Advent Calendar posted above, so here's the third annual Hubble Space Telescope Imagery Advent Calendar for 2010:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12...pe_ad.html

Also, you might be interested in the first (2008) Calendar, which includes some amazing images using Hubble's deep field array (allowing it to photograph apparently empty areas of space over a period of months to reveal stars and galaxies we never know existed):

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12...dvent.html

Here's a visualization of the friendship connections between 10 million Facebook users.

The creator took a 2% sample of friendship pairs from Facebook’s data warehouse, combined that data with each user’s current city and then
summed the number of friends between each pair of cities.

He then merged the data with the longitude and latitude of each city.

The result is stunning:

Never seen this kind of stuff with my own eyes.

This is the aftermath of a burst pipe and temps around -12 at work


05-12-10 006 by g-pick.t21@btinternet.com, on Flickr

There's a fire escape in the background


05-12-10 005 by g-pick.t21@btinternet.com, on Flickr


05-12-10 004 by g-pick.t21@btinternet.com, on Flickr

A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden’s death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address.

Below is a visualization of the network graph showing the spread of Keith Urbahn’s single speculative tweet about Bin-Laden’s assassination across users on Twitter.

A rather good example of Flash/image integration called "Hong Kong at Dusk" (takes a few seconds to load):-

- Place your cursor at the top of the photo. You will notice it is 6:10 PM.

- Bring the mouse down slowly over the photo without pressing the button on the mouse. Do not right or left click.

- Night time appears, the lights come on, and at 7:40 PM, it's dark!

- Click the link to begin: http://61226.com/share/hk.swf

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...index.html

As a spectacle it is just magnificent,easy to forget just how ferocious nature can be.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/


Enjoy