Amusing photo!

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Strangely beautiful photo

A Chinese fish farmer with some of his catfish, bred on the outskirts of Hangzhou. The fish farmers are said to have turned to illegal veterinary drugs to keep fish alive in contaminated ponds.

Source:
China Says Its Seafood Is Now Safer and Better
DAVID BARBOZA
NYT, January 18, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/business/worldbusiness/18fish.html

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Way cool:

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San Clemente surfer wins title

Greg Long of San Clemente flies down the face of might be the biggest wave ever ridden at Dungeons, South Africa, during an unusually large session.

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Thre Grand Canyon Skywalk is officially open for business today:

Sources:
The skywalk over the Grand Canyon 
CNET
http://news.com.com/2300-1008_3-6169001-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

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Facing West on 42nd Street, near 5th Avenue
Snapped on December 20, 2005, 10:00 am

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My friend has managed to convince me of the evils of fur:

We last looked at this pressing issue on February 1

via fur is dead

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We've been having a grand old time in La Jolla and San Diego.  Here are some random snaps I've taken over the past few days (all enlarge with a double click):

This is the view from where we are slumming it:

Walking along the waterfront in downtown La Jolla

Fascinating Tree/Root system in Balboa Park

Seals out sunning themselves on the beach downtown:

The View while walking along the cliff side at Torrey Pines
(we are way up there)

The Hang gliders sure look like they are having some fun!
(How hard can it be?)

It turns out, not all that hard!

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Dazzling collection of photos:

Source:
Asian Soccer Can Also Be Exciting
Balendu Balendu,Delhi, INDIA
Jun 17 2006, 12:24 am GMT
http://www.adpunch.org/entry/asian-soccer-can-also-be-exciting/

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Via Peta

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From the Guardian's news blog, comes this tidbit.

One would hope that the president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz would dress appropriately for the job. Apparently, not so much:

Paul Wolfowitz: Embarrassing the United States since 1976

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Great Ad:

Adverbox via The New Shelton Wet/Dry

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flickr via Reddit

see the full size version here:

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Hey, its a Friday!

Salma Hayek -- So much more delightful than Friedrich von !

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Amusing ad for the Muang Kulaypan Hotel:

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This is neither the work of a dirty old man, nor child porn -- its from the Kanamara Festival in Kawasaki Japan -- also known as the Festival of the Steel Phallus:

Created back in Japan’s Edo period (1603-1867), the first Sunday in April sees hundreds of people go to the Kanamara Shrine in the south of Tokyo for a spring fertility festival.

The Japanese legend had a demon which hid inside a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights -- a blacksmith fashioned an iron phallus, which the demon broke his teeth on. Thus, the enshrinement of the steel penis.

The Flickr photo set is a must see!

via newsheltonwetdry

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MSN has a good round up also . . .

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For more info, see also:

Steve Goes Travelling

Greggmann

Japan Travel

Dead Hippo photo album

Google Video of Kanamara Matsuri

2 Camels travel review of Kanamara Matsuri Festival

Celler's Festival wrap up

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Great photo

The kid's eleven . . .

Excerpt:

Sliding along ledges, curbs and railings on his skateboard has been mere child’s play for 11-year-old Nyjah Huston, skateboarding’s youngest professional. For his next trick, however, Huston, a sixth grader from Davis, Calif., must negotiate the demands of sudden success and attention, obstacles that have derailed several sports wunderkinds.

Soaring on his board, his long black locks trailing, Huston resembles a small plane pulling a banner ad over the beach. The message is likewise hard to miss.

“The kid is special,” said Don Bostick, president of World Cup Skateboarding, the sport’s main sanctioning body. Bostick, who has seen scads of top skaters during a career spanning three decades, said: “When I watch Nyjah, I’m amazed at how good he is. It’s mind-blowing.”

When asked to forecast Huston’s future, however, Bostick offered one caveat: “If he can make it through his teen years, I think he’s the future of street and park skateboarding.”

At the Dew Action Sports Tour’s second stop Friday night in Denver, Huston placed second in the park finals, an event in which competitors perform maneuvers — like flipping their boards while in midair — on a course consisting of ramps, rails and other obstacles meant to mimic urban terrain.

He turned pro this season so that he could compete on the Dew Tour. Skating against boarders twice his age, Huston has earned enough points to rank third in the season points race with three events left.

Although park and street skaters have tended to be somewhat younger than other action sports athletes, Huston’s swift success has raised eyebrows.

“We haven’t seen anything as young as we have in skateboard park, with Ryan Sheckler at 16 and Nyjah at 11,” said Wade Martin, general manager for the Dew Action Sports Tour. “In other disciplines, like BMX vert, the average age of the athletes is probably 30 years old.”

Source:
Navigating a Pro Career and the Preteen Scene, Skateboarding
MATT HIGGINS
NYTimes, July 17, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/17/sports/othersports/17board.html

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Here's a great photographic trick I discovered by accident trick:  You cannot normally shoot into the sun --but, staterooms have a gaizy black partial curtain.

If you put the camera right against the screen, it acts as a mild filter:

See the last photo for the reveal:

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Same effect via clouds:

One more:

Here's the cheat shot reveal:

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Once again, China Daily:

Kelly Brook

Sienna Miller

More photos after the jump . .  .

Source:
Bikini's 60th birthday
Kelly Killoren Bensimon
2006-06-02 09:41
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2006-06/02/content_607037.htm

Kelly Brook

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A few photos -- some none too flattering -- of celebs in bikinis:

Charlize Theron

Jessica Alba

Scarlet Johnson



JENNIFER ANISTON

JESSICA SIMPSON

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hardly drinking:

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White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, left, and White House Counselor Dan Barlett, ride in a military helicopter wearing helmets and flak jackets for a trip from Baghdad International Airport to U.S. Embassy in the Greenzone:

via Yahoo!

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I am rapidly becoming a fan of China Daily:  Partly for their photos of MAX Magazine photo of Marissa Miller:

Yes, that's all paint, not clothes -- top and bottom;

There's more photos of Max girls Marissa Miller and Yesica Toscanini here.

See also:
Bikini's 60th birthday    
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2006-06/02/content_607037.htm

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What do you notice that's kinda odd about this photo?

The photo is taken from above, likely early or late in the day. The real camels are white in the photo, the black camel shaped objects are just their long shadows.

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Fabulous photo from the NYT Archives:

Flam & Flam, 165 East 121st Street, 1938
Berenice Abbott/Museum of the City of New York The New York Times Photo Archives presents a special selection of historic images reproduced from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York.

Source: New York Times

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When I am in Southern California, I stay with family in La Jolla. I watched this home get constructed just up the cliff from us -- not bad for $21.5m; You can't really tell from the photos, but this bad boy is way above sea level:

Let me find my checkbook for this one . . .

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Four T6 Harvard Aircraft from The Flying Lions Aerobatic Team waterskiing across the Klipdrift Dam near Johannesburg South Africa.

Pilots Hone Their Skills For Upcoming Airshow Season

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Aviation Dimension writes:

Lead by Scully Levin, with wingman Arnie Meneghelli, Stewart Lithgow and Ellis Levin, this renown airshow display team rehearse a sequence for the newly launched "Aviation Action" television program on Supersport. Arnie Meneghelli from Academy Brushware, owner of the aircraft had this to say, "What we did today I believe is a world first. It illustrates that South African airshow pilots are amongst the best in the world".

This unusual act, approved by the South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and supported by Castrol Aviation, was meticulously planned and took place under the watchfull eye of divers and paramedics that were on site.

via Aviation Dimension

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By now, you can tell I am annoyed by the rude wankers on NY area commuter lines who abuse their cell phones and disturb everyone around them. Its rude, its selfish, its a modern technological annoyance, as hardware outpaces society's adaptive mores for using these tools. 

But what about real wankers -- the guys who whip it out in public, the johnson tuggers, and other offensive harrassers? Dangerous louts who are more than merely annoying?

Well, that's where Holla Back NYC -- and the phone cam -- comes in:

Holla Back NYC gives New Yorkers the right to Holla Back at street harassers. Whether you're commuting, lunching, partying, dancing, walking, chilling, drinking, or sunning, you have the right to feel safe, confident, and sexy, without being the object of some dickwad's fantasy. So stop walkin' on and Holla Back!   

Happy Jack: Spank monkey caught on film phone cam

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Funny, will these photos get my blog tagged as having nudity or pornography -- even though it contains none fo the above? These are genuine adverts from Europe, the last two are for erotic cinema and Playboy Netherlands.

What will the not so smart smartfilter think of these? Will these get my blog tagged as having nudity/pornography by lazy Smartfilter cubicle drones?

Tips on how to defeat censoring and filterware here.

Photos via Money Factory

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Here's a quick taste of San Francisco:

Sunny and 62 today

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So far, Chrissy Park Field affords the best vantage point for taking a snap of the Golden Gate Bridge -- at least from within the City.

We rented one of those little electric GPS cars, and tooled around the city for an hour.

With a top speed of about 25, and a low center of gravity,  they feel moderately safe. We zipped down Lombard Street in it, and I got about 3 screams out of Mrs. Big Picture.  Never  took any wheels off the ground, but the sense was that the damn thing could flip over if you took a turn too fast . . .

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Its hard to get a sense of the size looking up from ground level of the trees.

So maybe this shot will give some perspective:  That's Mrs. Big Picture, who is a statuesque 5'8", in the lower right hand corner:

De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park:

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View from the observation deck

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Claus Oldenburg:

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Ultimate Tourist Shot:

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final shot: Breakfast on Sunday:

we got there about 8:15 and didn't have to wait for a table -- on the way out, it was a zoo . . .

Thats the short version; If you want to see more, there's another dozen after the jump.

More San Francisco photos:
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An old Nash toddlin down Lombard Street (note everyone waving!)

Hyde Street, looking towards Wharf and Alcatraz

The famous Transamerica Pyramid Building
(we had Indian nearby -- Nann & Curry)

Lots of Great Wall Art: murals and restaurants:

Amoeba Music:

Th e world famous Hungry I

Stinking Rose:  A Garlic Restaurant:

Moose!

Vesuvio

Haight Ashbury:

De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park

Painting of SF

Chrome Items

Big Stone Face

Japanese Stroll Garden:

Union Square Washington Square Park:
(we stayed inn Union Square)

Hamburger, in Sausilto

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This is what NY looks like in February:

Today is about 55 degrees outside

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The Diner around the corner from us is open 24/7 -- no matter what the weather. Today, we got 2 feet of snow. So we headed out in the first blizzard of 2006 to grab some grub.

Of course, I brought the digital and took some snaps on the way:

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Notice how the flash lights up the nearby flakes
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Is that a camera?

Try to guess what car this is -- and how am I going to get my dry cleaning out of the back? 

This is Justin from Syracuse, where this weather is called "Fall"

Did I forget to put something away last fall . . . ?

Up to my knees in snow

Lots more photos below . . .

The Main Drag: Glen Cove Road

Blowing Sideways

Booth with a view:

Dog loves the Snow!

6 foot tall Back Fence -- bottom third is covered 

Crazy Justin from Syracuse!
(he goes to Medical School around the corner)

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Dude!  Surf's Up!

Gnarly curl . . . bitchin' !

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Source:
At Mavericks, Thousands See the Best Wipe Out
STEVE HAWK
NYT, February 8, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/sports/othersports/08surfing.html

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I love this perspective:

via Carto.net

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How whack is this:   Automatic Camera situated 7 miles from Atomic blast with 10 foot lens. Shutter speed equaled 1/1000,000,000 of-a-second exposure:

via Harold Edgerton

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Sky.com is rather enamored with the breasts of Scarlett Johansson. Their 35 page homage is rather revealing of their "breasticle obsession."

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Source:
Who Owns The Cleavage?
Sky Showbiz, 10:04 UK, Monday December 12, 2005
http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1205772,00.html

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How weird is this:

Someone with a razor cut out CNN Business anchor Lou Dobb's head from a LIRR poster ad, and then affixed it to the outside of a commuter railroad car:

I'm in Jamaica, watiing for my connection -- its dark -- and there goes Lou's disembodied head floating down the platform.

Funny, but more than a bit bizarre and a little creepy . . .

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