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A certain wordpress feedburner plugin f’d my feed. Please hold. Now let’s see if I can still upload with Skitch

Phew

From Google Street Map View, aka art emergent from the info-machine. zeroed in on by the Great Collector, crying out one at a time without knowing why. If you’re not in the center of these images, you’re blurry. [Gallery here]
These images were likely created by this automaton: [from here]

Since my short post on the internet carbon footprint, I’ve come across an analysis of the power demands of the typical avatar on Second Life. Apparently, the typical user (where both that user’s pc and the server providing him/her with the data) consumes a kWH/year on par with your average Brazilian [Roughtype].

Image from here.

Pagans are mad that the likeness of a donut wielding homer has been painted near to a 17th century pagan fertility God known as the Cerne Abbas Giant. Homer appears to be aiming his donut for a certain proboscis.

Ann Bryn-Evans, joint Wessex district manager for The Pagan Federation, said: “It’s very disrespectful and not at all aesthetically pleasing.

“We were hoping for some dry weather but I think I have changed my mind. We’ll be doing some rain magic to bring the rain and wash it away.” [The Sun Online]

Sometimes people just dance

For more, MASH HERE, or HERE.

A flickr set by RedClover about the making of the Hirst Skull (now worth $22 mill)


[Supertouchblog]

It’s like they know something.

Perhaps it’s just that they know something I don’t know about music, but I think it’s something greater. Their eyes tell me “I have seen 743 minor accidents, but you have seen not one philharmonic performance”
If you’ve seen these characters on the 110 freeway in downtown LA, then you probably fear them. In the confusion of merging off the 10E, I try to ignore their eerie presence. A glance at the large violin playing ringleader seems to consume an entire afternoon.

And to close… from a Japanese horror film, written up on JapanProbe

This jumping spider (Salticidae) looks a little nervous. Funny how the female never moves. He seems to get a bit irritated near the end. It was probably just a dead female spider he just tried to jump upppppon…

The girl at 2:01 IS AMAZING. But the third girl wins the “most transfigured face” award. But at 2:55 we see the “most clearly passed out” winner…