flickering pictures

Abe Lincoln notwithstanding, the U.S. five-dollar bill is looking just a little bit more Canadian these days, with a brand new splash of purple to help visually-impaired people distinguish between denominations. It includes new watermarks and an “enhanced security thread,” and the new colour is apparently also meant to foil counterfeiters who’ve run out […]

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I admit it, I like lists. List of strange things, cool objects, bizarre coincindences, you name it. Usually I spare you guys the full extent of my geekiness, but this one was too neat to pass up.
The good people at the aptly named List Universe have compiled images, descriptions and causes of some […]

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Just what the title says. I’m not sure why, but these photos kinda make me just a little sad.
Via The Presurfer.

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I think one day my love of alliteration is going to get me into trouble. Ten tons of terrible trouble.
Here’s a first-hand account from Puerto Rico’s Mosquito Bay, “one of the most bioluminescent bodies of water in the world,” with an eerie blue glowing effect created by tiny dinoflagellates. It was posted on […]

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A scientific expedition off the coast of Antarctica has discovered several new species of animals never before seen by human eyes. National Geographic showcases the finds in an amazing photo gallery.
The flower-shaped animal above is likely a completely new species and has “stalks” over three feet long. The starfish at right is just […]

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The BBC explores the origin and history of the peace sign on the symbol’s 50th birthday.
From the article:

It had its first public outing 50 years ago on a chilly Good Friday as thousands of British anti-nuclear campaigners set off from London’s Trafalgar Square on a 50-mile march to the weapons factory at Aldermaston.
[…] How the […]

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From the six pages of sweet fractal art goodness at the Fractal World Gallery.
This one’s a little reminiscent of van Gogh’s Starry Night:

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Wired has just published new, apparently never-before-released pictures of the horrible brutality and abuse at the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. I’m not going to post them here, because they churn my stomach and I almost wish I hadn’t seen them myself, but in the interest of creating public awareness of some of […]

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Vanishing Point features photos and essays by Canada’s urban explorers, who trek through everything from Montreal’s sewers and Toronto’s underground tunnels to a decommissioned Niagara Falls power station and the Hamilton drains.

There’s no way this is legal, and there are about a million things I’d rather be doing on a Sunday afternoon than spelunking in […]

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One of my favourite photos from India - a low-angle shot of a weathered wooden obelisk. It sits in front of the Japanese temple in the Buddhist town of Sarnath. Click the image for a larger version, or here for the Flickr album.

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