Friday Ephemera

Bellies. // Jet trains. // China’s 10-day traffic jam. // High-rise tennis court. // Tornado plus fire. // Norway’s Svalbard Science Centre. // Superpowers. // Post-apocalyptic Tokyo. // Prague panorama. // Ninjabread men. // Nuclear icebreaker Lenin. // Building the Statue of Liberty. // Long exposure fireflies. // The perils of working from home. // Octopus kites. // Orson Welles’ Dracula (1938) and other radio dramas. // “The United States may be using climate-change weapons.” // Wireframe motorcycle. // Earth and Moon photographed at a distance of 183 million kilometres. // Bee. // Get groovy with the Houseplant Picture Studio. 

Comments

[Q30]

On post-apocalypse Tokyo, the image of future Tokyo Sky Tree made me LOL.

It's not finished being built, but for it to become a literal tree...

[mlrosty]

"Bellies"

Glad to see Hall & Oates are still getting work.

[svh]

Here's one. Cyclops turtle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I_4wsDKCVA

[carbon based lifeform]

Tornado plus fire equals urge to run away.

http://www.duncancarroll.com/lulz/?Qwd=.&Qif=FireTornado.JPG&Qiv=num&Qis=FS

[David]

“Tornado plus fire equals urge to run away.”

Obviously, a tornado that *isn’t* also on fire just isn’t scary enough. Unless it’s a tornado full of dynamite and radioactive nails.

[Spiny Norman]

"...a Russian political scientist has claimed the United States may be using climate-change weapons to alter the temperatures and crop yields of Russia and other Central Asian countries."

Is this the same "scholar" who claimed Americans stole a Russian lake?

http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/americans_steal_lake/

[dicentra]

Ten-day traffic jam?

That's nothing. They had one for 28 years in New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Gridlock