December 2007
Grey Stone Fence →
Posted on December 29, 2007
Grey Stone Fence (Too small? Click here for a larger version.)
The Death of High Fidelity →
Ponca City, We Love You writes “Rolling Stone has an interesting story on how record producers alter the way they mix albums to compensate for the limitations of MP3 sound. Much of the information left out during MP3 compression is at the very high and low ends, which is why some MP3s sound flat. Without enough low end, ‘you don’t get the punch anymore. It decreases the punch of...
2007 Seven Things We Should Preten... →
2007: Seven Things We Should Pretend Never Happened
Earth at Twilight →
Earth at Twilight No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view
of ocean and clouds over our fair
planet Earth. Instead, the shadow line or terminator is
diffuse and shows
the gradual transition to darkness we experience as twilight. With the Sun illuminating the scene from the right,
the cloud tops reflect gently reddened sunlight
filtered through the...
Friedrich Nietzsche →
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
red bag on waves →
Budapest, Hungary.
Thomas Jefferson →
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. “
19 Mindblowing Photoshop Jobs →
Clevr: Lovers Breakfast Table, for Two, with a... →
Table for two? This suave, utterly cute little table is an ingenious space saver, with two chairs that fold right in to the tabletop and base. In the same vein as Hans Olsen’s dining set, the table’s minimal footprint, when not in use, is ideal for small spaces and the romance of gazing into the eyes of whomever you happen to enjoying batter-blasted organic pancakes or organic yogurt...
the chapel →
Panorama shot in Budapest.
Smaller version on flickr.
The Fairy of Eagle Nebula →
The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. As powerful starlight whittles away these cool cosmic mountains, the statuesque pillars that remain might be imagined as mythical beasts. Pictured above is one of several striking dust pillars of the Eagle Nebula that might be described as a gigantic alien fairy. This fairy, however, is ten light years tall and...
towers →
CN Tower seen from Spadina. Smaller version on flickr.
Star Trails at Dawn →
Star Trails at Dawn Just fix your camera to a tripod and you too
can make an image of graceful
trails
traced by the stars as
planet Earth rotates on its axis. Made on September 14 from Montlaux, France, this wide-angle
view nicely
shows
the stars near the celestial equator tracing nearly straight
lines in projection, while stars north and
south of the equator,
respectively, appear to
circle the...
Soren Kierkegaard →
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
24 Awesome Liquid Droplet Photos Shot at Just the... →
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Gibbous Europa →
Gibbous Europa
Although the phase
of this moon might appear familiar, the moon itself might not. In fact, this
gibbous phase shows
part of
Jupiter’s moon
Europa. The robot spacecraft
Galileo captured
this image mosaic during its
mission orbiting Jupiter from 1995 - 2003. Visible are plains of
bright ice,
cracks that run to the horizon, and
dark patches
that likely contain both ice and...
Trek Across Turkey →
“QUANTUM SHOT” #326 Travelogue by Patryk Pawel Moriak, Link Historical Crossroad Between Eastern and Western Cultures Welcome our contributing travel writer Patryk Pawel Moriak. For Patryk “traveling means something more than just nature or landscapes. It gives opportunity to admire beautiful architecture, meet interesting people, see specific wild life and uncommon events,...
Photogallery - Saskatoon Bridges →
