dutch tulip fields

ummm, who knew? who knew a countryside could look like this? i didn't:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29388274@N07/2746649399/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1942657/The-week-in-pictures-May-9-2008.html?image=4

photography

aurora australis:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/phenomenal-images-aurora-australis/9586

a dude walks across china (slightly more awesome than previous link):
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1908414

time

a fun game:

http://deepleap.org/


extremely pretty pictures (infrared photography):


http://weburbanist.com/2009/04/02/amazing-works-of-infrared-photography/

stufffff

tiny monkeys:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/smallest-monkeys-world/6909


cool photography-- photos from the siege of leningrad overlaid w contemporary photos of the same locations:
http://englishrussia.com/?p=2235


immortal jellyfish:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22143

repost

chad google reader shared this. it's great:

http://ffffound.com/image/a3835169e4f355dabe1acf08443ea986d3e02f86?c=2279335

crazy awesome art

this artist paints things invisible; it's rad:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/incredible-camouflage-art/4793

these artists grow trees into useful living furniture:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/trees-grow-furniture/3224

environmental graffiti is a good blog, eh?

six links, in descending order of awesomeness

turns out kevin spacey does *amazing* impressions:
http://www.filmroster.com/video/kevin_spacey_impersonates_jimmy_stewart_al_pacino_christopher_walken_and_many_more

maps that show how united statesians really vote:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

really neat photos of people jumping, etc.:
http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/08/awesome-freeze-frame-time-photography/

pretty natgeo photographs turned into online jigsaw puzzles=great time-waster:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/jigsaw-puzzles

fifty facts about our new president that make him seem even more hip than i thought:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3401168/Barack-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html

insulting words. the second one made me laugh out loud:
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/03/10-insulting-words-you-should-know/

Math and Nature

Link #8: We've heard about fractals occurring in nature and Fibonacci and all that jazz, but never have the photos been so dazzling:

http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/