One for my fellow Australians: Values Australia

Via Barista, probably.

Turn your website into a protest march.

Via Crooked Timber.

Something else learned today - the sad story of Kevin Carter. Carter's Purlitzer prize winning photograph, about which he was criticised for not intervening in the circumstances photographed, appears in this discussion board thread that showed up in my stumbleupon list.

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings might prove less depressing.

Pumpkin Way

Infinite Picture in a Picture

Lifesize Whale

Earth Album

Your Age on Other Worlds

Jared von Hindman's Alphabet of Horror

Harbin Snow Sculpture Art Fair 2007

Before there was Noah and that nameless girl, there was JK's Daily Photo Project.

From the Our Bridge pool on flickr, some excellent shots of the after-dark light show to celebrate the Sydney Harbour Bridge's 75th Anniversary:

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On Youtube, the Channel Four documentary The Secret Life of Brian about the making of the film and the controversy surrounding it. Includes parts of the Friday Night, Saturday Morning debate. I don't know if the whole debate is available somewhere, but you can watch the whole of the Not the Nine O'Clock News send-up.

One of the things that's always amused me about the "Is Life of Brian blasphemous?" question (and the rather less frequently asked "And should we give a toss if it is?") was how religious critics completely missed how much of the film was spent sending up lefties. ("Splitters!" "I'm not oppressing you, Stan - you haven't got a womb!" "Calls for a new motion!") But then I don't remember anti-imperialists protesting the flick because of the "What have the Romans ever done for us?" sketch, so perhaps that's why they failed to notice.

H/t Dennis Perrin.

Palaeo-Future
Another retro-future blog.

Da Vinci Automata
Home of Clockpunk.

See also.

Have a gander at one of my favourite Shaun Micallef sketches; a nice use of a visual gag to represent inebriety.

Or you could go kill some Lovecraftian zombies. Just remember to click on the silhouettes (best when they're still climbing out of the ground), click to reload (don't wait) and that for some reason the fourth shotgun shell has no effect.

Crazy Rabbit
A moderately amusing interactive doodah.

LikeBetter
One of those emergent personality test thingies.

Scribbler
Interactive drawing whatsit.

The Acme Catalogue
A list of those roadrunner-killing bidules.

More urban exploration photography: The Confluence
Some UE types return to the Niagra Confluence for some luvverly photography. Them's some big tubular dojigger thingamajigs they's got there.

Monstropedia
A wiki encyclopedia of monsters.

Via The spectacularly obtuse blog.

Google Sightseeing, for all your cool & strange stuff on Google Maps needs. The new shots from the Australia Day flyover of Sydney are up, replacing the old deeply-shadowed afternoon* cityscape with a well-lit if weirdly distorted patchwork. Google Sightseeing were intrigued by the "Sex and Death" topiary near the Botanical Gardens glasshouse, but that's not an Australia Day stunt since it's been there for yonks.
It seems overall there were less stunts than Google were probably hoping for.

* Unless it was early morning - now I can't bloody remember which way the shadows were pointing. [At which point I had the rather obvious idea of checking those parts of the satellite photo which haven't changed, and determined that the shadows are indeed pointing to the south-west, making it a morning shot.]

Via Crooked Timber.

Paste the following into the address bar and press enter. (It'll probably work better if you first go to a page with a number of smallish images on it.)

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