Total Lunar Eclipse Photos

Via Larvatus Prodeo.

Stonebird
Glorious nature photography from part-wild, part-urbanised California.

Ellis Island Ghosts
Photography of the abandoned immigration processing site.

Tuna Propaganda
Cans of tuna with labels bearing a picture of the Venezuelan President and a condemnation of the Peruvian Government as "heartless" have been distributed as part of Peruvian earthquake aid relief. False flag, or just more amusing shenanigans from Hugo?

Java Versions of Old Arcade Games

Lost America
Night photography of the abandoned West.

Bloxorz

Devilish puzzle game at Miniclip.

BLDGBLOG writes about Beneath the Neon, a new book on the Las Vegas flood-control tunnels and the people who live in them.

Michael Swanwick has a new book out and a new blog to flog it on.

Via theinferior4+1.

The Stone Age Diet

Owsley Stanley, known as the Bear, has eaten an all-meat diet for nearly 50 years. When he was young, he read that Eskimos ate only meat and fish, yet were very healthy and fit. This convinced him that humans are meant to be purely carnivorous. "I have eaten as a total carnivore for 48 years," he says. "I am nearly 72 and I have much the same body as I did at 30."...

Stanley had a heart attack in recent years, but he blames it on the broccoli and other "poisonous" vegetables his mother used to feed him as a boy.

Also on AlterNet.

A more complete listing of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2007 Results.

Hmmmmmm.

Much of Sydney's CBD as it appears in the satellite images on Google Maps Australia has been fuzzed out, just weeks before the APEC summit.

Google says the imagery was downgraded as a result of a "commercial issue" with a supplier, but the move has aroused speculation it was done at the request of police in order to minimise the risk of a terrorist attack during the September summit, where Sydney will play host to 21 world leaders including U.S. President George W. Bush.

Unless Google was using satellite images taken after Australia Day, the high resolution images the article refers to were actually taken from a plane.

This change makes this previous post somewhat meaningless.

Via theinferior4+1, the results of the 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

Also at theinferior4+1, Paul Di Filippo has been posting excellent short short stories based on the surrealist art of Todd Schorr.

The Red Shirt Phenomenon Analysed

Via Talking Squid.

Disguise your copy of Harry Potter to look like something more grown-up. (Somewhat NSFW.)

(I thought that's what the dour "adult" covers were for.)

Via theinferior4+1.

The LOLCat Bible

Artist's rendition of LOLCat Bible

Technosphere is back on-line.

TechnoSphere is a 3D model world inhabited by artificial lifeforms created by WWW users. There are thousands of creatures in the world all competing to survive. They eat, fight, mate and create offspring which evolve and adapt to their environment.

Not quite as interesting as it sounds.

14.08.07: Hmm, just at the moment it seems to have gone down. Here's their Wikipedia entry.

Fungiphoto.com
The larger sizes are all watermarked but the thumbnails are still lovely.

Nonstick Plans

QTVR finally finds a purpose: The Giant Merino

The antipodes

Jamstec Papercraft

Deep-sea creature papercraft from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.

Via Lady Insignificant.

The Animated Version of Lenny Bruce's "Thank You, Masked Man" Bit

Audio probably not safe for work.

Fun at the Creationism Museum

Via Whiskey Fire.

Zoomquilt II