Extreme Rich-Poor Divides

Google Earth reveals unfortunately shaped building

The scheme's architect, John Mock, said this week that while he was aware of the shape as viewed from above, he did not think it a true swastika. "We knew what it was going to look like, but it isn't that. It's four L-shaped buildings … looking at it from the ground or the air, it still is."

The Great Wall of APEC
Now stacked at Darling Harbour, apparently.

The Nardo Ring

From Chuckling, the Burning Man 2007 photo essay.

Drawings by Boris Artzybasheff at the Animation Archive.

Via Monster Brains.

The photography of Martin Klimas

The House on the Rock

Via Brass Goggles.

A collection of Top Tips from Viz

Listaholic

Mr Potatohead stuffed with fish and fed to octopus

Via Improbable Research via Pharyngula.

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.