Love. That. Pic.

The 'Pasha Bulker' on Nobbys Beach in Australia, June-July 2007.

If he coulda kept it straight and gunned it, he mighta went right on through.

Pasha Bulker - Panamax bulk carrier, beam - 105.6 feet, length - 738 feet.

that was an IoTD. I think it was near Ali.... or at least I recall her having some local input.

Yeah, I figgered our Aussies might remember it.

Seems like we discussed this pic quite a bit, too.

Dogs (& a couple of cats) in mid-shake.

More of these here.

That is a great link - even has a couple of kittens

UT should make smilies of those because they could be the perfect response to some posts.

Yes, check out the entire gallery, excellent work!

Wow. That is so cool!
I looked it up. So you're just walking along on the Sorrento city streets, and there is this big chasm, carved out by water, with a thousand year old mill at the bottom.

Wow!!!, indeed. Good work.

"See honey, I told you that humming noise wasn't coming from the new compact fluorescent bulbs."

Wait. WHAT? What is that? I'm going to barf. That texture alone makes me queasy.

WHAT IS THAT? ARGHHHHHHHHHH.

It's an active honey bee hive with 200 pounds of honey in it (and thousands of bees). Found the picture on a construction forum. It made quite a sticky mess removing it all. Honey dripping all through the house all over the floors, even with plastic tarps everywhere.

Mon dieu!

Bees are cool, no doubt, but that is totally creepy.

I'd burn my house down if THAT was growing in it. Ewwwwwwwwwwww.

Seriously. It's mostly wax at this point anyway. Stick a wick out the chimney and go.

This is a pic of a storm coming across last week that one of my neighbours took. It's just outside of town about two km's into the cane fields.

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Oooooooo scary.

God I love a good storm like that, looks like the midwest when I was a kid.

Yeah, but we don't get twisters in ours. ;)

Spiders, snakes, plants, jellies...I'm sure y'all got some kind of air that'll kill ya.

:p:

Australia really isn't that dangerous. lol No more so than any other country.

I ain't buyin' it. You folks got trees that'll follow ya home and bugger you in your sleep.

Skulls of the American Bison. That's all I know.

ETA: Wikimedia Commons says the skulls are waiting to be ground into fertilizer. Circa 1870

Someone spent a lot of time stacking MacDonald's trophy case

North American bison, not South American cattle.

For whatever that's worth.

Ahh, they fed you the old "randy tree" story, eh? I can't believe how many people fall for that. I suppose they told you those stains were sap, too? ;)

Oh and I came here with:

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That is great. Weird, but great !

pencil-necked slump-shouldered geek.

Yahbbut ... cubist geek.

Postapalooza:

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I thought this was just too cute.



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Greek fire?



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Neuschwanstein (sp?) Castle.



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V-22's on the flight deck. Did they ever make these things work?

Wow. That's a pretty mountainous region. I'm surprised to see them flying so low there.

Nah, they just drove them around on Aircraft Carriers to look cool. :eyebrow:

It works. They look cool.

Only aircraft I know of off the top of my head that has more crash time than flight time.

A two-fer.

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Red leaves green car is fascinating. Love the way the door handle has diverted the rain and prevented growth.

Yes, still in service.

Interesting wiki page on them...

Not unique. Back of a Chinook.

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Cool!

What waits for those boats around the next curve:

Heh, it looked like fun in "Ice Age", but, Ima pass.

Here's a twofer:

Is that a boat sailing around that amoeba?

circumnavigating the Mandelbrot set :p:

Facinating, and right on.

so purty!

Those frogs were coloured in by a six year old.

A six year old frog should be able to stay inside the lines.

Supposedly a before-and-after of an intersection in Joplin, Mo. I have my doubts.

Unbelievable.

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That was on here before and we debated it... Was that Irene?

You can go there in Google Earth now and it's real dramatic. The aerial imagery shows a war zone, but when you enter street view, it's really nice green neighborhoods.

For example, plug 2594 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Joplin, MO into the search bar and zoom in down towards the rubble and into street view.

Wow. That is amazing. The power of mother nature.

why!