Incredible shot of Spiral Aurora Borealis

The Rare and Mysterious Grinning Monkey Orchids

Hobbiton, New Zealand

Triglav National Park near the town of Bovec in Slovenia

Turquoise Ice at Northern Lake Baikal, Russia

Arabian Sand Cat

Super Moon

The biggest, brightest Moon of the year

is almost here

On June 23, 2013,

a Supermoon will be occurring

What that means is that

 

the Moon will be closer to Earth

 

 

 

 

Eerie Extreme Stormy Weather

Captured by Franz Schumacher 

near Stuttgart, Germany 

My choice of the Best Underwater Photo of the Year

Diver on the seabed in Cabo, New Mexico, 

works next to a huge shoal of fish 

who swirl around each other

Republic of Turkey's Reluctant Heroine

Istanbul's University of Urban Planning 

research assistant Ceyda Sungor 

has become a reluctant heroine 

and Turkey's newest freedom icon

And the Reuters photographer 

who shot the now iconic image 

appears to have suffered 

self inflicted head injuries...  

 

Square Sun

Photo taken by Jan Koeman

on 6 June 2013

at Lauwersoog,

The Netherlands

The Original Computer

The Original Computer!!!! 

Memory was something you lost with age
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show

A cursor used profanity

A keyboard was a piano
A web was a spider's home
A virus was the flu
A CD was a bank account

A hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived

 

Hard to guess ?

An old photo

What is it ?

 CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?   

        
Hint: picture was taken in 1956...

It's a hard disk drive back in 1956... 

With 5 MB of storage. 

In September 1956,

IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, 

the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). 

The HDD weighed over a ton 

and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data. 

And this was the 'portable' unit! 

Vote

Vote as you please

Exercise your voter's rights 

System Programmers

1981

2013

Algebra from the Academy

Map of the human body on our hand

Saipan crystal waves

Semporna in Sabah

Come Buy

Fish head noodle stall in Farlim

Map of the New World

Someone says the new map of the world looks like this

Rub off the rude word

Fuck the duck

can someone correct the translation ?

Rainbow

Keeping my hands off the blog due to other pressing matters

Tuesday's Turban

Sharing this Getty image

A member of a Sikh warrior order wears a 300-metre turban at a festival in India

The Best Aerial Image of New York City You'll Ever See

This is a  stitched-together panorama

by Sergey Semonov




Click on image to enlarge it

I saw this in Alexis Madrigal's post 

Alexis is a senior editor at The Atlantic

Happy New Year 2013