Sometimes, nature’s best images are not taken with the best cameras and the largest objectives. Sometimes all it takes is a load of elephant dung. The results are cute, frightening, majestic, and always stunningly beautiful.
You can all sleep soundly tonight, for the mysterious DVD-dealing insides of the Red Box are a mystery no longer. You’re welcome. Surprisingly (disappointingly) not seen: Gnomes, whimsical sprites, unicorns.
Reader Ben Kennedy sent some shots of today’s launch of the monstrous Saturn V model rocket. “Model rocket” doesn’t really convey the enormity of this thing, check out the video below. [Thanks, Ben!]
When they say fighter pilots are crazy they are absolutely right, as this Italian Tornado shows, flying only a few inches from scratching the surface of this runway. Crazy and bloody lucky. [The Dew Line]
Baskets like this one are scattered throughout the West Wing to collect BlackBerrys, iPhones, RAZRs or any other bleepy-bloopy things visitors to the Oval Office have in their pockets. [Callie Shell/Time]
At first sight, this seems like a propeller about to get attached to an aeroplane engine. I thought the same until I looked closer. Then it blew my mind. Zoom in and discover why.
Take a look at these trippy photos taken by Flickr user heiwa4126 using an ultra-wide fisheye lens.
An AK-47 crafted out of bacon and genius using a blowtorch: The bacon movement has truly reached its apex. [this is freaking ridiculous via Geekologie]
