First-World anarchists aren't gonna play by your rules

Society cannot function without rules! These people are destroying civilization as we know it!

More pictures of civilization crumbling at BoredPanda.com.

Ellen's Oscar selfie gets The Simpsons and Lego treatment

(from E Online)

Satellite image of erupting Russian volcano

Click here for high-res image. (Photo: NASA / Earth Observatory / Robert Simmon)

Yes, there are active volcanoes in Russia. NASA's Landsat 8 satellite captures 16,000-ft. Klyuchevskaya Sopka in the act.

(via Yahoo, Slate)

Final pieces hoisted atop new World Trade Center building

The final section of the spire is raised to the top of One World Trade Center. (CNN)

The last two sections of the 408-foot spire that will sit atop One World Trade Center have been hoisted onto a temporary platform earlier this morning. The spire, essentially a giant antenna, will put the building at 1,776 feet, making it the tallest skyscraper in the nation.

Food under an electron microscope

The Telegraph recently posted a gallery featuring photos of popular foods examined under an electron microscope. Here's an appetizing assortment:

Broccoli floret

Blueberry

Grain of salt

Strawberry

See more photos here.

Russian meteorite: Video compilation and photos of damage

(from RT.com)

Skeet-shooting Obama now an action figure

Remember that skeet-shooting photo of Obama the White House didn't want manipulated? You knew it was only a matter of time before someone made an action figure.

And, as far as I know, the White House hasn't issued any statement regarding the manipulation of presidential action figures.

White House: Photo of shotgun-wielding Obama "may not be manipulated in any way"

The White House would rather you didn't Photoshop this result of a staged photo op intended to back up President Obama's claim that he knows what a gun is and has actually fired one before:

President Barack Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

Don't worry. No one has ever accused me of saying or doing anything "that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President."

(via Breitbart)

Watch a man age 12.5 years in 8 minutes

Photographer Noah Kalina has been taking a picture of himself every day for the last 12-and-a-half years.

1917 photo of an ice resurfacer (a.k.a. Zamboni)

(from Shorpy.com)

Beautiful abstract art from a broken Polaroid camera

You may want to think twice about throwing out that old, broken Polaroid after seeing these:

(via Co.Design)

What's the story, Morning Glory? Mysterious clouds seen over Australia

Morning Glory clouds like the ones seen in this photo have had scientists stumped for a long time. Here's NASA's explanation:

What causes these long, strange clouds? No one is sure. A rare type of cloud known as a Morning Glory cloud can stretch 1,000 kilometers long and occur at altitudes up to two kilometers high. Although similar roll clouds have been seen at specific places across the world, the ones over Burketown, Queensland Australia occur predictably every spring. Long, horizontal, circulating tubes of air might form when flowing, moist, cooling air encounters an inversion layer, an atmospheric layer where air temperature atypically increases with height. These tubes and surrounding air could cause dangerous turbulence for airplanes when clear. Morning Glory clouds can reportedly achieve an airspeed of 60 kilometers per hour over a surface with little discernible wind. Pictured above, photographer Mick Petroff photographed some Morning Glory clouds from his airplane near the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.

Long exposure photographs of fireflies

Just a little something to set the mood for today.

(via The Fox Is Black)

Animated GIFs created from old stereographic photos

New York Public Library Labs presents the Stereogranimator, "a tool for transforming historical stereographs from The New York Public Library's vast collections into shareable 3D web formats."

It can also be used to create anaglyphs, the more familiar 3D images viewable with red and blue glasses.



(via Improbable Research)

Around the world in 6,237 photographs

My three-year-old daughter caught a glimpse of this video while I was watching it, and she asked me to start it again. She sat entranced through the whole thing, humming along with its ethereal score. It certainly is a fascinating feat of photography.

(via Colossal)

Construction of the Superdome in 1973

2011

(via NOLA.com)

Why you shouldn't walk through dark tunnels at night

(Photo by Jason J. Cane, via StumbleUpon.com)

Homemade dams holding back the Mississippi River

The Daily Mail featured these extraordinary photos of Vicksburg residents trying to save their homes from the flooding Mississippi River:

To get a grasp of just how bad the flooding is, take a look at this NASA video, which shows some shocking before and after photos:

Poignant image from the protests in Egypt

This, according to the person who took it, is a picture of Christians protecting praying Muslims from police violence.

If these walls could speak...

Few things are as mysterious and eerily beautiful as a derelict building.

Oregon house

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New Jersey diner

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Church

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Berlin hospital

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Theater

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Detroit library

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Japanese theme park

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