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Home computer of 2004
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Archive for May, 2008.
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2008
You’ve never seen Mario and Zelda like this before.
Artist Jimi Benedict a.k.a. “Jimiyo” created these images which combine 8-bit forms of the game’s original characters with a surreal illustration style.
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May
2008
The world according to America
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May
2008
An electron micrograph is an image taken using electrons to illuminate a specimen and create an enlarged picture of it. Some of these photos can magnify specimens up to 2 million times.
Here are 10 awesome electron micrograph images.
Soybean Cyst Nematode
The Picture shows Pollen of the Common Ragweed. It is the most widespread plant of the genus Ambrosia in North America. Pollen is a fine to coarse powder consisting of microgametophytes, which produce the sperm cells of seed plants. The pollen grain with its hard coat protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement between the stamens of the flower to the pistil of the next flower.
Crab Spider
Head of a Crab Spider. They are also commonly called “flower spiders” because they are most often found on flowers, lying in ambush for prey. Crab spiders do not build webs to trap prey, but are active hunters much like the jumping spiders.
Butterfly egg
Butterfly eggs consist of a hard-ridged outer layer of shell, called the chorion. It is the lined structure with a thin coating of wax which prevents the egg from drying out before the larva has had time to fully develop.
Bacteria: E. coli
These rod-shaped bacteria are enterobacters, which are part of the normal content of human and animal digestive systems. However, under certain conditions they can cause gastroenteritis and urinary tract infections.
Flea
The head of a flea, an external parasite living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals and birds.
Skin, lateral cut
A section through human skin. The skin layers, from top to bottom, are the stratum corneum, composed of flattened, dead skin cells that form the surface of the skin. The dead cells from this layer are continuously being shed and replaced by cells from the living epidermal layer below (red). The lowest layer seen here is the dermis. In the middle, a sweat gland can be seen.
Soybean Cyst
Soybean cyst nematode and its egg. It is a small plant-parasitic roundworm that attacks the roots of soybeans.
Immune system: Macrophage, defense against microfilarie
A Microfilariae (larval worms) of a parasitic nematode roundworm being attacked by cells of the immune system. Numerous nematodes cause disease in humans, living as parasites of the intestines, blood, lymph, subcutaneous & connective tissues.
Salmonella
Color-enhanced scanning showing Salmonella typhimurium (red) invading cultured human cells.
Shark skin
Scales from the skin of a shark. These sharply pointed placoid scales are also known as dermal teeth or denticles. They give the shark’s skin the feel of sandpaper. The tip of each scale is made of dentine overlayed with dental enamel. The lower part of each scale is made of bone. The scales disrupt turbulence over the skin, considerably reducing the drag on the shark as it swims. This design has been investigated by engineers for use on the surfaces of aircraft and boats.
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May
2008
Creative people at UK ad agency Mother London wanted to create a self-promotional item. Printing bags was the idea but they needed to be unique.
So Mother London created a series of Uncarriable Carrier Bags: bags that you don’t want to be seen carrying around…
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May
2008
WOMEN’S ENGLISH
1. Yes = No
2. No = Yes
3. Maybe = No
4. We need = I want
5. I am sorry = you’ll be sorry
6. We need to talk = I need to complain
7. Sure, go ahead = I don’t want you to
8. Do what you want = You will pay for this later
9. I am not upset = Of course I am upset, you moron!
10. Are you listening to me? = Too late, you’re dead
11. You have to learn to communicate = Just agree with me
12. Be romantic, turn out the lights = I have flabby thighs
13. You’re so manly = You need a shave and you sweat a lot
14. Do you love me? = I am going to ask for something expensive
15. It’s your decision = The correct decision should be obvious by now
16. You’re certainly attentive tonight = Is sex all you ever think about?
17. I’ll be ready in a minute = Kick off your shoes and find a good game on TV
18. How much do you love me? = I did something today that you’re really not going to like
MEN’S ENGLISH
1. I am hungry = I am hungry
2. I am sleepy = I am sleepy
3. I am tired = I am tired
4. Nice dress = Nice cleavage!
5. I love you = Let’s have sex now
6. I am bored = Do you want to have sex?
7. What’s wrong? = I guess sex is out of the question
8. May I have this dance? = I’d like to have sex with you
9. Can I call you sometime? = I’d like to have sex with you
10. Do you want to go to a movie? = I’d like to have sex with you
11. Can I take you out to dinner? = I’d like to have sex with you
12. Will you marry me? = I want to make it illegal for other men to have sex with you
13. You look tense, let me give you a massage = I want to have sex with you within the next 3 mins.
14. Let’s talk = I am trying to impress you by showing that I am a deep person and then I’d like to have sex with you.
15. I don’t think those shoes go with that outfit = I’m gay
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May
2008
As an arch propagandist, Adolf Hitler was happy to see his life recorded in dark shades of grey.
The Nazi leader believed that traditional black and white photographs best highlighted the sinister nature of his regime, presenting dramatic images which were both powerful and menacing.
Now, however, an altogether more colourful view of the Fuhrer has emerged.
More than 62 years after his death in a Berlin bunker, images from a newly opened Paris archive show him relaxing with children in the Eagle’s Nest, his mountain top chalet in the Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.
Hitler is celebrating his 50th birthday party on April 20th 1939.
While the dictator does not look in the best of physical health and appears to stoop slightly, the shiny-faced Ayran boys and girls are immaculately dressed in bright pastel colours.
All were likely to have been the sons and daughters of Nazi party dignitaries.
Hitler never had any children of his own, but liked spending time with other people’s - forever enthusing about how important they were to the biological future of the 1000 year Reich.
His chief propaganda minister Josef Goebbels’ six children were one of his surrogate families, as were the sons and daughters of his architect Albert Speer.
Other pictures show Hitler out of uniform, reclining in a pin-striped grey suit and looking over the Bavarian valleys while wearing a Homburg hat.
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With him in the latter colour portrait is Eva Braun, his loyal girlfriend who was with him throughout the war years right up until the pair took cyanide capsules as Russian forces approached. Also featured in the colour photographs is Hitler’s beloved German Shepherd Dog, Blondie, who also remained with his master until the final hour.
The more official looking photographs in the archive show an early rally of the SA - or “Storm department”- the brown shirted mobsters who assisted Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s. Its leader Ernst Rohm - once a close ally of Hitler - was later murdered by the SS.
All of the pictures have been released by the Rue des Archives picture agency which was founded in the French capital in 1936 - four years before Nazi forces occupied Paris.
Hitler was one of the most photographed people in the world during the 30s and 40s, and took a close personal interest in all the images produced by his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.
However, Hoffman was not used to using colour, meaning that the Paris batch of photographs is likely to be the work of Hugo Jaeger, who specialised in what was a relatively new technique at the time.
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2008
Castlevania
Bionic Commando
Mortal Kombat
Contra
Duckhunt
Mario
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2008
10.Poison Dart Frog
9.Cape Buffalo
When faced with a predator, cape buffaloes charge head on. That’s 1,500 pounds of beast topped off with two big, sharp horns. You’re lucky if there’s only one - the real danger comes when a herd of thousands stampedes in your direction.
8.Polar Bear
Sure they might look cuddly at the zoo, but in the wild they eat elephant seals for breakfast. Get between one and its cub and it could easily rip off your head with one swipe of its giant paw.
7.Elephant
Not every elephant is as friendly as Dumbo. Elephants kill more than 500 people a year worldwide. African elephants generally weigh in around 16,000 pounds - all the better to stomp you with - not to mention their sharp tusks.
6.Australian Saltwater Crocodile
Don’t mistake this croc for a log! It can lay still in the water, waiting for passers by. Then, in the blink of an eye, it’ll lunge at prey, pulling it under water to drown and dismember.
5.African Lion
Giant fangs? Check. Lightning quick? That too. Razor sharp claws? You betcha. Hungry? You better hope not. These big cats are near perfect hunters.
4.Great White Shark
Blood in the water can excite these sharks into a feeding frenzy, where they’ll use all 3,000 of their teeth to bite anything that moves.
3.Australian Box Jellyfish
Also known as the sea wasp, this salad-bowl sized jellyfish can have up to 60 tentacles each 15 feet long. Each tentacle has 5,000 stinging cells and enough toxin to kill 60 humans.
2.Asian Cobra
While the Asian Cobra doesn’t hold the title of most venomous snake, it does the most with what it has. Of the 50,000 deaths by snakebite a year, Asian Cobras are responsible for the largest chunk
1.Mosquito
Most skeeter bites just make you itch. But some mosquitoes carry and transfer malaria causing parasites. As a result, these little pests are responsible for the deaths of more than two million people a year.
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