I saw this picture hanging on the wall in the lobby of my faculty, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. My biostatistics TA, Rony-Reuven Nir, took it. It’s fantastic.
These other pics I received in an email chain about 10 years ago. The subject ran something like great pics of the year, but I don’t have the original email. They’re also incredible. Posted below the pictures are the explanations as I got them.
Pilot Ron Candiloro breaks through the sound barrier in an F/A-18 Homet fighter plane over the Pacific Ocean on July 7.The cloud ball effect is caused when forward sound waves squeeze moisture in the air.
Black sun – the last solar eclipse of the millennium is seen in this multiple exposure photograph as it appeared from the famous Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug 11.
Falling for colour – hundreds of cars jam a road in Nikko, Japan on Nov 3, as drivers slow down to admire the colourfully tinted leaves of autumn.
Singers perform on a giant stage on Lake Constance during a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera ‘Ein Maskenball’ on July 15.The design of the stage in the lake shows ‘Death’ reading the book of life.
It appears that “Fragile,” a track from the upcoming Tron Legacy soundtrack, has leaked. It isn’t 100% confirmed that this is Daft Punk, but here it is regardless
Whatup Ace, saw that you liked Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros. I’ve been a big fan of Devendra for a minute, thought you and errbody out there might like if you haven’t already.
AND Natalie Portman is in the vid, which is always a plus
One of my personal all time favorite books by my favorite childhood author Roald Dahl, is going to be released as a film interpreted by Wes Anderson. Enjoy.
Tron Legacy, the sequal to Tron, looks pretty dope, but more exciting is DAFT PUNK composing 24 tracks for the score to the film. It is set to release December 2010…that’s TWO Christmas/Chanukahs away…FML. OK not FML but you can sense my anxiety and love for Daft Punk, check out this teaser trailer revealed @ComicCon
This post is from Mark Cuban’s blog from Aug 19th 2009 10:11PM:
I get deal pitches daily. I want all of you to understand the code words that IMHO are sure fire signs that the entrepreneur has no idea what they are doing and is destined to fail. This is from an email today, redacted of course to protect the guilty. My interpretation of the letter is in bold.
My name is John Doe, CEO and Founder of John Doe Unlimited Innovations and Technology, LLC. JDUIT is an innovation conglomerate, designed for many different industries and is dedicated to improve the quality of life for individuals throughout the world, one step at a time.
The first thing I do at this point is look at the senders email address. Is it an email with the company name in the URL ? If it isnt.. ding, ding, ding. They sender has come up with a name, but doesn’t have the focus or confidence to put up a website. This person was using a gmail account. Next my #FailDar was ringing louder than Larry Kudlow talking nonsense on CNBC about green shoots when I read the “designed for different industries and is dedicated to improve the quality of life of individuals throughout the world, one step at a time” Im sorry, but could anyone possibly invent and write anything that is more full of shit than this person ? That has to go down in business letter history as one of the all time worse lines. If you want to get someone interested in your company, DO NOT tell them you are going to save the world. You are not. No one will believe you will. Save that nonsense for your grandma when you are trying to make her proud of you.
Gar Ryness, better known as “Batting Stance Guy”, is a cult hero among the blogs, and is known for recreating just about every MLB players baseball swing on Youtube. Well, Gar got a chance to put his talent on display for Letterman last night (no, not during Stupid Human Tricks), and here is a bit of his performance….
For some reason, black people and white people still don’t seem to like taking photographs together.
Which makes it awfully difficult when a magazine, newspaper or brochure wants to demonstrate diversity.
I dug around the Internet for the best pictures I could find where a black person was either blatantly Photoshopped in or out. Here are the 11 funniest and most absurd ones I found. (Huge, preemptive dap goes out to the brilliant blog Photoshop Disasters, who pointed me to almost half of these.)
1. Photoshopped diversity in Toronto. Our first entry is the most recent one… this comes from a summer fun guide that Toronto published last month. A spokesman said they “superimposed the African-Canadian person onto the family … [with] the goal to depict the diversity of Toronto.”
They made the change because of a new policy in Toronto where the city manager mandated the staff always try to represent the cultural mix of residents.
And, according to Kevin Sack, Toronto’s director of strategic communications, awkwardly plopping a miscellaneous black guy into a photo is sometimes an acceptable substitute for, ya know, actually having races mingle. Sack told reporters, “The policy doesn’t say Photoshop, the policy says ’show diversity’ … [but] when you’re publishing something with deadlines and you don’t have the right photo, the objective is to communicate the service.”
2. Curves cereal. If you’re an overweight black woman, listen up: Not only does Curves cereal help you lose your belly… it turns it white! (And belly button-less, like Kyle XY.)
This post is from Mark Cuban’s blog from Aug 19th 2009 10:11PM:
