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Photos by Jernej Trnkoczy - Photographer from Ljubljana - fotocommunity.com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:38:55 -0800

Lonely

Foggy

Company

Dream

Great photography by Jernej Trnkoczy .

Chuck Babbitt Wildlife Photography - Frosting Blog

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:17:56 -0800

Gorgeous wildlife photography by Chuck Bsbbitt.

Edgie - Edgie Member Profile on EyeFetch.com

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:31:53 -0800

Stumped

First Light of Day

Coming Out of My Shell

Sunrise

Lovely photography by Edgie

Humour

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:45:41 -0800

Engineering Hell

An engineer dies and reports to the Pearly Gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says:

"Ah, you're an engineer, but you worked for a high-tech startup
company and got rich. You've had too good of a life, so now
you can't come in here."

So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators. The computers are all upgraded and there are speaker wires running to every room. Even the clocks on the VCRs are set. The engineer becomes a pretty popular guy.

One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and says,
"So, how's it going down there in hell?"

Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators. The computers are faster than ever and we've got music in every room.There's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."

God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake, he should never have gotten down there! Send him up here-NOW."

Satan shouts back, "No way! I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."

God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."

Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right....and just where are YOU going to find a lawyer?"

Well, it made me laugh!!

39 Awe-Inspiring Photographs by Philippe Sainte-Laudy | Presidia Creative

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:04:08 -0800

Kiss & Fly

Black Light

The House on the Lake

Imagine...

Oh wow! These are fantastic images by Philippe Saint-Laudy.

NewsBiscuit & News In Brief & Bank of England sells unwanted gold reserves after seeing daytime TV ad

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:06:05 -0800

Bank of England sells unwanted gold reserves after
seeing daytime TV ad

The Bank of England has confirmed that they will be popping the entire nation's gold reserve into envelopes and sending it off to Cash4Gold in return for ready money, after the Governor, Mervyn King, saw an advertisement on daytime television.

Bank of England staff are working around the clock to get all the gold reserves into reasonably-sized jiffy bags. 'The job is a lot easier because Gordon managed to flog most of it off cheap when he was still here,; said one Bank of England worker. 'To be honest it will be a relief to get it out from under our feet.'

Alastair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has welcomed the Bank's decision. 'Turning gold bullion into cash is a splendid idea and could help us refinance the British economy. I am already in negotiations with the Queen who may have some unwanted orbs and sceptres which she isn't planning on leaving to her children, so we might as well make a bob or two out of them. Lovely jubbly.'

We have recently had these ads flooding our TV screens,
I suppose someone will be foolish enough to sell Great Aunt Annie's priceless heirloom for scrap!

16 Cute Wood Sculptures by Yuri Firsanov | Pixzii

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:05:52 -0800

FARRIER

POTTER

BATH

SPINNING WHEEL

Delightful wood carvings by Yuri Firsanov.

BBC - Devon - The man they could hang

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:09:35 -0700

The man they could hang

A section of the 1610 court document detailing Richard Wilkyns' case

Poor old Richard Wilkyns, it seems he got the blame for everything.

Old court documents, stored away since 1610, show that Wilkyns, a labourer from Exeter, was the only man in Devon to be tried and hanged as a witch.

Wilkyns was found guilty of eight charges of witchcraft, killing two people, seriously harming three others, and killing a cow, gelding and 10 pigs.

He was hanged in Magdalen Street, Exeter, on 12 July 1610, according to the parish registers of St Sidwells.

The 399-year-old documents were found at the Devon Record Office by Professor Mark Stoyle while he was doing research about that era. The pages were all in Latin and written in a scrawl so took some translating - but here's an extract of the charge:

"...being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, wickedly and feloniously practice and exercise certain hateful arts and diabolic enchantments, called in English Witchcraftes & Sorcerye...did wickedly and feloniously kill and murder that Richard Seward..."

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Quite a discovery!

Happy 40th birthday, the internet: 20 milestones in the nets development - Telegraph

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:48:55 -0700

Happy 40th birthday, the internet.

The first message was sent across Arpanet exactly 40 years ago, on 29 October 1969.

The birthday is one of many that could have been picked - the name "internet" is only 35 years old, for instance, while the first email was sent 45 years ago.

But Arpanet, the defence computer network that grew accidentally into the all-encompassing, era-defining, economy-changing, amusing-pictures-of-cats-facilitating behemoth that is today's internet, seems as good a place to start as any.

This is what started the whole thing off!

The Difference Engine, 1822
Charles Babbage, a splendidly eccentric 19th-century mathematician and inventor, is generally credited with designing the first programmable computer.

His Difference Engine was intended to carry out complicated equations mechanically, avoiding the need for error-prone human "computers". He proposed the design in 1822, but despite significant funding from the British Government, it was not completed until the London Science Museum made one to his specifications in 1991.

His assistant, Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace, has been hailed as the first programmer. A gifted mathematician, she wrote the algorithms that would have been processed by the engine had it ever been made, and may have seen uses for the computer that Babbage never did.

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Gallery Folder - photo.net

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:14:48 -0700

Seasons Gone By

Fairyland Falls

Amazing Paradise

The Revelation of Dawn

Wonderful landscape photography by Marc Adamus