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Teh LOLCATS are Baaaack

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:35:01 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead

Clip Source: icanhascheezburger.com

Tags: humor, entertainment, cats, animals

Freaky Face Painting

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:43:25 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: funnbee.info

Total Solar Eclise Observed From Western Siberia

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:03:07 GMT

clipped by: Charolastra

Clip Source: www.hemmy.net

Images from the total solar eclipse of August 1st 2008 observed from Siberia. The sun was completed obscured for a few minutes and the solar eclipse was experienced in Canada, Greenland, central Russia, eastern Kazakhstan, western Mongolia and China. The next total solar eclipse only occurs in several years where the next one will be observed in Northern America in 2017, in Europe - in 2026 and in Russia in 2030.

Tags: sun, solar eclipse, siberia, russia

NASA: 70% of climate change due to Pacific oscillations, not CO2

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:47:55 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks:

What this means is no matter how much you change your CO2 footprint, how much you try to be CO2 green, no matter how much liberal governments tax you - you cannot save the planet from its natural cycles.

Say they reduced the CO2 25%. Say the CO2 is the driver for the remaining 30% of Global Warming (which it cannot be, but let’s just be only half as ridiculous as the IPCC), then all that effort would only impact 7.5% of the forces driving the global climate. The other 92.5% would roll on, impervious to the effort. And since CO2 is not 100% of the remaining 30% of the equation (more like 10%), a more realistic expectation is that all the suffering that would go into dropping CO2 levels by 25% would result in a less than 1% change in the forces driving our climate.

Clip Source: strata-sphere.com

It has been scientifically demonstrated that 70% of the Global Warming in the last century (and cooling in the last decade) is due to the Pacific Ocean Oscillations, not CO2:

One necessary result of low climate sensitivity is that the radiative forcing from greenhouse gas emissions in the last century is not nearly enough to explain the upward trend of 0.7 deg. C in the last 100 years.

On this issue, it can be shown with a simple climate model that small cloud fluctuations assumed to occur with two modes of natural climate variability — the El Nino/La Nina phenomenon (Southern Oscillation), and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation — can explain 70% of the warming trend since 1900, as well as the nature of that trend: warming until the 1940s, no warming until the 1970s, and resumed warming since then.

The gentlemen making this claim is the lead investigator one of NASA’s flagship Earth Observing Observatories

Tags: climate change, global warming, science, religion, politics

Bodypaint

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:11:38 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners

Clip Source: abduzeedo.com

Tags: painting, photography, art, bodypaint

Bitter Liberals - Check the Data; Conservatives are Happier

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:22:26 GMT

clipped by: esundby
clipper's remarks: I've always wondered why when debating liberals they immediately explode into expletives. Always on the edge of losing it without the capacity to listen to differing viewpoints. This link provides some insight.

Clip Source: www.post-gazette.com

Bitter liberals

Check the data; conservatives are happier

If Barack Obama read Karl Marx less, and Arthur Brooks more, he might not be in such hot water.

Mr. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, demonstrates, through the wealth of statistics in his new book, "Gross National Happiness," that conservatives are much happier than liberals. (In 2004, 44 percent of those who described themselves as "conservative" or "very conservative" told pollsters they were "very happy," compared to just 25 percent of those who described themselves as "liberal" or "very liberal.")

Nor does it have much to do with income, because conservatives are happier than liberals at all income levels. The happiness gap is due less to ideology than to two habits in which conservatives and liberals differ markedly.

Conservatives also give about 30 percent more to charity than liberals do, Prof. Brooks said. The difference between a philanthropist and a liberal is that a philanthropist is generous with his own money.

Images of Greece

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:06:26 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: byaki.net

Response to Iran Photoshopped Missle Launch

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:24:08 GMT

clipped by: Kelika

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Iran's propagandists aren't only ones who can photoshop a missile launch. We know how to do that on the intertubes, too. Here's an updated sample...

Dynamic Optical Illusions

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:10:00 GMT

clipped by: revenantdm
clipper's remarks: WOW!!! This is a great site with optical illusions that will make you doubt your own eyes... and all these came from the free page. The "more complex" illusions are advertised beyond a $3 Paypal donation... I liked this well enough to just imagine what was behind the Money Door!

Clip Source: www.skytopia.com

Dynamic Optical Illusions

Where nothing is as it seems.

Rotating dot whirlpool
Wow! Try staring at this for more than 5 seconds
without going crazy. Then try following it round! =)
Curves constantly die out and then re-evolve as
part of another curve.

A Bulge

Also created by Akiyoshi, the lines in this picture below are completely parallel would you believe?

Wheel of Confusion

Which way is the wheel turning!?

Focus on the red dots and follow them round... it appears to be rotating anti-clockwise. However, if you follow the yellow dots round instead, the whole wheel will be turning the other way! - clockwise!

Flickering Fog

stare intently at the red dot in the center of the left block for about a couple of minutes

Once you've done this, look over to the center of the right block. It should act weird - by fading out and 'flickering'. If you move your head closer and further from the monitor (while focussing in the center), you should see some interesting interference effects too

Tags: optical illusions, animation, gifs, visual, illusion

Wikipropaganda

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:37:14 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: I checked with Peiser, who said he had done no such thing. I then corrected the Wikipedia entry, and advised Peiser that I had done so.

Peiser wrote back saying he couldn’t see my corrections on the Wikipedia page. I made the changes again, and this time confirmed that the changes had been saved. But then, in a twinkle, they were gone again. I made other changes. And others. They all disappeared shortly after they were made.

Turns out that on Wikipedia some folks are more equal than others. Kim Dabelstein Petersen is a Wikipedia “editor” who seems to devote a large part of his life to editing reams and reams of Wikipedia pages to pump the assertions of global-warming alarmists and deprecate or make disappear the arguments of skeptics.

Holding the far more prestigious and powerful position of “administrator” is William Connolley. Connolley, a ruthless enforcer of the doomsday consensus, may be the world’s most influential person in the global warming debate after Al Gore.

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

I first noticed this when I entered a correction to a Wikipedia page on the work of Naomi Oreskes, author of the now-infamous paper, published in the prestigious journal Science, claiming to have exhaustively reviewed the scientific literature and found not one single article dissenting from the alarmist version of global warming.

Of course Oreskes’s conclusions were absurd, and have been widely ridiculed. I myself have profiled dozens of truly world-eminent scientists whose work casts doubt on the Gore-U.N. version of global warming. Following the references in my book The Deniers, one can find hundreds of refereed papers that cast doubt on some aspect of the Gore/U.N. case, and that only scratches the surface.

Naturally I was surprised to read on Wikipedia that Oreskes’s work had been vindicated and that, for instance, one of her most thorough critics, British scientist and publisher Bennie Peiser, not only had been discredited but had grudgingly conceded Oreskes was right.

Tags: wikipedia, global warming, lawrence solomon, "the deniers", extreme left perspective

Stuck in the arctic ice that doesn’t exist

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:56:31 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com

Cashing in on the panic that has set in with the help of some climate alarmists, tour operators like Quark Expeditions of Norwalk Connecticut are offering polar expeditions catering to that “see it before it’s gone” travel worry. One of them is in fact a trip though the Northwest Passage on a former Soviet Icebreaker called the Kapitan Khlebnikov which is a massive 24,000 horsepower Polar Class icebreaker

The ice master studies the mountains of white packed around the ship while the 24,000-horsepower diesel engines work at full throttle to open a path. The ship rises slowly onto the barrier of ice, crushes it and tosses aside blocks the size of small cars as if they were ice cubes in a glass. It creeps ahead a few metres, then comes to a halt, its bow firmly wedged in the ice. After doing this for two days, the ship can go no farther.

What irony.

ere we are, stuck in the ice, engines shut down, bridge deserted. Only time and tide can free us