The King is Back! More From the Anal-Retentive Pencil Tip Sculptor « How-To News Yes, that's Elvis Presley. Yes, that's a pencil tip. Yes, that's simply...insane. The Telegraph shares more work from the incredible Dalton Ghetti. "Dalton uses three basic tools to make his incredible creations - a razor blade, sewing needle and sculpting knife. So Dalton's a purist. Prepare to have your mind boggled: Previously, Anal-Retentive Miniscule Pencil Tip Carvings. Top 30 best free games you should play today 26. Wing Commander Saga A stunning fan-sequel to one of the PC's most beloved space simulators. 27. Populous returns in Reprisal - a gorgeous pixel-art reinvention. 28. Lead the ancient civilisation of your choice to glory in this free-to-play version of the classic series. 29. Online RPGs have never been so streamlined, or so insane. When you die, you die for good... but Realm of the Mad God is so fast that rolling a new character and jumping back in from the start is no real hardship. 30. DOTA style strategy meets first-person shooters in this free-to-play sequel. Easily the best part, though, is that each game is narrated. 31. Create a hero and leap into action in the streets of Gotham and Metropolis, either backing up the Batman or signing up with your favourite super-villains. 32. Descend if you dare into a vision of Victorian London abducted by a swarm of bats and moved to the edge of Hell. 33. 34. Spelunky is about anger, hate and, most of all, death. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41.
Bettie Page, FBI Consultant APRIL 12--Though J. Edgar Hoover's minions often probed the interstate transportation of obscene material featuring Bettie Page, the notorious pin-up model was nonetheless willing to help agents when it came to FBI inquiries about the production of certain 'flagellation and bondage pictures,' according to bureau records. When a 1957 police drug raid on a Harlem apartment turned up a cache of obscene magazines and photos, paddles, a riding crop, a whip, and lengths of chain, rawhide, and rope, FBI agents contacted Page for some expert guidance. According to this memo sent to Hoover, Page told investigators that she 'had never heard of that type of photography being made in Harlem.' The seized porn, which included 'two books and four pictures depicting Betty Page in various poses,' was shipped to Washington for 'examination' by the FBI Laboratory, according to a second memo.
Ten games that make you think about life At the start of this year, we decided to come up with a list of Flash casual games with a philosophical bent. To be honest, we struggled. After days of research, we could only find a handful of games that had the thought-provoking depth we were looking for. Our list (which you can view by clicking here) was therefore only five games long. Fast forward to now, and it is remarkable how much difference a few months can make. In a wonderful twist, it seems it is the Flash gaming space - until now known more for the throwaway nature of its games rather than depth - that is leading the way in this exciting new area of gaming, as we hope the following games prove. One you have finished playing these games, check out our follow-up lists: Ten More Games That Make You Think About Life and Another 20 Games That Make You Think About Life. 1Immortall The game starts with you crash landing on a planet. 2Loved 3I Can Hold My Breath Forever 4The Company of Myself 5Coma 6Loondon 7I Wish I Were the Moon
Caught on camera: The stunning moment Venus peeps out from behind crescent Moon after eclipse By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 17:11 GMT, 17 May 2010 A rare celestial show unfolded this evening as Venus was eclipsed by the crescent Moon. Known to astronomers as planetary occultation, the phenomenon was observed in the twilight sky when the Moon came between Venus and the Earth. An occultation is an event that happens when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer. Occultation: Venus appears on the other side of the moon having just been eclipsed by the satellite Venus eclipses are rare and occur only when the Earth, Moon and Venus are in alignment with one another. During spring time, Venus shines brightly, and as these photos show, Venus appears as a bright object before it disappears behind the moon and then reappears on the other side in a game of celestial hide-and-seek. 'The show begins at sunset when Venus and the moon emerge from the twilight in close proximity to one another,' NASA said in a public advisory.
40 Stunning Photos of Beautiful Clouds Clouds are the noble contributor for awesome photos. Have a look at these following photos: #1, #2, #3, and #4. They are some of the really great examples of natural portraits taken by professional photographers and as you can see, in each of every photo, the clouds defines or deliver the dramatic effect. Moving on, clouds comes in various forms and some can only be seen in certain weather and places. Taking a decent photo of beautiful cloud is no easy task. (Image source: prelovac) Here, with great attempts we collected various stunning photographs of clouds. Beautiful Clouds Below are the first part of the showcase where we sorted beautiful clouds. Purple smoke. Loch Tree Clouds Reflections. The other side of the clouds. Sky. Bohol Beach Club. Black Clouds And Dreams. Above the clouds. Just morning. Winter dream on christmas eve. Before The Storm. Breadth. Giant cloud. Storm In Whistler, Bc, Canada. Long Jetty Cloud Reflection. n/a I See Light. Voices of Solitude. Rare Clouds Fury.
Null Hypothesis | Magenta Ain't A Colour You should have seen a green afterimage, but why is this significant? The afterimage always shows the colour that is complementary to the colour of the image. Complementary colours are those that are exact opposites in the way the eye perceives them. It is a common misconception that red is complementary to green. All the colours in the light spectrum have complements that exist within the spectrum – except green. When our eyes see colours, they are actually detecting the different wavelengths of the light hitting the retina. This means that colours only really exist within the brain – light is indeed travelling from objects to our eyes, and each object may well be transmitting/reflecting a different set of wavelengths of light; but what essentially defines a ‘colour’ as opposed to a ‘wavelength’ is created within the brain. If the eye receives light of more than one wavelength, the colour generated in the brain is formed from the sum of the input responses on the retina.
10 Most Fascinating Castles and Palaces - Oddee.com (castles of the world, malbork castle) The Potala Palace: Tibet's greatest monumental structure Perched upon Marpo Ri hill, 130 meters above the Lhasa valley, the Potala Palace rises a further 170 meters and is the greatest monumental structure in all of Tibet. In 637 Emperor Songtsen Gampo decided to build this palace on a hill, and the structure stood until the seventeenth century, when it was incorporated into the foundations of the greater buildings still standing today. Mont Saint-Michel: a Medieval Castle on a Small Island Mont St Michel France is situated on a quasi-island on the Normandy coast, near Brittany, which at high tide is almost entirely separated from the mainland. Predjamski Castle: Integrated in a Cave Every castle in the world is unique in some way, no two are the same, but this one --even though it's rather small and humble compared to some-- is probably the only one in the world who is integrated in a cave, precisely the second largest cave system in Slovenia.