Copycat

Okay, before you think you’re clever and rename it as a you-know-what, there’s more to this picture than you think. We’re talking Zen convergence.

The modern copy machine owes it’s existence to cat fur and Chester Carlson. Never heard of him? I’ll make it easy for you.  Click here.

[Image found here.]

25 April – ANZAC DAY


Here’s to all the diggers.

Using letters, diaries and photographs, The Sunday Age recounts events through the eyes of the diggers who battled on amid despair and death. Jonathan King reports.

APRIL – THE LANDING

The great challenge for the Anzacs on April 25 was to land at Anzac Cove against formidable opposition from the Turks and then dig in. We are now within a mile of the shore and the din has increased… the whole side of the mountains seems to be sending forth tongues of flame and the bullets fairly rain upon us… the water is churned up from rifle fire, machine-guns, Maxims, shrapnel and common shells… seven of the boys in our boat are killed and God knows how many in the others.

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One Easter Egg

A Kosovo Serb peels an Easter egg during an Orthodox Easter service in a fire-gutted Serbian church, burned in 2004 by ethnic Albanians, in Mitrovica, 40 kilometres (30 miles) north of the Kosovo capital Pristina, April 5, 2010.

[More great images, including this one, from here. The history of the Easter Egg may be found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Zappa, The Ink Spots, Iron Butterfly, Rare Earth & Satchmo

Earth Day has come and gone, and dang, I missed it. To make up for it, let’s run with the theme.

It would be different if I didn’t care, but I don’t want to set the world on fire.

Yep. In the Garden of Eden. On drugs.

That’s a rare Rare Earth vid. Now, to find one more video to round out the set… okay. I got it.

One of the prettiest songs ever written. Happy Easter and have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for more fun.

The .Gif Friday Post No.172 – Kraken 1, Kraken 2 & Dual-Exhaust Ungulate With After Burners

[Found here, here and here.]

Steam Powered Flying Breasts

This makes perfect sense on some level that I’m not aware of. Here’s a bit of trivia: The name manatee is an English corruption of “manatí”  from the language of the Taíno, a pre-Columbian people of the Caribbean.

Manatí” means “breast” in Taíno, hence the titillating title.

[Found here.]

“Wow, Giant Isopod, Did You See That?”

[Original image found here. More giant isopods here and here. ]

We Heard You Were Coming

Obvious inspiration for someone whose initials are Walt Disney.

[Found here.]

Caracoles

There once was a girl

With a little yellow curl

Right in the middle of her forehead.

And when she was good,

She was very, very good;

But when she was bad, she had snails all over her face.

[Original image found here. Doctored image courtesy of Eliana.]

Donut Queen

She’s got so much hair it’s blocked out all the sunlight. Good thing she got a tetanus shot, too.

[Found here.]