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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Sunday afternoon, last day of July 2011



way to go Burger King




political party, click to animate

cool storm
rainy night, click to animate


tender story

diy bidet (I want one!)
Titanic





swift justice

watermelon shark

divers



infectious disease toy, click to animate
oops




Wednesday, July 27, 2011

still bedbug bitten but enjoying the summer, July 27 2011

amazing to think about
reborn


cutout eyelashes for sale 



summer beach, click to animate
starry night, click to animate

last week 

melting dog

how lighting works

excellent description



Bought these vintage Audubon flash cards
of my childhood today from MissHettie
A.J. Hateley Expands Gaming Worlds With Vintage Book Covers


oops. it's ok to just get back up



Chinese soldiers helping out during a flood

so true

 Brando Tahitian Dancing via Everlasting Blort


Cat and Iguana are Unlikely Friends

Cat Battles Toy Frog!

Sometimes things look totally hopeless but they're not
of death to having a full and happy life.




Friday, July 22, 2011

Friday late July, sweltering in Hell's Kitchen


Carpet Cat to the rescue!
-click to animate-




The terrible news of the day: the Oslo terrorist attacks.


 Eyescapes.

MetaFilter thread on Eyescapes.
Eyescapes by Rankin [nsfw].

Rankin's home site [flash], his Wikipedia entry.

The anatomy of the iris l Crypts of Fuchs Pupillary ruff l Contraction furrows l pigment dots l color scale l Wolfflin nodules factor structure

Eye color, or more correctly, iris color is due to...

The visible features of an iris arise in the trabeculum, a meshwork of connective tissue that displays arching ligaments, cryptscontraction furrows, a corona and pupillary frill,coloration, and sometimes freckles. The striated anterior layer covering the trabecular meshwork creates the predominant texture seen with visible light (see examples here), but all of these sources of radial and angular variation taken together constitute a distinctive "fingerprint" that can be imaged from some distance.

Wondering about Elizabeth Taylor's "violet eyes" I found these images. Looks like she has some of that Waardenburg syndrome with a patch of hazel, which is called sectoral heterochromia(Wikipedia). There's a central heterochomia as well.



Your beautiful eyes







EYES THAT TELL STORIES






Thursday, July 21, 2011

mid bedbug ordeal, apartment plastic bagged in heaps July 21 2011

Mesmerizing impressionist, Jim Meskimen, does Richard III very well in many celeb voices


MP3 Rocket, a handy tool for uploading YouTube 
videos to one's mp3 player.


Painful to think of what a hard journey it's been

contented

ghost eggs

Dog nose pendants made by hand as jewelry

dogs have color blindness/limitation


wish people had better cellphone manners
and consideration of others

When I was a kid in the mid-60's I had a set of these cards.
What didactic 'toys' were you given?

Yearned for a science kit as a kid.

Vintage toys.