Picture of a sandstorm approaching in Iraq and Carbon Offsetting

This is a Featured Picture in Wikipedia. "Cheatneutral" is a funny piss-take of carbon-offsetting. You pay via them for someone to "not cheat" in order to offset your cheating. Offset your guilt!

Flying People Photos

The World Press Photo Contest has some cool pictures of people flying through the air - it's dance!

Edit photos online

This is a cool idea; you can edit your images online at this website. You don't need photo-editing software and you can work with your flikr pictures. It's only in beta so far and it's only got basic controls, but it looks cool. Mac / PC ads are all around now, but I found a Japanese one that looks cool - Domo

Pictures of New York People

These pictures are very New York

Cheeky Boys Help Dad With Painting the House

If you're a parent you've been there (well not always that far!). Satellite Navigation is becoming popular and apparently people are trusting it too implicitly. There have been crashes reported in Germany and the UK and people making unsafe turns, because "the satnav told me to".

Adult wii news

There's an interesting story on the Opposable Thumbs site about how a porn site has added a "wii-friendly interface". It would be cool to have other ways of working with a website than a keyboard and mouse. You need a lot more room with a wii though. Here's a nice article on neatorama called "13 Photographs that Changed the World".

Velcro Photo

Here's an amazing picture of velcro being pulled apart, magnified hugely. Wikipedia have a map showing countries that have the Death Penalty and those that don't.

Photos Hangovers

Some nice photos of South Africa from a helicopter and a nice close-up of an insect (don't know what though). A good explanation of hangovers and hangover cures from the How Stuff Works website. They say the medical term for hangover, veisalgia, derives from the Norwegian word kveis, which means "uneasiness following debauchery", and algia, which is Greek for pain.

Xbox and Wii Madness Road Painter

Waaah! Everybody is getting XBox 360s! Oh, and Wii madness is about to hit. This will change the way people use these games; I think they're very keen to get all sorts of new audiences involved (hence the range of different players in those videos). Apparently since the launch of the wii in Britain "Nintendo wii" has overtaken iPod as the most searched for toy. There's a review of the Wii here on the Register site with comments from readers (one has invented a new word - here comes the wiikend!).
Update: Looks like the wii is beating the Sony Playstation 3 in early sales in Japan. Another clip on the Daily Feed says that the Wii has sold 3.19 million consoles, half the total sales of Xbox 360s so far.
This is either the work of a sublimely indifferent road painter, or a Bhuddist road-painter (could they be the same person?)

Shoe Bomber

An article about the daily life of Richard Reid, the "Shoe Bomber" in a maximum security prison in the US. The Open Document Format is announced; see the Wired article. I posted a link previously to a lovely picture of a snowflake and now I've found some more at a website dedicated to snow crystal photography and research. There's also a "snow crystal primer" with interesting points about snow formation.

pipes, aircraft carrier, dice, storms

Great picture of some pipes. This is an aircraft carrier in a pond in China. The World is revealed through Google Maps! Apparently "Dice Stacking" is a skill that requires some dexterity. Looks pretty difficult! Flickr gallery of storm shots. Very dramatic

Cat's Tongue Who Wants to be a Millionaire

Amazing picture of a cat's tongue. Slashdot programmers' slip-up which meant you couldn't post comments for a while. A contestant on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" uses his Phd "Cognitive and Neuro-Science" (or Psychology) skills to help him win the $1 Million prize. Great invention but I don't want to talk about it!

Sculpture, Photoshop, Real Beauty

Cool (or not!) sculpture by the beach. This is a sculpture of a tree made from a book. Photoshop tutorial that goes through age-reducing techniques (not excercise and healthy eating!). That reminded me of this Flash Movie from the Dove Campaign For Real Beauty that I'd seen before but not bothered to share for some reason

Singing Drive Thru'

Funny set of pictures that are not what they seem. Some guys decide to do a special kind of order at a McDonalds drive thru. The Story of the Mac (Apple Mac) with accompanying posters

Storm Beautiful Advertisements

Amazing storm chaser pictures Beautiful shot of a snowflake Story of Friendster, the social networking site that was overtaken by MySpace. Creative Advertisements from different countries.

"At Least Dogs Are Not Pigs Like Cats Are"

One night in the pub discussing the old question "Cats or Dogs", my friend Heather came up with this priceless gem. Actually now she has a cat. But what is this dog thinking?

Two Good looking photo sites

I recently found these and they have consistently good images. Bluejake is based in New York and daily dose of imagery is in Toronto. I think they both have a warmth that you don't always see, they're always (the ones I've seen) in colour and they are both interested in daily life. That's good enough for me!