Thursday, March 31, 2005
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Tribal fair
Indian tribal people cling on to a vehicle to attend a tribal fair in Kavant village. The fair attracts large numbers of tribal people from surrounding districts who use every imaginable form of transport to get there.
Shall we dance?
American film star Richard Gere holds the hands of Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and prepares to dance at the Prime Minister's official residence in Tokyo March 29, 2005. Gere is in Tokyo to promote his latest film, "Shall We Dance?", a Hollywood version of the Japanese hit movie of the same title.(Reuters)
Friday, March 25, 2005
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Futures
Damon Federighi shouts orders in the euro dollar futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The Fed pushed its key interest rate up by a quarter-point to 2.75 %.(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Transparent screens
Transparent screen illusion: set laptop's wallpaper to a photo of the wal behind it. Seen @ Boing Boing.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Makasi
Critically endangered infant bonobo, named Makasi, explores his outdoor enclosure for the first time as he is slowly integrated with a bonobo troop at the San Diego Zoo.
See no evil
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi jokes with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a group photo at the Arab League summit in Algiers. A two-day Arab summit opened in Algiers on Tuesday with a plan to relaunch a peace initiative agreed in 2002 but described by Israel as a non-starter.(Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Monday, March 21, 2005
Friday, March 18, 2005
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Office space
A lot of Pixar animators decided early on that they didn’t want cubicles, so instead, Pixar found these groovy little cottages that they bought for them. Walking through the animation department is like walking through a neighborhood for dwarves. Lots of little houses laid out along “streets,” each one with an address on the door. Seen @ BoingBoing.
Desktops for Attu
I stole this picture from one of the many desktop screenshots that Attu's visitors sent him. Check out the (still growing) collection here.
Pr0n mountain
An Indonesian worker checks pornography VCDs and pirated software at the police headquarter in Jakarta. Police destroyed more than 60,000 pornography VCDs and pirated software and detained 98 people who took part in illegal sales in the Indonesian capital, police said.(Reuters/Beawiharta)
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Freezing water
Swimmer Karim Diab stands in freezing water in the Moskva River in Moscow. His trainer said the purpose of the action was to study the effects of long exposure in icy water.(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
True fan
A lone soccer fan stands to listen to the Turkish national anthem before a Turkish 2nd soccer division category B match between Izmirspor and Nazilli Belediyespor. The game drew a small number of spectators as the teams played in front of empty stands.
Monday, March 14, 2005
Riding the coffin
"David and I were driving down the Ventura Freeway in Sherman Oaks and saw this hotrod shaped like a coffin. I pulled my camera out of my pocket and David snapped the pics." Seen @ Boing Boing, permalink.