The end of a rabbit

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Cool picture of a young and smooth Obama

The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) - The Big Picture
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1.6% of climbers die

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Excellent set of photos of the Greek riots

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Rant about IE and standards
Funny blog posting ranting about how IE sucks at following web standards and how that hurts the rest of us

Image evolution
A very cool program that evolves an approximation of the Mona Lisa using only 50 polygons. Very cool. I wish I had more time...

American car company bailout poster
Very funny poster mocking the bailout of American car companies that are run badly and probably don't deserve a bailout

Python Tutorials (more than 300)
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The Phelps Surge - Great photo from underwater
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ANC Secretary General: 'COPE paid to destroy ANC'
Gwede Mantashe claims that COPE is a group of ANC members who are being paid by "Afrikaaners" and other counter-revolutionary forces to weaken the ANC. These are the MORONS running our country.

Congo's crisis worsens - The Big Picture
Another excellent photo essay from the Big Picture guys. Pretty heart-wrenching stuff from Congo

Venice under water - The Big Picture
Venice recently flooded but everyone just carried on with life - wading around. Nice photo essay

Posted May 7, 2008

I like this photo. At first I didn’t realise what was going on, but it shows the tracks of a rabbit moving across some snow when BAM an owl nails it. You can see the wings of the attacking bird imprinted in the snow - and no more rabbit tracks…