Jeremy Raines
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LIFE: The Parisians - Hosted by Google
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"Alfred snapped this in 1963, at the climax of Guignol's "Saint George and the Dragon" in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. Just as the dragon is slain, some children cry out in a combination of horror and delight, while others are taken aback in shock. Every child is consumed with emotion, masterfully captured by Eisenstaedt's camera. These amazing photos are now blended into our Image Search results along with other images from across the web." - Kevin Fox
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Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition)
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It's funny to watch the idiots on these news shows saying that everything is going up and everyone should buy financials, and then ridiculing the one dissenting voice. - Paul Buchheit
You need to be either crazy or have a strong backbone, character and conviction to swim against the tide - interesting to see how Schiff opposed "popular" belief in the financial industry in such a vocal manner. Fav quote "... stay away from the financials, they're toxic ..." - Mustafa K. Isik
It's more then that - you need a perfect sense of timing. In let's say 2003 or 2004, it would have been absolutely right in theory, but deadly in practice. As John Maynard Keynes put it -- "the fundamentals can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." - Eugene
people are not smart, even the heroes with etched portraits in the wsj .. or as here, the tv talking heads ... we can only blame ourselves for not listening to our own minds .. after all, who makes them heroes? - Gregory Lent
It's amazing to see such luminaries as Arthur Laffer and Ben Stein being so wrong, yet it's not hard to see how Schiff was right: Without inflation, house values can only get so high before the avg. monthly payment exceeds the avg. monthly wage, and at that point people will have no choice but to default. From there, it's easy to predict that home equity will collapse, and so on. - Gabe
I wouldn't be taking any investment advice from Ben Stein. He doesn't even believe in evolution, why would he believe prices don't always go up? It'd be great to see these guys come back on tv and review what they said now. - Chris White
note Peter feels the recession will last "years." Oh boy. - Jason Kaneshiro
Surely recession will last "years" = depression? - Brian Sullivan
I kept saying the market going to tank since 200. I sold all my stocks at that time. My broker called me crazy. I should have shorted. I also think it will take years for the market to correct itself. There might be trading opportunities but I would not be investing unless Dow hits 6,000 And if we have banks defualting, 4,000 But I am not Peter, just a Troll. LMAO - Igor The Troll
Absolutely hilarious to hear the talking heads recommend Bear and Wamu. - Jason Kaneshiro
Brian, I think whether it is a depression is measured by how deep a recession is, rather than how long it lasts. Igor, you were around during the Roman Empire? :) - Chris White
In my other life! ;-) - Igor The Troll
As long as we don't consume so much crap, don't spend the money that we don't have via credit, and start saving real amounts of money, and start producing things of value, then the economy will start to come back. - jokrausdu
Whiplash... the quick interest rate hikes and uncontrolled gas prices are what jerked us into the ditch. The question is whether a new vehicle will be in order if we crash in early 2009. :) It could be one sad holiday season for retailers... and China. - Gus
jokrausdu is probably right, but it was saving too much that got us into this mess. Instead of spending all their money, the Chinese and Indians were saving it. Since interest rates were so low, they turned to mortgages as a safe, high-yield investment. Once all the safe mortgages ran out, they went to unsafe ones, causing all the trouble. - Gabe
america looks dumb from the asian perspective ... any disagreements? - Gregory Lent
It's a global economy Gregory. No one is immune. - Chris White
Laffer is putz - and the first clip is proof. - MikeAmundsen
I'd really like to see an interview with Laffer today where he's shown that clip and asked to justify his prickish behavior in the face of being 100% wrong. - Kevin Fox
guess i need to start keeping an eye on peter schiff! - MikeAmundsen
@Kevin Bloomberg Radio had a nice interview with Laffer recently. I think EconTalk has one as well. - Kevin D. White
Sanjeev: it sounds like either way it's China's fault. :) - Gabe
Seeing this guy's latest YouTube vids, he's now predicting food lines and martial law. I think part of his predictive accuracy has to do with a truly pessimistic perspective. Is there anyone in this new media climate who can provide counter-intuitive insight without a radical extremism? - Christopher Galtenberg
Christopher, how do you know it's wrong unless it doesn't happen? Things are much worse financially than most people think, and the financial media and government are continually optimistic. They've been saying for some time that things are at the bottom.... for a year. I don't know about martial law, but we may have food lines if unemployment goes over 10%. - Chris White
Ok, well, I'll just be quiet until everything happens. - Christopher Galtenberg
Actually I won't. Unlike that guy in the vid, I'll put my offer of a penny and my name, and I'll meet you back here in two years. No food lines, no martial law, no baskets of money needed to buy bread, even if unemployment hits 12%. Inflation is being mitigated by the crash in energy prices, and food productivity continues to increase. It would take a crash across most of the rest of the world, and American assets actually being considered safe (strong dollar), and $8 gallon/gas before food becomes that dear. As far as martial law... with Obama? No. And hyper-inflation? We're facing deflationary pressures now. Schiff was only right to a point, and we're reaching that point. - Christopher Galtenberg
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“The only way I'd go camping. ;)”
The only way I'd go camping. ;)
October 29 at 10:53 pm - Link
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA - Anna Haro
ahahahaa - Monique
Been there, done that. Many, many, many years ago, we brought computers to a week-long music festival just so we could play games. - Akiva Moskovitz
Switch that to someone else carrying all that and I'm there with you. - pea gives ♥ a bad name
Akiva, you went to burning man? Sweet! Tell all... - Pete Delucchi
Hah, no. It was a regional festival. - Akiva Moskovitz
That guy needs to ditch his eMachines and get a MacBook Air. - Louis Gray
What in the hell resolution is he running at? The IE icon takes up the entire screen. - Akiva Moskovitz
I wonder what battery he used... - Ming Tsai
He's writing "e"-mail - Morton Fox
Wow, that will produce some muscles ! - Ryo
.LOLz - .LAG
Wiindows Fit - Jemm
L ... O ... L - Mike Reynolds
LOL that would be my bf! - ♥Brandy Lea Photography♥
Dude. Get a Shuttle case at least. - Cyndy
Heavy pc and crt, ok, but the subwoofer too? You know how heavy those things are? This would work in space maybe. - Josh Haley
And I wonder where it's getting powered from. Is there an extension cord behind him, or maybe he's got a generator attached to his feet? - Costa Walcott
That shit needs a webcam. - Gabe Boisvert
But which way would it point? Or should there be two, one aimed at his face, and one on the visor of his hat, to see what he can see? - Ladybug Heather
It's a 'Trojan Horse'!! The hollowed out tower contains 8 Macbook Airs, 25 iPhones, a G1™[product placement by Google] and a handful of Newtons - just waiting to be deployed! - Micah Wittman
There is a distinct lack of cup holder. - Rochelle
True... where does the Mountain Dew go? Or coffee or Jolt Cola or whatever caffeinated substance he drinks? - Ladybug Heather
Rochelle: thats what the CD Drive tray is for. - Roberto Bonini
body builder geek :D - AbdO
hehe - Kamilah Gill
Hmm, needs more counter-balances on the front. Right now it's just a touch off-center. :D - i80and
amazing - johnpiercy
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Pacman Inspired Furniture ftw!
Pacman Inspired Furniture ftw!
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"Inspire me, now!" - Mona N. via Bookmarklet
I love it ! - PooMa
Me too! - Mona N.
Nice - Anna Haro
want. - .LAG
WANT! - Jesse Stay
yeah want WANT! - BeeLing
Just great! - Nice Fish Films
Uhm...some of those look kinda...freaky - ♫ Rahsheen™
On one hand WANT! On the other hand...I'm just not sure that I would be comfortable with my butt that close to Pac-Man's chomping mouth. - Joe Pierce
Joe - just put a (no homo) sign on your bum. ;) - Mona N.
Yeah...these would definitely cause a lot of "no homo"'s - ♫ Rahsheen™
note to self, first check friendfeed, then check GReader and don't share old stuff :p - Pascal
Hah, I wasn't even thinking about it like that, I was just thinking ya know...painful bite. - Joe Pierce
These are superb! - Kol Tregaskes
They are quality! - Joe Dawson (beta)
legit. :) - Mona N.
Cool! :D - Ron
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“Are viral emails evolved, or intelligently designed?”
September 21 at 12:28 am - Link
This is a serious question btw. I'm curious where these things come from. - Paul Buchheit
Clearly the mutations and inventions are not literally random (people are not just injecting random characters), but also clearly some are much more successful than others, and the successful ones create offshoots. So like Ruchira said, both intelligence and natural selection are at work. - ⓞnor
But I bet you are wondering the level at which intelligence is acting. Are there people who, through intuition and/or principled study, are much much better at crafting viral messages than you or I would be, or does most of the success come from random luck by people who are not much more clever than average, but who chanced on a combination of concept A, wording B, and seed population C that turned out to be successful? - ⓞnor
the important thing to realize is that in complex organic systems emergent behavior is continually evolving. what was viral y'day might not be viral today. Intelligently designed? virus loop = purpose/value = survival = strategically control scarce resource = intelligently design - ray
Some of them are really funny. Like this one: "Paris Hilton's V*g*na Bites Penguin" ... - Stuart Woodward
The commonality among virulent (in both senses of the word) political emails is that they reinforce your existing beliefs or opinions in a way which is novel to you. So you feel compelled to forward it to both the people who share your belief and people who you think may be compelled by this "new" evidence/argument/rhetoric. - Jeremy Raines
What do you mean by viral in this case? I'm assuming you don't mean chain letters... - xero
@xero, I was assuming chain letters were included, so now I don't know what Paul meant either. - Ruchira S. Datta
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“Population of Alaska = 683,478. Population of Santa Clara county = 1,837,075. Number of people employed by Walmart = 2,100,000. Things I learned on Wikipedia today.”
August 29 at 3:09 pm - Link
I bet Alaska has more moose, though. - Bret Taylor
It turns out that the plural of "moose" is not "meese" as Paul would have had me believe. - Bret Taylor
yeah everyone knows that "meese" is plural for "mouse." ;) - grant
@Bret Taylor and more moose burgers as Palin can attest.http://bit.ly/3M7rS3 - MikeAmundsen
Random I was just checking out clips on YouTube of moose attacking cars hahaha!! - Joe Dawson (beta)
Moose burgers are really good. So is caribou stew and reindeer sausage. *mouth waters* - Jill, Superhero Librarian
It may look funny, but moose can be really mean. And they are really big. People get hurt in AK every year by moose stomping. Don't get between a mama moose and her calf. - Jill, Superhero Librarian
I was once bitten by a moose... - Scott Loganbill via twhirl
Population of Delaware = 853,476. Divided by 2 = 426,738. - ⓞnor
I heard that Meese only attacked cars that he felt were deviating from the road that the founding fathers intended: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... - Kevin Fox
I would be more excited about the GOP ticket if McCain had chosen Michael Palin. - Bill Sodeman
"i hate meese-es to pieces!" - MikeAmundsen
check this out: [http://bit.ly/2myoBn] "Cover Girl" Palin vs. ".50 Caliber" Palin hmm.... - MikeAmundsen
Mike: I'm not voting for her but that is totally badass! - Occasional Headbanger
I'm sure the santa clara G(county)P is also miles above Alaska's - anna awesomesauce
Andrew Burd: reminds me a bit of Dukakis in 1988: [http://bit.ly/BO8iZ] (same year Biden dropped out for plagarism). - MikeAmundsen
Kinda puts things in perspective. - Jeff P. Henderson
Paul, what are the similar figures for revenue for Alaska vs Walmart vs Santa Clara - Rob Schonberger
Wal-Mart reported in January 2006 that its health insurance only covers 43% of their employees. http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/f... http://www.slate.com/id/208953... - Indio Apache via twhirl
Bret and Paul. You two are having too much fun. I'm from Maine. We have plenty of moose up here also. - Alex Hammer
population of namibia 2,074,000 ...walmart has more people employed than population of about 20 countries..OMG - Varun Mahajan
if you like that kind of data checkout www.daatum.com - Ian
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What TSA really stands for
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Ahhh - the tools of the 21st century terrorist. Keep America free at 4 ozs or less. - Tad, Fool
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Incredible Trees Of The Sotra Islands -- Yemen
Incredible Trees Of The Sotra Islands -- Yemen
Incredible Trees Of The Sotra Islands -- Yemen
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The islands are named the Socotra Islands, actually. from wikipedia: Socotra is considered the "jewel" of biodiversity in the Arabian sea.[2] The long geological isolation of the Socotra archipelago and its fierce heat and drought have combined to create a unique and spectacular endemic flora (which may, therefore, be vulnerable to introduced species such as goats and to climate change). Surveys have revealed that more than a third of the 800 or so plant species of Socotra are found nowhere else. Botanists rank the flora of Socotra among the ten most endangered island flora in the world. The archipelago is a site of global importance for biodiversity conservation and a possible center for ecotourism. - Cee Bee
Wow, I love it! Like visiting an alien planet! - zoblue (Zulema)
really great ......i love it. it worth ten like per min - Arash
These remind me of the baobabs in Madagascar. I've had a photo of those as my home computer wallpaper for months and they're so freaking awesome I don't know if I can ever bear to take them down. I love weird trees. - Kamilah Gill
Very alien like. - Nick Munson
WOW. so lovely! - edythe
Zangarmarsh! - Mattb4rd
LOVE. Making a note to visit. - Ayşe E.
Visiting Yemen again is on my bucket list. It's an incredible country. - Kevin
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"Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are involved in immune response and other functions, and the best mates are those that have different MHC smells than you. The new study reveals, however, that when women are on the pill they prefer guys with matching MHC odors....The pill puts a woman's body into a hormonally pregnant state (the reason she doesn't ovulate), and during that time there would be no reason to seek out a mate. "When women are pregnant there's no selection pressure, evolutionarily speaking, for having a preference for genetically dissimilar odors," Roberts said. "And if there is any pressure at all it would be towards relatives, who would be more genetically similar, because the relatives would help those individuals rear the baby." " - bob via Bookmarklet
Past studies have suggested couples with dissimilar MHC genes are more satisfied and more likely to be faithful to a mate. And the opposite is also true with matchng-MHC couples showing less satisfaction and more wandering eyes. "Not only could MHC-similarity in couples lead to fertility problems," said lead researcher Stewart Craig Roberts, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Newcastle in England, "but it could ultimately lead to the breakdown of relationships when women stop using the contraceptive pill, as odor perception plays a significant role in maintaining attraction to partners." - bob
Wow. Reminds me of the article about ovulating strippers getting better tips . . . I wonder if they ever figured that one out. - Jeremy Raines
"So the pill puts a woman's body into a post-mating state, even though she might be still in the game. " - Clare Dibble
Oh, so that's why I'm single? - Jim Norris
Subtley saying "Don't take the pill (have sex) before marriage or you'll end up divorced." Very impressive, really. - Erica Baker
ha! +1 Jim - Raymond
ha, ha! +2 Erica - Steve Craft
@Erica, this appears to be actual science, though. - j1m
I thought this had been known for a long time (at least a decade). - Amit Patel
I gotta... show this to my girl - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
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August 12 at 12:04 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I hate to say it, but I agree with most of this. Neilsen's advice tends to be more tactical and -- at times -- anecdotal, and his website has extremely poor scanability The information layout is terrible. Norman, on the other hand, gives clearly written advice on how to *think* about design, helping you be a better designer rather than just a better implementor. - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet
I've subscribed to Nielsen's weekly e-mail newsletter for years. I can't recall any anecdotal recommendations at all. He is meticulous about backing up his tactics with data. As for the site design, I'm just a civilian, but I find it very legible. (Much easier to read than, say, the gray color used in this comment on FriendFeed.com!) - Stephen Mack
The blog post you link to is discussing this page: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/... -- just curious, but why is the information layout terrible? Breadcrumbs, site nav, headlines, summaries -- seems very easy to scan and read to me. - Stephen Mack
I should be a little clearer. I don't mean anecdotal as in 'Boo.com uses flash in this way and it sucks don't do it' (though there is some of that) but more 'This very specific UI practice is bad' as opposed to Norman's more holistic discussions of UI principles. I don't want to sound too harsh though. I use his Heuristic Evaluation hit list all the time and it's extremely valuable, but again it's on a tactical level. - Kevin Fox
As for the information design, the typography is inelegant. It feels very pushy with text either being very dense or VERY BOLD. The leading isn't used to tie the bold headings with their content, but rather to just make them stand out more. The use of Verdana and interspersed bold terms invites people to skim and just pick out the buzzwords as a way of finding the piece they're looking for, which is fine in some cases but not for essays where one would assume there's something to be gained from the narrative flow of the piece. The design speaks to the largest problem of Nielsen in the world, which is that people anecdotally say things like 'Don't use serifs on the web because Nielsen said so.' They say this because this kind of bulletpoint is all they absorb from a layout that fosters this behavior. - Kevin Fox
@Stephen Mack: the font is rather large and not pretty, and the line spacing is all scrunched. That post could also have benefited from some anchored links. It is not horrible, but certainly not aesthetically pleasing. - LauraBrarian
To be clear, I think Jakob is brilliant and I respect him a great deal. What I'm saying is that his own site suffers from the same problem that, for example, DMV parking lots do: If you're an expert and try to apply every rule you advocate in one place, the result is often the opposite of what your expertise implies. Check out the useit.com home page and imagine it from a first-time visitor's perspective. - Kevin Fox
if he was to make a winamp skin -> http://www.kottke.org/00/02/di... - AJ Batac
=kfury. I like friendfeed comment grey (part of the original btaylor design, I think), but I think it's just on the edge of being a problem, depending on your eyes and your screen. I feel like the grey plays an important role in the page flow, but when my screen is full of the comments from a single item (as it is for this one) I don't like it as much. But I don't have any better ideas. - ⓞnor
Sorry but that blog post only contains a single sentence of actual specific criticism, the rest being general remarks which are impossible to discuss because they lack an actual point. Here's that single sentence for reference: "I looked at the bulleted list of the top sites, and the bold cramped disorganized looking type starting each bullet, and I could not bear it." I think an in-depth usability rundown of useit.com would be interesting though. As for that single point of criticism, I think some spacing - Philipp Lenssen
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EXILED ONLINE - MANKIND’S ONLY ALTERNATIVE » War Nerd: South Ossetia, The War of My Dreams - By Gary Brecher
August 11 at 1:02 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"There are three basic facts to keep in mind about the smokin’ little war in Ossetia: 1. The Georgians started it. 2. They lost. 3. What a beautiful little war! Saakashvili just didn’t think it through. One reason he overplayed his hand is that he got lucky the last time he had to deal with a breakaway region: Ajara, a tiny little strip of Black Sea coast in southern Georgia. This is a place smaller than some incorporated Central Valley towns, but it declared itself an “autonomous” republic, preserving its sacred basket-weaving traditions or whatever. You just have to accept that people in the Caucasus are insane that way; they’d die to keep from saying hello to the people over the next hill, and they’re never going to change." - bob via Bookmarklet
nice read - gumbit
Excellent commentary and superb antidote to the neoconservative propaganda currently flooding the MSM. Georgia's invasion of South Ossetia, which triggered this mess, was a big mistake. - Sean McBride
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World's Most Bizarre Statues
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August 7 at 3:39 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
HAHAHAHAHAH - Mona N.
wow! nice. love that Optimus Prime. - ~C4Chaos
love the shark one - Jessie
The shark one is my favourite, - Mark Wilson
All hail Optimus - Mo Kargas
Sometimes I feel like the first one. - Michael Tefft
cooool! - Anna Haro
I for one welcome our new Autobot overlords. - Steven Perez
Why do I look like the man with the briefcase most days? - Mike Cornell
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Lightning in slow motion
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Wonder why the last lightning stayed there... hmmm - AJ Batac
The "last lightning" is actually the main stroke, and the only part we would normally see. - ⓞnor
Discharging a volume of air takes a few 100 milliseconds sometimes. - John Lam
Extremely awesome. Stuff like this is what should be forwarded in those chain letters full of jokes. - possible248
I so miss lightning! I was surprised that the electricity went both down the bolt as well as up it. I thought it only did one or the other. - Rachel Lea Fox
Some day, I would really like to visit http://www.lightningfield.org/. - ⓞnor
Interesting. How often does lightning strike there? possible248, the is the 2008 equivalent of a chain letter, I've seen it 3x on ff so far and I'm less than half way down the first page. - j1m
That's one high-speed camera... - Voyagerfan5761 via twhirl
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August 6 at 1:11 pm - Link
Interesting collection. - Justin Korn
I'm big on colours, so I love this collection. - Cecily
These look awesome together. - Ole Begemann
...beautiful - "Czar" DJ Peterman
sew 'em together and make a quilt! - Stephen Shelton
delineated, segregated, yet collaborative. Like crema and espresso. - Mattb4rd
very nice collors - Monique
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August 6 at 3:20 pm - Link
[via Jenna] Oy. - Kevin Fox
Heh. Love the uterus argument. - Raoul Pop
Gotta love a parent with a sense of humor! That was great. - Cyrus Lendvay
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Stereoscopic Parking Garage
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Stereoscopic Parking Garage
August 2 at 11:44 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
awesome! - ※Fu※
Optics rule. - Vezquex இ
wow! - Anna Haro
Very cool! - Jonathan (Bad Robot)
that's cool! - Oli Kenobi
incredible!! - Susan Beebe
fun, but is it really a good idea to put optical illusions in a parking garage? - Robin Barooah
This is the same tower that has an observation cube that slides out the side of the building and then turns the switchable windows off - http://www.skydeck.com.au/ - Bryce
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Kevin Fox posted a link
A political foray (a poster for John McCain)
August 1 at 9:58 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
After Obama wins, I want one of these that says, wait for it... FAIL - ha3rvey
Love it! That poster pretty much sums up the entire GOP right now (and for the last 8 years) - Tad, Fool
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20 Most Incredible Light Phenomena - Ice & Water Refractions [Environmental Graffiti - 7/22/08]
20 Most Incredible Light Phenomena - Ice & Water Refractions [Environmental Graffiti - 7/22/08]
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(1) Iridescent Clouds - When the sun is positioned at precisely the correct angle behind clouds water droplets in them diffract light away, creating an intense streaking effect. The colouring is, like a rainbow, caused by the differing wavelengths of the light – different wavelengths are diffracted to different degrees, altering the angle of diffraction and consequently the colour of the light as it is perceived. In this image cloud iridescence is accompanied by a sharply coloured ranbow. - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet