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Creeping closer inch by inch – 900ft above the mighty Colorado River – the two sides of a £160million bridge at the Hoover Dam in America slowly take shape. The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which can be seen twisting and winding around and across the dam itself. When complete, it will provide a new link between the states of Nevada and Arizona. In an incredible feat of engineering, the road will be supported on the two massive concrete arches which jut out of the rock face. The arches are made up of 53 individual sections – each 24ft long – which have been cast on-site and are being lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons. - Emma from Bookmarklet

sasasa - Aanchal Magazine

"Whenever a message in a bottle is discovered on a beach or floating in the ocean, it feels like something out of a fairy tale. The idea that two people have made a connection that mathematics would say is virtually impossible gives us hope that life is more than a series of random events. Here are five stories of the almost unbelievable connections these messages have brought about." - M F from Bookmarklet

I've never seen it yet! I'll check it!! - lumiere

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"A network of floating docks could harness clean energy for New York City and provide new space for parks, researchers now propose. Each dock could generate power off the city's river currents. Three vertical turbines fastened out of sight to the underside of each station would harness the 4 mph currents, with each module generating up to 24 kilowatts of constant energy from the Hudson and East Rivers. These stations would plug into the conventional piers of the city, extending them into the rivers. They could alleviate the need for conventional power to light the city streets, with each module supporting 350 LED streetlamps. These docks could eventually get extended further up the rivers to both generate power and increase recreational green space and tidal pools for wildlife, said researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and at GRO Architects in New York. They currently have a provisional patent on the idea. The designers came up with the concept as an entry for this year's Metropolis Magazine Next Generation Design Competition." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

""If you think historically, cities developed around waterways based on a need for trade," Garber said. "As trading changed, the need for water as a preexisting requirement for urban development went away. What's funny is that all of a sudden, water can become uber-important again in terms of development." At the heart of the proposal, the researchers want to reinforce the relationship between the city and its rivers and help reclaim access to its 578 miles of waterfront." - RAPatton

Disney is forever synonymous with cartoons and animation, and while the recent Pixar films (Pixar is owned by Disney) have gathered critical acclaim, they’re still a far cry from some of the best Anime movies ever made. During the late 80s and the 90s, Anime went from a niche viewership that was rarely available in the Western world, to almost mainstream it is today, mainly because of a few films that changed the way the Western audience looked at animes. Here are ten anime movies that surpass virtually anything Disney has made, including the Pixar films. - Bluesun 2600

As soon as I saw Grave of The Fireflies, Goosebumps arose all over my body. Such a powerful/beautiful movie in both the animation and its message. I say it goes on par with Stevens Spielberg "Schindler List". - Ricardo Lozano

HOLY CRAP these tattoos LOL!! - Mona Nomura

This book is available for the Kindle. Seems like the pictures would be the main draw, and I don't find that the Kindle is all that great for pictures, at least illustrations. Anyone have the Kindle version want to comment? - Andy Bakun

List your pages here: #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

I started stumbling back in 2003, http://morgaine.stumbleupon.com/ is my main profile. It used to be small and friendly and fun. Started to like it less when they sold the service. Then Soup came around. Still using it, but mostly to keep in touch with fellow Stumblers. - Irma Vermaat

It's a magical web, FriendFeeders, ol' buddies. Let's go exploring. In real time. - Mark Trapp from Bookmarklet

good call Mark... i've seen enough acquisitions to know how this party is going to end... but there is always something new to be found rising on the horizon... very bittersweet - Jeffrey Marsh

more: http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/ - Oğuz Serdar

I shared it in the group Wonderful Weird Weblogs: http://friendfeed.com/wonderf... . It's a great blog for the collection over there. Thx. :-) - Ton Zijp

"Currently, most nuclear fusion power plants are large, expensive projects that will take decades to benefit from. But a startup company in Vancouver, Canada, called General Fusion is taking the fast track to fusion, with a plan to build a working prototype fusion power plant within the next decade at a cost of less than a billion dollars." - Michael McKean from Bookmarklet

Have you ever wondered what other planets in our solar system might look like? That was the question Greg Martin wants to answer. But instead of asking artists to create completely imaginary planets he wants to take a different approach. Instead, he wants artists to create scenes based on scientific fact or hypothesis. Each artist must research and gain an academic understanding of what they're painting. They then marry scientific discoveries with their imaginations to create scenes of the best possible view of our solar system. - Emma from Bookmarklet

If Mucha's descendants got checks from the knock-offs of his work, they'd be multi-millionaires. - Spidra Webster

GMTA, for sure baby :-* ... and the similarities to Mucha not withstanding, they are stunning illustrations in their own right! <333 - Live4Emma (L4S) from iPhone

Its Different. The thumbnail doesn't really show the true form of the beast. Has a certain charm to it. - Brent - Loving Life

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

naaaaa!!olani isterim Sefaaa! - Ëzgi ʚ

negzeller!!! - arleyavenue

ooooooo nice! - Myrna

nice - Cagdas Seichter

Love! - Anna Haro

"Dyson. It’s the wackiest vacuum. You know it is. It’s the off-orange/yellow floor etc cleaner with the spherical wheel. The object designer Adam Alpine is trying to accomplish is “to push a brand [Dyson] beyond its product genre maintaining the brands design principles.” To maintain the principles of a vacuum brand in a toy vehicle. What a lovely idea for a project!" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

This may indeed be lovely, but I guarantee you - no floor would ever get vacuumed in this fashion beyond the first all-novelty week or so. Ergo, a non-starter. - ianf ⌘

Natalie Shau - Martha from Bookmarklet

Finally another Nutella Fan ;) Found it in the South of Korea in a small store when I was working there... I'm sure I heard angels singing that time... - Marco

(via http://ff.im/4SpOw) Nutella Bath - Myrna

There's a new one obviously holding a coded message?....appeared a few days ago, June 12th. No one's cracked it yet http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009... - Marg Uerite

now that is food for thought..................... - Kevin J Hatton

De grootste nachtmerrie die ik in tijden heb gezien. - Ton Zijp

Het is toch al zo'n trekpop. - Remo

Here is a fantastic photo taken in 1983. It features a home office built on Atari equipment. Be sure to check out the Return of the Jedi promotional glass set in the top left corner. Lovely. - Mine Ekim from Bookmarklet

That's not a moon... - Jared B. Luther

What would Freud say? - Ken Morley

Taleb Nassib used it in his Balck Swan book; not exactly that images, but a close enough story - Cea

Fruit Kabob Time! - Shevonne

'Hey ladies, you wanna make a banana split?' I don't know, is that even raunchy enough? - Will Higgins™

is this what chris pirillo saw in the street, leading to that photo? - alphaxion

Seeing Robert Scoble's post (http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...) about following 100,000 on Twitter and 25,000 on Friendfeed made me think that he has a set up like this one. And this is just the Tweetdeck PC. :-D - Andy Bold from Bookmarklet

OMG! - Vijay

O.O - Alfredo

Now I feel old. - Alex Scoble

Alex, ditto. 22 years I've been using it now. - Andy Bold

that's why it's a "continent". But even so, I guess, it's a pretty good eyeopener for many. - vijay from NoiseRiver

@John Craft - Good find! - "You can't do that." "Why not?" "Because it's freaking me out." - Christopher Harley

oohhh nooo thats what my kitteh did yesterday PMSL - Tatty Gibson