Pictures of the dust storm that hit Eastern Australia today – there’s definitely an eerie sci-fi/post-apocalyptic feel to these pics.
See also the Flickr Pool.
(via The Big Picture)
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Not the Droid
(via kottke)
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Then and Now II
The Big Picture has some pretty amazing during and one-year-later shots of Hurricane Ike hitting Texas.
The word Hurricane comes from the (now extinct?) language of the Taíno, from which we also get the words tobacco, potato, hammock and barbecue. Huraca’n means centre of the wind.
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Wish I was here
Or in pretty much any of these pics. Photos by Marcin Sacha.
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Bearding across China
John = Jealous?
The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
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Albinism in Tanzania
Albinos in Tanzania are increasingly targeted by those who would kill them for their body organs, limbs and even hair to be used in luck potions by others seeking wealth and good fortune in business and professional circles. According to local residents, witch doctors use the organs and bones in concoctions to divine for diamonds in the soil, while fishermen have been known to weave albino hair into their nets hoping for a big catch on Lake Victoria. More than 50 albinos have been killed in Tanzania and neighboring Burundi in the past year…
One of three stories from the Big Picture today (along with an Israeli woman marrying in Syria who can now never to return to Israel and the Bajau, a seafaring nomadic people living in Malaysia), it’s quite harrowing and includes an image of human body parts. If you’d like to read more France 24 has an article from last year about the trade and the Wikipedia article on persecution of albinism has some more links.