Influential photographs

Lukeprog's user has put 52 influential photographs in age order. Such an impressing photo set. Did you know that the first photograph by a person was taken in 1838?

Over 50,000 North-Koreans form flag during their Independence day

High quality photo set of the Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is nearly ready for first launch as some tests will be launched today 10th Wednesday 2008. There's a high quality photo set of this Large Hadron Collider. So amazing!

Hurricane Ike as seen from orbit

Hurricane Ike is at the moment heading to the Gulf Coast of the U.S, it just rolled across Cuba and soaked parts of Haiti. Some experts say it's about to get weakened now, but some then it may yet strengthen.

On Thursday the crew of International Space Station was able to take a photo of Hurricane Ike "from 220 miles" overhead. A nice photo set of hurricanes is available at the Boston.com website providing you 25 hurricane images from NASA.

Avol

Amazing flash-project and inspiration for some designer.

http://www.videojackstudios.com/avol/

Hymy.fi breaks journalism rights - "Hidden messages" yip celebs

The Internet has once again showed that it's dangerous to play here. This time one of the workers of Hymy.fi named the pictures of the celebs as ridiculous or insulting sounding way and uploaded them to Hymy.fi's server. Hymy is breaking the journalism rights.

Images and direct translates are available below:

http://www.hymy.fi/s/f/editor/images/tukiaisenhoro.jpg = tukiaisenhoro.jpg = Tukiainenbitch.jpg = Johanna Tukiainen is a bitch.

http://www.hymy.fi/s/f/editor/images/keskisenmulkkuvvvvv.jpg = keskisenmulkkuvvvv.jpg = Keskinencuntvvvv.jpg = Vesa Keskinen is a cunt.

http://www.hymy.fi/s/f/editor/images/hallispallisn%E4yt%E4kullis.JPG = hallispallisnäytäkullis.JPG = hallispallisshowyourdick.JPG = Hjallis Harkimo show your dick.

http://www.hymy.fi/s/f/editor/images/tyhm%E43.jpg = stupid.jpg = Martina Aitolehti is stupid.

Snow in Kenya

Residents in Kenya's Rift Valley celebrate the area's first ever snowfall with snow ball fights and a day off work and school.

A giant spider appeared in Lime Street

A 37-tonne and 50ft giant spider that stunned onlookers appeared in Lime Street, Liverpool on 3rd September 2008. The creature dangled "high above the street from Concourse Tower". Flickr poster says this massive spider is the first glimpse of the mysterious La Princess, the mechanical creature at the centre of the La Machine extravaganza.

Machinarium

Machinarium is a new full-scale adventure game, where Amanita Design team is now working for. According to the team, the game is expected to be launched "in the 1st half of 2009". An interview of the creators is available here.


Machinarium Preview from Amanita Design on Vimeo.

Oktapodi HQ

Ivan Ukhov drunk in High Jump

Real sportsmanship! Russians can do it.

C'mon, c'mon.. plz!

New single from Tea Hiilloste, a Finnish teen / pop idol, or something. A "C'mon, c'mon" song featuring a rock-guru Remu Aaltonen. Such ridiculous lyrics, if you can understand Finnish.. and the video too.

Watch the video.

"Server is too busy" reports Hymy.fi - All blame Johanna Tukiainen!

Can you imagine that one blondie can cause a server crash with only one "Playboy-themed" picture? Johanna Tukiainen is a local "celebrity" or erotic dancer, cheater in Finland, who has been telling ridiculous stories of her trips and parties, and whatever so that Finns have started to hate her even more.

A text message thingy between her and Ilkka Kanerva, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland is probably the most famous news people remember Tukiainen.

Today morning however Hymy.fi posted a Playboy try-out picture (link works, when Hymy.fi works) of Johanna Tukiainen, which automatically crashed Hymy.fi's webserver as so many people wanted to see it.

"Yo, Homie! Check Out My New Bling Bling!"

DesignYouTrust site posted a "Yo, Homie! Check Out My New Bling Bling!" thread including one of the most famous rappers in the United States with their blings blings, lol.. The guy below is "Slick Rick". Oh gawd the amount of the egopenis enlarging items..

CERN's new LHC-booster could cause end of the world

CERN's new atom booster, LHC could cause end of the world, say the chemistry and physics experts. A booster that cost £4.4billion to build was designed to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang. But actually unlocking the secrets might cause end of the world.

The CERN machine create "black holes" that expand after their creation "so big the globe will shrink into one centimetre globe" most likely in five years.

"My own calculations have shown it is quite plausible that these little black holes survive and will grow exponentially and eat the planet from the inside. I have been calling for CERN to hold a safety conference to prove my conclusions wrong but they have not been willing," says a German professor Otto Rössler, who is one of the top critics against this machine.

CERN however denies the claim and says their booster creates black holes, but they disappear immediately.

The Facebook movie - Yeah, you heard it right!

A producer and script writer Aaron Sorkin will write a movie of the famous social networking community site Facebook, which Scott Rudin will be producing for Columbia. Sorkin commented the movie at his Facebook profile and asked the Facebook community the stories regarding the site.

"I understand there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name -- which I find more flattering than creepy -- but this is me. I don't know how I can prove that but feel free to test me", Sorkin says and adds: "I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years.)"

Sorkin is previously famous from creating the West Wing tv-show and Charlie Wilson's War movie, where Tom Hanks is acting. Rudin's work is in the other hand Revolutionary Road including Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as acting.

No date is available or the Facebook movie name either as of yet.

Performance art in Finland

I'm speechless.. Seriously what's wrong with this country? Even Sweden doesn't have this kind of performance art.

The Anti-Energy-Drink

This time on the series of weird products, a Drank Beverage "energy-drink" blows up the fact that this is not actually energy-drink, but more like anti-energy-drink. According to its producers, Drank is very very popular in Houston, it's sold throughout the liquor and convenience stores. And what best, Drank makes you sleepy, the company's publicist says.

Drank is a carbonated, grape-flavored beverage spiked with melatonin, valerian root and rose hips, and it's good with vodka. We have seen the world stores getting filled up with hundreds of different energy-drinks, but this is something really special.

A direct copypaste from the Drank press release:

"From design to production, every aspect of this calming drink was inspired by today’s popular hip hop artists who embrace the much sought-after hip hop lifestyle that encourages people to capture a stress-free state of mind."

The Wrong Door - BBC Three

"The Wrong Door is a new sketch show set in a parallel universe where the special effects you see in the movies and on TV are part of everyday life. Coming soon to BBC Three," Sounds awesome, and so are these short clips of the show!

Mythbusters draw a Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds

The Mythbusters compared a CPU vs GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an actual Mona Lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 milliseconds! This show was held at the nVISION 2008 event in San Jose, California.

Creating 3D surfaces with a flash camera

You tought modelling the world into 3D is hard? Well, soon it won't be hard anymore, but more easy. Creating 3D surfaces will be possible just by using a flash camera.

The scientists at the The University of Manchester's School of Computer Science and Dolby Canada developed a new technique that is making that possible as it "might make capturing depth and textures for 3D surfaces as simple as shooting two pictures with a digital camera--one with flash and one without".

The future of DJing

Today's innovations are simply leaning on the touch-screen technology, and so the DJs are going in that direction too, as Scott Hobbs is presenting us the future of DJing: touch-screen decks! Will this destroy the CD format, which already destroyed vinyls?

Hobbs says for the press that with the TTs you can see and touch the music and continues to add: "It shows where all the beats are, which gives you complete control of the song in a mix."

A portal to Maya Underworld found in Mexico?

National Geographic news unveil that some archaeologists might have found a portal to Maya Underworld in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. A labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves, some underwater. According to the archaeologosits, they found "a nearly 300-foot (90-meter) concrete road that ends at a column standing in front of a body of water".

Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid will house 1 million people

Dubai's millionaires have just introduced a new kind of project they will be surprising the world's people with. Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid is a building that will house 1 million people.

According to the Timelinks architecture office, which is designing the pyramid kind of building, Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid could produce its energy independently for example by using solar and wind energy. Read more of the project at Inhabitat's website.

Japaneses caught a prehistoric Goblin shark on video

New Scientist Environment blogs that Japaneses have discovered a prehistoric Goblin shark in the waters of Japan. An unique catch. :)

The coolest photo set of the Olympic Games 2008

An amazing photo set of the Olympic Games 2008 competition has been posted to THDesign.be forums. The photos are no doubt representing the best photo quality at the Olympics. Michael Phelps photo is my personal favourite.

Taekwondoka kicks referee directly to head at the Olympics

A Cuban taekwondoka Angel Valodia Matos kicked the referee directly to head on purpose. The kick happened after the Swedish referee Chakir Chelbatia had announced Matos as a loser of the Bronze match at the Olympic Games 2008. According to Matos, this kick was a protest towards Chelbatia's decision. Matos used too much time for curing his leg and therefore the referee checked this action as "cancellation" and so he announced him a match loser.

Losing a nerve control was destructive to Matos, when an international Taekwondo union set a permanent ban for Matos and his coach. The ban means Matos can't participate to any of the championship games the union is organizing.

56 impressive ads about problems in the world

Afrison.com has listed 56 very impressive ads together about the problmes in the world, which also make you to think. Check out the best four below and the rest here.

Scientists unravel "galactic spaghetti monster"

Scientists have found out new information of the galaxy, which reminds them as "galactic spaghetti monster", namely Galaxy NGC 1275 in Perseus. The scientists note that there are some "spaghetti-like gas filaments around a black hole". I'm not sure why they are calling this as spaghetti monster, but for me the picture of this galaxy reminds the hell more likely.

What NewScientistScope explains about the galaxy is the following: "As the black hole sucks in gas from its surroundings, it powers jets of matter that produce bubbles of energetic particles in the surrounding cluster gas. As these bubbles grow and rise, cooled gas from NGC 1275's core gets drawn into long tendrils in their wake, like the strings that trail behind balloons."

Image Metrics Emily CG Facial Animation is too real

Image Metrics is a company that has created an Emily CG facial animation . It's representing the current quality of the animations as this person is completely computer generated even though people might believe her to be real.

Very young Michael Phelps

The picture says enough of the 8-gold-medals record breaker Michael Phelps.

Nebula in troubles - Clients asking claims for damages of 10,000 euro

After a somewhat massive server crash in the device room of Finnish server provider Nebula, their clients have asked huge claims for damages of the sites' one-day nonappearence on the Internet. The damage claims raise to 10,000 euro according to Ville Skogberg, the head of Nebula.

Skogberg commented that there shouldn't be an interruption any longer on any big systems and continued to admit that some singular servers might still be under problems.

The massive interruption was caused by the overheated switch, which also got melted.

Two huge local sites were down at least a day, including UusiSuomi.fi, a Finnish media service and Telkku.com, a TV service.

Five game developers sue 25,000 illegal downloaders

DailyMail reports that over 25,000 British illegal downloaders have been sued by five biggest game developers in the world including Atari, Topware Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland and Codemasters. Every downloader has to pay at least 375 euro, but if we multiply the sum with 25,000 we get over 9 millions euro in total.

According to the appraisals by the locals there is over 6 million British people, who are downloading video games illegally.

Spanair plane accident at Madrid's Barjas Airport - 148 dead says unconfirmed report

Today Spanair Flight AJK 5022, a Spanair McDonnell Douglas MD-82 plane skidded off the runaway precisely saying at 14.44 local time and then caught fire soon after take off. The plane's fuselage scattered into two parts. At least 148 have been confirmed to be dead, according to the unofficial report by Reuters and 25 were able to escape.

The plane was reportedly carrying 164 passengers including two babies and 9 crew members. The flight was supposed to end to Las Palmas Airport, located in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands.

Samsung Omnia i900 - Unboxing it

Samsung has released a new promotional video of the Omnia i900 mobile phone. Check out more details regarding the phone via their official website: http://omnia.samsungmobile.com/.

German Idol-star turned into Shemale

In 2003 a man named "Lorenzo" participated Germany's Idol-star competition, has now turned into Shemale. A few years ago doctors allowed him silicons, and also the faces got a more womanly style at the same operation. He already had a roundish arse as inborn, so no operations were necessary.

Lorenzo is now known as Lory Glory and he is a big star in the Mid-Europe and at the moment he is making career in the United States. You can get more information of him through his official website: http://www.lovely-lory-glory.de/.

Polar submarines in the cold waters of Arctics

Polar submarines spotted in the cold waters of Arctics.

New photo set of the Georgia-Russia war

New photo set of the Georgia-Russia war is available at EnglishRussia.com website.

New world record in Zimbabwe: 11M% inflation

Zimbabwe has strided towards a new record as in their inflation course. The new record hits 11,27 millions percent, according to the local statistics central. On July the inflation percent was only 2,2 million, which makes clearer how fast the speed has been.

Zimbabwe is still taking the world record on the inflation and the experts have predicted it to be continued. Gideon Gono, Zimbabwe national bank's leader suggested to freeze salaries and prices to its current standard at least for half year in order to control the galloping inflation.

Buildings based on Soviet Architecture

A small set of the buildings based on soviet architecture. Check out more here.