Metro te Saluere lubert | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
9 days ago by cshalizi
"Wallsend, in North Tyneside, was the end of Hadrian's Wall, constructed by the Romans to defend the border of the Empire against the rebelling tribes beyond. To commemorate this historical connection (which is also reflected in the town's name), since 2003 most of the signs in Wallsend station on the Tyne and Wear Metro have been in both English and Latin. Large photographs taken in Wallsend which have all text changed to Latin are also displayed."
funny:geeky
photos
roman_empire
via:making_light
9 days ago by cshalizi
The Most Desolate City on Earth: Gunkanjima, aka 'Battleship Island' - Neighborhoods - The Atlantic Cities
7 weeks ago by cshalizi
"Today, it's densely populated with ocean birds and disturbingly large spiders."
modern_ruins
japan
photos
via:lofstrom
7 weeks ago by cshalizi
Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005, Stringfellow
november 2011 by cshalizi
"The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginnings—the "sea" was formed when Colorado River levees broke and spilled into a depression 280 feet below sea level—to its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground. "
books:noted
california
salton_sea
photos
landscape
the_earth_as_transformed_by_human_action
november 2011 by cshalizi
abandonedplaces: A Darkened Theater
august 2011 by cshalizi
Some very nice shots.
modern_ruins
photos
pretty_pictures
august 2011 by cshalizi
Endangered Snow Leopards Caught on Camera in Afghanistan | Wired Science | Wired.com
july 2011 by cshalizi
The big picture up to is simply adorable.
cats
snow_leopards
afghanistan
photos
to:blog
july 2011 by cshalizi
ACIC 2011 - a set on Flickr
june 2011 by cshalizi
We all look far more intellectual in B&W than I remember feeling. And we keep talking with our hands!
conferences
causal_inference
photos
june 2011 by cshalizi
abandonedplaces: Abandend bomb shelter.
april 2011 by cshalizi
It's that painting in the first shot which is the amazing thing here.
modern_ruins
photos
april 2011 by cshalizi
Urban Tomographies | Krieger, Martin H.
march 2011 by cshalizi
This is presumably the Martin Krieger with the extremely mathematical (and strange) books on the philosophy of physics, especially condensed matter; there can't be two people both named that at USC.
books:noted
cities
photos
krieger.martin
urbanism
via:lisa_schweitzer
march 2011 by cshalizi
APOD: 2011 February 27 - Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters
march 2011 by cshalizi
It's a piece of coral! Coral, I tell you!
space
photos
pretty_pictures
hyperion
cassini-huygens
march 2011 by cshalizi
jeweled platypus · text · Observational math
february 2011 by cshalizi
The "aha! that's what that is" feeling.
pretty_pictures
photos
geometry
math_in_everyday_life
gustafson.britta
february 2011 by cshalizi
“The slow release sofa drugs were having the...
february 2011 by cshalizi
“The slow release sofa drugs were having the desired effect; no one had noticed the spiky move indoors.”
photos
funny:malicious
unhappy_hipsters
february 2011 by cshalizi
Small Victories - good morning.
february 2011 by cshalizi
"Can it really be so bad?"
small_victories
photos
funny:sad
insomnia
february 2011 by cshalizi
Small Victories - imperson nation.
february 2011 by cshalizi
"I like how they, too, are always trying to be human"
funny:sad
small_victories
photos
robots_and_robotics
february 2011 by cshalizi
Small Victories - sounds like a fix to me.
february 2011 by cshalizi
"I love the idea of a magic potion that fixes things"
funny:sad
small_victories
photos
february 2011 by cshalizi
Thierry Legault - Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman
january 2011 by cshalizi
Transit of the sun by the space station.
eclipse
photos
pretty_pictures
space_station
space_exploration
via:ken_macleod
january 2011 by cshalizi
APOD: 2011 January 2 - Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth
january 2011 by cshalizi
The shadow of the Moon on the Earth, as seen from space.
ETA: Also posted by James Nicoll under the wonderful title "Ever wonder what the area around Dick Cheney looks like?"
photos
pretty_pictures
eclipse
space
ETA: Also posted by James Nicoll under the wonderful title "Ever wonder what the area around Dick Cheney looks like?"
january 2011 by cshalizi
abandonedplaces: AZLK
december 2010 by cshalizi
For the giant Lenin head in the first shots.
photos
modern_ruins
post-soviet_life
december 2010 by cshalizi
Kawah Ijen by night - The Big Picture - Boston.com
december 2010 by cshalizi
Mt. Doom, industrialized.
photos
mining
sulfur
indonesia
industrial_landscapes
volcano
kawah_ijen
december 2010 by cshalizi
Weeks later, no one had heard from the family;...
december 2010 by cshalizi
"Foolishly, no one suspected the cat".
photos
unhappy_hipsters
cats
horror_stories
december 2010 by cshalizi
APOD: 2010 December 4 - Sunset at the Spiral Jetty
december 2010 by cshalizi
This would be too obvious if it appeared on the cover of the kind of novel I read.
pretty_pictures
spiral_jetty
photos
sculpture
earthworks
december 2010 by cshalizi
The razor blades next to his tooth brush, the...
september 2010 by cshalizi
"The razor blades next to his tooth brush, the blood thinning pills mixed into his vitamins, and now this."
funny:malicious
unhappy_hipsters
photos
september 2010 by cshalizi
Pop City Slide Show: The Pittsburgh Flight of the Falcons
august 2010 by cshalizi
I am pretty sure these are not the ones which occasionally perch outside my office.
birds
photos
pretty_pictures
pittsburgh
august 2010 by cshalizi
APOD: 2010 July 1 - Above Aurora Australis
july 2010 by cshalizi
The southern lights, seen from space.
aurora
pretty_pictures
sublime
photos
space
july 2010 by cshalizi
Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan... | Foreign Policy
june 2010 by cshalizi
Someone's digitizing the photos from my grandfather's book!
kith_and_kin
afghanistan
photos
via:aks
blogged
june 2010 by cshalizi
Toward a Manifested Courage - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
may 2010 by cshalizi
Today's reminder that nothing I will ever do will really matter.
courage
moral_responsibility
the_american_dilemma
photos
mulholland.joan_trumpauer
progressive_forces
heroes_of_the_republic
may 2010 by cshalizi
The lyrical swirls of canyon striations
may 2010 by cshalizi
Gorgeous rock-formation photos from canyons of the southwest
pretty_pictures
photos
american_southwest
rocks
canyons
may 2010 by cshalizi
Aurora in May, over North America. on Twitpic
may 2010 by cshalizi
Is that Chicago there?
pretty_pictures
space
photos
aurora_borealis
america
may 2010 by cshalizi
abandonedplaces: High is the Pines...
may 2010 by cshalizi
Wow, that's creepy and sad.
photos
abandoned_places
modern_ruins
sad
creepy
may 2010 by cshalizi
The armchairs had gathered to warn her. But alas,...
may 2010 by cshalizi
"The armchairs had gathered to warn her. But alas, the ferns were already in formation." (I'm sorry, but that room looks awesome.)
funny:malicious
photos
design
architecture
unhappy_hipsters
may 2010 by cshalizi
abandonedplaces: Abandoned Homes #13 & #14.
may 2010 by cshalizi
Some of these are really very nice.
modern_ruins
photos
pretty_pictures
portugal
may 2010 by cshalizi
The Tower of Doom
april 2010 by cshalizi
Why had I never before realized that the tower of the Dark Lord could be all glass and metal?
funny:malicious
funny:geeky
photos
dark_towers
goldman_sachs
april 2010 by cshalizi
With her eyes closed, water tickling the tips of...
april 2010 by cshalizi
"With her eyes closed, water tickling the tips of her fingers, she could conjure memories of a time before the bomb, before the zombies."
photos
pretty_pictures
unhappy_hipsters
zombies
post-apocalyptic
funny:malicious
april 2010 by cshalizi
He’d assumed the warm glow that woke him each...
april 2010 by cshalizi
"He’d assumed the warm glow that woke him each morning was the sun rising. Now he saw it was actually something far more sinister."
photos
funny:malicious
architecture
unhappy_hipsters
suggestivo
april 2010 by cshalizi
APOD: 2010 April 19 - Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano
april 2010 by cshalizi
Better version of the photo.
pretty_pictures
photos
beautiful
sublime
mt_doom
volcano
iceland
april 2010 by cshalizi
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