Desert Graveyard of Ships
In the 1960’s, the Soviets diverted tributary rivers from the Aral Sea, causing it to recede by more than 50% and leaving Uzbekistan’s only port torn of Mo’ynoq a desert wasteland filled with boats not quick enough to escape the aftermath. But one’s man economic disaster is just another man’s photo op, as it were, as the area is now host to tourists who’ve come to see these lingering ghosts of commerce.
(photos by Martijn Munneke via: kuriositas / io9)
I want to see what the insides of these look like. And this also makes me want to go find that photographer who went into abandoned mental institutions.
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Some of these are, indeed, quite handy.
Browser Wars by Galit Weisberg / shoze
Shoze’s pre-pubescent take on the eternal struggle has finally been made available as an HQ print at her deviantart. Show some love for your favorite team, whichever side you’re on, by putting this on your wall. If nothing else, it will make up for all the times you posted this illustration on Facebook without crediting the artist.
Turns out the Easter Island heads have bodies, too! Archeologists discovered bodies beneath the 887 stoic faces after 12 years excavating and studying the statues.
“They’re buried up to mid-torso level. So it’s understandable that the general public didn’t have a clue that those statues had bodies,” Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project, told Fox News this week.
While experts have known for some time that much of the stone figures has been partially buried due to centuries of exposure to the elements, “this is the first time that one has been excavated in such a way that the documentation was complete and scientific,” said Van Tilburg.
CMA and SeARCH
Architects CMA and SeARCH were exploring to see if it would be possible to conceal a house in the Alpine slopes, whilst exploiting the wonderful views. Here is the result. Gorgeous! The angle is slightly inclined from the building, giving a dramatic view of the beautiful mountains on the opposite side of the narrow valley.
I think there could have been a more elegant solution for the fencing around the top, but i love the deviation from the “normal” experience of a house!
Augmented Reality Sandbox
This is incredibly cool, and I want to play in it. (Go to 1:11 to see the water!)
I always forget how much I love screwing around with my computer until I get back into it.
I got the bright idea to swap my main 1TB HDD for a 128GB SSD and then relegate the HDD to storage.
It was a super simple 10-minute process, but it reminded me what it’s like to be in control of my technology instead of a slave to it when it crashes. Especially when I decided to taunt fate again and install Windows 8 CP on the new SSD.
It went considerably better this time with a fresh drive, and my reward is a screamin’ fast machine and a beautiful — if understandably buggy — OS.
Hot damn, I love me some minor tech geekery.
Getting ready to Relay
(via autostraddle)
