Photographer Nick Nichols spent a year planning the nearly impossible: a top-to-bottom photograph of a 300-foot-tall redwood tree, now the centerpiece of the October issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Watch Nick in "Explorer: Climbing Redwood Giants" on the National Geographic Channel, September 29 at 10 PM.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Redwoods: The Tallest Trees
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Cops caught playing Wii during drug raid
Polk County undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco near Lakeland in March.
As investigators searched the home for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering Difalco's house, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Cool Little Miniature Stove!
how to make a great little portable stove from stuff you probably have laying around your house! It's perfect for camping, backpacking, and power outages.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Human Bones Add “Spirit” to Taiwanese Swords
Kuo Chang-hsi’s earliest attempts at swordmaking where met with failure, and he’s not afraid to tell you why: He forgot to “throw a man into the furnace.”
While Kuo doesn’t mean that in a precisely literal sense, it’s not a mere figure of speech, either. As Taiwan’s last known practitioner of the traditional art of Chinese swordmaking, he employs the ancient technique of adding human bones to the fire in which he forges his swords.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Amazing Bees - The incredible flying laptop
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Alien //Demon running along Train or reflection?
Bi-pedal creature running along side a train..or could be a reflection of some sort - I dunno.. so i'll move it to Hoax or just leave it here depending on what the majority here say
Disclose.tv Alien //Demon running along Train or reflection? Video
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
McDonalds Prinson visit - funny television advert
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Labels: funny, mcdonald, television
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Land Planarian of Borneo
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Locust Invasion in Congo
Billions of Locusts, which appear once every fourteen years, attack a car near Mbandaka, Congo. In their wake, thousands of fields are annihilated.