Links for Shabad: May 2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Optical Illusions | Brain Teasers - Yahoo! Games

Monday, May 30, 2011

Fw: :Wonders of the natural world.... Rare and Phenomenal Wow!!

Subject: FW: :Wonders of the natural world.... Rare and Phenomenal Wow!!

Wonders Of The Natural World

Web Ecoist and Environmental Oddities


1. Sailing Stones

The mysterious moving stones of the packed-mud desert of Death Valley

have been a center of scientific controversy for decades.
Rocks weighing up to hundreds of pounds have been known to move up to hundreds of yards at a time.
Some scientists have proposed that a combination of strong winds and surface ice account for these movements.
However, this theory does not explain evidence of different rocks starting side by side and moving at different rates and in disparate directions.
Moreover, the physics calculations do not fully support this theory as wind speeds of hundreds of miles per hour

would be needed to move some of the stones.

2. Columnar Basalt

When a thick lava flow cools, it contracts vertically but

cracks perpendicular to its directional flow with remarkable geometric regularity -   in most cases forming a regular grid of remarkable

hexagonal extrusions that almost appear to be made by man.
One of the most famous such examples is the

Giants Causeway on the coast of Ireland (shown above),

though the largest and most widely recognized

would be Devils Tower in Wyoming .
Basalt also forms different but equally fascinating ways

when eruptions are exposed to air or water.

3. Blue Holes

Blue holes are giant and sudden drops in underwater elevation

that get their name from the dark and foreboding blue tone they exhibit

when viewed from above in relationship to surrounding waters.
They can be hundreds of feet deep and while divers are able to explore some of them they are largely devoid of oxygen that would support sea life  due to poor water circulation - leaving them eerily empty.
Some blue holes, however, contain ancient fossil remains

that have been discovered, preserved in their depths.

4. Red Tides

Red tides are also known as algal blooms

sudden influxes of massive amounts of colored single-cell algae

that can convert entire areas of an ocean or beach into a blood red color.
While some of these can be relatively harmless,

others can be harbingers of deadly toxins that

cause the deaths of fish, birds and marine mammals.

In some cases, even humans have been harmed by red tides

though no human exposure are known to have been fatal.
While they can be fatal, the constituent phytoplankton

in red tides are not harmful in small numbers.

5. Ice Circles

While many see these apparently perfect ice circles as worthy of

conspiracy theorizing, scientists generally accept that

they are formed by eddies in the water that

spin a sizable piece of ice in a circular motion.
As a result of this rotation, other pieces of ice and flotsam

wear relatively evenly at the edges of the ice

until it slowly forms into an essentially ideal circle.
Ice circles have been seen with diameters of over 500 feet and can also

at times be found in clusters and groups of different sizes as shown above.

6. Mammatus Clouds

True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often

harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system.
Typically composed primarily of ice, they can

extend for hundreds of miles in each direction and

individual formations can remain visibly static

for ten to fifteen minutes at a time.
While they may appear foreboding they are merely the messengers

-   appearing around, before or even after severe weather.

7. Fire Rainbows

A circumhorizontal fire rainbow arc occurs at a rare confluence of

right time and right place for the sun and certain clouds.
Crystals within the clouds refract light into the various visible waves of

the spectrum but only if they are arrayed correctly relative to the ground below.
Due to the rarity with which all of these events happen in conjunction

with one another, there are relatively few remarkable photos of this phenomena.

8. Sinkholes

Sinkholes are one of the worlds scariest natural phenomena.
Over time, water erodes the soil under the planets surface until in some cases, quite suddenly,the land above gives way and collapses into the earth.
Many sinkholes occur naturally while others are the result of human intervention.
Displacing groundwater can open cavities while

broken pipes can erode otherwise stable subterranean sediments.
Urban sinkholes, up to hundreds of feet deep have formed and

consumed parts of city blocks, sidewalks and even entire buildings.

9. Penitentes

Named after peak-hooded New Mexican monks (lower right above),

penitentes are dazzling naturally-forming ice blades

that stick up at sharp angles toward the sun.
Rarely found except at high altitudes, they can grow up

taller than a human and form in vast fields.
As ice melts in particular patterns, valleys formed

by initial melts leave mountains in their wake.
Strangely, these formations ultimately slow the melting process

as the peaks cast shadows on the deeper surfaces below

and allow for winds to blow over the peaks, cooling them.

10 Lenticular Clouds

Ever wonder the truth about UFOs?
Avoided by traditional pilots but loved by sailplane aviators,

lenticular clouds are masses of cloud with strong internal uplift

that can drive a motorless flyer to high elevations.
Their shape is quite often mistaken for a mysterious

flying object or the artificial cover for one.
Generally, lenticular clouds are formed as wind speeds up

while moving around a large land object such as a mountain.

11. Light Pillars

Light pillars appear as eerily upright luminous columns in the sky,

beacons cast into the air above without an apparent source.
These are visible when light reflects just right off of ice crystals

from either the sun (as in the two top images above)

or from artificial ground sources such as street or park lights.
Despite their appearance as near-solid columns of light,

the effect is entirely created by our own relative viewpoint.

12. Sundogs

Like light pillars, sundogs are the product of light passing through crystals.
The particular shape and orientation of the crystals can have

a drastic visual impact for the viewer, producing

a longer tail and changing the range of colors one sees.
The relative height of the sun in the sky

shifts the distance the sundogs appear to be on either side of the sun.
Varying climactic conditions on other planets in our solar system

produce halos with up to four sundogs from those planets perspectives.
Sundogs have been speculated about and discussed since ancient times

and written records describing the various attributes of our sun

date back the Egyptians and Greeks.

13. Fire Whirls

Fire whirls (also known as fire devils or tornadoes)

appear in or around raging fires when

the right combination of climactic conditions is present.
Fire whirls can be spawned by other natural events such as

earthquakes and thunderstorms, and can be incredibly dangerous,

in some cases spinning well out of the zone of a fire itself to cause

devastation and death in a radius not even reached by heat or flame.
Fire whirls have been known to be nearly a mile high,

have wind speeds of over 100 miles per hour

and to last for 20 or more minutes.

14. Orange Moons

This last phenomena is something most people have seen before

-   beautiful orange moon hanging low in the sky.
But what causes this phenomena

-   and, for that matter, does the moon have a color at all?
When the moon appears lower on the horizon, rays of light

bouncing off it have to pass through a great deal more

of our atmosphere which slowly strips away everything but yellows, oranges and reds.
The bottommost image above is true to the hues of the moon

but has enhanced colors to more clearly show the differences in shade

that illustrate the mixed topography and minerology

that tell the story of the moons surface.
Looking at the colors in combination with the craters

one can start to trace the history of impacts and

consequent material movements across the face of our mysterious moon.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

YouTube - Genuine Flea Circus

http://www.noonco.com/flea/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea_circus

http://scopitones.com/ for the best quality Scopitones on DVD, Free Downloads and more.

What's A Scopitone? It's a "Film Jukebox" invented in France in the early 1960's (from surplus World War II airplane parts!) and also the films (the precursors of todays music videos) which played on it.

How to spot a psychopath

http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/21/jon-ronson-how-to-spot-a-psychopath?cat=books&type=article

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Little Girls with Guns is Disturbing | EgoTV

Wikipedia edits on a random day

Cat Clip Compilation of the Day - The Daily What

Before And After of the Day - The Daily What

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Come With Me Kitty Harness and Leash - ASPCA Store

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Tripus - The Art of Trolling: Yahoo Answers, Chatroullette, Omegle

hahahahahaha - TDW Tease

Thursday, May 19, 2011

He Owns a Horse - The Art of Trolling: Yahoo Answers, Chatroullette, Omegle

Doctors Used These Old Pop-Up Books to Learn How to Perform Surgery - Gizmodo

Violent Hair Weave Crime Wave Sweeping Nation - Gizmodo

What Is Planking? - Gizmodo

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

I’m On Half a Boat - The Art of Trolling: Yahoo Answers, Chatroullette, Omegle

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Good Morning! - My Food Looks Funny - Funny Food Photos

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Office a la Georges Seurat’s ‘Sunday Afternoon’ | OfficeTally

YouTube - Being a Dickhead's Cool

The Brick Testament

12 abandoned hospitals

'Half man' learns to walk in China - Telegraph

Disney for Adults | Dumage

Kitty Nursery

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Condom Ice Cream

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10 Amazing Tricks to Play with your Brain / Mind

Japanese Gadget Wants To Give You The Perfect Honker | Incredible Things

Barbie For Adults | Dumage

Oobject favorite store: Trouvaillen am Munster | oobject - Daily User Ranked Lists

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Friday, May 13, 2011

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Mellified man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Japanese Maid Mods a Furby - Gizmodo

Cockadoodledooooo. Me, Coco!

Japanese Maid Mods a Furby - Gizmodo

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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Monday, May 9, 2011

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Love it! "But with Starbucks moving aggressively to corner the hobo-gathering-place market, McDonald's is striking back with a billion-dollar hobo-attraction campaign of its own."

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Friday, May 6, 2011

Fwd: Community Message: Argument over parking space ends in shooting death - Do you recognize these people?

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From: LASD - Headquarters Newsroom (SHB), Los Angeles County Sheriff <lasd----headquarters-newsroom-shb-los-angeles-county-sheriff@emails.nixle.com>
Date: 5 May 2011 22:28
Subject: Community Message: Argument over parking space ends in shooting death - Do you recognize these people?
To: c-----@gmail.com

Hi C-----,

Community Message has been issued by the LASD - Headquarters Newsroom (SHB), Los Angeles County Sheriff.

Thursday May 5, 2011 10:28 PM PDT

Argument over parking space ends in shooting death - Do you recognize these people?

On Thursday, April 28, 2011, between 7:00 p.m. and 8:15 p.m., an argument between the victim and suspect occurred over a parking spot.

The victim was sitting inside his car by the Chuck E. Cheese Restaurant, located at La Alameda Plaza, 7716 Alameda Street, Walnut Park (South Los Angeles), when the suspect shot and killed the victim. The victim was identified as Daniel Villanueva, a 29-year old male Hispanic resident of nearby Huntington Park.

Suspect description: Male Hispanic, 20-25 years old, 5-07 to 5-09 tall, slim build, light complexion, overgrown fade style haircut, wearing white T-shirt and dark Levi pants

A Hispanic female was inside the suspect's truck during the shooting. She is described as female Hispanic, 20-25 years old, 5-02 to 5-06, 120-125, long black hair, wearing blue jeans and a sleeveless dress blouse.

The suspect vehicle is described as a silver 2000 Series, 2-door, Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, with alloy wheels, tinted windows, tinted head and tail lights covers, with California license plates.

Investigators are seeking the public's assistance and asking anyone with information in identifying the suspect(s) and the pick-up truck to contact Sheriff's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.

Or if you wish to remain Anonymous, call "LA Crime Stoppers" by dialing 800-222-TIPS (8477), texting the letters TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org

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El jueves 28 de abril del 2011 entre las 7:00 y 8:15 de la noche, una discusión ocurrió entre la víctima y el sospechoso sobre un espacio de estacionamiento. La víctima estaba sentado dentro su vehículo por el restaurante Chuck E. Cheese ubicado en 7716 Alameda Street de La Alameda Plaza, Walnut Park, cuando el sospechoso le disparo varias veces y asesinando a la víctima. Una mujer hispana estaba dentro el vehículo del sospechoso durante el disparo y fue vista huyendo con el sospechoso.

El vehículo del sospechoso es descrito como una camioneta de color plata, Chevrolet Silverado de dos puertas, serie 2000, con las llantas de aleación, vidrios y luces polarizados, y placas de California.

Los investigadores piden la asistencia del publico. Cualquier persona con información para identificar el sospechoso y la camioneta se le pide comunicarse con el Departamento de Homicidio del Sheriff's. Toda información permanecera anónima y confidencial.

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SERGEANT K. CLARK at (323) 890-5575 or

SERGEANT J. FREDENDALL at (323) 890-5631

File Number 011-06335-2173-011 Phone (323) 890-5500

Homicide Bureau

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau - Newsroom
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
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