Super fancy mall in #Moscow. Ochen haracho (sorry, no Cyrillic alphabet on Droid).

Historic map of North America (cerca 1751) at U.S. State Dept. Note Places Unknown and California is an island.

If Valentine’s Day was a romantic version of Halloween, then I’m all in!

To do: Throw at least one (1) snowball in Izzy Dog’s face per annum.

Goal accomplished.

smithsonianmag:

The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever

This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.

Photo courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring

Ed note: Perfect for your desktop background. Click the photo for the 8000x8000 image

h/t Gizmodo

Go VIIRS!

nprfreshair:

Happy Year of the Dragon!

Dragon’s Breath (by Legohaulic)

Happy New Year! Gong Hei Fat Choi! Good year to be a #dragon!

washingtonpoststyle:

View of the cruise ship which ran aground and capsized Friday near the Italian island of Giglio. The image was taken Tuesday by Digital Globe.

Via J. Freedom du Lac via BBC Europe

Digital Globe image of Costa Concordia cruise ship (17 Jan 2012). Surreal.

(via smithsonianmag)

smithsonianmag:

Tenaya Lake Shoreline

Photograph by Rob Laskin (Santa Barbara, California), October 2009, Yosemite, California

smithsonianmag:

Wandering the streets

Photograph by Patrick Parsons (Amarillo, Texas), January 2008, Amarillo, Texas

Beautiful and apocalyptic simultaneously.

nprfreshair:

babylovescake:

Where the wild things are

Tomorrow: Maurice Sendak

Awesome.

nprfreshair:

carrythatwait:

laughingsquid:

It’s Great to Be Alive!, A Grim Safety Manual for Kids

Good to know! I’m new to this whole “autumn” thing.

Are those leaves, hearts or blood?

Hilarious autumn safety tip.

nprfreshair:

On today’s Fresh Air, how industrial farming destroyed the tasty tomato…and why we’re partially responsible, says Barry Estabrook: “It’s the price we pay for insisting we have food out of season and not local. We foodies and people in the sustainable food movement chant these mantras ‘local, seasonable, organic, fair-trade, sustainable’ and they almost become meaningless because they’re said so often and you see them in so many places. If you strip all those away, they do mean something, and what they mean is that you end up with something like a Florida tomato in the winter — which is tasteless.”