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stuff that's too long for twitter & not really apt for my blog 
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coincidental photographs

[received via email from a friend. all the photos seem to have been taken from this russian site]

i really like the last few images with the planes.

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more amazing x-ray photographs by Nick Veasey

most medbloggers & medtweeps have seen other examples of Mr. Veasey's extraordinary work. this collection at the Telegraph has some new ones. all great.

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my name as seen by the Personas project


inspired by this post by Ramona. i'm a bit worried that the illegal band (light green on the right side) is about 3x larger than the legal band and very skeptical because of the extremely large "sports" band (yellow in the middle)!!

you can try out your name here.

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

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ampoules

amazing what the flash in a mobile phone's camera can do to run-of-the-mill injection ampoules in a tray

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touch-me-not

Mimosa pudica in front of Suresh's house in Yercaud.

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lamp shade

made by my daughter using an empty ice cream cup, straw, a bottle cap & a thin strip of packing sponge (used as a covering over the ice cream cup).

   

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high speed camera!

[received via email from a friend]

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test post from new mobile phone

this one - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5800_XpressMusic

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rural india wax museum

all three photos are from the gallery of Siddhagiri Gramjivan (Village life) Wax Museum at Kaneri near Kolhapur, Maharashtra, probably the only one of its kind in India.

the museum showcases different aspects of of self-sufficient village life in the form of wax sculptures in a natural setting. the museum is spread over 7 acres area and has almost 80 scenes which showcase more than 300 statues.

explore the other photos in the gallery.

     

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the genius of wodehouse

Bertie On Planter's Punch by Martin Jarvis  

…a short audioclip of Bertie Wooster talking about Planter's Punch from the short story "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy," in the collection "Carry on, Jeeves"

What a wonderful voice Martin Jarvis has!

"In a hundred years' time `the kind of man who reads P.G. Wodehouse for pleasure' may become synonymous with an extravagantly fastidious taste. And that indeed is as it should be." ✍ Evelyn Waugh.

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