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Tuesday, 28. February 2006
Fantastic Faces in Strange Places
| Natural images and design found on the wings of butterflies, in trees, leaves, orchids, beetles, marine animals and shells worldwide, selected through a customer survey. Faces & Figures by Butterfly Alphabet. Check also the gallery! | |
Painting the Weather
Rainbows may be among the most beautiful of all weather effects, but they are also powerful symbols. In the first book of the Bible, after Noah?s flood, God creates a rainbow as a sign of his promise never to flood the earth again. Rainbows became symbols of God?s care for the world, his protection of humanity and the promise of future life. In paintings they often suggest hope or are used as a visible way of showing God?s bountiful presence in the landscape - as in Rubens?s Rainbow Landscape. |
Avoid The Cubes
 | Use the arrow keys. Fly your little ship around the cubes to see how far you can get without crashing. |
Cloth and Clay - Communicating Culture
| In pre-Spanish society in Mexico, Central America, and in particular South America, the weaving of textiles attained the highest level of quality and artistic expression, employing a huge range of techniques. Textiles were highly valued and served as measures of wealth and status, burial goods, badges of office, and ritual offerings. Intensive efforts were devoted to all aspects of textile production, from the gathering and processing of materials, to the exploration of techniques, and the development of sophisticated designs. The textiles and ceramics of ancient Mesoamerica are featured in the Cloth and Clay, Communicating Cultures Exhibit at the collections of the Textile Museum of Canada and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. |
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This exhibit organizes Mesoamerican textiles by geography and then by culture so that you can easily access images of our objects and retrieve general information about the different culture groups.
Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie zur Vogelgrippe
Das Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie spricht Klartext: | Leider kommt es im Zusammenhang mit der Angst vor der Vogelgrippe derzeit immer wieder zu vollkommen überzogenen und unvernünftigen Reaktionen gegenüber der heimischen Vogelwelt. Bedingt durch die große Verunsicherung in der Bevölkerung wird leider oft übersehen, dass wir es bei der Vogelgrippe mit einer Krankheit zu tun haben, die Vögel befällt und daher in erster Linie von Vögeln selbst und ? aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen ? von den Menschen gefürchtet werden muss, die ihr Geld mit der Geflügelhaltung verdienen. |
Für die übrige Bevölkerung besteht keine realistische Gefahr. Das derzeit in Diskussion stehende Vogelgrippevirus H5N1grassiert seit 1997 im Lebensraum von mehr als einer Milliarde Menschen und hat dennoch in dieser Zeit weltweit weniger als 200 Menschenleben gekostet. In derselben Zeit starben alleine in Deutschland 63.000 Personen im Straßenverkehr und rund 100.000 Personen an den Grippeformen, die speziell den Menschen und nicht die Vögel befallen.
Information: Vogelgrippe und Vögel im heimischen Garten (PDF)
Weitere interessante Infos zur Vogelgrippe gibt es beim Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie.
Monday, 27. February 2006
David Doubilet : Underwater Photography
His cold water work has immersed him in the rich waters of New Zealand, Tasmania, Scotland, Japan, the Northwest Atlantic and Northeast Pacific. Recent photographic journeys have taken him into some of the largest freshwater systems on our planet such as the great Okavango Delta system in Botswana and the St. Lawrence River.
David Doubilet : Underwater Photography
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
| Hundreds of Chinese Artworks ... wonderful! Chinese Painting and Calligraphy |
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Thailand's Amazing Insects
 | The site contains over 2000 photographs of insects including butterflies, moths, dragonflies and damselflies, flies, wasps, ants, caterpillars, cicadas, grasshoppers, mantids, bugs and beetles plus spiders and some others (including frogs and snakes). Wherever possible I identify the species. Recent additions are places on a separate page updated every month and there is also a 'Bug of the Week' page updated when I remember. There are also audio files of cicadas, crickets and a few birds. |
Thailand's amazing insects photographed in the forests around Chiang Mai.
D-Star
| This is an old game remake. Move using arrows to collect yellow diamonds, 1024 moves to complete ten levels. Use space to switch position with blue diamond hit control to reset if mess. D-Star |
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King Abdullah Economic City
 | Central to the mega project is the creation of a 2.6 million square-meter new millennium seaport similar in size to the world?s top ten ports, such as Rotterdam, that would allow even the world?s largest super vessels to drop anchor. With its strategic location on the Red Sea and the instant access to key cities within Saudi Arabia, the port will have a designated area for light industry and logistics and |
King Abdullah Economic City
The Celestia Motherlode
| The Celestia Motherlode is a repository for various addons like textures, models or celestial objects for Celestia. Celestia is a free, interactive (real-time), 3D astronomy program. It doesn't just show you the sky as it can be seen from earth as most planetarium software does, but allows you to move to and view the universe from any point between the planets and the stars. The Celestia Motherlode |
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Classical Sheet Music
 Beethoven: Für Elise | Over 76 composers featured, 34 different Instruments, 1527 digital files ... |
Sunday, 26. February 2006
Today ...
| ... you can also play this Point'n'Click: The Thief You are the thief ... steal more, open a door and leave ... time has not enough ... the owner will soon return ... Have fun! |
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