Photo Of The Day

When you see it

Abandoned Mill from 1866. - Sorrento, Italy

wow!!

a frozen pier in russia

^^^ It's a shame when you see stuff like that. But then at the same time it makes it cooler by being abandoned. There's houses up by me were I'd love to live but the forestry commission refuse to allow the house to be made liveable again. I just want to live up a mountain away from everyone.

Prints in the snow from a hawk catching a rabbit

some photos from nasa

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Bolivia Salt Desert after rain

the glass winged butterfly

the London Zoo has some of those, they are even more amazing at real

they are even more amazing at real

at really?!

That's in Luton isn't it?

Peckham

for the kids in the pic, Tottenham

So where in Afghanistan is it, and what was the building's function?

Says something about royal palace in Kabul in the image url. And from Gatti's link to the big picture gallery:

An Afghan man walks past the ruins of Darul Aman palace, the former house of Afghan King Amanullah, in Kabul on May 7, 2011. The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks including six suicide bombings on government targets in the major southern Afghan city of Kandahar Saturday, leaving at least 30 people wounded.

So where in Afghanistan is it, and what was the building's function?

More information here

Ha, great stuff.

^^^ http://www.obra.org/track/information/

Weird metric track

Andrew Marr, back right.