Photo Of The Day

^ Shortest commercial runway in the world at 400m. I don't mind admitting I would be scared of landing there, even in one of the three kinds of plane that are allowed to.

From the shortest runway in the world, to the worst job in the world: Mitt Romney's chair holder.

(Getty Images / JEWEL SAMAD)

I love that floor.
Oh, and Usonian politics are laffy.

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/samueldoman/15503555932/8/tumblr_lxh581s8yG1qlsvx8

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/samueldoman/15503555932/9/tumblr_lxh581s8yG1qlsvx8

both from http://samueldoman.tumblr.com/

love that second one

Dramatic rescue Firefighters rescue a family from a car dangling over a bridge after a fiery crash, Jan. 12, on Highway 101 near Buellton, Calif. The accident claimed the life of a truck driver.
A team of Navy Seabees happened to be passing by the scene, and the fire crew used a Seabees heavy forklift to stabilize the dangling car. A mother and her two daughters were taken to the hospital.

Mike Eliason / Santa Barbara News

^^
Fu King Hell

This is where the rig that was involved ^^^ended up

Edith Macefield (b. 1921 Oregon, d. June 15, 2008 Seattle, Washington) achieved worldwide notoriety in 2006 when she stubbornly turned down US$1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. In the process, she became something of a folk hero. Instead, the five-story project was built around her 108-year-old farmhouse, where she died at age 86.

^ reminds me of the movie "Up"

disney tied ballons to it to promote the film actually

What the hell was an 84 year old gonna do with a million dorra?

^just reading about it on wikipdia, I was about to add it to my post, but was too slow.

Could have done with more ballons....

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2009/05/26/wind-sabotages-up-balloon-display-over-macefield-home/?from=blog_last3

The old Wickhams building on Mile End Road is similar:

http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2008/08/hs2012-stepney.html

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Mile+End+Road,+London&hl=en&ll=51.520941,-0.05108&spn=0.002937,0.006899&sll=51.500194,-0.093384&sspn=0.396669,0.883026&oq=mile+&vpsrc=6&hnear=Mile+End+Rd,+London,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.520791,-0.05143&panoid=YbMfsJ6PmE8-47MefTBtDQ&cbp=12,327.04,,0,-4.2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbirkbeck/5137148913/sizes/l/in/faves-soxiam/

Stopped me in my tracks - worth a click

old

So am I.

I swear Dido minced about in front of that house in the video for that Eminem track about a chap called Stan...

I would get a screengrab of it but I really can't be arsed.

Here we go. Turns out it is from that appalling Dido track, not the Eminem one.

Looking at it again it's clearly just a set.
I'm off to hang my head and self flagellate for seeing such a wonderful photo and thinking of Dido.
I'm also off to write you all individual letters of apology for sullying the Photo of the Day thread with such frippery.

nerged

I deserved that

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Sequence-Saturday-Tour-De-France.html

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Airplane_vortex_edit.jpg