Photo Of The Day

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/01/famous-photos-in-history-colorized/

These are, in the most part, fantastic! I love the atomic bomb and the self immolation (images, not the acts etc).

Some of the portraits, however, look a little less dramatic in colour than in black and white.

Really well done.

Biking on a clear smooth frozen Lake Michigan with studded tires and a fat bike snow bike in Michigan.

January 2012

Aaron Peterson

Cool pic!

*Cool ride, I should imagine.

Not so much "Photo of the day" as "Photo of 2 days ago in the snow bike thread" :-)

Still cool though.

Cribbed from the Daily Fail website. Sorry!

Love the window/roof angles.

Took Parrymans lead I had'nt realised waht an amazing photographer Stanley Kuberick was

Hmmm ... would there be any mileage in Microcosm adding such a tagging mechanism, e.g. [nsfw]link[/nsfw] which would not only flag something up as NSFW but also, if you clicked on it, asked you for confirmation that you wanted to visit it, just to prevent people from clicking through to NSFW targets accidentally? (You might be able to switch off confirmation.) May of course already be planned.

That would be a nice feature, particularly if users could choose to browse in "not at work" mode in which case the nsfw links are inlined.

As an even further aside, some of the agro in this thread might have been avoided if it were possible to configure something like "don't inline images posted by user X in thread Y".

not sure if it had been mentioned, but how about down-voted posts get hidden?
if someones post reach a -(arbitary number) vote, they are then hidden by a message that says "users nerged, click to view" or similar
(fairly sure I've seen this/ similar before somewhere)

Photograph by Matthieu Paley

                Blanket-draped yaks hunker down outside a young couple’s yurt on  the eve of a summer trading journey. Made of interlaced poles covered  with felt, these portable homes are packed up and reassembled for  seasonal migration. Wooden doors are imported to the treeless plateau  from lower altitudes.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/wakhan-corridor/paley-photography#/16-summer-eve-yurt-670.jpg

^^ Youtube use that system.

It should be the other way around though... everybody would want to view the nerged post.

The best and rather simple solution IMO would be implementing an option like
[NSFW]http://xyz.tumblr.com/nsfw-picture.jpg[/NSFW], the forum will just show the clickable link,
and, if an NSFW option in user's preferences is checked, forum will automatically show the linked image.

http://polpix.sueddeutsche.com/bild/1.1577756.1358931349/860x860/bankraub-berlin-fahndungsfoto.jpg

A tunnel bored by bankrobbers in Berlin, 45m long.

Full series of images here:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/bankraub-in-berlin-profis-im-untergrund-1.1576134

Something about that image made me think it was looking straight down into a hole in the floor for a minute.

The Lorenzkirche church in Nürnberg, 1862. The photos recall the aesthetic medieval grandeur that many German cities lost in World War II.

From this set

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-19th-century-germany-in-photographs-fotostrecke-92001.html

^ Would love a before/after of that

Best I could find...

http://www.lostimagesofww2.com/images/past-present/nuremberg-st-lorenz-church-then-and-now.jpg

^ not as nice now...

http://www.trbimg.com/img-1358954189/turbine/chi-warehouse-fire-hot-spots-20130123/1280

Firefighters spray hot spots on an abandoned warehouse fire on South Ashland Avenue the morning after the fire. — John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune, Jan. 23, 2013

Set here