Photo Of The Day

Christ, what a grim year. Exceptionally harrowing images

Oof. This.

From http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/12/cloud-forest-kilian-schonberger/
(Could happily post that whole set, really otherworldly light!)

woo!

^^ all of a sudden those flats at the top of the shard seem really good value

^^^More fog photos from timeout here...

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/12/11/23-dazzling-photos-of-the-fog-enveloping-london/

It was one of those mornings that I wish I'd had a camera with me on my ride to work along the river - Lots of photo opportunities in the thick fog

Exactly what's in my mind's eye when reading HP Lovecraft

That was a very strong page.

From Simon Shuster's look at krokodil users in Russia

http://lightbox.time.com/2013/12/05/the-worlds-deadliest-drug-inside-a-krokodil-cookhouse/#7

I saw a programme on that the other night. massive problem in Ukraine as well. What a skanky drug that is...a mix of petrol and bleach and a few other bits & pieces, heated up and injected.
Flakes your skin, gives you absesses which develop into open wounds...all with a life expectancy of 2 years max once addicted

^^^ I usually get the steady glare of Polaris (for some reason that story has stuck with me, even more than the others)

^^ I think it is probably valid, although when journos breathlessly report on terrifying new drugs or dangerous youth trends it is always a little bit sus. See jenkum/wilding.

^^ I think it is probably valid, although when journos breathlessly report on terrifying new drugs or dangerous youth trends it is always a little bit sus. See jenkum/wilding.

I'm quite sure this one has been in the making for quite some time. Used to hear about it and had a Polish friend jump on a chance to go do some work on the subject a couple of years ago. He came back a couple of months later saying he was out of his depth. "I don't know where to start" were his words.
Jenkum was hilarious. I gotta find that link of a tea Party member using it as a basis for a speech he was giving. Satan came into it at some point.

Krokodil. Do not google image search that shit, do not do it.

Had to after that...I should have known better, I work in mental health and it's made it into Western Europe

Krokodil is some messy messy stuff.
A fair few articles suggest that Krokodil has reached the UK. It's really scary.
Simon's right. Don't look for images unless you're prepared.

http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20131213&t=2&i=819930218&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=390&r=2013-12-13T033511Z_05_GM1E9B31BR701_RTRRPP_0_VENEZUELA

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Mysterious-dinosaur-seen-cycling-Bristol/story-20240731-detail/story.html

Danish swimmer not believing the European Record she just made.

ha, very nice..

Swimmer shot is great.

Just tried to find out who shot this..
I did install a right-click kind of extension to Firefox called 'Exif Viewer' a while ago,
but it lately gets stuck almost everytime "processing remote URL..." and does nuthin'. *
Dragged the photo to google image search, and get this as "similar image" result -

• ..can anyone recommend a good firefox-extension to view exif and iptc data of images?
  

Danish swimmer not believing the European Record she just made.

I didn't know removing one's bathing suit was a common celebratory routine.

That's a small shark and she's poking around in one of its nostrils.

#whenyouseeityou'llshitbricks

A pile of American Bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer: photographer unknown, mid-1870s (image by Chick Bowen, 27 May 2011)