Frozen tsunami wave in Antarctica?

A series of images has been floating around email for a while about a supposed tsunami wave that froze in midair as it came up and over other Antarctic ice.

There is one site here that has the other photos and a good round of controversy. One person suggests it is “blue ice.” Most [...]

Marvel Super Heroes ~ USPS 41-cent stamps of the Silver Surfer and Sub-Mariner

The US Postal Service has had a good decade-long track record of producing some interesting stamps.  I remember a time when people would complain about how boring US stamps and currency were compared to other countries’.
In my opinion, the Looney Toons stamps were some of the first to really break out and allow us to [...]

The manmade island floating atop plastic bottles

If Disney convinced you there was no hope for plastic bottles and the ocean, I present to you the man that has built a small floating island on top of plastic bottles in nets:

 
"One day we will sail out on the ocean and become a small floating country."
More delicious pictures and information are available here [...]

Palm Tree 1 Lighthouse 0 ~ Citi Cards

Citi refuses to leave the coasts with their advertising. They must have spent some time at the Earl Cunningham exhibit at the Smithsonian to come up with this ad (click to enlarge):

Yes, that’s a palm tree that has supposedly been transported from Florida to Maine. I know that these stories are embellished to [...]

GE Ecomagination and Admagination

GE has scored a winner with this ad, which appeared in the December issue of The Atlantic (click to enlarge):

One of the most powerful feelings that you can have on an island is when you look around or at glance at your feet and realize the full power of nature that elevated this place above [...]

Smithsonian Magazine ~ Philippe Cousteau, grandson of Jacques, a leading "Young Innovator"

The Fall 2007 issue of Smithsonian Magazine features a cover story on the America’s 37 young innovators under the age of 36.  Philippe Cousteau, the grandson of famed explorer and environmental activist Jacques Cousteau, is one of the 37 people.  Like others in his family, he works to help protect and save rivers and oceans [...]

Russian oil spill a tragedy in the Black Sea ~ hope you didn’t already put down your island deposit

In case you were still considering buying one of the expensive little islands that are slated to be built in the Dubai-like "Russian Federation" development in the Black Sea, you may want to investigate your risks for oil spills from at-risk tankers and government expropriation.  Reuters is reporting a huge spill near Crimea: "The damage [...]

US Postal Service Flower Stamps and Guam

Some of the more beautiful stamps by the postal service are the Beautiful Blooms seen here (click to enlarge):

You might also like to get a good tropical island stamp like this one:

Thank you, Guam!  More power to you if you can pronounce "Hagåtña Bay," where this was taken.  I like the fact that they actually [...]

GetGoodKarma.org ~ rise from the sea of goodwill

This public service announcement for "Karmalot" at GetGoodKarma.org escapes me a bit:

I think the message is fantastic and spot on, especially for high school kids who might think that they just need to volunteer to get into college.  The sea scene is a little off if it’s really meant to represent "the universe," but maybe [...]

Zune mistakes itself for an iPod Touch

After the last Zune review, I set out to explore the possibility that maybe in Microsoft’s overall campaign they actually put together some really compelling ways of selling the Zune.  What I found instead was a commercial called "Ballad of TIna Pink" (or possibly "Welcome to the Social" if you go by the Zune website) [...]

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