It's Earth Day!

In the spirit of photography and light, I am posting about light from human populations. Light pollution may be a serious problem in many cities, and the energy used to power our large and tiny anthills may be slowly poisoning us all, but seriously, it's all about the pretty.

This image was created by the UN from composite satellite pictures. I think this one is the real light coming from the earth, recorded with a long exposure. Satellites are moving, of course, so taking a picture with a long exposure is challenging. So some guy built a thing that compensates. Check out this website for a more scientific explanation. The sciency bit is partway down, and there are some other pictures.

This one is awesome, it looks like some sort of blobby/tentatcle monster:

EUROPE WILL EAT YOUR SOUL.

It's fascinating to look at different areas of the globe and different cities and see what you can figure out from the light distribution at night.

Japan is distinctive because the country uses a light source that emits mercury vapors into the air, causing a green glow. It's pretty eerie, and clearly a sign that this phenomenon needs to be features in a Mothra remake. It's a giant moth! Clearly would be destructively attracted to lights!

Pictures of Cairo show the Nile as a distinctive black line snaking through the city.

Images of Vegas are gorgeous in part because the colored (and extreme in general) lights along the strip look like a strip of scattered jewels in the middle of the city in the middle of the desert.

I am pleased to celebrate Earth Day by celebrating how cool our planet looks from space due to our consumption of natural resources.

Lightning Pictures

Although I find the science aspect of lightning very interesting I will allow you to explore that to the extent each of you would like to. I would mostly like to share some impressive pictures and graphics. I was inspired over the weekend with the incredible pictures of lightning from the ash cloud of the Icelandic volcano that is erupting. Here is a link to a slideshow of some of those pictures as well as the one below. I will share this graphic that I found interesting as it shows the rfrequency of lightning strikes around the world. I was surprised by some of these locations and others I was not surprised about at all.

The rest are just pictures of lightning that I think are very cool!

World's Largest...

After a week-long break here at the Mullet, I will bring in some "World's Largest" topic areas for fun.

Here is a link to a site with information on some of the world's largest vehicles of various sorts. Below is one of the pictures from their list/site and it is the Knock Nevis, the largest ship in the world.

The largest animal in the world is the Blue Whale, though some Lion's Mane Jellyfish can grow to be longer they are nowhere near as massive as the Blue Whale.

The largest land animal is the African Bush Elephant. I took this picture in Botswana at Chobe National Park.

The world's largest cut diamond is the Golden Jubilee Diamond, which is 545 carats. The Cullinan I which is in the Crown Jewels collection in the Tower of London was the largest prior to the discovery of the Golden Jubilee in the 1980s. The larger rough version known as the Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality diamond ever found. It was 3106 carats and when cut and polished yielded the Culinan I at 530 carats, the Cullinan II at 317 carats. The Cullinan III and Cullinan IV are 94 and 63 carats respectively!

World's Largest City? Anyone guess New York or Tokyo? The largest city, not metropolitan area is actually Shanghai, China. New York is #13 and Tokyo is #11. For metropolitan area Tokyo jumps to #1 and NY goes to #4.

BACON!!!

OK, a warning message to all vegetarians - look away now!

Bacon is the awesome topic today, in particular it is random and weird bacon items! I have a handful of these fun items that friends have given me over the last year including bacon mints, bacon bandaids and most recently bacon toothpicks.

Here are a few items from Archie McPhee's that are in their bacon line of products, and there is a location in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle.

Bacon Belt

Bacon Air FreshenerVosges Chocolates makes both a dark chocolate and milk chocolate bacon bar and the dark chocolate one is very AWESOME! They also make many other fine chocolates with different flavors and they are all quite excellent.
Think Geek even gets in on the bacon action with items such as bacon salt and bacon lip balm. Their bacon t-shirt and bacon envelopes are pictured below, while they have other items as well.
Geeky Bacon T-Shirt

Bacon Envelopes

Please add your own bacon products or places to get them if you know of some not mentioned here.

OH, I totally forgot about Bakon Vodka!!! Here is a picture - think bloody mary, YUM.

Just Watch It!

Some things are just so awesome they can be simply posted and viewed without any explanation!

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. - une vidéo Art et Création @ Yahoo! Video

Awesome or Not?

I am not sure but I think this may just be AWESOME, I will let you be the judge. Maybe only bits and pieces will be awesome and others just plain weird. I am not knowledgable about fashion so this is just my humble yet intrigued opinion.

Today I saw a picture of some interesting shoes that are apparently designed by Alexander McQueen and Lady Gaga wears them. Here is the picture, I like the one on the right the best, I guess. OK, more crazy shoes/boots, here we go! Of course I couldn't ignore some Gene Simmons boots from KISS. Apparently you can buy some of these or boots like these and many other types of custom boots at http://www.motorcowboy.com/product/KISS2 Anyone remember the crazy kicks that the Spice Girls wore? Here is a picture to jog your memory. Superheroes definitely get in on the action with the eccentric footwear! Superman had some interesting boots, I guess but people always focus more on the tights!Here are some Wonder Woman boots that you can even get for yourself.

I got to thinking where some of this may have started and I thought of the old Nancy Sinatra song so here is a video of this:


And Puss in Boots here:

And Jessica Simpson here:

AWESOME Returns

OK, since it has been a week since the last post here at the Mullet of Blogs I feel the need to re-address the mission of spreading Awesomeness! I think this can only be done properly by using fictional motivational posters. Who among you will challenge the Awesomeness of these posters here.

The poster above is from the show How I Met Your Mother and was in Barney's office. Awesomeness - "When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead - True Story"

This second poster is from a wesite called motifake and they have some fun posters to look through. They are not all for the PC conscious though.
Ah, the eternal question in life "Who's Awesome?" The most obvious answer is you! The reader of the Mullet of Blogs!
Of course, we had to finish with a classic combination of Star Wars with Guitar Hero in an exhibition of "AWESOME" so here is the final poster! I hope everyone is feeling as awesome as I am right about now!!!