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Best Songs Ever
BestSongsEver.com is on a mission to find the most popular, loved songs out there, and they need your votes.
Here’s how the Top 10 (yes I’m big into lists today) stands at the minute:
- Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven (1971)
- Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)
- Pink Floyd – Learning To Fly (1987)
- Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)
- The Eagles – Hotel California (1976)
- John Lennon – Imagine (1971)
- The Beatles – Hey Jude (1968)
- Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb (1979)
- Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing (1978)
To vote for your favourite song, head on over to www.bestsongsever.com, search for the track, and rate it out of 5 stars.
A photomicrograph (or micrograph, or microphotograph) is an image taken through a microscope, and Nikon have been sponsoring the International Small World Competition since 1974, as a means to recognize the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope. The competition is open to anyone with an interest in photography through the microscope, professionals and hobbyists alike.
Here are some shots from the 2008 competition.
1st Place – Michael Stringer, Pleurosigma (marine diatoms)
This image was one of a series Mr. Stringer created to illustrate a talk to a camera club on “Photography through the microscope.” His objective was to display diatoms in a modern way using super contrast and careful application of color. Rather than showing all the details, or warts and wrinkles as Mr. Stringer likes to call them, he dressed up the diatoms by manipulating the image and creating this beautiful photomicrograph.
2nd Place – Paul Marshall, Carbon nanotubes
Marshall’s image was taken as part of the study of an atypical Carbon Nanotube growth run. Carbon Nanotubes are the latest material of interest and show great promise for the next generation of devices in the field of optical, medical and electronic research. He chose to submit this image to convey the hidden microscopic beauty of science and technology.
The image was created using a Nikon CoolPix E995 and a Nikon SMZ-10 Stereo Microscope. Marshall used this image as the cover of a Christmas card to his students.
3rd Place – Albert Tousson, Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley)
Tousson has been involved in photomicrography for 25 years. As a cell biologist, Tousson works to understand the complex processes that allow cells to metabolize and perpetuate.
Tousson chose to submit this image showing the plant’s tissue organization because the red cell walls and green and yellow starch granules were striking. This image was acquired using laser confocal microscopy with 3D projection as part of a test of a confocal imaging system for optical sectioning and 3D rendering. Tousson hoped the result of the test would be of a quality for submission to the Nikon Small World Competition.
See more spectacular photomicrographs at Nikon Small World.
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Twingly’s Top 100 Blogs
Twingly.com, a spam-free blog search engine that currently serves 25 millions search results per month, has compiled a Top 100 list of the most popular blogs today.
Twingly uses a concept of a Blog Rank for their metrics. Akin to Google’s Page Rank service, Blog Rank measures the web prominence of blogs only. The Blog Rank indicates how much influence and importance a particular blog has become.
Twingly can also group by language, so here are the Top 10 English blogs:
10. Perez Hilton
9. Lifehacker
8. ReadWriteWeb
7. The Official Google Blog
6. Mashable!
5. CNN Political Ticker
4. Engadget
3. Gizmodo
2. Boing Boing
And the top blog is …
I love vintage graphics especially the one that show the painful electric shocks as a result of silly mistakes.
Little Johhny and the fried weiner.
During the great food shortage of 2008, the rats thought it’d be a great idea to eat electricity wires.
Showboating for the girlfriend rarely pays off if your head gets fried.
Hit the jump to see more vintage graphics.
I see something else in this incredible psychedelic image. Do you?
Despite the botox and plastic surgeries, the years have been cruel to some celebrities.
American Gigolo Richard Gere. Now a looking more like a Christmas ham.
A former Mr Universe, Arnold “I’ll be Baaaack” Schwarzenegger trying out a new look. I just in-kotched.
007 star Roger Moore is now licensed to be flabby.
Hit the jump to see 3 more celebrities and their transformations.
Here’s a quick-ish history for those uninitiated with the series. The first Resident Evil film tells of an amnesiac heroine Alice as she attempts to escape a secret underground facility belonging to the Umbrella Corporation (a bioengineering pharmaceutical company). The said facility is full of zombies. Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the second in the series and follows Alice, who after escaping the underground Umbrella facility, must band together with other survivors to escape Raccoon City before it gets nuked. The said town is once again full of zombies.
Now in Resident Evil: Extinction Alice is set to fight (if you haven’t figured this out already) even more zombies. An experimental T-Virus created by the Umbrella Corporate has transformed the world’s population into enraged flesh-eating zombies. No city is safe from the zombie hordes. However, two Raccoon City survivors Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps), team up with new survivors Claire (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke), and Nurse Betty (Ashanti). Gathering together a group of survivors, they travel across the Mojave Desert in an armoured convoy looking for supplies, and more importantly, uninfected survivors.
More zombies after the jump.
As sequels usually do, Underworld: Evolution continues the story about the war between vampires and werewolves (or Lycans as they are called) that was introduced in the first Underworld film. Don’t worry if you haven’t watched the first one as this sequel shows extensive flashbacks to ensure you know what’s going on. How thoughtful.
So in Underworld: Evolution, sexy death-dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and mildly attractive vampire-lycan hybrid Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman) are on the run after doing something really bad in the first film. They are being hunted by vampire elder leader Marcus (Tony Curran), who fails to obtain an artifact in Selene’s possession. Recognizing the importance of the said possession, Selene and Michael travel to the hideout of Andreas Tanis, an exiled vampire historian. Tanis tells a rather convoluted tale and refers them to Lorenz Macaro, stating he can help stop Marcus. Lorenz tells his story to the pair but is cut short as Marcus finds and attacks them. People get killed and Marcus boldly says he will become a god and rule a race of hybrids. Marcus then flies away, but Selene and a team of “cleaners” track him down and set the scene for an epic battle that will change the history of the two warring factions…
Hit the jump to read about the special features on the disc.