In an effort to expand awareness about endangered species, the Center for Biological Diversity has a site called Rare Earthtones that provides downloads and distribution of ringtones formed from the natural calls of various endangered animals, as well as some stunning photography of the same animals for cell phone wallpapers.
With over 200,000 ring tones [...]
I flew back from Philadelphia late Sunday night. I can usually say “the trip was uneventful, blah blah blah” but that wasn’t the case this time. It started off uneventful enough. We left Philly a little late, but no big deal because I had like a three or four hour layover anyway and I was [...]
Elephants at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park are slimming down. The seven elephants have collectively lost more than five tons of fat since 2000.
Never has the big boned excuse been more accurate, but the elephants at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park no longer need it. They’re slimming down [...]
Wildlife satellite studies could lead to a radical re-thinking about how the snowy owl fits into the Northern ecosystem.
“Six of the adult females that we followed in a satellite study spent most of last winter far out on the Arctic sea ice,” said Université Laval doctoral student Jean-Francois Therrien, who is working with Professor Gilles [...]
A Las Vegas animal shelter is taking steps to protect its workers from pet owners angered by the shelter’s policy on unclaimed pets. “We’ve had people come over the top of the counter and grab staff,” James Seitz, Lied Animal Shelter’s acting director, told the Las Vegas Sun. “One day, it took six of us [...]
In a study that challenges current ideas about the insect brain, researchers have found that honey bees on cocaine tend to exaggerate.
Normally, foraging honey bees alert their comrades to potential food sources only when they’ve found high quality nectar or pollen, and only when the hive is in need. They do this by performing a [...]
Shelters nationwide are being hit by the economic meltdown. Cash-strapped pet owners have inundated the SPCA with pets that they can no longer afford.
It’s not just the usual cats, dogs, rabbits and guinea pigs — a horse and 50 chickens have also landed at a South Jersey SPCA.
“What I’m seeing is people coming in and [...]
How fast does my page load?
Slow! Says pingdom
I’ve just removed several images that were hosted in my wordpress file and already it is faster.
Also my Flickr images that I have inserted at large or medium sizes take too much time.
Posted in Tag Clouds
Calgary sunlight in January 2009 with artist reflected in vase . . .
From MyArtWork
From MyArtWork
Compare the image from the free account at Picasaweb (1600×1200 pixels – 261KB) with the following (1024 x 768) from the free account at Flickr:
New Blue Spherical Reflection, originally uploaded by ocean.flynn.
Posted in slow world, Visual Arts, Visual.Arts Tagged: Adobe Photoshop, [...]
Researchers have discovered that grazing animals such as deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease – quadrupling its prevalence in some cases – and encouraging an invasion of annual grasses that threaten more than 20 million acres of native grasslands in California.
The findings run contrary to what had been predicted by other [...]
