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There are some great pictures in this slideshow. That’s all.

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UPDATE (07/08/09): The Times has pulled the slideshow as some of it was manipulated. The photog has claimed there was none. (via @austinkleon)

It’s daunting and distressing to look in the face of all the waste of the way we’re living.

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I only link to the Big Picture when I’m wowed at least three times while viewing the sequence. This passed.

You’ve probably seen this set from The Big Picture by now, but that’s never stopped me before.

The New York Times slideshow is well done.

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You’ve probably seen this by now, but if you haven’t, now you have.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about this little project — taking pictures of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in different cities across the United States — is that not two years ago someone would have had to visit all of these places to be able to compile it.

Though I dislike having to repeatedly click to see the series, Jason Kottke’s right that this is a rather good set of photos of Barack Obama.

Is awsome. (Yes, this is another Big Picture post.)

Closer to home, today’s Daily Dose of Imagery is pretty awesome too.

Think the “Northern Lights”. And someone named Paul has taken a lot of great pictures of them.

(via Delicious Ghost, who picked some of the best)

Blake Hounshell points to a handful of images of the DAX — Germany’s stock exchange — in decline that all feature the same woman. The Independent even interviewed her.

Because sometimes Digg bait is just too pretty.

I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never looked nearly this closely at the stuff.

(via Neatorama)

Photographed from above. On The Big Picture.

If those lines aren’t enough to make you view this one, nothing else I say will.

Another coincidence worth noting:

• The Big Picture has a great set of photos of life in Rio de Jinaro.
• While at Passport, Patrick Fitzgerald argues that the IOC should make Rio the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Though his argument is at times tepid, I find myself in agreement.

(via MeFi, where the early comments are uniformly bitter)

Sam Javanrouh captured a few moments of a great one.

Though I think giving Nigeria’s active but low-budget film scene an “-ollywood” is tacky, these are some interesting (and graphic) photos of it.

(via Boing Boing)

Two interesting tidbits:

• Primordial Mars was like primordial Earth.
• The European Space Agency offers some beautiful photos the Echus Chasm. The chasm was made by liquid water at some point in the past. (via Wired Science)

This picture is very cool. That is all.

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