Link Banana

My two favorite errata to have resulted from last Tuesday:

• This headline.
• and this photo.

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

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

We live in a beautiful world.

This made me cry.

Both awe and sadness seem like proper responses to this post from The Big Picture. These two really got me.

There are a couple pictures of the aforementioned 5-a-side, as well as a number of other sports new to me. Which leads me to the exactly-what-I-was-thinking first two comments on the post:

Awesome - is this being broadcast by anyone?

Sadly, no. And:

I think this is more human and fun, than the other one…

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.

If this — the Large Hadron Collider that some on the fringe fear will create a black hole to swallow everything — is how the world ends, at least we’ll know we saw the truly amazing pictures.

I’m pretty sure this is at least the third time this week, but I can’t help myself. The Big Picture’s series on Jupiter is quite awesome.

If only to demonstrate how much a fan I am of The Big Picture, another link to another stunning series.

Though the theme and title of this Big Picture post is rather inelegant, the pictures are quite amazing.

The Big Picture has a great set about China’s recent “Great Wall 5” drills. Included is the already well-known snap of an armed SWAT team advancing on Segways.

The Big Picture really should try to do a post about this. Even Passport’s rather small picture is impressive.

More than 10,000 people have been mobilized to clean up green algae that has invaded the Olympic sailing venue in Qingdao, Shandong, China. The Qingdao Olympic Sailing Committee estimates that the area will be cleared before July 15.

The Big Picture has some pictures of a phenomenon I’d never heard of.

Two years ago now, on 28 May 2006, gas company PT Lapindo Brantas exploring for gas in Sidoarjo, in East Java, Indonesia, drilled a borehole. At 5 AM, a secondary stage of drilling began and the drill string went about 9,300 feet down, after which the first small eruption of water, steam and a small amount of gas occurred at a location just southwest of the well. Several other eruptions followed over the next few days. The flow of hot mud has not ceased since.

Fourteen people have been killed and 30,000 people have been evacuated from the area. At least a dozen villages, with more than 10,000 homes have been destroyed while schools, offices and factories have also been wiped out and a major impact on the wider marine and coastal environment is expected.