Honey On Tap?

I honestly don’t know enough about traditional honey production to know if the “It’s the beekeepers dream” claim made by the Honey On Tap From Your Own Beehive folks is true, but I do know their little invention is very, very cool!

Take A Trip And Never Leave The Farm!

As much as I love the old Jim Stafford song from which I took the title for this post (and as many times as I’ve personally experienced what that song was all about), the fact is that the “trips” I’ve dreamed of taking most have always been of an altogether different kind. Here a just two examples…

Flight Related…

As an Air Force veteran and “Spacehead,” the fact that my desktop slideshow includes lots of “flight-related” images will probably come as no surprise to anyone. The thing is though, while I was reading the How WWI Shaped Modern Air Supremacy article over on LiveScience, it wasn’t those images that immediately popped into my head…

How The Sun Sees You?

This one is both fascinating and, well, a little creepy too. Okay, we hear all the time about how ultraviolet radiation from the sun can damage our skin, right? But did you know that an ultraviolet camera can be used to reveal the hidden freckles and splotches the sun has already left on your skin? Well, take a look as videographer Thomas Leveritt shocks and amazes a bunch of people by revealing what the sun has done to them!

Reflections On Fallen Leaves…

As a child, I never could quite understand people’s fascination with fragile things, since they had to keep everyone – like rambunctious little boys – away from them. I’m much older now. And while I’m still not sure I’d trust myself to take proper care of such things, I do have much more of an appreciation for what they represent.

Since seeing these very cool Omid Asadi images on Visual News and Twisted Sifter, I’ve come to think of them as excellent ‘reflections’ of just how fragile things can be, and of just how hard it might be to repair them once broken…