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ckck: England’s Royal Mail is releasing a series of album cover...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:31:53 +0100

ckck:

England’s Royal Mail is releasing a series of album cover stamps next year.

Photo

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:25:04 +0100

tmblg: I’m obliged to post this at least once a year: STEVE...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:41:41 +0100

tmblg:

I’m obliged to post this at least once a year:

STEVE JOBS AT HOME IN 1982 — “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.” —Steve Jobs

Diwali 2009 (via Diwali 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:27:31 +0100

Diwali 2009 (via Diwali 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

Spent my evening at the Muse concert at Parken in Copenhagen. It...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:50:45 +0100

Spent my evening at the Muse concert at Parken in Copenhagen. It made me regret I’ve never seen Geneva in concert.

addam: thedailywhat: Geeky Groom’s Cake of the Day: Tauntaun...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:40:09 +0100

addam:

thedailywhat:

Geeky Groom’s Cake of the Day: Tauntaun cake by Cake Nouveau for Star-Wars-crossed lovers Chris and Julie’s wedding.

It’s quite tasty — once you get past the smell, that is.

Closeups here and here.

[via.]

Shut the fuck up! Remember all the drunk pics I posted from the Henry Ford Museum wedding I went to? Well, yeah, that was from our friends Julie and Chris wedding where this was the groom’s cake. They also had stormtroppers. All this isn’t so strange once you know that Chris’ occupation is drawing Star Wars illustrations.

A photo I took at Rikke’s birthday, Denmark 2009

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:08:31 +0200

A photo I took at Rikke’s birthday, Denmark 2009

I simply love this photo of my former boss, Stefan who’s...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:35:45 +0200

I simply love this photo of my former boss, Stefan who’s currently travelling around South America.

via smetravel.files.wordpress.com

theimpossiblecool: Springsteen.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:19:57 +0200

theimpossiblecool:

Springsteen.

Berlin, September 2009

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:26:42 +0200

Berlin, September 2009

U2 to stream live show on YouTube | Music | guardian.co.uk

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:33:27 +0200

U2 to stream live show on YouTube | Music | guardian.co.uk :

Are you going to stay op late ?

VOTD (Video Of The Day) on Vimeo

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:09:52 +0200

VOTD (Video Of The Day) on Vimeo

Freediving World Record - 88m without fins on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:26:28 +0200

Freediving World Record - 88m without fins on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

theimpossiblecool: Crosby.

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:21:47 +0200

theimpossiblecool:

Crosby.

krislane: Broken Hill Dust Storm Australia (via Clunesley)

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:50:43 +0200

krislane:

Broken Hill Dust Storm Australia (via Clunesley)

Wildfires in Southern California - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:15:50 +0200

Wildfires in Southern California - The Big Picture - Boston.com

jarredbishop: via theburrow

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:13:49 +0200

jarredbishop:

via theburrow

ericmortensen: michaelmcgee: theduty: While You Wait for the...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:09:53 +0200

ericmortensen:

michaelmcgee:

theduty:

While You Wait for the Others - Grizzly Bear w/ Michael McDonald.

Song of the Year.

Really interesting to hear McDonald’s voice in this context. It’s a bold move that results in a challenging and sophisticated song.

xplanes: The “Ye Olde Pub” On December 20th 1943, 2nd...

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:55:56 +0200

xplanes:

The “Ye Olde Pub”

On December 20th 1943, 2nd Lieutenant Charles “Charlie” Brown, of the 379th Bomb group, flew the B-17 Flying Fortress “Ye Olde Pub” on a bombing run against the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant at Bremen, Germany.

The squadron encountered heavy flak on approach to the target. Brown had to feather two of his engines, and his aircraft began to trail behind the rest of the bomber formation. He watched his flight leader plummet to the ground ahead of him.

Suddenly, eight fighters attacked from the front, joined by another seven from the rear. The crippled B-17 managed to down one (possibly two aircraft) before starting to spiral to the ground. Brown recalls:
”I either spiraled or spun and came out of the spin just above the ground. My only conscience memory was of dodging trees but I had nightmares for years and years about dodging buildings and then trees. I think the Germans thought that we had spun in and crashed”

The B-17 recovered, but Brown and four of his crew were injured, and one of his gunners was dead. They had no compass and no oxygen. Then they were engaged by a lone Messerschmitt Bf-109, piloted by Franz Stigler. Stigler approached the bomber from the rear, then noticed that the tail gunner was incapacitated, bleeding profusely.

“I saw his gunner lying in the back profusely bleeding….. so, I couldn’t shoot.”

As he flew by the cockpit, he gestured for Brown to land the aircraft - he refused. He tried to get Brown to turn to Sweden - only 30 minutes away - he also refused.

He continued to escort the B-17 towards England, eventually saluting Brown and heading back to base. He told his superiors that the plane had gone down over the sea.

“I tried to get him to land in Germany and he didn’t react at all. So, I figured, well, turn him to Sweden, because his airplane was so shot up; I never saw anything flying so shot up…the most badly damaged aircraft I ever saw, still flying.”

“I didn’t have the heart to finish off those brave men,” Stigler later said. “I flew beside them for a long time. They were trying desperately to get home and I was going to let them do it. I could not have shot at them. It would have been the same as shooting at a man in a parachute.”

Stigler and Brown eventually found each other in 1989, and became firm friends. They both passed away last year.

(more here and here)

Mad World

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:02:52 +0200