Nuke it!

Brilliant. A design firm in Sydney, Carlos Labs, has done a mash-up of Google Earth that shows you the effect of nuclear bombs, of different sizes, being dropped on - well, wherever you want.

Above is Edinburgh hit by a bomb the size of Little Boy: the concentric circles represent conflagration, and first, second and third degree burns.

In a further stroke of genius, you also have the option of replicating your chosen target being hit by an asteroid.

Bye bye Basildon.

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Fresh from the internets (4)

Garfield minus Garfield. What was a vaguely amusing cartoon featuring a lazy cat becomes, without Garfield, an ongoing study of mental breakdown, loneliness and melancholy absurdism that out-Becketts Beckett. 

Fresh from the internets (3)

With a hat-tip to the always excellent Andrew Sullivan, I give you cake wrecks - a blog dedicated to professionally made cakes that have gone badly, badly wrong. Hilarious.

Fresh from the internets (2)

The oddly moving photoblog of a puddle in New York. Really. The excitement when it froze last winter was something else.

Fresh from the internets

A series introducing assorted splendid blogs.

First up: Photoshop Disasters. Does exactly what it says on the tin.