Photo of the Day: A large bronze statue commemorating the shoe hurled at George Bush during his final press conference in Iraq was unveiled today in Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein.
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Art We Like of the Day: A Gallardo gets a Sharpie makeover from Lambo importers Prestige.
Lots more photos here.
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Holy Taco List of the Day: If Children’s Books Were Written For Adults.
Photo Set of the Day: Remembering the Siege of Leningrad — Then and Now.
The siege was lifted exactly 65 years ago. A series of photos show scenes from Leningrad during that terrible time, superimposed onto scenes from those same spots today.
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Google Maps Find of the Day: The Google Maps van runs over a baby deer.
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UPDATE: Google, citing “high demand,” has blacked out the image. Whether this is temporary or they’re scrambling to replace the original shot is to be seen.
UPDATE 2: Google responds:
Gathering the imagery for Street View requires quite a bit of driving; as such, we take safety very seriously. Unfortunately, accidents do happen — as some people have noticed, one of our Street View cars hit a deer while driving on a rural road in upstate New York. Due to several user requests using the “Report a concern” tool, these images are no longer available in Street View.
The driver was understandably upset, and promptly stopped to alert the local police and the Street View team at Google. The deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived. The police explained to our driver that, sadly, this was not an uncommon occurrence in the region — the New York State Department of Transportation estimates that 60,000-70,000 deer collisions happen per year in New York alone — and no police report needed to be filed.
Life-Altering Robot of the Day: The Mini Robo Vacuum.
Cute and functional? We should all be so luckily.
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