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[hobglobin]

unfortunately not online visible:

Edited by hobglobin, 28 November 2009 - 12:08 PM.

[casandra]

And now, a brief history of chocolates for  chocoholics (we know who we are ) and non-chocoholics alike.


...... a  more fun and chocolatey illustration of the brief history of chocolate in chocolate stamps:

[hobglobin]

Not so yummy but interesting in terms of pollution:

Albatros autopsy

[casandra]

a good thing I don't eat albatross........



Well folks, it’s that time of year once again for Igloo building……


By  DUMMIES FOR DUMMIES


By the PROFESSIONALS

[toejam]

interesting use of reverse photoshop

[casandra]

this is really amazing and worth a peek:

Sand Animation

[lab rat]

hobglobin, on Nov 28 2009, 02:07 PM, said:

unfortunately not online visible:

the_size_of_Africa.jpg

But...Africa is a continent, not a country. By rights, North America should get to include Canada and Mexico, too.

[casandra]

lab rat, on Dec 2 2009, 11:04 PM, said:

hobglobin, on Nov 28 2009, 02:07 PM, said:

unfortunately not online visible:

the_size_of_Africa.jpg

But...Africa is a continent, not a country. By rights, North America should get to include Canada and Mexico, too.

but Africa is still bigger compared with North America even including Mexico...

Edited by casandra, 02 December 2009 - 08:20 PM.

[Doki]

U can put whole of Africa in Asia then. .   What would anyone get by proving Africa is bigger than China?

[hobglobin]

Also Alaska is missing..., and Scandinavia not complete and Madagascar missing too.....but that's not the point...it's to show (especially for European and American people), that Africa is really huge and not only a quite big but homogeneous place. In  Europe and America people often just speak of "Africa" as a whole, and there is no room for differences. But showing it's actual size may help to avoid this "one-fits-all approaches" (e.g. Africa as synonym for war, aridity, AIDS and/or poverty).  BTW sometimes in Europe, about Asia is similarly talked as if there is also no heterogeneity and differences.

[lab rat]

That's a good point, Dr. H. Americans sometimes talk about Asia as if the population is homogenous, too.  

I'm (jokingly) protesting the comparison--superimposing the US over Africa is like comparing one basket of strawberries to the whole produce section.

[hobglobin]

as alternative this map...once saw a better one but it changes quite often anyway I think...

[casandra]

hobglobin, on Dec 3 2009, 04:02 PM, said:

as alternative this map...once saw a better one but it changes quite often anyway I think...

and what a distorted map ....they look like internal organs- the bloated stomach, fatty liver and inflated lungs...so are we squeezing the life out of the others?

[Doki]

yeah, the earth looks good the way it already is.

[casandra]

and these don't look good too: (warning: never try them at home)



spectacular crashes