WHAT ?

09.09.09 09:09 !

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Spezify "G@ttoGiallo" !

PS : thanks to Romke who found this from his wild french forest !
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Now, what if you spezify the Berlusco ???



Terrible ! isn't it ?
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Discovered on TV news, today...

... I was very busy this morning - the tube draining was blocked, so I was
going to and fro with a plunger and caustic soda when, passing by the TV
in my way from the kitchen to the bathroom, I suddenly froze in front of it.

I wasn't ready to see this before my morning coffee :


The Berlusco and his fave minister in an Αρκαδία-style landscape !
(by Filippo Panseca, Art & Savonnerie exhibition - Priamar/Savona, Italy).

Be sure a little later the water was running free in the bath tube.
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Hugest Spiders in the World... are French !

Born in Nantes, France
and created by
Compagnie La Machine
...
(see slideshow)...



(photo Matthew Andrews).

Last seen in Liverpool/08...


(click for more Pink Tentacle pics & video).

... the robot spider will perform in Japan for
the 150th Yokoama Port Opening Anniversary.

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Another french huge spider is...


(photo G@tto)


(photo GMG)

... the fantastic spider sculptures of Louise Bourgeois, here shot in Beaubourg
and in Bilbao (2008).

And that's all, folks ! for the moment.
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For Hyena Men Aficionados...

Two more shots...
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- the first one, by Andy Esiebo, from his LightStalkers' gallery

- and the other one from Reuters


















Published by The Telegraph/Pictures of the year.

Back to the original successfull picture...
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(see also Andy's 2008 Paris exhibition)

The Orbital Debris or...

... the biggest earth's trash, but it is so beautiful !
Approximately 95% of the objects in these illustrations are orbital debris, not functional
satellites. The dots represent the current location of each item. The orbital debris dots
are scaled according to the image size of the graphic to optimize their visibility and are
not scaled to Earth. These images provide a good visualization of where the greatest
orbital debris populations exist.

1 - LEO images - LEO stands for low Earth orbit and is the region of space within 2,000 km of the Earth's surface.
It is the most concentrated area for orbital debris.
2 - GEO polar images - generated from a vantage point above the north pole, showing the concentrations of objects
in LEO and in the geosynchronous region.

Have a look at some recovered objects from the space and from now on protect your skull !

Orbital Debris Research :
Modeling
Measurements
Protection
Mitigation
Reentry

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French Spiderman performs in China...

Alain Robert performed yesterday in Shanghai, climbing
the 420 meters/87 stories Jinmao Tower in Pudang area
and then going straight to jail on his way back to chinese
ground... the usual routine with a happy end : the police
was fair enough - with French Consulate - and released
him today.

In 1998, after climbing a tower in Tokyo he spent 5 days
in prison - instead of 20, thanks to... the French Embassy.

See on Wikipedia the international stunning deals of a man
suffering from vertigo.



Alain Robert SOLO URBAN CLIMBING world tour.

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Well, once upon a time young G@tto bypassed mother's permission
to go out with friends... as a spidergatto - from a 2nd floor balcony,
on a rainy eve, not bad, uh ?
On his way back, no police, no reporters, just a furious mother.

When it comes to optical Cats !

Cat lovers...
will prefer the cat for sure,
isn't it ?






This one starring here looks optically satisfied.
(Click below to see the video)
















(Video by wwwsikhote / Discovered on Moillusions.com)

PPG loves Sloths !

A baby sloth and his favorite environment,
from a tv reportage.

















Unable to survive outside the tropical rainforests of South and Central America,
within that environment sloths are outstandingly successful creatures:
they can account for as much as half the total energy consumption
and two-thirds of the total terrestrial mammalian biomass in some areas.
Of the six living species, only one, the Maned Three-toed Sloth
(Bradypus torquatus), has a classification of "endangered" at present.
The ongoing destruction of South America's forests, however, may soon
prove a threat to other sloth species.

















(Sloths on Wikipedia)

Scamming is alive yet...

Dear friend,

I am KOFFI MAWULI, i am the Delivery Manager of UNION TRUST
COURIER COMPANY in Lome Togo, there is a consignment that
has been designated to be Delivered to Your Country for the past five
years and as the delivery manager i have made several enquiry until
date and the Board of Directors of the company where i work has
mandated that any valuables deposited for five year without any claim
should be confisticate and declare as an unclaim bills hereby given
them the Board of directors room to share this fortune among themselve
the Board of directors, while i have all it takes as the delivery manager
to transfer this fund to you as the beneficiary owner of the deposited fund.
For this reason i have decided to Place your Name and Address as Follows
as the recipient so that the Deposited valuables shall be delivered to you
in your country as the recipient Because I have planed to settle with this
sum in your country Valued at 15.5 million (fifteen million five hundread
thousand dollars)and i am ready to give 40% to you as the recipient of
the box containg this money in your country .

For us to archive this goal i want you to send me the following
information.
1. YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
2. YOUR AGE
3. YOUR OCCUPATION

As soon as i hear from you i will provide you with the Contact
of the Security Company to enble you contact the company
officially as the owner of the fund in the trunk box deposited
with the company where i work as the delivery manager.
I anticipate your urgent response.

Kind Regards
KOFFI MAWULI

21 juin 2008 19:24
Phone No. 00228 062 5822
koffimawuli80@yahoo.fr
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If you don't already know the funniest place about scams,
check Dean Cameron's site.

Catwalking on a Bottle Line !

G@tto's fond of feline records, especially from vintage shots !

17 year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat,
complete with furry tail, and dances on wine bottles.
[June 1958].

Her performance was based on a dream and she practiced for
eight hours every day in order to perfect her dance.
(BBC)























Photo: Carlo Polito/BIPs/Getty Images

What else ? Oh, yes, the Pasłęka (Passarge is as German as Bianca)
is also a river of the north of Poland !
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Let's Fractalize Now

Everybody knows what fractals are... you just think to broccoli - you take the whole or the infinitesimal part, the structure won't change. Behind broccoli you find mathematics.

Every day at a few minutes past midnight (Wisconsin time), a new fractal is automatically generated by a variation of Julien C. Sprott's program.

The figure above is today's fractal with a code that identifies it according to a scheme described by Julien.

February 2008/10th' Fractal

February 2009/9th' Fractal

February 2008/8th' Fractal

February 2008/7th' Fractal

February 2008/6th' Fractal
(Older Fractals of the Day are saved in an archive).
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Inspire yourself, visit Chaos Demonstrations, Strange Attractors (red/blue glasses), More Strange Attractors, Julia Sets, Quadratic Map Basins, Iterated Function Systems, Strange AttractorSymmetric Icons, Newsgroup Collection, Animated Gif Attractors, Natural Fractals, Publication Quality Attractors.

Now I assume you want to start and create fractals yourselves, so here you can find a large choice of programs.
And last but not least : Fractal Music !

"Fractal Window I" was created and copyrighted © 1996 by Forrest Fang using Robert Greenhouse's program, The Well-Tempered Fractal,

Things you can do with Post-Its...

... but see and read more at WebUrbanists, with an extensive and rich commentary,
as usual !


(Student film sent by Pat Terlizzi)

As a matter of fact, the music is from Guem's Le Serpent
(The Snake). I knew him in the 70th as the Zaka Percussion's
leader, at the American Center, and I still have pics of them
in my records.



(by Anxo)
This is the latter Guem, but I remember the former Guem acting exactly
the same... in 1978.
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The never ending story of the hyena men's picture

A successful photograph indeed !



Originally posted by a brazilian tourist to Scamorama in December 2006, this
picture (+ 2 more) made protographer Pieter Hugo decide to go to Nigeria to learn
more about the gadawan kura (hyena men, in Housa language).
He did it, met journalist Adetokunbo Abiola, together they got in touch with the hyena
men guys... and Hugo made a book.


The picture was also asked to appear as cover illustration
by some editors and was featured on the cover art of the
Gorillaz album "Demon Days" and "NO HOLIDAY-80 Places
You Don't Want to Visit", a Disinformation Travel Guide.




I stumbled across these impressive photos end of December 2006, when I was back
from Nigeria and sure I regretted I wasn't lucky enough to meet any hyenas at all.

Last week, I had a Flickr alert for someone uploaded hyenas pics, so there I went
and guess what ? It was the old Scamorama pics.
So I told the guy I already knew them and ask if he had a blog or something where
I possibly could watch them... There was no answer and the pics soon vanished from
his Flickr photostream.
Nonetheless, the picture has been uploaded by many other Flickr users :
- PeaceablePrimateSanctuary, Javaneh and Hamid, coolpictureguy, caffeineguy -
ryanclark75 and joi.
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