December 9, 2010 at 5:00 pm
UNDER THE BRIDGE Photograph by A.G. Photographe Beautiful shot of Notre Dame, Paris. Reminds me of this classic tune by the Red Hot Chili Peppers: via 1x.com Every day at 5pm the Sifter will post the picture of the day PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL ‘PICTURES OF THE DAY’ GET FEATURED! SUBMIT A PHOTOGRAPH…
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December 9, 2010 at 9:05 am
Whenever I post these mega-mansions, my first thought is always: Who buys places like this?!? Listed at $35.75 million USD, surely this is not the owner’s sole property, but just one of the places they own when they ‘want to get away’. It always blows my mind. Situated on 2 acres of pristine and manicured…
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December 8, 2010 at 5:00 pm
BIG FOOT IS THE NEW SNOWMAN! From BBC: Nial Smith said it took him an hour to make this giant footprint in his back garden in Edinburgh. He said: “I had made a sketch of it and I knew roughly what I wanted to do. You can see the car on the left to get…
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December 7, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Photograph from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on the USS Oklahoma via Naval History & Heritage Command The attack on Pearl Harbor (called the Hawaii Operation or Operation Z by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters) was a surprise military strike conducted by…
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December 7, 2010 at 9:30 am
You know the tired cliche about a picture being worth a thousand words? Well Spanish architect and designer Juan Osborne has taken this phrase quite literally, creating works of art using words and feeding them into a custom computer program he developed which can process hundreds of thousands of words into complex images of people…
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December 6, 2010 at 5:00 pm
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Artwork by Will Varner Will Varner Art via Reddit
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December 6, 2010 at 9:07 am
In a mobile industry shrouded in secrecy and lawsuits, where every major player is always in the process of suing or being sued by their competitors for patent violations and intellectual property fraud, it’s nice to find an ‘open’ and collaborative design project amongst the walled gardens. As part of Mozilla Labs’ Concept Series, the…
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December 5, 2010 at 5:03 pm
BURN BABY BURN Photograph by Sturmovik A burn bag is the informal name given to a container (usually a paper bag or some other waste receptacle) that holds sensitive or classified documents which are to be destroyed by fire or pulping after a certain period of time. The most common usage of burn bags is…
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December 4, 2010 at 5:00 pm
FOUR GUYS CROSSING A ROAD via Reddit Every day at 5pm the Sifter will post the picture of the day PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL ‘PICTURES OF THE DAY’ GET FEATURED! SUBMIT A PHOTOGRAPH FOR THE PICTURE OF THE DAY!
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December 4, 2010 at 10:30 am
COMIC BY RYAN NORTH @ QWANTZ.COM CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL COMIC STRIPS OF THE WEEK!
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