confusion
This house is really in the middle of the corn field, it’s not a fancy angle or photoshop magic. There is no driveway, it’s corn all the way to the front door. And the back door. And the windows. The house is of course abandoned, I guess they decided it was not worth ripping up the foundation to plant more corn, so they left it and planted corn around it.
“We’ve opened up a new front on the war on terror. It’s an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it’s a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested — even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong… If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get amateur security.”
Bruce Schneier, from “The War on the Unexpected”, Schneier on Security [schneier.com]
One of my better flower photos. Taken in a small door step garden box of an office building in London near the Tower of London!
“When it comes to their social behavior, people sometimes act like monkeys…”
From Humans and monkeys share Machiavellian intelligence [sciencecodex.com] via Science Codex [sciencecodex.com]
“Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation,”
Grant Imahara (Mythbusters), from “‘Mythbusters’ test seeks to determine if cockroaches could survive a nuclear holocaust” [tri-cityherald.com], from The Tri-City Herald