LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Click on the link above to search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Category: Cool photos
Balancing Rocks
The Rocker : World Wide Phenomenon
The above web-site is devoted to stacking balancing rocks. A Flickr collection. Here is a video of how it is done.
Surfers take on Australia’s Heaviest Wave
The Australian – Photo galleries and slideshows – Surfers take on Australia’s heaviest wave
While pictures obsess with wave height, surfers appreciate the thickness of a wave. When you wipe-out, you’ll appreciate the difference. Hence the fascination with the thick tubes at Teahupoo. Click on the link above to see 43 pictures of this deepwater break off of Australia. Also an article on it. 
Thanks to Randy Marks for Pix.
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Spider Eats Bird
Joel Shakespeare, head spider keeper at the Australian Reptile Park, said the spider was a Golden Orb Weaver.
“Normally they prey on large insects… it’s unusual to see one eating a bird,” he told ninemsn.com.
Mr Shakepeare said he had seen Golden Orb Weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger.
Queensland Museum identified the bird as a native finch called the Chestnut-breasted Mannikin.
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Ike Pictures
Click on this link from Randy Marks for a 28 picture slide show.
The short – but eventful – life of Ike – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Create 3D Panoramas For Free
If you can get through, as the site has been swamped, Microsoft has started free on-line photo stiching tool you can try and view others results.
Ultimate NASA Web-site
After 5 years of development, here is an awesome searchable database from 50 years of NASA images and videos. When complete, this database will contain twenty-one collections, featuring millions of images and thousands of hours of video footage.Click on thye link or the image to go there.
Leopard Killing Crocodile
Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera – Telegraph
The giant cat raced out of cover provided by scrub and bushes to surprise the crocodile, which was swimming nearby.
A terrible and bloody struggle ensued. Eventually, onlookers were amazed to see the leopard drag the crocodile from the water as the reptile fought back. Click picture to enlarge.
Hal Brindley’s site for more pictures