Umpteen billions for war
Man, plant, beast? “Well, ignore!”
What is nature’s worth?
Ev’rywhere only slough?
Let’s all, then, act now
To save our earth
(“Umwelt” is German for “environment”.)
)A Whale in 654 megapixels
To be marveled at in this Flash animation of the WDCS = Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
Luckily, you don’t get all 44032×14848 pixels at once, but only a small detail at a time, whose tiles are loaded dynamically. In total, for a typical monitor resolution of 96 dpi, this results in a picture with a total length of 11,65 meters – a little small for a Blue Whale who has, according to Wikipedia, an average length of 26m, but still remarkable and – if it’s a smaller, younger animal – quite life-sized…
(via admartinator.de)
Pfaffenhofen photos
In a new gallery I’ve added a selection of my 
photos of Pfaffenhofen/Ilm, Germany, and the landscape in the surrounding area. Enjoy!