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Spiderweb Trees in Pakistan

Spiderweb Trees in Pakistan

Photograph courtesy Russell Watkins, U.K. Department for International Development

Seen in December 2010, a young girl stands next to a tree covered in spider webs in Sindh, Pakistan, near the intersection of two roads that had only recently reemerged from floodwaters.

At the height of the crisis, the flooded region covered an area the size of England. Nearly 2,000 people died during the disaster and 20 million people were affected, according to the Pakistani government. (Related: “Pakistan Flooding Because of Farms?”)

“More people were affected by the flooding than the combined total of the Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami, 2005 Pakistan earthquake, [2010] Haiti earthquake, and Hurricane Katrina,” John Barrett, head of DFID’s Flood Response Team, said in a statement.

As part of the international response, DFID mounted the U.K.’s largest humanitarian operation yet.

(via Pictures: Trees Cocooned in Spider Webs After Flood)

Mobile Smart Phone Grocery Shopping in Subway Stations

Imagine waiting for the train while picking out your groceries from a display case filled with products identical in size, scale and color to really grocery store shelves. If the first round of the digital revolution was about making the real virtual, this time it is about making the virtual real again.

South Korean grocery chain Tesco was looking for a way to one-up their major competitor – impossible to do in terms of physical shops due to a lack of actual stores; hence, they turned toward the world wide web with a combination of mobile phone and QR code technologies.

Using smartphones, shoppers can browse the isles during time normally spent idle anyway on their way to or from work. Their purchased products are then delivered by the store, waiting for them when they get home and ready to be put right into the kitchen cabinets, refrigerator or freezer.

(via DORNOB)

PKM 8bit Tattoo

PKM 8bit Tattoo

one of the only tattoos I’ve considered

fuckyeahtattoos:

My name is Jackie, and I’m 20 years old. Met my tattoo artist through Auto Body Repair at college. This is my first tattoo, with 2 purposes. 1. Having a tattoo to forever hide from my parents was something on my bucket list, and 2. Pokemon seemed to be the one thing that made me happy when growing up sucked. I didn’t want some cheesy anime art on my side, so I went with Pokemon Yellow 8bits of Red and Pikachu.

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