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Cool Thing

Today’s search was quite simply for a cool thing, yielding this interesting photo from Travis S. This is a photo just looking straight down a ribcage, and I have to say that as I was looking through the image search results, this is the one the jumped out at me. The symmetry and lighting are fantastic.

Alas I’m not sure what kind of ribcage this is. One of the comments on the picture implied that it was the ribcage of a fox, so that’s what I’m going to go with in my mind. We’ll give that a bit of time to settle in, then when I learn that it’s not a fox ribcage cognitive dissonance will set in and I’ll insist that I read that it was a fox.

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Dice Bag

Monster dice bag

If you haven’t already guessed by now, I’m  a big gamer, and as a gamer I’m into all those things that gamers are into, from online computer game to RPGs with cool dice and awesome dice bags to hold those sweet dice. So today’s search was for sweet dice bags, and boy did we hit the jackpot.

To be fair, this is a pretty crappy photo from a purely aesthetic point of view. But from the point of view of dice bags, it is totally awesome. This dice bag was hand-made to look like a crazy monster ready to devour your gaming dice! And, one assumes, ready to regurgitate those dice when the time comes to make some rolls.

I’m a big fan of the crazy variety of dice bags that are available to gamers these days, from the Cthulhu plush dice bag (yes, it exists) to the chainmail dice bags. But you just can’t beat the sweet homemade dice bag monster. At least, not yet.

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Hydraulic Clamp

Hydraulic clamps

I know what you’re thinking — what the heck is a hydraulic clamp? Well, according to the internet, a hydraulic swing clamp is a clamp that is used in industrial CNC machining operations to clamp an object onto the machining center workholding surface.

To translate that into real language, here’s a good way to picture a hydraulic clamp’s function: imagine a drill press. You got the drill that goes up and down, and beneath it you have a flat metal thing that you set your wood on. That flat metal surface is the worlkholding surface. A hydraulic clamp would be a kind of clamp or vise that is attached to the workholding surface so you can clamp down on the object that you’re going to be drilling.

Of course CNC machines are about more than just drilling, they do all kinds of fancy cutting and routering and whatever else, including of giant huge things, so hydraulic clamps are apparently a big deal and, I can say, ridiculously expensive.

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Fire

Today’s picture of the day is a dream of the coming summer and camping on beaches… fire. This fire shot was taken by Jason Dunn.

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5 Axis CNC Router

CNC router

Today’s image comes from another challenge search for another mind-boggling tech term: 5 axis CNC router. The link there shows that a CNC router is a machine that’s used to cut metal into shapes that are used as parts in manufacturing — it is one of a handful of processes and is a very common one. The 5 axis part is about on how many axis the machine can move.

I have to say, I’m not quite certain how they manage 5 axis (axes? axises?) since 3 axis should let you move in every direction, but apparently their technology is just that awesome. I have to say that when I was looking in the image search for 5 axis CNC router I did indeed not find much at all of interest, until I stumbled on this fascinating shot from CMS North America. I assume this is what a 5 axis CNC router looks like. Whether it is or not, it certainly makes for a fascinating picture — in this case fascinating simply because of what the machine looks like, rather than due to any inherent photographic prowess. Still, sufficient for the internet image of the day and proof that just about any phrase can uncover an interesting image.

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Case of Badass

What happens when you come down with a severe case of being badass? Well, you do an internet image of the day search for the phrase Case of Badass of course. And what do you find in the results of that search? That’s right, a literal case — the kind you use to carry things around like folders and business cards. Only because this particular aluminum case is badass, it’s used to carry around guns.

Today’s image of the day is some king of locking gun case that’s used to transport guns around from place to place — in theory for taking your gun down to the shooting range so you can practice for when you need to shoot someone. Certainly the presence of the gun and clip and the admittedly sweet foam padding does a lot to make this aluminum case look badass.

Even though it’s not exactly what I meant, of course.

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Stunning

What do you search for when you’ve tried a bunch of phrases that haven’t turned up anything worth posting? Stunning of course! That should be sure to get some awesome image. And indeed it did (although to be fair there was a bunch of junk in there too that I can tell you had no right to show up in the results for Stunning).

Today’s image comes from Kbedi and is a very attractive shot and the best of the labeled for reuse images to show up in the image search, making it the internet image of the day.

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Good Enough

Sometimes after a long hard day of looking for an image of the day for this site, and running through search after search that doesn’t bring up a single halfway decent picture, you just have to say to yourself, “Okay, I don’t care if it’s great. Or even good. I just need an image that’s good enough.”

And then, just like that, I hit on the image search that led me to an actually good image. This windy, stormy, maybe hurricane scene strangely turned up for the Good Enough search, and that’s good enough for me. Normally I wouldn’t grab a shot with huge credits and copyright on it (you can do that in the meta info, without ruining the shot) but it’s been a long day of searching, and this Good Enough by iph is good enough for me.

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Moonrise

Moonrise

Today’s image of the day is absolutely stunning. This ridiculously awesome shot instantly seized my attention in the search for Moonrise. I figured it would yield some really good images, and this one is spectacular. This moonrise shot was taken by James Jordan and is actually a shot of the moon over lake Michigan, with the remnants of a broken down pier in the foreground.

The foggyness around the wooden pier supports is actually the waves lapping up against them over the course of the long nighttime exposure. A truly stunning shot and unquestionably the image of the day.

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Floating

Today’s image search is for Floating, which brought us this fantastic image of a floating shrine (floating in the water, you see, not the air, which admittedly would have been way cooler). Today’s shot comes from a site called Bali, and is a sweet picture of a Japanese landscape.

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