A delightful way to waste a few minutes: FLY GUY

This weekend marked the 60^th anniversary of the Trinity blast, the test site for the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another.

–J. Robert Oppenheimer

Check out this rice field in Aomori Japan. The farmers used different varieties of rice to create gigantic ukiyo-e characters. It this isn’t the first time they’ve done this either. That’s totally cool.