ThisIsNotSubtle: Damn, it really has been a hell of a year, hasn't it?

Then just wait until 2012 ..... 2012 and Year of the Dragon.

wow....great link subster

Great collection, but I think I remember #18 from more than a year ago - or maybe it's just almost identical to an older pic?

Ooshatielf: -#33 always makes me cry.

gets me too. Don't know her story, what she lost...can only imagine her agony.

Herb Utsmelz: [imgboot.com image 640x402]

You magnificent bastard, you.

Was wiping away tears from #20, and that made me literally LOL.

Picture 20, the dog lying next to the casket of his Navy Seal owner, is one of the saddest images I've ever seen. I'm going to go hug my yellow lab now.

weave: Gotta nitpick #8 -- the before and after shots -- not the same place -- multiple indicators point to it's not the same place too.

I agree. It looks like there's a corresponding drive way on the left hand side of the street to the house/drive way on the right hand side of the street in the before picture. I don't see any corresponding left hand driveway in the after picture.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake.

#19 should be this.

Nanny Statesman: Great collection, but I think I remember #18 from more than a year ago - or maybe it's just almost identical to an older pic?

I think you're remembering the Iceland Volcano eruption, which had similar pics.

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: weave: Gotta nitpick #8 -- the before and after shots -- not the same place -- multiple indicators point to it's not the same place too.

I agree. It looks like there's a corresponding drive way on the left hand side of the street to the house/drive way on the right hand side of the street in the before picture. I don't see any corresponding left hand driveway in the after picture.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake.

Plus, that guy is standing in front of a driveway (or at least not in front of a street).

Absolutely not the same location.

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: weave: Gotta nitpick #8 -- the before and after shots -- not the same place -- multiple indicators point to it's not the same place too.

I agree. It looks like there's a corresponding drive way on the left hand side of the street to the house/drive way on the right hand side of the street in the before picture. I don't see any corresponding left hand driveway in the after picture.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake.

Plus, that guy is standing in front of a driveway (or at least not in front of a street).

Absolutely not the same location.

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Also, the bottom pics' road looks narrower than the top one.

Confabulat: I've never seen crazier weather than this year

Joplin twister was bad (real bad), However, let's not forget the Super Tornado Outbreak (new window) that hit the South. Holy Fark.

Allen262: #19 should be this.


You're right. That photo is far more evocative. Great find.

Both the doggie photos made me cry, the mourning dog and the happy little doggie wagging his tail while his owner looks at him through an isolation screen. Mind you, it was that damn #6 photo that got me crying first.

I thought the apples left at the makeshift Steve Jobs memorial were rather sweet.

The dog in front of the casket kills me every time. Damn.

/farking dusty in here. Dust, how does it work?

slc11082: Some of you people are wimps, there was nothing in there that more of a "meh" from me and some of you cried? I mean cmon'

Speaking of crying, got any naked pictures of your mom?

/If not, wanna buy some?

DesktopHippie: Both the doggie photos made me cry, the mourning dog and the happy little doggie wagging his tail while his owner looks at him through an isolation screen.

But the Kenyan kid? No. Soulless and cruel....

poorcku: DesktopHippie: Both the doggie photos made me cry, the mourning dog and the happy little doggie wagging his tail while his owner looks at him through an isolation screen.

But the Kenyan kid? No. Soulless and cruel....

Sorry, but the dogs just affect some people more. Maybe it's:

A) Photo caption states the kid made "A full recovery".

B) Dog help me, but the kid looks like a hatchet fish.

I'm glad number 5 was on there. It was really striking how the light diffused into the sky above the city that night. Very subdued, sorrowful and powerful. It was beautiful, like a higher power was reaching down to heal the city.

Also any one notice how almost ALL the gay people in the military gay pride march were wearing navy shirts. The people standing around while Obama signed the bill into law had big smiles on. One might say they were gay.

The old lady with milk all over her face is disturbing for so many reasons.

The picture of that poor baby just kills me. Damn you, Malthus.

Almost the entire state of Queensland was underwater at the start of the year. I'm sure they could have got a picture from there. Here (new window)

buckler: I've never been able to figure out why people in that part of the world do that. I'd love to see the figures on how many people are killed or injured by random celebratory gunfire there each year.

I'm sure they sell blanks for those occasions.