Vandals dyed the Trevi fountain red in protest of some issue over the city's film festival.

Here's what the fountain usually looks like:

And, while we're talking about vacation photos from Italy, this guy makes a living doing "instant" tourist pictures, not with a Polaroid, but with a digital camera and a battery powered inkjet!

My guess is that this kind of thing is common there. Rome has lots of graffiti, much of it politically charged...

Rome's Trevi Fountain Gets Dyed Red

I love signs like this :)

Emma Goldman Institute for Anarchist Studies

The eventual takeover of mankind by machines comes one step closer with the creation of this giant robot hand. It was built by untrained volunteers for the Robodock festival in Amsterdam last month, and is actually capable of crushing everything from shopping carts to small vans. The hand itself is 25 feet long, weighs about 5,000 pounds and was built from scrapyard parts including I-beams for the fingers and a digging machine truss as the forearm.

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Gigantic Car Crushing Robot Hand

San Francisco Sock Exchange

9th largest supercomputer in the world and the largest in Europe, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) installed in a former chapel.

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The Most Beautiful Super Computer

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Feed the meter, rent a parking spot, and turn it into something else...

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Cool Storm Drain Graffiti

Windowherbs Pots Designed For The Urban Gardener

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Inside-out teddy bears