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Top 10 Wired.com Fall Photos, Decided by You more»»
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Being based in San Francisco has its advantages, but having seasons is not one of them. Our readers were kind enough to share their fantastic fall photos with those of us who are seasonally challenged. These are the top 10 photos, according to your votes. Javier Echaiz takes home the gold with his photo "Gate to the fall" at left. Mr. Echaiz will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk.
Since we had so many great photos that we thought should've received more votes, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Fall Photo Gallery.
Our next twice-monthly photo contest theme is motion. We want you to take dynamic movement, and make it still. Check out the contest page for more information.
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Gate to the fall
Submitted by Javier Echaiz
Photographer's comment:
"This image comes from a rural area somewhere in the south of Argentina.”
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shadows on yellow
Submitted by Javier Echaiz
Photographer's comment:
"Magic carpet made by thousands of yellow leaves and beautiful shades."
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Wipperwill Drive
Submitted by Anonymous
Photographer's comment:
"…"
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Floating
Submitted by Patrice Peyre
Photographer's comment:
"HEC Campus - Jouys en Josas, France."
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Fall Elements
Submitted by Gregory Tapler
Photographer's comment:
"The fall elements as seen at the Monocacy Creek in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania."
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Fall in Paris
Submitted by Tyler
Photographer's comment:
"Fall in Paris. Was walking through a...
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Top 10 Wired.com Fall Photos, Decided by Us more»»
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Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our fall photo contest, we here at the photo department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think deserved more attention.
Our next twice-monthly photo contest theme is motion. We want you to take dynamic movement, and make it still. Check out the contest page for more information.
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A dry flower head
Submitted by Marty Mignard
Photographer's comment:
"Shot with my trusty old 4x5 Crown Graphic.”
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Halloween
Submitted by Tyler Klemp
Photographer's comment:
"Crows in the sky, taken on Halloween."
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Watch the Grass Glow
Submitted by Anonymous
Photographer's comment:
"Evening sunlight."
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Fading Light
Submitted by Brian Cooper
Photographer's comment:
"Australian autumn light in a monastery crypt."
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Mist Returns to the Moors
Submitted by Kerrigan Swan-Garcia
Photographer's comment:
"This time of year the days begin with a blanket of hazy, ethereal fog, giving everything ordinary a mysterious, melancholy air."
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Nightfall
Submitted by Scott
Photographer's comment:
"The leaves are just starting to turn."
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Sleeping Golden Retriever in the fall afternoon ...
Submitted by Vladimir Sterkin
Photographer's comment:
"The adorable old three-pawed Golden Retriever from the pumpkin farm in August, Missouri."
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Slow
Submitted by Brian Cooper
Photographer's comment:
"Fall slips it into a lower gear."
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Solo Bench
Submitted by Dave...
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Oct. 6, 1956: Sabin Polio Vaccine Ready to Test more»»
1956: Dr. Albert Sabin announces that his live-virus, oral polio vaccine is ready for mass testing. It will soon supplant the Salk vaccine.
Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by viruses. Its effects range from complete recovery to death. Intermediate possibilities are mild after-effects, moderate to severe paralysis of a limb or limbs, or paralyzed chest muscles, necessitating the confining but lifesaving use of an iron lung.
Polio epidemics periodically ravaged American cities in the first half of the 20th century. Children were especially vulnerable, but the disease also struck adults, most notably former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1921.
Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, and he founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (as the disease was then often called) in 1938. The foundation conducted a huge annual fundraising campaign called the March of Dimes.
The polio epidemics of the early 1950s terrified American parents and their children. Between 1950 and 1952, the number of severe or fatal U.S. cases doubled to 55,000.
Authorities closed swimming pools during the warm months when new polio infections peaked. Parents kept kids at home instead of exposing them to possible contagion at summer camps. If you didn't know someone who had been stricken (though most recovered), you knew about a kid at your cousin's school, or the cousin of some kid at your school.
So, America breathed a sigh of...
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Convert Your Car to a Plug-in Hybrid more»»
If you really wanted to go green with your hybrid, you'd be plugging into the power grid. Furthering your fossil fuel independence is possible by converting your Prius to a plug-in. Whether you have the cash to pay someone to do it or are doing it yourself, there are several conversion packages available and we have a list.
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Games Without Frontiers: 'Pure' Shows Off Fun of 'Artistic' Physics more»»
"The tricks in this game are pure fantasy. Do not attempt them in real life."
That's the warning that flashes when you first boot up Pure, the giddily awesome new ATV-racing game. And no wonder: Pure sends you driving around mudsplacked tracks with furious velocity, racing up steep hills and then -- woo hoo! -- launching yourself with escape-trajectory speed into the air. The goal is to pull off stunts -- 720s, forward rolls, one-armed handstands -- so you can earn "boost," which lets you go higher and, of course, pull off even crazier stunts.
After about 15 minutes, I was scraping the bottom edge of the ionosphere. Man, I had enough hang time to wander over to the fridge and grab a beer before I landed. So in one sense, yes, Pure is unadulterated fantasy: These sorts of tricks aren't remotely possible under the normal rules of gravity.
But the game isn't completely divorced from reality, either. The control scheme for the ATVs is forgiving, but only so much: You can survive a slightly sloppy landing, but not one that is one notch more careless. And when you first take off from a jump, you have only milliseconds to deduce whether you're going to go high enough to pull off a lengthy stunt. The upshot is that the physics in Pure encourages you to take crazy risks -- while still requiring you to think carefully about what you're doing.
In essence, the in-game physics cooked up by Pure's designers isn't merely a matter of being realistic or unrealistic. The...
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