This is kind of cool, but a little creepy as well.

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A girl walks among snowmen built as part of a display on a street in Moscow January 31, 2010.

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A girl walks among snowmen built as part of a display on a street in Moscow January 31, 2010.
This is kind of cool, but a little creepy as well.

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Competitors run through smoke during the Tough Guy event in Perton, central England, January 31, 2010.
As if a regular triathlon isn't difficult enough...

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Athletes start the 70 km Marcialonga, cross-country ski competition, in Val di Fiemme, northern Italy, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Mario Facchini)
I wonder how long it takes a field this big to get sorted out.

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Workers remove snow and ice at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station on the Yenisei River, near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, January 30, 2010. Repair work is taking place at the power station which halted power production after the August 17, 2009 accident when a turbine room in the station flooded, killing more than 70 people and causing billions of roubles of damage.
This looks like it would be a cold and dangerous job.

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People sitting in the snow await the start of the Team Ski Jumping World Cup in Oberstdorf January 30, 2010.
I'd have to really enjoy a sport before I'd sit in the stands in these conditions. Brrrrr.

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Kazakh riot police detain an opposition supporter during a rally in Almaty January 30, 2010. Activists held the rally to protest against China's request to allow it to rent a plot of land in Kazakhstan to grow crops. The Kazakh government has denied any plans to lease land to China.
All of the tension in the people's hands in this picture really add to the image.

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World War II veteran Clifton Jackson, 89, sits at his kitchen table in the remote Inupiat Eskimo village of Noorvik, Alaska, on Sunday, Jan. 24. U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves made Jackson the first American counted in the 2010 Census with a ceremony in the village.
The simple, direct style of this portrait gives it a trustworthy feeling, as though this photographer met Mr. Jackson as he is, without embellishment.

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A women sings outside her tent in Leogan, Haiti on Jan. 25. Her home was destroyed in the earthquake on Jan. 12. Haitian officials have put the death toll from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake at roughly 200,000.
Its interesting to see how people react, not just to a moment of crisis, but also to the prolonged misery that often accompanies a big, horrific event. I personally noticed this during our Hurricane Katrina aftermath coverage. Some people find the inner strength to soldier on while others break under the strain. I hope I never have to find out what Id do.

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In this photo dated Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, provided by the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management IMGW, a lonely dog is seen floating on ice flow 15 miles off the Polish Baltic Sea coast near Gdynia, Poland. The dog was rescued by sailors from the "Baltica" ship.
Rescued 18 miles from the Poland coast. Lucky dog.

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A man demonstrates how to catch a yellow-striped rat snake at a snake farm in Thailand's Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute in Bangkok on Friday, Jan. 28. The farm serves as an educational organisation to provide better understanding about snakes.
This. Makes. My. Skin. Crawl.

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A woman puts her hand near a crack on a wall as she waits for food distribution in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Jan. 27, 2010. A shallow 4.9 magnitude aftershock rattled western Haiti on Tuesday, two weeks after a killer 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the Haitian capital.
Good symbolic seeing by Carlos Barria

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Frame grab from an HDView panoramic interactive image of a tent city in Haiti, photographed by freelancer Andr Chung and produced by msnbc.com's John Makely.
My favorite things within well-executed surround images are still essentially about single moments--it's the ability to explore a world and find vignettes like this one. Link to the full experience is below....

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Somerville Road in Worcester is bubble wrapped to highlight the importance of taking care on the roads, especially due to the rise in insurance claims following recent bad weather,on January 27, 2010 in Worcester, England.. The street was named as having one of the highest numbers of car insurance claims in the UK in the last five years.
Also very handy for people stumbling around outside when the pubs close.

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Men remove rice from a storehouse as the clear up gets underway in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, Jan. 26. Quake-hit Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction, aid chiefs and donor nations warned, as homeless, scarred survivors struggled today to rebuild their lives.
Without reading the caption, it took me a minute to figure out what was going on in this image. It reminds me of Sebastio Salgado's work.

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People make their way on a flooded street of the Jardim Romano neighborhood, in Sao Paulo, Tuesday, Jan. 26. Today is the thirty-fifth day that heavy rains hit the metropolitan area of the city causing heavy damage and at least 62 deaths in Sao Paulo state attributed to the rains, according to civil defense authorities.
This is one of the best flooding shots I've seen. Did you know that if you maximize your browser window you can see images in Photoblog even bigger? This one's worth doing that for.

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Local people help themselves to contraband, set on fire by Pakistani custom authorities to mark International Customs Day in Karachi, Pakistan Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010.
I don't get it.

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Sri Lankan policewomen with automatic weapons patrol the streets in Vavuniya on January 25, 2010. War-scarred Sri Lanka holds a peacetime presidential election January 26. President Mahinda Rajapakse, a veteran streetfighter politician who entered parliament aged 24, is taking on his former army chief Sarath Fonseka, a political novice who stepped down last year after being sidelined.
Smart picture.

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Men work on repairing and repainting a shop in central Port-au-Prince January 25, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Life in Haiti is transitioning to a new normal nearly two weeks after a powerful earthquake delivered historic damage and death to Port-au-Prince.
Love the bright, upbeat color on a rebuilding picture.

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Pakistani youths working in a garbage dump, look on, while a woman, center, is seen collecting items and food, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010.
This is an ambitious attempt to fit a whole lot of information into a tight frame by tilting the camera and using a very wide lens. It _almost— works, but the decapitated guy in the background has cause to complain. . .

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Pakistanis empty a truck loaded with garbage, in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010.
As a rule, I don't like silhouette pictures. The device is overused and has become cheap. Also, by definition, it removes informational detail. But I really like this one, I just can't help it.

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Floria Loveng, 7, hugs her teddy bear in a tent city of displaced Haitians whose homes were either destroyed or badly damaged in last week's massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving many homeless.
I have seen thousands and thousands of photos out of Haiti but this really hit home. Such quiet desperation.

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U.S. Actor Sean Penn, center, talks to Lt. Col. Mike Foster, right, while visiting the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division's forward operating base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands.
What sort of advice do you think Mr. Penn might have for a Lt. Colonel in the 82nd Airborne? When might the desire to help become a distraction for others?

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A message covers a bandage on the amputated leg of Vemah Cade at a UN field hospital in the aftermath of the massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Cade's leg was severely wounded when her home collapsed and was amputated Tuesday morning.
The faces of the children move me the most as I look at all the picture coming out of Haiti, but this picture, even though you can't see the person's face has the same effect. I wonder what will happen to all the survivors, especially the ones with amputated limbs. This photo didn't make the final cut for The Week in Pictures. You can see the ones that did, by using the link below.

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Employees of German bathroom ceramic and furniture firm Duravit, stand outside on a balcony atop of a giant lavatory bowl, at their company headquarters in Hornberg in the Black Forest, Southwestern Germany, January 22, 2010.
I'm opening this one up for new caption suggestions.

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January 19, 2010, Port Au Prince, Haiti: 7 1/2 days after the earthquake, New York City Urban Search and Rescue, along with Virginia Rescue, pulled an alive and healthy young boy named Kiki, and his sister Sabrina, out of the rubble of a supermarket in Port au Prince.
British newspaper Evening Star 24 is using this headline with this picture today: "Haiti: Is this the best picture in the world?" Normally I'd balk at such a suggestion, but I'd say there's a strong argument that today, more than a week after this tragedy, this is the best news picture around.