Frost!

[Puke]

For those of you with a book on your face as Puke says, here's a video that should compliment the frosty window pics. Sorry- I'd YouTube it but the boycott remains in effect until the end of the day. I'm also considering extending my boycott indefinitely and just finding another place for video hosting.

Cool.

What's wrong with YouTube?

[Puke]

Wait, windows frost over?  I don't get it. 

What's there to get? They just look neat.

[dalebert]

YouTube, or Google rather, has established a policy of "algorithmically demoting" videos that have profanity in them. It's just the latest in their continual slide from a really cool place for expressing a myriad viewpoints into just another place to spoon feed generic safe entertainment to people for advertising revenue.

[dalebert]

The sequel to Big Daddy Icicle is now posted on YouTube, but the quality is better on Facebook. I recommend you watch it there if you have a Facebook account.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2AZOlNS66U

[Puke]

YouTube, or Google rather, has established a policy of "algorithmically demoting" videos that have profanity in them. It's just the latest in their continual slide from a really cool place for expressing a myriad viewpoints into just another place to spoon feed generic safe entertainment to people for advertising revenue.

Well, that's pretty fucked up. 

[Lloyd Danforth]

Window Frost returns!  This morning.

[Mike Barskey]

Wow. It looks manufactured. Very cool. It would be neat to see a time lapse vid of this being formed.

[TackleTheWorld]

3 minutes in.

[Mike Barskey]

Wow. They must have a really high-speed camera to catch that frost being formed! And good thing fairies aren't like vampirs and do show up on film.

[Pat McCotter]

Frost Flowers

The white crownbeard (Verbesina virginica) is a native plant that grows in abundance a few hundred meters from the banks of Geronimo Creek, Texas. Typical mature plants are around 1.5 meters high, and some may reach 3 meters.

Mature white crownbeards have large leaves on a single stem crownded by a canopy of small, white flowers.

Crownbeards lose their leaves after the first frost. When the temperature is a few degrees below freezing, the stems of the plant rupture as frozen water emerges in delicate whorls and fans. The delicate ice sculpture may completely cover the 30 cm or so of the stem nearest the ground.

As the temperature warms above freezing, the delicate ribbons of ice begin to melt and fall to the ground. In doing so, long segments of ice appear to rotate downward as their weight pulls them toward the ground. Large sections of sculpted ice may fall at once. Or the ice may drop to the ground in ribbonlike flakes no thicker than a business card.