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Care of the BBC, some pretty disturbing images. You heard of the bomb attack outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, right? But did you see these photos?

Here is what truck looks like after it has had the skin blown out of it:

<img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40051000/jpg/_40051492_jakartacarnage_ap300.jpg" width="300">

Here is what the bombblast looked like from afar:

<img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40053000/jpg/_40053016_smoke_ap220×300.jpg" width="300">

And this is the most interesting/disturbing photo:

<img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40050000/jpg/_40050736_flag_300_ap.jpg" width="300">

This is a shot of the Australian Embassy after the bomb blast. As you can see, the force of the blast blew many windows out of the building. And that is what is so disturbing about this new trend in guerilla urban warfare: one doesn't have to enter the building to harm it; one doesn't need any genius at all about getting past security; one merely needs to <em>drive by the silly thing</em> to damage it and get your nihilistic point across to the rest of the world. That is the really disturbing thing: anyone can do this. The building may not fall but its image has certainly been sprayed over the world.

Hi, my name is Frances, and I'm a typhoon. Or hurricane. Or tropical cyclone. Whatever! But I just love to destroy things! Yum!

We just had an unusually strong typhoon rage throughout our northern island last week. It was unusual since the winds never reach such damaging speeds.

I took the first picture two weeks ago.

<img src="http://www.gravesnet.com/drop/-aIMG_0207.jpg " width="300">

It was so beautiful and a sight I see most every week in summer. Quite a bit different now, isn't it?

<img src="http://www.gravesnet.com/drop/-bIMG_1094.jpg" width="300">

The last one is just an image of trees down near our home.

<img src="http://www.gravesnet.com/drop/IMG_1092.jpg" width="300">