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Golf balls stuffed into holes of lava wall

Mark Frauenfelder at 8:37 am Thu, Aug 9, 2012

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NewImageIt's been a few years since I thought about these photos I took of golf balls stuffed into lava rock holes in Hawaii. They were brought to my attention again by the group administrator for the Flickr group Golf Balls: Bad Lie.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin

    Balls to the wall.

  • Robert Cruickshank

    That’s a tuff shot. 

  • perch

    This reminds me of  The Enigma of Amigara Fault. http://justmegawatt.com/comics/enigmaofamigarafault.html

    These golf balls unsettle me because of that story.

  • Palomino

    I’d shove down all the ingredients required for a lava cake and sit patiently with a fork…