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Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:01:17 -0500

cinderellainrubbershoes: “It’s a New Year and with it comes a...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:43:09 -0500

“It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we’re faking them.

And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it’s joy we’re looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation. So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy.”

-Neil Gaiman’s NY2013 wish

"You think relationships are difficult? Try friendships. Try courting someone in order to convince..."

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:39:49 -0500

“You think relationships are difficult? Try friendships. Try courting someone in order to convince them to join you in some nameless, shapeless Platonic complication — forever. Convince an adult stranger that you are worth a healthy slice of their limited time and energy without the prize of sex or romance.”

- #aceproblems

Laura Jayne Martin (via turquoisebeads)

“Symphony of Science: The Quantum World” The best...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:07:46 -0500

“Symphony of Science: The Quantum World”

The best song about subatomic particles since Hank Green’s “Strange Charm.”

“Mr. Rogers Remixed: Garden of Your Mind” This song...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:07:00 -0500

“Mr. Rogers Remixed: Garden of Your Mind”

This song is SO CATCHY. I’m tempted to just loop it and jam out for the next 15 minutes. (No, really, I’m on my third play-through in a row.)

I’ve transcribed the lyrics because this song WILL get stuck in your head, in the most wonderful way possible:

*****
Do you ever imagine things? Are they scary things? Do you ever imagine things, things you’d like to have? Did you ever see a cat’s eyes in the dark and wonder what they were? Did you ever pretend like things like that before?

Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind? You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind. It’s good to be curious about many things. You can think about things and make believe. All you have to do is think, and they’ll grow.

Imagine, every person that you see is someone different from every other person in the world. Some can do some things. Some can do others. Did you ever think of the many things that you’ve learned to do?

Did you feel like going like that? Let’s give the fish some food. Mr. McFeeley, I didn’t order any whistles. Any whistles?

**BAMF slide whistle solo**

That’s what they call these, slide whistles.
Did you feel like going like that?
There are so many things to learn about in this world and so many people who can help us learn.

“Symphony of Science: Onward to the Edge!” Dear...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:07:00 -0500

“Symphony of Science: Onward to the Edge!”

Dear melodysheep,

WHY ARE YOU SO AWESOME‽‽‽‽
Thank you for being so awesome! Interrobangs don’t even begin to express my marveling, and the ever-expanding universe cannot hope to contain the amounts of awesome from which you are made.

I am literally getting chills listening to your songs. They are leaving me shaken, and stirred, and thirsty for more. They truly are, as you put it, “remixes for the soul.”

Best,
Shelley

“There is a war going on for your mind. If you are...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:00:00 -0500

“There is a war going on for your mind. If you are thinking, you are winning” -The Flobots

“Escape Capitalism”I’m not actually sure what...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:51:35 -0500

“Escape Capitalism”

I’m not actually sure what the second word says, but it looks “Capitalism”-esque.

Happy Block Friday! I hope everyone spent the day doing...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:40:00 -0500

Happy Block Friday!
I hope everyone spent the day doing something wonderful with friends and family.

Can’t argue with the logic…

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:00:44 -0500

Can’t argue with the logic…

lusciousgrapes: taltal-taters: heyheyitsmarissa: nirvanic-s: ...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:00:55 -0500

lusciousgrapes:

taltal-taters:

heyheyitsmarissa:

nirvanic-s:

asherlockian:

starfishface:

wonkwink:

a-certain-level-5-hamsteak:

madteacups:

chronicles-of-a-cast-member:

thoroughly-modern-minnie:

EPCOT Phone Booths!

If you’ve ever wanted to call, these are apparently the phone numbers for the booths in Canada and the UK pavilions.

U.K. Phone Booths

Right Booth: 407 827-9861

Left Booth: 407 827-9862

Center Booth: 407 827-9863

Canada Phone Booth

407-827-9884

Go ahead! Reach out to a Disney guest and tell us all about it!

When I visited Epcot a couple weeks ago, I called the one on the right while some girl from a tour group was in there. She hung up the moment I said, “Hello?”

I’m actually really tempted to call right now.

I JUST CALLED THE CENTER ONE AND A LITTLE GIRL PICKED UP AND I SAID “ARE YOU HAVING FUN?”

SHE WAS LIKE WHO IS THIS AND I LAUGHED AND HUNG UPx

WHAT COOL why does this not have more notes

I AM SO DOING THIS LATER oh my goodness. :D

i am totally doing this someday.

THIS KID JUST TOLD ME THE BEST JOKE

I JSUT CALLED THE UK ONE AND THIS GUY PICKED UP AND HIS NAME WAS RAFAELLE AND HE WAS FROM BRAZIL AND I TOLD HIM I WAS IN MASSACHUSETTS IN THE STATES AND HE SAID HE HAD TO GO AND I SAID “OK HAVE FUN AND A SAFE TRIP BACK HOME” AND HE SAID “OK KISSES LOVE YOU”.

Filed under: things to do when parents aren’t home to hear you talking to strangers in Disney.

I just had a nice conversation with some guy from Alabama who had no idea what he was doing tomorrow and the fireworks just ended. Hah!

Simone Preuss With the concentric star trails crowning this...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:19:00 -0500

Simone Preuss

With the concentric star trails crowning this bristlecone pine, the image looks almost out of this world.

Unless otherwise noted, most of the incredible photos seen here were taken in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. The Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) grows at a high elevation of between 9,800 and 11,000 feet (3,000 and 3,400 m) and is protected within the White Mountains by the Inyo National Forest. To guard these ancient specimens further – from trophy seekers, vandals and the overly curious – the trees are unmarked, meaning that only experts and those who are really clued-in know where the oldest can be found.
Read more at http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/forests/news-stunning-images-bristlecone-pine-oldest-living-tree-earth?image=1#aHA22cUtVmBQPExJ.99

I just found out that someone burned down the Senator and my...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:06:00 -0500

I just found out that someone burned down the Senator and my heart broke. I loved that tree. It was 3,500 years old, the fifth oldest tree in the world.

My eyes are literally watering. A 3,500-year-old life destroyed because someone wanted to “see her drugs better.”

Edit: A friend just informed me the arsonist was in our graduating class in high school.

My response: “wait…WHAT. NO.”

jkl;qeoruiasdfi;adfnklsdvkl;jag I can’t even…

kqedscience: Caleb Charland Takes Incredible Photograph of an...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:37:04 -0500

kqedscience:

Caleb Charland Takes Incredible Photograph of an Orange-Powered Battery

”Nobody makes renewable energy look as beautiful or curious as Caleb Charland. A professional photographer whose work is displayed in collections throughout the globe, Charland has been working on a series of images of alternative batteries like this one powered by citric acid. Galvanized nails react with citric acid to deliver enough of an electrical current to power a small embedded LED bulb.”

explore-blog: How Jack Kerouac wrote On The Road, part of...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:57:44 -0500

explore-blog:

How Jack Kerouac wrote On The Road, part of designer Johnson Banks’ fantastic poster titled The Power of Creativity

(↬ Quipsologies)

jtotheizzoe: Pokémon vs Phylomon Since a 2002 study showed that...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:00:39 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

Pokémon vs Phylomon

Since a 2002 study showed that kids knew more about the types of Pokémon than they did common wildlife species, the creators of Phylo have devised a solution: A trading card game based on real species knowledge.

Phylomon! Gotta classify ‘em all!

Think it could work? I dunno. Until we can get animals on every lunch box in the school, there’s a lot out there for nature to compete with. But then again, as they say, children are born scientists. Why not try and combine their loves?

I would play this. We battle, and nature wins!

(via Wildlife Fun 4 Kids)

yourcroft: holykyriarchybatman: rabbleprochoice: abaldwin360: ...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:55:49 -0500

yourcroft:

holykyriarchybatman:

rabbleprochoice:

abaldwin360:

invisiblelad:

crackerhell:

alexandraerin:

the-federalist:

arizona-republican:

spiritual-inspirati0n:

Romney - Red & Obama - Blue

It’s a sad day when the majority of Americans voted for someone to be President and our voices got OVER-RULED.

Maybe after these 4 years y’all will understand that Obama was not the best choice for moving this country, ‘forward.’

It’s all the damn big cities

I wish people in cities couldn’t vote. They don’t understand what it means to be American. They don’t understand our principles, and they don’t understand our Constitution.

The heartland of America will save this nation, mark my words.

You’re wishing that more than half of the population of the country would lose their voting rights and be subject to the whims of a minority. Tell me how that reflects our principles or our Constitution, I would love to know.

Dear people who don’t know how county voting maps work.

Just because the red covers most of the map doesn’t mean that “most of the country voted for Romney”.

This sort of map measures what direction each county in America went.

There could be all of ONE person in that county; if they voted Romney, then it would be a giant red spot on the map.

This is why “most of the map” appears to be red. Because in counties where they were very few people, most of those people voted Romney. Not even all of them. Just most of them, making that county red.

I repeat: If a county has 100 people in it, if 51 people voted Romney, it’s a bright red.

THIS DOES NOT MEAN THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE VOTED FOR ROMNEY.

In fact, the majority of this country DID NOT vote for Romney.

Over 50% of voters voted Obama. Just because those spots seem to be scattered blue points doesn’t mean that it “wasn’t a lot of people”.

It means that those people are concentrated in those counties.

So basically: If 1000 people live in a large county, very spread out, and 1,000,000 people live in a very, very small county, very close together, but the small county voted Obama and the large Romney, it’s not “more people” because of the space the county takes up.

If 501 people voted for Romney, the county is red. It would take 500,001 people to make the eensy weensy crowded county blue.

That’s not “majority”.

Also y’all is dumb as fuck.

Reblogged because all of this information seems to be lost on more than a few….

Also, this map is from 2004.

I’m out of breath from laughing so hard at the first couple of comments on this.

You wish people in cities couldn’t vote? REALLY? OVER AN OUTDATED MAP!? BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION!?

OMG, conservatives are having a legitimate breakdown, ya’ll. Like, a they-are-disconnecting-from-reality-and-going-to-live-on-fucking-Jupiter breakdown.

OMG I can’t stop laughing. This is, literally, the best thing I have ever watched.

Love,

Rabble

here is the real map from last night if anyone cares

Also can I just … geography =/= population.

biggestbunny: so this is my pumpkin

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:24:12 -0400

biggestbunny:

so this is my pumpkin

"One of the central motivations for signing my name so many times in the past 16 months has been my..."

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:09:00 -0400

“One of the central motivations for signing my name so many times in the past 16 months has been my desire to kill the market for my autograph by flooding it with supply, so I am annoyed when I see someone try to make a $200 profit off two small scratches I made on a page using a Sharpie.

…Decide that autographs are kind of overrated anyway, particularly when the guy in question has A. frankly a really underwhelming signature, and B. signed like 200,000 things, meaning that unsigned box sets are actually rarer and therefore cooler and more valuable than signed ones.”

- John Green, “On the Acquisition of Autographs”

this-is-not-native: With Halloween just around the corner...

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:00:39 -0400

this-is-not-native:

With Halloween just around the corner (yay!!), I figured it was time to bring back this rad campaign from Ohio University.

There are endless cute, sexy, funny, even offensive costumes that don’t perpetuate racist stereotypes. There is really no excuse.