January 2011
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“Oh! I’ll miss her too! But that sounds like fun. Being one with everything...”
– A Moment of Peace » Disconsolate Admiration
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” —Richard Bach
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Christmas is a PAGAN not a Christian festival. →
damnitdisney:
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
Christmas is a PAGAN not a Christian festival.
The 25th December was celebrated in ancient days as the birthday of the unconquerable SUN god, (variously know as Tammuz, Mithra, Saturn, Adonis or BAAL) centuries before Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem.
Nowhere in the Bible are believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob required to celebrate...
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Boy, 13, Busted For Illegal Marker Possession →
A 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday for using a permanent marker while in class at his Oklahoma City middle school, a violation of an obscure city ordinance.
Remind me to never go to Oklahoma City; I carry a Sharpie with me at all times.
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Travelin' Prayer
No, you just discovered that Halo is playable over your iPhone’s 3G connection while waiting four hours for your train home to arrive.
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“We don’t question the power of the OS, but the fit, finish, and ease of use...”
– marco:
Engadget’s Nexus S Review
“Still”?
Many Android customers recognize the lack of polish, usability, or elegance in certain features or certain aspects of the platform. The assumption, either implied or stated, is often that these issues will all get better Any Day Now, and we’re just...
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The Matrix, Episode IV
Vader: Lieutenant…
Stormtrooper Lieutenant, quietly: Oh, shit.
Vader: Lieutenant, you were given specific orders.
Stormtrooper Lieutenant: Hey, you wanna give me that juris-my-diction crap, then you can cram it up your ass.
Vader: The orders were for your protection.
Stormtrooper Lieutenant, chuckling: I think we can handle one little girl. I sent two units; they're bringing her down now.
Vader, pointing emphatically: No, Lieutenant, your men are already dead.
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“If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.”
– Beau Brummel, as quoted in The Economist
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A plea
Every time my cousin comes safely home from Afghanistan, I feel incredibly grateful. But I also feel deeply sad for the thousands of families whose sons and daughters and brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers and cousins have not come safely home.
Come on, Washington. Isn’t it time to bring our soldiers home?
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“To light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of men when, at the winter...”
– Thomas Hardy (via New York Times)
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“A catalog maintained by Bill Kinnersley of the University of Kansas lists about...”
– The Semicolon Wars » American Scientist
Well, hell.
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“There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US...”
– News Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence | This Can’t Be Happening
Good job, America.
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BBC » Super squid sex organ discovered →
The mating habits of deep-sea squid have been revealed for the first time, after the discovery of a male squid with a huge elongated and erect penis.
The male squid’s sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body, including the squid’s mantle, head and arms.
That shows how male deep-sea squid inseminate females; they use their huge penis to shoot out packages of sperm, injecting...
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Drunken man jumps on shark's head, kills it →
fuckyeahsharks:
[Reworded for clarity and emphasis added for fucking badassery]
Dragan Stevic of Serbia is a new Egyptian hero who accidentally killed a large shark that had previously terrorized numerous tourists (killing one and injuring four) at the Egyptian resort Sarm El Sheikh.
Milovan Ubirapa, a friend of Stevic’s who witnessed the incident, explained that Dragan had decided to go to...
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Tiger Beatdown › SEXIST BEATDOWN: Until This... →
Okay, listen. I’m getting fed up with the ignorant people who are shaming the women accusing of Assange of sexual assault on the one side, and the overly-defensive feminists who are accusing Assange’s supporters of supporting rape culture on the other. So let’s break this down.
The women accusing Assange of sexual assault have every right to do so, assuming he did in fact...
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“I believe the reluctance many Marines feel about repeal is based on the false...”
– Nathan Cox - Sexuality doesn’t matter on the battlefield
A brief and excellent piece written by an infantry captain in the Marine Corps.
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“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the...”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (via wereseeingstars)
See Isaac Azimov’s The Nine Billion Names of God.
(via blissandzen)
Er. Point of interest: I think you’re looking for Arthur C. Clarke’s The Nine Billion Names of God.
Otherwise, carry on.
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Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid →
It’s a sensationalist headline, but the facts are clear: habitual Fox News watchers are more misinformed—that is, hold as true more things that are not true—than watchers of any other channel. With that said, the study makes it clear that pretty much all the news studios do a terrible job of disseminating accurate information.
(As jacquelynn points out, the really interesting part of this...
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“On the following day, thanks to the telegraphic wires, five hundred newspapers...”
– From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
Bet you didn’t know that Jules Verne was the first guy on the space gun scene. He also predicted weightlessness in space, the use of aluminium in space travel, and the use of a point in Florida as an American launch center.
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The World, Illustrated →
My new project. You may have noticed a larger-than-usual number of vintage illustrations around here recently—that is to say, two. They’re beautiful, and each one encouraged me to look up facts I wouldn’t otherwise have learned, so I decided to make a new Tumblr dedicated to posting one beautiful (and informative!) vintage illustration every weekday.
Come have a look, and be sure to...