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I WILL ALWAYS REBLOG THIS.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:15:23 -0400

I WILL ALWAYS REBLOG THIS.

thegoddamazon: logic-and-art: thatpointlessidiot: krudman: I...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:19:59 -0400

logic-and-art:

thatpointlessidiot:

krudman:

I thought to myself when I saw this, “no. This has to be some one being silly. This has to be something some one fabricated to make microsoft look worse and people just aren’t checking the source.”

NOPE. IT’S REAL.

AND IT GOT WORSE:

WHAT.

I want everyone to think long and hard on this information.

This means that you are not buying your games. You are paying 60+ dollars to rent the games from Microsoft, and they can take their game back whenever they feel like it.

You will not own your game. You will not own your console. Essentially, Microsoft is saying “We can disable your games and cut you off from accessing your console whenever we choose to.” Because a ban that locks your XBox Live account means that you will be locked out from all non-game functionality of the system, and by revoking your ‘licenses’ on all your games associated with your account, they can then disable each and every game you own for the system. Leaving you with a five hundred dollar cable receiver. Or, in the case of most users of the console, a five hundred dollar paperweight.

All because you accidentally walked into some online glitch and the rest of the players rage-report you for cheating.

This is unacceptable. Buy any console but an XBox One. Do not support Microsoft’s sudden belief that they own everything despite our purchase of it, and we have to prove we’re worthy of being shared with by paying exorbitant fees and jumping through constant hoops and hoping someone doesn’t report us for cheating because we made them mad in an online game.

Tell Microsoft ‘No,’ and do not give them your hard-earned money for what amounts to a video game subscription service with a $500 starting fee and $60+ dollar purchases.

Signal boost

It’s like they love shooting themselves in the dick.

O_o are you fucking kidding????

"It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:41:18 -0400

““It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.””

- Richard Feynman (via ianbald)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:43:06 -0400

I just remembered that Hermione wiped the memories of her...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:46:33 -0400

I just remembered that Hermione wiped the memories of her parents to keep them safe during the war, and now I am sad :(

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:10:31 -0400

rhamphotheca: Giant Space Jellyfish This image was obtained...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:09:07 -0400

rhamphotheca:

Giant Space Jellyfish

This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. HFG1 is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It was produced by a binary star system (V664 Cas) that is moving rapidly through our Galaxy. The star is moving towards the upper-right of the image. As HFG1 plows through the interstellar medium, a bluish bowshock is produced; and a red trail of gas is left behind in its wake. The image was generated with observations in the Hydrogen alpha (red) and Oxygen [OIII] (blue) filters. In this image, North is down and East is to the right.

Image: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF) [high-resolution] Read NOAO Conditions of Use before downloading

Caption: NOAO

(via: Wired Science)

D! Look! Jellyfish IN SPAAACCCEEEE

NO BUT SERIOUSLY

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:44:13 -0400

jamietheignorantamerican:

WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THE QUETZALCOATLUS?!

I MEAN, JESUS F. CHRIST.

PTERODACTYLS AIN’T SHIT NEXT TO THESE MOTHER FUCKERS. QUETZALCOATLUS FUCKING ATE BABY DINOSAURS FOR BRUNCH.

LITTLE-FOOT, NOOOO!!!

JUST IMAGINE SOMETHING AS TALL AS A MOTHER FUCKING GIRAFFE

SOARING THROUGH THE SKIES AT 80 MILES PER HOUR, AND THEN SWOOPING DOWN AND FUCKING EATING YOUR FACE OFF.

FUCKING QUETZALCOATLUS

Is Forced Fatherhood Fair?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:29:00 -0400

Is Forced Fatherhood Fair?:

In cases of accidental pregnancy, men now arguably have less reproductive autonomy than women.

I winced hard when I read the title of this article, and I think it fails to address some important issues in regard to “fairness” (including widespread attacks on the reproductive rights of women by anti-choice politicians and organizations). However, it does bring up interesting issues on policy, so I’d be interested on talking about it more…

moreleftthannot: Yeppers

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:11:19 -0400

moreleftthannot:

Yeppers

oddpicturesoddpeople: lostinhistory: geekgirlsmash: nudityandn...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:31:49 -0400

oddpicturesoddpeople:

lostinhistory:

geekgirlsmash:

nudityandnerdery:

thatonechick42:

sonicscrewdrivers:

thatlilqt:

elysedc:

kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirk:

eri-the-angry-sharkbender:

PAGE 45 IS A FUCKING ILLUSTRATION FUCK YOU PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

“alberto fairen is an astrobiologist searching for life beyond our planet”

yes good

[enterprising young men plays in the distance]

“Listen, I don’t want to pry,” Quentin said, “but I’m assuming you have some secret magical way of dealing with the negative health effects of all those cigarettes.”

One of the main hypotheses we employ in this chapter is that most people are risk averse; that is they would prefer receiving a certain income of I to receiving a random income with expected value I.

It was a little too real

Oh lover, I’ll cover you.

(The book was my RENT songbook).

“There are romance paperbacks stacked up on either side of the skull, along with an old issue of Playboy from the ’70s, with Bo Derek on the cover, and a long strip of scarlet ribbon.”

…I’ll take that.

“With a weak-looking Line of Mentality it is a sure sign of a craving for drink and intemperance of all kinds, and at the point where it breaks through the line of life, it generally indicates death brought on by the intemperance this mark foreshadows.”

It was that old palmistry book I picked up yesterday, did I mention the old palmistry book is kind of brutal? I am going to die of an overdose…

“John Barrow had spent sleepless nights deciding who should lead the overland expedition into the Canadian Arctic.”

I’m going to die on the tundra?

“The seven capsules together contained 1,734 grams of plutonium, mainly the Pu-238 isotope.”

I do not know how to feel about that.

“We employ four elementary morphological operations in the present chapter: erosion, dilation, opening, and closing.”

Somehow this almost works..

(from an image processing textbook)

engineeringisawesome: sbnation: A 13-year-old with a rare...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:17:47 -0400

engineeringisawesome:

sbnation:

A 13-year-old with a rare blood disorder threw out a first pitch … from 2,000 miles away with the help from a robot. The story —> http://sbn.to/11YiDl2

Engineering (and science!) IS awesome. A nice cross-section of engineering/science, sports, and humanity.

suntbone: salmiakkivodka: If dudes are expected to have a lot of sex But ladies are expected to...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:46:03 -0400

suntbone:

salmiakkivodka:

If dudes are expected to have a lot of sex

But ladies are expected to stay virgins until marriage

But homosexuality is bad

I’m really confused who dudes are supposed to be having all that sex with

Guys I got it

Society is literally telling dudes to go fuck themselves

nadirpoint: th3skinny: If you’re not a feminist, you either...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:27:43 -0400

nadirpoint:

th3skinny:

If you’re not a feminist, you either don’t know what feminism is, or you’re a bag of dicks.

That is all.

quite sure those stats are only for white women and not an average which is dumb but i am reblogging because zoe will appreciate the above comment in bold!

John Lloyd: Lastly, here's a Freudian question for you. Freud once said, "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is: what does a woman want?" What do you feel about that?

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:25:23 -0400

John Lloyd: Lastly, here's a Freudian question for you. Freud once said, "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is: what does a woman want?" What do you feel about that?
Natalie Haynes: I think... a woman wants not to be treated as some sort of exotic sub-species by a coke-addled creep like Freud.

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:37:00 -0400

nadirpoint: oddpicturesoddpeople: reading-thoughts: edwardspoo...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:14:36 -0400

nadirpoint:

oddpicturesoddpeople:

reading-thoughts:

edwardspoonhands:

Not Iambic….Do Not Accept…

These tags I’ll pop, and boast in rhyming verse
that what I wear puts swagger in my gait;
though twenty shillings have I in my purse,
my self-esteem and manhood both inflate
when lofty furs I purchase for a cent.
Thy grandpa’s clothes are worthy salvage, though
they smell a trifle musty. Still, I spent
much less to dress myself from head to toe.

To save or not to save? The question’s moot.
I’ll never give my coin to high-street crooks.
These dusty shelves will yield their hidden loot
to those, like me, more frugal in their looks.
Like ancient coins washed up on distant shores,
I’ll find my treasures in these thrifty stores.
- Macklemore, “Thrift Shoppe”

That was beautiful.

DYING OMG WOW

ryannxp: 『25 Lives』 by Tongari (ಌ)

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:51:02 -0400

ryannxp:

『25 Lives』 by Tongari (ಌ)

razorshapes: Dukno Yoon Wings Movement and interactive...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:50:28 -0400

razorshapes:

Dukno Yoon

Wings

Movement and interactive relationship with the body has been the most important element throughout my body of work. However through these works, I also started to explore the mechanical structure as a form. Mechanical structure becomes the most enjoyable form to me as it becomes complex yet remains simple and coherent. The contrast between metal structural form and natural feather, together with the repetitive and whimsical movements of fragile wings, provokes the imagination and evolves the intimate relationship between work and viewer/wearer. Although the recent series, segmented wings have been focused on the formal challenge to engineer an intricate movement that simulates bird wings, these works are intended to be a series of poems in which I develope my own formal language, interpret the nature of wings, create various structural forms with movements, and share the metaphor, imagination, humor, with viewer/wearer.

seventy-five-percent-water: Sea Angels Gymnosomata, commonly...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:05:37 -0400

seventy-five-percent-water:

Sea Angels

Gymnosomata, commonly known as Sea Angels. An apt name - they are the ethereal, translucent, fluttering angels of the sea.

In hard scientific terms, they’re small swimming sea slugs, but we’ll pass over that for now and just admire how delicately beautiful these wonderful creatures are.

Not forgetting, of course, that it looks to many tumblrites like the head of a penis.