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mulanofficial: 87daysbefore: HERE IT IS RE: big girls in...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:50:53 -0500

mulanofficial:

87daysbefore:

HERE IT IS

RE: big girls in costumes

Couldn’t reblog this shit fast enough.

Today, today, today… time to hit Barnes &...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:00:10 -0500

Today, today, today… time to hit Barnes & Noble.

worldsunimagined:

neil-gaiman:

It will be released on June 18th 2013.

More Creepshot Dudes

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:08:55 -0500

sexistfacebookdudes: Meet the creeps of CreepShots. Turning the gaze around. Spread their names and...

niknak79: Hours of fun

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:41:34 -0500

niknak79:

Hours of fun

nationalpostphotos: Alabama Police Dogs — A beagle mother and...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:24:16 -0500

nationalpostphotos:

Alabama Police Dogs — A beagle mother and pups look through the kennel of the tracking team out of Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala., on Thursday, June 6, 2013. The Department of Corrections maintains eight teams of dogs for tracking purposes across the state and one K-9 drug-detecting team at Easterling Correctional Facility in Clio, said Brian Corbett, spokesman for the prison system. The purpose of the K-9 units is to track escaped inmates and conduct searches for wanted persons. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Amanda Sowards)

Movie premiere tonight in Dallas (synched with New York’s...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:42:50 -0500

Movie premiere tonight in Dallas (synched with New York’s opening) - AMAZING!!!!

montereybayaquarium: Peacock Mantis Shrimp — He’s...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:50:04 -0500

montereybayaquarium:

Peacock Mantis Shrimp — He’s Baaaaack!

Tiny, deadly and gorgeous. That’s the peacock mantis shrimp, and we just placed one on exhibit in our Splash Zone galleries.

You’ll have to work a bit to see it. It’s housed — alone — in a small aquarium inside the Coral Crawl tunnel in Splash Zone. But it’s well worth the effort!

This is the first time we’ve hosted a mantis shrimp since 2001 when one of them stowed away inside some coral rock and earned us international headlines and live CNN coverage. (There’s something compelling about a “killer shrimp” terrorizing other animals in the children’s area of an internationally known aquarium.)

They pack quite a punch

Since then, we’ve been wary of deliberately introducing a mantis shrimp — and for good reason. Aquarists and scuba divers refer to them as “thumb-splitters” because their claws pack a punch as powerful as a .22-caliber bullet.

Those same claws can shatter a clam shell, and crack open a crab or shatter glass. They can bring down a blue-ringed octopus or a fish. The claws are made of a material so hard it can deliver 50,000 blows between molts - without breaking. It’s being studied by scientists as a model for crafting super-strong body armor for soldiers.

And it moves its claws so fast that they turn water into plasma and sound into light.

Amazing!

“A thermonuclear bomb of light and beauty”

But that’s not the end of the story, as celebrated cartoonist Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal explains in his online love-letter, “Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal.”

He starts by examining the eyes that make them unbelievably effective hunters. Their vision is so sensitive that a mantis shrimp can see in both infrared and ultraviolet spectra, and uses 16 color receptor cones (compared to just three for humans).

Inman observes: “Where we see a rainbow, the mantis shrimp sees a thermonuclear bomb of light and beauty.”

It’s that combination of experiencing a world of transcendent beauty — and then turning around and pounding its prey to smithereens — that fascinates Matthew Inman.

We hope you’ll be fascinated, too, at the chance to see a peacock mantis shrimp face to face — on the other side of shatterproof acrylic.

mrsbuckybarnes: endlessfakesmiles: f4lconpunch: deanleysen: T...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:10:15 -0500

mrsbuckybarnes:

endlessfakesmiles:

f4lconpunch:

deanleysen:

These commercials would be so much better if they left them in.

HAHAHA WTF MINDFUCK

THAT’S IT THAT’S MY DREAM JOB

this is a job i was born to do

my-ear-trumpet: sebastianmorris: My Book of the Church’s Year...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:47:19 -0500

my-ear-trumpet:

sebastianmorris:

My Book of the Church’s Year
By Enid M. Chadwick.

http://anglicanhistory.org/children/chadwick_year/

neil-gaiman: Neil Gaiman - on Livestream.com This is me talking...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:23:11 -0500

neil-gaiman:

Neil Gaiman - on Livestream.com

This is me talking about FORTUNATELY THE MILK and THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE at Book Expo last week. Also, I throw badges at the audience.

neil-gaiman: fefeferi: fighting-for-fitness-with-tea: healthis...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:15:23 -0500

neil-gaiman:

fefeferi:

fighting-for-fitness-with-tea:

healthisnotafad:

sexyfitduh:

awesometriathlon:

anewstartabetterme:

fullyactivated:

This is pretty cool and eye-opening. I wish someone would do this sort of thing with male 6-pack ab models.

They even Photoshopped the woman behind Selena’s arm, because apparently not only do celebrities have to be thin, but they must also only associate with other thin people…

Enrico Francis has been caught

This pisses me off so incredibly much!

This is ridiculous. And disgusting. beautiful people being photoshopped to fit impossible standards AND most of the non-caucasian women are being white washed so they look more “appealing”

this.

makes.

me.

SO ANGRY. I can’t find the words to say just exactly what I feel about this…gahhhhhh just no.

AND THEY FUCKING PHOTOSHOPPED OUT “ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION” FOR THIS ENRICO FRANCIS DUDE HOLY FUCK

It is always good to remember that you can be lied to in pictures…

Photo

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 04:00:10 -0500

paleoillustration: XKCD

Wed, 29 May 2013 06:27:48 -0500

paleoillustration:

XKCD

neil-gaiman: It comes out in Three Weeks and One Day from...

Sun, 26 May 2013 10:49:27 -0500

neil-gaiman:

It comes out in Three Weeks and One Day from now.

You can get wallpaper-type pictures like the one I just posted here from http://harpercollins.tumblr.com/post/39385630052/have-a-happy-neil-gaiman-year

I just checked and it’s not quite in the Amazon.com top 100 yet, but almost. Which is pretty good for a book that will not be published for three weeks.

And I am starting to get pre-publication jitters. What if nobody likes it? What if nobody buys it? What if WE ARE ALL DOOMED?

Probably we are all doomed.

Please — in three weeks and one day, anyway — buy my book. And then read it. And then like it. And then, if you liked it, tell other people to read it.

clairemojher: To celebrate the exciting return of Arrested...

Sun, 26 May 2013 01:36:18 -0500

clairemojher:

To celebrate the exciting return of Arrested Development, a few of us greeting card artists put our heads (and pencils) together and whipped up a (fake) mini-line of greeting cards that anyone can download and print out for free!

It’s super easy! Download the high-res files here. They even come with a dotted line for the fold and should print easily to your basic home printer.

And if you like them, please share them to your heart’s content!

The Artists:

Kathleen Marcotte

Dan Liuzzi

Claire Mojher

Ali Kurzeja

neil-gaiman: assemblethehobbits: This had made my day!! Mine...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:32 -0500

neil-gaiman:

assemblethehobbits:

This had made my day!!

Mine too.

ianbrooks: Street Lit Putting a message on a wall can be a...

Sat, 04 May 2013 08:15:25 -0500

William Carlos Williams, "Red Wheelbarrow" photo by Mark LaFlaur

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince" photo via mes-hautes-montagnes.com posted by ianbrooks.me

Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream" photo by mermaid99's flickr

George Orwell, "Animal Farm" photo via windshoes.khan.kr

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" photo via baddogwhiskas' flickr

J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring" photo by Gary L. Quay

Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse Five" photo by devianarts posted by ianbrooks.me

Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" photo by Dan Allison

"Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song" from Edmund Spenser's Prothalamion photo via rosetintdesign.com

J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring" posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

Street Lit

Putting a message on a wall can be a much more effective way to reach the masses than expecting them to go find a book and learn it themselves. Some men just want to watch the world learn, regardless of medium. This collection of street arts details some memorable lines from famous books, hit the pictures to see which author and title, if you didnt already recognize them immediately.

(via: BuzzFeed)

gladtoknowcha: Acapulco, Mexico (1991) by Elliot Erwitt

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:33:43 -0500

gladtoknowcha:

Acapulco, Mexico (1991) by Elliot Erwitt

requiemforjean: Erwitt

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:32:10 -0500

requiemforjean:

Erwitt

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:03 -0500

wasbella102:

St. Tropez, France—1959. © Elliott Erwitt

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mulanofficial: 87daysbefore: HERE IT IS RE: big girls in...

Today, today, today… time to hit Barnes &...

More Creepshot Dudes

niknak79: Hours of fun

nationalpostphotos: Alabama Police Dogs — A beagle mother and...

Movie premiere tonight in Dallas (synched with New York’s...

montereybayaquarium: Peacock Mantis Shrimp — He’s...

mrsbuckybarnes: endlessfakesmiles: f4lconpunch: deanleysen: T...

my-ear-trumpet: sebastianmorris: My Book of the Church’s Year...

neil-gaiman: Neil Gaiman - on Livestream.com This is me talking...

neil-gaiman: fefeferi: fighting-for-fitness-with-tea: healthis...

Photo

paleoillustration: XKCD

neil-gaiman: It comes out in Three Weeks and One Day from...

clairemojher: To celebrate the exciting return of Arrested...

neil-gaiman: assemblethehobbits: This had made my day!! Mine...

ianbrooks: Street Lit Putting a message on a wall can be a...

gladtoknowcha: Acapulco, Mexico (1991) by Elliot Erwitt

requiemforjean: Erwitt

wasbella102: St. Tropez, France—1959. © Elliott Erwitt