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thedailywhat: Infographic of the Day: As with most everything...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:57:11 -0500

Infographic of the Day: As with most everything in life, famous movie quotes cannot help but submit to the ameliorating power of charts and graphs.

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Voice over Narration

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:24:42 -0500

Voice over Narration:

My attempt to watch all 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and blog about the films and my experience.

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Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:34:53 -0500

fuckyesmaps:

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30 Rare Star Wars Photos

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:04:52 -0500

30 Rare Star Wars Photos

purpleboots: ontologicalterrorist: feralnostalgia: constantflu...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:41:30 -0500

purpleboots:

ontologicalterrorist:

feralnostalgia:

constantflux:

whisperingwillow:treehuggingarchitect:

This, my friends, is what I like to call awesome. It’s a wildlife overpass….kind of like a pedestrian bridge, only the pedestrians it caters to are the four legged kinds. Deer, elk, moose, wolf, and lynx alike, as well as their kin, will use this little bridge to safely cross the human road, what was once a barrier.

Alberta, Canada, 1999 Photography by Joel Sartore

This is so that episode from the first season of The West Wing when it’s “Big Block of Cheese Day.”

Economics 101 - Homework

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:24:00 -0500

Upon my arrival to class today, I was holding the Time Magazine I had received in the mail this morning. I sat down and flipped through a few pages, and as I did, my professor inquired if there was “anything relevant to the class in there.” I said maybe, and that I hadn’t really looked at it yet. He then asked, “what is that, People magazine?” to which I replied, “hahaha what!?” This led to a five minute conversation between me and my professor which ended with a brief critical analysis of how Time Magazine keeps commercial readers while still appealing to intellectual readers.

Soon after, my backpack exploded as he started lecturing and I dug out my notebook, textbook, and pen. After class lecture, my fellow students filed out of the room while I still rushed to jam my shit back into my bag.

I ended up being the last person to leave, and my professor asked what my major was. I told him it was English and he replied that it was “real important stuff.” Because obviously, unlike economists, English majors do important things that matter. All elitism aside, he asked me who my favorite author was and it being a monday and all, I blanked. I just completely lost any thoughts that were swimming around my head. I said that, “I really like F. Scott Fitzgerald” because I do, and then I said “Tolstoy” like a moron. In reality, I have read about ten pages of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I really did like those ten pages, though, and I meant what I said. My professor asked if I had ever read anything by Dostoyevsky, and I said no, but they’re on my list of books I need to read (which they are). He told me to check out The Brothers Karamazov, which I have on my bookshelf. I said I would, and headed to lunch.

Long story short, I’m considering this my new homework assignment for my economics class, which is weird considering that other than this class, I have books to read in every other class I’m taking.

I have a feeling I’ll probably finish the Dostoyevsky before any other ones I’m supposed to read.

Conversation I Actually Had with My Mother When I Told Her I Bought Light-Up Sneakers

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:00:00 -0500

Me: Hey, I bought new sneakers!
Mom: That's great. What kind?
Me: Well, I got a pair of little kids shoes because I fit in them.
Mom: Good, your shoes from now on will be cheaper.
Me: Not if they light up!
Mom: No you did not.

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you...

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:55:10 -0500

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

- Albert Einstein

Video

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:25:59 -0500

"Oil can give us food, like biscuits."

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:31:50 -0500

“Oil can give us food, like biscuits.”

- Little Kid’s Test Answer

thediamondmind: Hair-Portraits of the presidents. From left to...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:59:00 -0500

thediamondmind:

Hair-Portraits of the presidents. From left to right: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama.

“Hair to the Chief”

Conversation I Am Expecting to Have with My Mother When I Tell Her I Bought Light-Up Sneakers

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:24:00 -0500

Me: I bought new sneakers. Did you know that if you're a women's size 6.5 you can fit into little kids size threes?
Mom: No, but that's good. They'll be cheaper.
Me: Not if they light up!
Mom: No you did not.

Blame it on the Dog.

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:36:00 -0500

My dad told me this joke when I called him earlier:

Jim is at dinner with his new girlfriend and her family.
About halfway through the meal, he has to fart. He leans over onto one ass-cheek and squeaks one out. The father looks at the dog and says, “Rusty! Come here!”
Good, He thinks, they think the dog did it. I’m in the clear.
He squeaks another one out, and the father looks at the dog again.
“Rusty! Get over here!”
Jim lets one more fly, and this time, it’s a little noisier than he expected.
“Rusty!” The father says, “Get out of the way! That man’s going to shit on you!”

I’m a 20 year old girl. I just bought these sneakers....

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:19:16 -0500

I’m a 20 year old girl. I just bought these sneakers. They’re a boy’s size 3.
THEY LIGHT UP.

BEST PURCHASE EVER.

I'm watching An Inconvenient Truth

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:23:53 -0500

Does anyone else have the urge to watch cerebral documentaries when they’re drunk?

Economics 101 - National/Personal Debt

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:23:22 -0500

In class Wednesday, my Professor went on a rant about how most Americans are in debt up to their eyeballs without a plan to get rid of personal debt.

We’re a country of people with no way out.

Does our government reflect that? Does all that national debt reflect the fact that we’re a nation of shopaholics who consume, consume, consume with little thought about the impact we’re having on our own lives?

Forget about the impact on the environment and everything else for a moment.

I try to buy organic, local foods. I try to support small businesses. I really do. But I realized that if we don’t save ourselves from debt, we’ll never save the America that makes economic sense. That’s just the way it is, but that’s not how it should be.

We’re a free country. That means free to buy products from the places you want. With giant corporations owning most of the business for food, how is that freedom?

If you haven’t watched Food, Inc yet, you need to. It’s a huge wake-up call for the average American consumer. And that’s kind of what we need - a gigantic, country-wide shock to jolt us awake. We’ve been asleep for years, and now corporations like the ones that run the food industry can spend their hundreds of millions of dollars on campaign ads for candidates who support their lobbies.

So…who’s going to set the alarm, eh?

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Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:42:10 -0500

palahniukandchocolate:

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Make Mine Freedom (1948)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:01:13 -0500

Make Mine Freedom (1948)

delrayser: fuckyeahdc: indieandyy: Time lapse video of the...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:01:48 -0500

delrayser:

fuckyeahdc:

indieandyy:

Time lapse video of the February 5-6 snowfall in DC. Nikon D200 set to make an exposure every 5 minutes. 328 frames at 12 fps.

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That poor teddy bear!!!

Pedobear crashes the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:08:19 -0500

Pedobear crashes the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.