May 2012
17 posts
wrapathy:
DOGS SHOULDN’T RIDE BIKES
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Brain implant lets paralyzed woman control robot... →
Science, you guys.
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If you don’t watch Mad Men, then watch all of the seasons, just so you can watch season 5, episode 6: “Far Away Places.” This is one of the best episodes of any TV show.
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April 2012
11 posts
Overview of Shakespeare (Reconsidered)
I wrote my opinion about Shakespeare about two and a half years ago, criticizing his writing, and I have changed my mind. Over the past few years, I have read more Shakespeare plays and have developed the ability to understand them. They are great, truly great, classic plays, full of wordplay, unexpected plot points, and parallels and metaphors that blow my mind. William Shakespeare was a great...
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Wikipedia:
A wonderfully-interesting carnivorous plant, the sticky tentacles attract and catch flies and other bugs.
Contact triggers a curling reaction, where the plant wraps up its prey and eventually digests and absorbs the victim’s nutrients.
This scene was about 4 hours in real-time, while I was working in the morning.
A Cape sundew, otherwise known as Drosera capensis.
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March 2012
6 posts
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February 2012
3 posts
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Cats
skycolored:
I stared up at the ceiling
A tapestry of blank
And starting at the left corner
They marched out
Dressed in gold and red,
Back before their jeweled necklaces
Turned into collars, a warped invention
Toothy smiles, bared fangs
Chewing on the edge between danger and love
They halted a distance away, waiting,
And I said, “I know you’re here,”
To which they replied, “We were always...
January 2012
7 posts
They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a...
– Banksy (via sirmitchell)
Future Janet Evanovich Paperbacks If Janet...
patrickcassels:
Nightly Nineteen
Terrible Twenty
Fearsome Forty
Sizzlin’ Seven Hundred Thousand
Trail-blazin’ Trillion
Quaint Quadrillion
Sexy Sexdecillion
Sizzlin’ Centillion
Tricky 10108.852142×1033
Grippin’ Googolplex
Sizzlin’ Skewes Number
Naughty “Numbers Have Become Meaningless”
Sizzlin’ “We Know the Mind of God Now”
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The opening scene in Portlandia‘s second season tried to recreate its success...
– Portlandia’s Second Season Premieres at the Museum of Natural History to Comedic Crowd; Accidentally Hallucinating Reporters | The New York Observer
This was written by someone in New York, who does not understand that Portland is OBSESSED with pickling things. I’m glad that some of the humor is so...
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December 2011
10 posts
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