February 2012
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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for... →
About 13 miles from this spindle of rock, there’s a bigger Island, called Lord Howe Island.
On Howe, there used to be an insect, famous for being big. It’s a stick insect, a critter that masquerades as a piece of wood, and the Lord Howe Island version was so large — as big as a human hand — that the Europeans labeled it a “tree lobster” because of its size and hard,...
not that i particularly disagree with this sentiment, but by this barometer, we also live in a murder culture, a theft culture, a genocide culture, a holocaust culture, a gangster culture, etc. elevating one type of violence over the others seems somewhat sexist and bullshit-y to me.
I don’t know that it’s particularly better to be hypersensitive/hyperaware of this and to correct it...
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Disabled Protesters Vs. Riot Police →
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“We are symbols and inhabit symbols; workmen, work, and tools, words and things,...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet (via knowledgeandspirit)
Katamari Hack →
John Peels music collection turned into online... →
Recreating the Masters: Sandwiches as Art →
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Disease Sleuths Surf For Outbreaks Online →
pretty interesting
I just received an email dated before the unix epoch. My phone won’t open it. How’d you like them apples?
Insane art formed by carving books with surgical... →
Flowers regenerated from 30,000-year-old frozen... →
Time travel.
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant... →
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valentine's bondage play ends with 9 cop cars →
“oooops”
Correction to Murk Avenue: Ice Cube's 'Good Day'... →
correction, National Good Day day is 11/30, please update your calendars as appropriate
lahatiel:
It should actually be November 30th, 1988. I think I found some errors in Donovan Strain’s calculations about when Ice Cube’s “Good Day” occurred, and explain my own findings below.
I feel somewhat silly making this my first-ever Tumblr post on an account I’ve had open, forgotten and unused, for...
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver finds lost Joy... →
seriously, what?
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has apparently found rare Joy Division and New Ordermaster tapes when digging up the basement of a new restaurant in Manchester. The new restaurant, which is being built in a former branch of Midland bank, was being excavated when the tapes were found, alongside guns, gold and jewellery. The total value of the haul is £1.1 million, reports Holy Moly....
This is Your Brain On Love →
It’s all interesting but skip to the 14’35” mark for the Carl Sagan love story bit. Happy Valentine’s.
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Watchyou’re not punk and i’m telling everyone
fuckyeahthemountaingoats:
The Mountain Goats — Boxcar (Jawbreaker cover)
Anatomy of an illegal abortion →
Tell me this is better than legalized medical procedures.
