All confirmation bias, all the time

I’ll just leave this here. (via Corgi-thulhu by...

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:55:11 -0400

I’ll just leave this here. (via Corgi-thulhu by ~AlizarinJen on deviantART)

dianabaabe: reaill: this is the cutest fucking martial arts...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:19:11 -0400

reaill:

this is the cutest fucking martial arts class demonstration I’ve ever seen

when she was running to him omg<333

Can’t stop watching.

0xabad1dea: Mansplained

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:39:00 -0400

0xabad1dea: Mansplained:

abad1dea:

I was informed by the Mansplaining Brigade tonight that “man” is not a gendered word in the English language.

Great, so your mother is a man then? Lesbianism is man-on-man love? Don’t you dare say “well obviously I only meant sometimes”. I’m not psychic; your use of “man” doesn’t come with a…

Well said

0xabad1dea: Thoughts on the Boston Lockdown from the edge

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:29:57 -0400

0xabad1dea: Thoughts on the Boston Lockdown from the edge:

abad1dea:

A lot of people are angry, upset, or worried about the “Boston Lockdown” as a sign that Freedom Is Over. One thing almost all of these people have in common is not having been in Boston at the time. I work in information security and I’m involved with the privacy scene; I understand there’s a …

This.

awkward-elevator: Swedish Chef Ramsay This.

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:26:06 -0400

awkward-elevator:

Swedish Chef Ramsay

This.

blog.izs.me: Free as in Hugs Licence

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:12:25 -0400

blog.izs.me: Free as in Hugs Licence:

izs:

Copyright (c) __AUTHOR_NAME__ (“Author”) and Contributors

All rights reserved.

The “Free as in Hugs” License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must…

CISPA passes House despite Obama veto threat (Access Blog)

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:08:47 -0400

CISPA passes House despite Obama veto threat (Access Blog)

On Chasing the Right "Zero"

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:30:53 -0400

merlin:

Not to be all “Merlin Mann” or anything, but, maybe somebody will find this useful.

I was recently asked to talk about how I think about the infamous Inbox Zero these days, and here’s what I said:

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Yup.

zeroing: Renato Stockler

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:34:35 -0400

zeroing:

Renato Stockler

0xabad1dea: Some (self-righteous?) stuff I thought of while playing video games

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:40:18 -0400

0xabad1dea: Some (self-righteous?) stuff I thought of while playing video games:

abad1dea:

Men fear women will reject them, women fear they won’t be allowed to say no

Straight people fear being made uncomfortable by gays, gay people fear they won’t be allowed to love

Cisgendered people fear being fooled, transgendered people fear they won’t be allowed to be honest

The rich fear the…

thethp: marlomeekins: The most common message I get: “Great...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:26:37 -0500

thethp:

marlomeekins:

The most common message I get: “Great drawings, must be the pen! What kind is it?” This is a bit rude and naive. No magic pen will replace decades of study and practice. These drawings were done with Crayolas from the dollar store on Crayola paper. (For the record, I might own every brush pen and regular pen in existence and I use them all, pentel might be my fav) It’s nice to have good tools, but you have to put the work in.

See also “Your camera takes great pictures!”

pardalote: Jupiter embroidery - done! My own design, loosely...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:47:15 -0500

pardalote:

Jupiter embroidery - done! My own design, loosely based on a series of photos by NASA showing the Great Red Spot devouring nearby little spots :-) Chain stitch in cotton, silk and specialty threads.

Edit: because I’ve had so many queries, I’ve blogged about this piece, here: http://www.pardalote.net/makes/index.php/jupiter-embroidery

(via New Map and Celestial Star Chart Portraits by Ed Fairburn |...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:28:29 -0500

(via New Map and Celestial Star Chart Portraits by Ed Fairburn | Colossal)

Tupperwolf: Today the news broke that the Ahmed Baba library in Timbuktu has been...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:12:17 -0500

Tupperwolf: Today the news broke that the Ahmed Baba library in Timbuktu has been...:

vruba:

Today the news broke that the Ahmed Baba library in Timbuktu has been partly destroyed by retreating rebels.

This is a composite satellite image of part of central Mali. It’s 256 km (160 mi) wide, or about the distance between Seattle and Portland. Timbuktu is the mark just north of the…

sketches + story: 22 #storybasics I've picked up in my time at Pixar

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:23:50 -0500

sketches + story: 22 #storybasics I've picked up in my time at Pixar:

storyshots:

I tweeted these forever ago, but the internet just noticed and I figure I should probably at least put them on my blog. I’m glad people are finding them useful.

Here they are, a mix of things learned from directors & coworkers at Pixar, listening to writers & directors talk about their craft, and…

tytodiem: “It is as beautiful as it is rare. A frost flower is...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:02:23 -0500

tytodiem:

“It is as beautiful as it is rare. A frost flower is created on autumn or early winter mornings when ice in extremely thin layers is pushed out from the stems of plants or occasionally wood. This extrusion creates wonderful patterns which curl and fold into gorgeous frozen petioles giving this phenomenon both its name and its appearance.”

Photo

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:37:50 -0500

acupofteawithmy: My sister sent this to me forever ago….never...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:42:33 -0500

acupofteawithmy:

My sister sent this to me forever ago….never get tired of it.

toughtink: hndwrttn: sourcedumal: Doctor? It’s Martha and...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:25:34 -0500

toughtink:

hndwrttn:

sourcedumal:

Doctor? It’s Martha and I’m bringing you back to earth.

AND HIS ASS CAME BACK ON THE DOUBLE TOO

HIS OWN FUCKIN WIFE HAD TO CARVE INTO A DAMN MOUNTAIN TO GET HIS ATTENTION

MARTHA FUCKIN JONES MADE ONE PHONE CALL

CUZ MARTHA FUCKIN JONES AIN’T THE ONE TO FUCK WITH

Rory & Amy had to deface a field with their car.

Donna had to go on solo mystery adventures to maybe run into him.

And Jack had to set up an alarm system designed around the Doctor’s detached hand.

Even Winston Churchill can’t just ring up the TARDIS any old day, he gets forwarded to River.

Martha HBIC Jones is the only person who’s got a direct line to the Doctor.

so martha gets a lot of flak in this fandom, and i don’t understand why. she’s just pretty friggin awesome. also, being an actual doctor makes her one of the more useful companions. XD

"Twins joined at the head — the medical term is craniopagus — are one in 2.5 million, of which only a..."

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:15:45 -0500

“Twins joined at the head — the medical term is craniopagus — are one in 2.5 million, of which only a fraction survive. The way the girls’ brains formed beneath the surface of their fused skulls, however, makes them beyond rare: their neural anatomy is unique, at least in the annals of recorded scientific literature. Their brain images reveal what looks like an attenuated line stretching between the two organs, a piece of anatomy their neurosurgeon, Douglas Cochrane of British Columbia Children’s Hospital, has called a thalamic bridge, because he believes it links the thalamus of one girl to the thalamus of her sister. The thalamus is a kind of switchboard, a two-lobed organ that filters most sensory input and has long been thought to be essential in the neural loops that create consciousness. Because the thalamus functions as a relay station, the girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it.”

- Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind? - NYTimes.com