Friday Ephemera
Cyclops cat. // Dogs wearing pantyhose. // Hairy chest sweater. // Space cuisine. // A collection of malformed brains. // Tunnelling beneath New York. // Black and white. // Robotic surgeon not quite foolproof. // This is falling snow. // The great Nutella heist of 2013. // Reasons my son is crying. // The distance to Mars. // A history of wine labels. (h/t, Coudal) // Layout disasters of our time. (h/t, Kate) // Tsunami cloud. // Hot glass. // Time to defrost the freezer. // “Rhythmic ability in a California sea lion.” // Animal eyes. // Eye of Sauron desk lamp. // Disneyland staff cafeteria, 1961. // Vadering is the new fake quidditch. // Signage of note.
150 Days to Mars?!?
Just give me a few thousand nukes and I can get there in 30….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4k_YZAXSEI
Actual Apollo 10 mission transcript. Scroll down to page 414-415 and 419-420 for “captain’s log”
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS10_CM.PDF
This morning calls for kittens and their place in sports;
http://sportballsreplacedwithcats.tumblr.com/
-S
“Layout disasters of our time.”
Those ‘headline goes here’ ones are pretty common in local papers:
http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/forgotten-something.html
What academic bias?
http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4702
Rafi,
What academic bias?
It’s always fun to watch “angry old white people” being trashed en masse as “stupid, racist losers” by an angry and stupid old white leftist. An old white leftist who gets his jollies by inflicting his political fantasies on impressionable teenagers, most of whom will be reluctant to answer back with suitable frankness. The ubiquity of phone cameras may finally show parents what kind of education they’re all too often paying for.
impressionable teenagers, most of whom will be reluctant to answer back with suitable frankness.
What’s the betting the one giving out the grades thinks he’s ‘speaking truth to power’?
Rafi,
What’s the betting the one giving out the grades thinks he’s ‘speaking truth to power’?
That would be the standard conceit.
First National Oral Sex Contest. Beijing Division Semi-finals
The Chinese are ahead of us in so many ways.
Reasons my son is crying.
This is very popular around the office. My favourites:
‘I wouldn’t let him eat mud.’
http://reasonsmysoniscrying.tumblr.com/post/47650498511/i-wouldnt-let-him-eat-mud
‘He is bad at eating yoghurt.’
http://reasonsmysoniscrying.tumblr.com/post/46978704919/he-is-bad-at-eating-yogurt
‘I broke his cheese in half.’
http://reasonsmysoniscrying.tumblr.com/post/46978748185/i-broke-this-cheese-in-half
The science of exploding beans;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvQQ2IRTFwI
Hey, it’s still Friday.
-S
Dogs wearing pantyhose.
We don’t deserve the internet, we really don’t.
We don’t deserve the internet, we really don’t.
Indeed…
http://www.dailydot.com/lol/jurassic-heart-dating-sim-t-rex/
-S
David
I’d be interested in your view of this article:
Responsibilities of the state: Rethinking the case and possibilities for public support of journalism:
http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4323
cheers
andy
What academic bias?
This academic bias…
http://collegeinsurrection.com/2013/04/art-professor-forces-students-to-make-anti-gun-propaganda-in-class/
Here is another cracker:
http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/425/?page=0