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"We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other;..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:53:18 -0400

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.”

- Hermann Hesse (via likeafieldmouse)

ruineshumaines: Melting World by Takeshi Kawano. Intense...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:51:40 -0400

ruineshumaines:

Melting World by Takeshi Kawano.

Intense representation of the disappearing and melting environment by Takeshi Kawano. With these three sculptures he wants to point out the risk connected to the global warming.

arteclair: TARDIS + Van Gogh shoes. Think I might have to make...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:48:50 -0400

arteclair:

TARDIS + Van Gogh shoes.

Think I might have to make a pair to keep for myself :)

ikenbot: New Photo Reveals ‘Ghostly’ Green Nebula in Deep...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:47:11 -0400

ikenbot:

New Photo Reveals ‘Ghostly’ Green Nebula in Deep Space

An amazing new photo from a telescope in Chile has captured the most detailed view yet of a green glowing blob 3,300 light-years away from Earth.

Image: This photo shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star. It is located about 3300 light-years away from Earth. Credit: ESO

The new image, released today (April 10) by the European Southern Observatory, shows the planetary nebula IC 1295 like it has never been seen before. This picture, which ESO scientists dubbed “ghostly,” marks the first time the nebula has been imaged such unprecedented detail.

“It has the unusual feature of being surrounded by multiple shells that make it resemble a microorganism seen under a microscope, with many layers corresponding to the membranes of a cell,” officials from the European Southern Observatory wrote in a statement.

oldloves: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got married and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:31:40 -0400

oldloves:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

fastcompany: It’s no secret that the world’s ocean trash...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:30:36 -0400

fastcompany:

It’s no secret that the world’s ocean trash problem is getting bad; looking at a handful of images from the Texas-sized Pacific garbage patch should be enough to convince anyone. As for all of our litter that doesn’t end up in the middle of the ocean? It often stays close to shore, where volunteers for Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup pick some of it up, cataloging all the items they find.

The 10 types of trash that are littering our beaches

mightyhunter: This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:29:48 -0400

mightyhunter:

This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers

Imagine you forget to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones the night it airs. Even if coworkers stay mum about important plot points, Twitter is abuzz with spoilers. Fortunately, there’s Twivo, a new program that allows Twitter users to censor their feeds from mentioning a certain TV show (and its characters) for a set time period. Jennie Lamere, a 17-year-old girl, invented the software last month—and won the grand prize at a national coding competition where Lamere was the only female who presented a project, and the only developer to work alone. Internet: Meet the reason we need more women in tech.

(From Mother Jones)

Get it girl.

scinerds: Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:28:45 -0400

scinerds:

Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations

(Related: Galaxy Collisions: A Gif Set)

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Thu, 16 May 2013 21:27:17 -0400

The first two lines of 30 Rock. Fuckin’ 30 rock.

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:25:29 -0400

The first two lines of 30 Rock.

Fuckin’ 30 rock.

fuckyeahenvironmentalism: I still love this photo 100% worth a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:47:09 -0400

fuckyeahenvironmentalism:

I still love this photo

100% worth a second post

Its called clean energy for a reason.

fuckyeahrhodeisland: GET SOME! Classy.

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:42:33 -0400

fuckyeahrhodeisland:

GET SOME!

Classy.

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Sun, 12 May 2013 18:15:29 -0400

Listen up, public service announcement.

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:14:54 -0400

Listen up, public service announcement.

colchrishadfield: Chesapeake to Cape Cod to Lake Huron - in a...

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:12:48 -0400

colchrishadfield:

Chesapeake to Cape Cod to Lake Huron - in a glance, so much history, geology and geography.

I see you rhode island! I’ve been waiting for a little northeast love.

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Sat, 11 May 2013 21:00:52 -0400

pretty in pink.

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:00:15 -0400

owlmylove:

When I was 10, I saw

my first episode of Law & Order, SVU

a woman screamed

and her pretty pink dress ripped

the scene cut to black but then

she sat in a station

hair mussed and mascara running

and she seemed broken

and empty

and that’s when I began to prepare

for the inevitable.

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huffingtonpost: huffposttaste: tastefullyoffensive: Ryan...

Sat, 11 May 2013 20:56:24 -0400

huffingtonpost:

huffposttaste:

tastefullyoffensive:

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal

[ryanwmchenry]

Ryan, just TRY IT. You’ll like it.

Come on Ryan, it’s good, we promise.

colchrishadfield: Same land, different politics. The US -...

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:34:59 -0400

colchrishadfield:

Same land, different politics. The US - Mexican border, seen from space.

colchrishadfield: Big and Little Ambergris Cay, on the blue...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:28:14 -0400

colchrishadfield:

Big and Little Ambergris Cay, on the blue edge of the abyss.