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shedisenchants: shedisenchants: so every year after the juniors finish reading The Great Gatsby my...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:54:22 -0600

shedisenchants:

so every year after the juniors finish reading The Great Gatsby my high school english teacher throws a Gatsby party at his huge house and everyone shows up in period clothing and Charlestons to 20s music and my english teacher just wears a suit and stands off to the side staring wistfully out the window the entire night

you guys think I’m joking??

denverpost: Staunton State Park finally open, a wilderness...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:51:18 -0600

denverpost:

Staunton State Park finally open, a wilderness oasis near Denver

Colorado is opening its first new state park near metro Denver in 35 years Saturday, a protected patch of nature 36 miles southwest of the city.

The absence of a commerce-oriented visitor center at Staunton State Park emphasizes the natural assets of the place, such as Elk Creek Falls plummeting 100 feet over granite cliffs and views of the snow-packed north face of Pikes Peak.

The 3,828-acre park — a habitat for wild animals from tufted-eared squirrels and yellow-bellied marmots to black bears — also is expected to become a mecca for rock climbers, horseback riders, mountain bikers and hikers

Check out a photo gallery of Colorado’s newest state park.

(Source: The Denver Post)

seed-of-the-prophet replied to your post: It might be just me, but I feel like Bioshock Infinite...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:52:01 -0600

seed-of-the-prophet replied to your post: It might be just me, but I feel like Bioshock Infinite parallels exceptionally well with Nightwatch

Love the Nightwatch. I hadn’t thought to compare that to Infinite, but now that you mention it I see what you mean. Especially with the characters, everyone has layers and can’t be defined as completely evil or good.

Yeah, so you have a cynical law enforcer (Booker/Vimes) have to deal with violent and worryingly powerful psychopaths (Comstock/Carcer), a revolution which turns out deconstruct the idea of revolutions (both best summed up by: Ave! Duci Novo, similis duci seneca), weird time shit because of a cryptic but helpful time-walking person (Lucetes/ Lu-Tze, also their names sound really similar) who points out that while there are many worlds/legs in the trousers of time, some outcomes never change (Booker never defeats Songbird, Vimes never kills Sybil ect) and the story ultimately ends with (Spoilers ahead)

Both protagonists having to ensure the safety of their infant child (Young Sam/ Anna)

officialskullgirls: o-8: Hey guys! I think it’s ok for me to...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:29:15 -0600

officialskullgirls:

o-8:

Hey guys!

I think it’s ok for me to post this now, since Beowulf has been announced as the other voted character!

Here he is posing with his chair “The Hurting” and holding the arm of his former Gigan opponent, Grendel.

So the order is:

Squigly

Big Band

Eliza

Beowulf

Robo Fortune.

Hype!!!!111

@ A @

gossipfolk: Science.

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:27:30 -0600

gossipfolk:

Science.

neil-gaiman: odditiesoflife: Stunning Landscape - Cappadocia,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:01:46 -0600

neil-gaiman:

odditiesoflife:

Stunning Landscape - Cappadocia, Turkey

The mysterious rock formations and underground cities of Cappadocia make this region of Turkey one the most beautiful in the world. The rich history of this site can be told through the villages, subterranean churches and fortresses that have been carved straight into the soft, porous, eerily eroded rock.

Popular activities in the region include visits to the underground cities, viewing the ancient Christian cave art, seeing the “fairy chimney” rock formations, and taking sunrise hot air balloon rides for a view of the breathtaking landscape from above.

When I am certain everyone else in the world is following odditiesoflife I will not reblog everything she puts up quite so industriously….

kapoot2: Katsuya Terada’s illustrations of the early Legend of...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:54:12 -0600

kapoot2:

Katsuya Terada’s illustrations of the early Legend of Zelda for Nintendo Power Magazine.

image gallery

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Sat, 18 May 2013 01:25:51 -0600

”where do you wanna go to dinner?” ”i don’t care” ”ok”

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:24:22 -0600

”where do you wanna go to dinner?”

”i don’t care”

”ok”

"Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:21:30 -0600

“Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”

- Terry Pratchett, Jingo (1997)

michaelblume: michaelblume: asmartkid: This story actually...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:17:05 -0600

michaelblume:

michaelblume:

asmartkid:

This story actually has a pretty good point.

“not much correlation” sounds like an empirical claim that someone’s probably tested at some point. Anyone have the actual results?

First thing I found: https://webspace.utexas.edu/hamermes/www/HappinessBeauty.pdf

Says a 1 SD increase in beauty predicts about a 0.1 SD increase in happiness, however these researchers measured it. Honestly that’s a bit less than I’d have expected.

It might be just me, but I feel like Bioshock Infinite parallels exceptionally well with Nightwatch

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:15:15 -0600

It just happens that Bioshock Infinite’s Trousers of Time has a great many legs

tastefullyoffensive: [trickrtreatr]

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:35:12 -0600

tastefullyoffensive:

[trickrtreatr]

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Fri, 17 May 2013 15:26:01 -0600

cracked: We expect the Internet to be transformed into a soup...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:21:52 -0600

cracked:

We expect the Internet to be transformed into a soup of civility after everyone reads this article.

4 Things We Should Remember When Arguing About Politics

[I]t’s the 21st century. We have access to the entirety of collective human knowledge in our back pockets at all times. We have taken pictures of the deepest corners of space. We have three different goddamn TV shows about bidding on abandoned storage units. We as a society should have moved beyond figuratively (and literally, probably, knowing you assholes) shitting in our hands and throwing it at each other whenever someone brings up the deficit.

So, let’s lay down some ground rules for this new interpersonal landscape. Keep these four things in mind and elevate your level of discourse, educate yourself and the people around you, and find simple harmony through honest, open conversation. Or, you know, keep calling each other Dildo Hitlers. It’s up to you.

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asiasociety: Photos: Kyrgyz People Cling to Tradition in...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:57:13 -0600

asiasociety:

Photos: Kyrgyz People Cling to Tradition in Forbidding Corner of Northern Afghanistan

Photographer Matthieu Paley spent more than a decade photographing the Afghan Kyrgyz people, who live in one of the world’s most remote and inhospitable areas.

Read the full story here

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Thu, 16 May 2013 23:46:25 -0600

peashooter85: Ancient Roman Dogtag, Inscription Reads: “Hold me...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:45:42 -0600

peashooter85:

Ancient Roman Dogtag,

Inscription Reads: “Hold me if I am lost and return me to my master Viventius on the estate of Callistus”

ceruleancynic: destroyed-and-abandoned: WWII abandoned bunkers...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:26:50 -0600

ceruleancynic:

destroyed-and-abandoned:

WWII abandoned bunkers on the coast of Britain

always reblog maunsell forts

"If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:01:40 -0600

“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your whiteness affords you a privilege that shields you from a lot. You must also acknowledge that you are afforded privileges that some men in this country do not have. Racism and sexism are tightly intertwined. You cannot fight one while ignoring the other.”

- ladyatheist (via ellesugars)

For more on Intersectionalism.

(via ikenbot)