January 2010
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This right here is one reason why i’m a big...
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Never feel bad.
rickyv:
I wonder if we call it a BLT because we’d feel bad asking for a “bacon sandwich.”
I never feel bad for making a bacon sandwich.
Hell, I leave off the lettuce and tomato.
I Dress Like a Boy
jaeboogie:
For the most part. This is a fact. I switch it up and wear girlie shit sometimes. But all I’ve been wearing lately is, men’s flannels and sweatshirts, baggy jeans, and riding boots or sneakers. It’s been really cold lately though. I feel my femininity hidden underneath all these layers. I haven’t fixed my hair up or done my makeup in weeks. I’ve been wearing red lipstick to balance...
Ice Recordings Updated « silent listening →
This is a really amazing collection of ice sounds, videos, and audio related weird ice sheet phenomena. Deeply amazing stuff.
(originally via BoingBoing, though this is not the exact same page)
Wild crows reveal tool skills →
madeofstarstuff:
A new study using motion sensitive video cameras has revealed how New Caledonian crows use tools in the wild, Oxford University scientists report.
Ah, corvids. My favorite birds.
we have reached the apex of self indulgence
isabelthespy:
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abbyjean:
Mr. Durant, 26, who works in online advertising, is part of a small New York subculture whose members seek good health through a selective return to the habits of their Paleolithic ancestors. Or as he and some of his friends describe themselves, they are cavemen. The caveman lifestyle, in Mr. Durant’s interpretation, involves eating large quantities of meat...
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I wish this song wasn’t so easy to apply to...
“With Wall Street banks set to reveal huge bonuses for staff this week, a White...”
– Barack Obama considers levy on banks to close America’s widening deficit | Business | guardian.co.uk (via champagnecandy)
For gods’ sake, I hope they go thru with it.
“Your arms would not be able to stretch as far as necessary to form an accurate...”
– Einstürzende Neubauten - Beauty
lacontessa:
Black Sabbath — Iron Man
This song...
Clothes Discarded by H&M in Manhattan Are First... →
claytoncubitt:
This is common practice for large retailers. When I was a (poor) child one of my early defining memories is of my mother attempting to retrieve a perfectly good discarded Big Wheel knock-off toy from a dumpster behind a large department store for her boys to play with, and being physically threatened, demeaned and chased off by an irate store manager, who then smashed the toy with...
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It’s the greatest Nine Inch Nails song that...
so what DO you do
isabelthespy:
about things like this? (linking at champagnecandy’s because it has the original post & the 3 responses - mine, hers, and amber rhea’s). this is going to be… disorganized.
*snip, because, well, this will be sooo long without it*
and it fucking sucks because meanwhile the people on the top of the pyramid, or people in the middle who are just assholes about it, continue to fuck...
“Soon after she became the nation’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis warned corporate...”
– Labor moves quickly on job safety, workers’ rights - Yahoo! News
I heart Hilda Solis. Here’s to a labor department that cares about labor.
(via champagnecandy)
Huzzah! Now, she just needs to put Little Timmy Geithner in a headlock, and make him do the right thing when it comes to the financial...
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The Mind of the Raven
I just finished reading Mind of the Raven, by Bernd Heinrich, and it is a splendid read. Heinrich is a behavioral ecologist, deeply fascinated by ravens.
The book documents his interactions with ravens that he has raised, and also wild ravens he has captured or simply studied in the wild. It’s full of wonderful raven anecdotes, stories of their weird, contradictory and frequently funny...
“What matters most about this blinding fear of Terrorism is not the specific...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Your daily Greenwald.
Also, I think people have taken the wrong message from this second failed plane-terrorist attempt post-9/11. What I see is that the government-mandated security theater failed—again—but people still stopped the shoe bomber, and the underpants...
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Cooking is Science
I had forgotten that the pigment in red cabbage is a reversible pH indicator until just now, as I was cleaning up from my kraut making. Residual juice in the bowl turned blue when I added water from the sink, so for fun I added some vinegar, watched it turn pink, and then neutralized the acide again with baking soda, and watched it turn blue. As a bonus fun fact, this means I can also be sure my...