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Low Rider Originally shared by Richard Bensam Apparently I missed Norrin Radd's arrival, but oddly enough this is my neighborhood he's passing through. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePd3dL7C-CM

Hands Up, Don't Shoot!

Previous Home Of Steely Eyed Missile Men Could have bought another CVN-65 with that money... Originally shared by Damn interesting The pyramid at the end of the world http://fusion.net/interactive/361728/north-dakota-pyramid-on-the-prairie/

L'Inconnue Ingénue "comfortably dead" Originally shared by Timothy Street A dead woman, drowned over a century ago, haunts us still . . . . I knew the connection with Annie - I've kissed her many times as a CPR instructor. The admiration of Albert Camus and Man Ray were a surprise. http://hyperallergic.com/332941/inconnue-seine-muse-paris/ http://hyperallergic.com/332941/inconnue-seine-muse-paris

Smokin' Neeps I think I first heard the tale where Jack was a drunk, but there's nothing to say he couldn't be a drunk and a smith... Steely Dan-The Mooncoin Jig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-mix36SjZY Originally shared by Dirk Puehl 31 October - #onthisday Hallowe’en is celebrated by now all across the world on the traditional date of Samhain or All Hallows’ Eve. A long time ago, when bronze working was a state-of-the-art skill, smiths were regarded as some kind of magicians, those who were able to craft two different metals from the womb of the earth into something new, more than the sum of its parts and cast wonderful tools and weapons from it. Smithies remained enchanted places, conveniently close to the magic crossroads, often with a gateway to the Otherworld and the idea of the uncanny smith remained in the collective consciousness of the people. And thus, it was a smith called Jack Oldfield, once upon a time in Ireland, who struck a deal with the devil. When o...

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Who Is The Fastest Man Alive?

A Dumb Song For Smart People Warren Zevon-Werewolves Of London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-secret-inspiration-behind-warren-zevons-werewolves-of-london-4a5fa337a7f1#.vwrkmcgja

Seriously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8TCA3fJcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8TCA3fJcs

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More Fun Off to let the wind carry me...

Book 'Em, Danno... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkD9aNOn6v0

Originally shared by Carolyn Curtis (Wenchkin) Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth pumpkin I carved/painted today.

Security Through Obscurity Originally shared by Andreas Schou There's a very real sense in which the Clinton email issue is just a giant shit-fight between DOJ/DOD and State coming to a head. Both have reasonable points: State's computer security practices are abysmal, but State couldn't do any diplomatic work whatsoever if it ran its classification practices the way DOD/DOJ wants it to. Here's what's going on: Every executive agency has the right to set its own classification practices, and the classification chain for every executive agency ends with either the civilian head of that agency or some other agency. But because classification policies vary so widely between different executive agencies, there's often internecine disagreement when information classified by one agency (say, Defense) is later handled by another agency (say, State). And these disputes tend to center very heavily on State, as opposed to every other agency. Fights about classification be...

#WonderWomanWednesday https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/21/wonder-woman-un-ambassador-staff-protest

#WonderWomanWednesday Originally shared by Terence Towles Canote It was 75 years ago today that Wonder Woman's first appearance was published.

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Monsieur Bon Bon's Secret Fooj https://popgoesthepage.princeton.edu/tag/monsieur-bon-bons-secret-fooj/ Originally shared by Semicentenary Project

Betting The Over/Under On Uber I'm a pretty big believer in bad behavior being a future predictor of additional bad behavior, and when it comes to entrepreneurial endeavors, I find I'm often right. Uber has certainly been guilty of bad behavior, and doesn't seem to care much. Lots of the current waves of disruptive innovation are fueled by the optimism and excessive liquidity of the markets. It isn't clear whether they will be sustainable at all, much less in ways that will consistently benefit laborers or consumers. "When I asked Marco why he was so sure that Juno would still be around, he said, half jokingly, that he had acquired all the wisdom he needed by reading “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” by Douglas Adams. “Oh, my God,” he said. “It’s the Bible. Everything is there.” In the novel, the main character reflects at one point that the earth was pretty much ruined by all the cars. His name is Arthur Dent. One of his non-terrestrial sidekicks calls hims...

Muse I was saddened to discover that Joan Parker died shortly after the interview in my previous post. It was she who encouraged him to get a doctorate so he could teach at the college level, and she who offered a characteristically profane benediction when he finished the manuscript of his first Spenser novel: “ ‘Holy [expletive],’ I said to him, ‘this is like a real book,’ ” she recalled in 1981. For many fans, Mrs. Parker and her husband were inseparable from Silverman and Spenser. At times, the assumption could get irritating. “There are four of us now,” she told the Globe in 1981, “me and Ace and Spenser and Susan. She is a person in my life. I am trying to separate from her. Spenser and Susan are a composite of both he and I. But in terms of real life, we are very far away from Susan and Spenser. I like her OK, but what I dislike is the assumption that Susan and I are the same person. Sure, there are some similarities. The repartee, back and forth, between Susan and Spenser is li...

Happoshu For Hire I remember reading Robert B. Parker’s Godwulf Manuscript, the debut novel of his long running series of Spenser (with an s, like the poet) crime novels. I’m not sure you could call them detective stories, although Spenser did have a P.I. license. Spenser’s M.O. was mostly to position himself as a tough guy in the way of trouble, and see what shook itself out in the resultant melées. Kind of similar to John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee, who still had a few stories to tell, at that time. I was favorably impressed by the new guy. Wasn’t as impressed by the television show, but it had its moments. Avery Brooks did a fine turn as Hawk, I thought. Spenser aged pretty gracefully over the years, and I guess I assumed that Parker would keep cranking out adventures indefinitely. I was disappointed when he left us in 2010, and resigned myself to maybe seeing a few more works in progress get finished, and then going without. When I was browsing at the library the other day, ...

Half A League, Half A League... Originally shared by Dirk Puehl 25 October 1854, #onthisday the Charge of the Light Brigade was ordered during the Battle of Balaclava near Sevastopol. It was as if the whole chain of command was competing to win Monty Python’s “Upper Class Twit of the Year” award. Admittedly, the prize should have been given to Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, GCB PC, without much ado anyway. Lord Raglan, then 65, had last seen action at Waterloo 40 years before and was one of the most inept commanders in military history. At the height of the Battle of Balaclava now, after issuing a series of hare-brained commands, he saw an artillery position of his Turkish allies taken by the Russians on the Fedioukine Heights and ordered “…the cavalry to advance rapidly to the front, follow the enemy, and try to prevent the enemy carrying away the guns. Troop horse artillery may accompany. French cavalry is on your left. Immediate." General Lord Air...

The Gate To Women's Country http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/10/24/rip-sherri-tepper/ http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/10/24/rip-sherri-tepper/

This Was Your Life Jack T. Chick, creator and purveyor of Fundamentalist Evangelical Tijuana Bibles, aka Chick Tracts, passed away yesterday. https://newrepublic.com/minutes/138111/jack-chick-soul-winner-catholic-hater-dead http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/04/17/the-tijuana-bibles-of-jack-chi/ http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/meet-jack-chick

The Danger Zone I lived in the Danger Zone, until they outsourced it all overseas... Originally shared by The Old Map Gallery In 1982 the US Government studied the nation and estimated the likelihood of which areas would be hit if nuclear war broke out. Proximity to military installations, military support, and industrial facilities all increased the probability, or if you were just in a city of 50,000 people or more. #oldmapgallery #nuclearmap #thematicmaps #vintagemaps.

Kredit For Kit http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/24/499144368/christopher-marlowe-officially-credited-as-co-author-of-3-shakespeare-plays Randy Newman-Can't Keep A Good Man Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbD69jvaRuc http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/24/499144368/christopher-marlowe-officially-credited-as-co-author-of-3-shakespeare-plays

Another Fine Mess “It’s a fine mess we’ve gotten ourselves into,” said a former senior administration official who was directly involved in the early White House deliberations over the CIA program. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/plans-to-send-heavier-weapons-to-cia-backed-rebels-in-syria-stall-amid-white-house-skepticism/2016/10/23/f166ddac-96ee-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html

Hermantile About Thawpit http://www.grumpyoldarchive.co.uk/nanny%20state.asp

Do You Want To Live Forever? http://www.gocomics.com/jumpstart/2016/10/23

It's Not The Journey, It's The Destinesia http://www.sadanduseless.com/2016/10/exceptional-words/

My Clone Sleeps Alone That's no way to be... Pat Benatar-My Clone Sleeps Alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE0PTCLuIu0 Originally shared by Caroline Dow Being single, apparently I now have a disability. This entire thing, both pro and con, is utterly surreal. http://gizmodo.com/failure-to-bone-is-now-a-disability-according-to-the-w-1788103893?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

There Can Be Only One http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-weird-economics-of-ikea/

Climb Ev'ry Mountain Climb ev'ry mountain, Ford ev'ry stream, Follow ev'ry rainbow, 'Til you find your dream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDFoF9sfQA http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/22/498971169/japanese-climber-junko-tabei-first-woman-to-conquer-mount-everest-dies-at-77

Cowboys and Indian Givers Originally shared by Alex Scrivener Looks like the army handed out recruitment bonuses to everyone, not just those they were allowed to offer them to. Now, more than a decade later, they are demanding then back, with interest. Surprisingly, people are pissed. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-guard-bonus-20161020-snap-story.html

People Who Live In Glass Houses “It was a border wall between being watched everywhere and maintaining a tiny semblance of privacy,” he said. “That wall has just fallen.” via Rick Wayne Originally shared by Daniel Stutz https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking

Get Out Of Denver It was autumn and the moon was shining... Bob Seger-Get Out Of Denver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWHdBuOC6Q Originally shared by Al Tlön Dear Cecil: Any guidance for those who fear a fascist takeover of the United States and think they may need to get out in a hurry? What countries will accept political refugees from the U.S. on short notice? What’s the easiest way to get your money out of the country in advance? Are there people who will arrange to ship one's art collection overseas, no questions asked? http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3311/the-u-s-goes-fascist-what-do-you-do

Who's Gonna To Take The Garbage Out? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEqJ9caPuI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEqJ9caPuI0

You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/10/13/497820170/the-man-who-stood-up-to-facebook?sc=17&f=1019

The Times, They Are A Changin... http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/20/ibm-macs-less-expensive-than-pcs/amp/

Put Down Originally shared by lynn paden well fuck..... http://time.com/money/4538380/metlife-fires-snoopy/

ECHO TORCH Originally shared by K.B. Burnfield Want To See A Brilliant Short FIlm? Check Out ECHO TORCH From the writer/director of the fantastic MERCURY MEN serial comes a great new short film: ECHO TORCH. Watch it. Now. https://youtu.be/lahBRBliANY

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Backing Up https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/wwdc_working_for_apple_wasnt_enough_mike_bombich Originally shared by Eric Hansen https://twitter.com/kylebarrow/status/788643495896416257

Agitprop If you ask yourself the question, how bad would it be if everybody did this? And then do it anyway? You're probably an argument for the failure of markets to regulate themselves... via Ralf Haring https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602662/ubers-ad-toting-drones-are-heckling-drivers-stuck-in-traffic/

Stop The Madness! #NotRightFoods

We Are One In The Spirit Except for when we aren't... There were some hecklers at the Pride parade yesterday, who got a little extra excited at the idea of a local Baptist church "strengthening the Hand of Evil" by supporting LGBTQ folks. Heh. The good news is that they were so few in numbers, they needed a megaphone to get the word out... They had a second contingent towards the end of the parade, where things usually wind down a bit. Our Faithful Leader started singing the chorus to this song, "They'll Know We Are Christians, By Our Love, By Our Love..." Crowd went wild. It was a nice moment. Wasn't nothing mean about it, just a simple refutation of hate. Love is hard, sometimes, but always worth the effort of trying. Peter Scholtes wrote this hymn while he was a parish priest at St. Brendan's on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s. At the time, he was leading a youth choir out of the church basement and was looking for an appropriate song...

And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street... At our local Pride parade yesterday. Bless their hearts. Takes all kinds, don't it?

The Violence Of Adolescent Hearts "The complexity of human nature is expressed in the violence of adolescents’ hearts. You know what I mean? You could read Shakespeare, which actually does that, too, but it becomes very complex and intellectualized. In comic books, characters are like, The surface dwellers have destroyed my people and I'm gonna make war against them!" via George Station Originally shared by Cheryl Martin http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/walter-mosley-on-why-spider-man-is-black.html?mid=twitter-share-vulture

Pride Parade Toot, toot. Tiny bubbles...

Shush! Librarian gets pummeled, arrested, for standing up for free speech in a public library. Sheesh. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/official-outraged-charges-kc-library-arrests-42541101 http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/10/14/kansas-city-librarian-arrest-for-defending-free-speech/

You Guise Y'all Means All... http://shop.equalitync.org/product-p/enc-yallmeansallblue.htm Originally shared by **** Y’all is not wrong or dumb; it’s a solution to a problem endemic to the “correct” dialect. Y’all is a beautiful word. It’s “you guys” that’s the problem. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yall-youuns-yinz-youse-how-regional-dialects-are-fixing-standard-english?utm_content=buffera9e7b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The End Of The Oath Breaker And, of course, the ruination of the Englishness of England by those bloody Normans, causing endless distress to Tolkien and others... Originally shared by Dirk Puehl 14 October 1066, #onthisday 950 years ago, Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, fell at the Battle of Hastings. The situation in England before the conquest was, in fact, a chaos and, ironically enough, it was the Dane Cnut the Great who gave the island the resemblance of political order when it became part of his North Sea Empire in 1016. After his death 20 years later, the confusion went off properly again. Traditionally, the King of England was appointed by the Witangemot, a council of noble advisors, rather than by birthright alone, since the days of Athelstan, when old Wessex essentially became the Kingdom in 927. If Edward the Confessor, one of Cnut’s successors on the throne of England, had promised kingship after his death to Earl Harold of Wessex or William the Bas...

In A Humorous Vein Originally shared by Mudhooks

(Un)Welcome Mat Originally shared by Assia Alexandrova It is omnipresent - and specifically geared towards preventing homeless people from hanging out. http://www.popsci.com/unpleasant-design

Dig It Originally shared by G.K. Nelson This video blows the whole "tone woods" debate right out of the water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-ltPsbw9g&feature=share

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Denial Of Service Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author)

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The Root Beer Man "Satch" Paige was a fixture on RAGBRAI for several decades, driving a brown, beat up Chevrolet Step Van emblazoned with Iowa Double Dog and Draft Root Beer on the side. Sadly, he passed away a couple of years ago. I never had an Iowa Double Dog. I had more than a few Draft Root Beers. Might have been the magic of RAGBRAI (heat, hail, pestilence, and amusing but frequently bad behavior) but it was the best Root Beer ever. Bar none. 1919 Root Beer, which you can't get around these parts. https://www.1919rootbeer.com/availability/

The Romance Of Root Beer Much as it pains me, I have to admit that there is one thing that Yankees do better than Southerners. Root Beer. There. I said it. I hear tell that Grant and Gail Simons have been selling Root Beer in their 1937 one and half ton Ford Truck for almost fifty years now. Grant and Gail Simons hail from upper New York State, but like a lot of Yankees, they moved to warmer climes, which is where I first met them, at the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh, sometime in the 1980's. They're good people, selling a great product with style, Richardson Root Beer, made in Rochester. I never miss a chance to see them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bLzQIrRAEI

Dat Frosty Mug Taste Of course, nobody can really agree on what root beer tastes like. I was probably first exposed to the stuff in an A&W diner somewhere, and I was an instant fan. I still drink it, even though they've outlawed the key ingredients in my lifetime. Unfortunately, the waning popularity of traditional drive ins is unlikely to spur a re-examination of the clinical evidence at this point, and I'm too lazy to make my own. Yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ARoot_beer

The Right Way via John Bump Originally shared by Andres Soolo For decades now in the Netherlands drivers have been trained (and tested for their licenses) on a behavior that dramatically reduces the risk of doorings. They do not even have a name for it because it is simply how one opens a car door. Basically, instead of using their door-side (left) arm, they reach over with their other (right) arm. This simple behavioral shift causes drivers to look back naturally and see whether or not there are oncoming bicyclists. #trafficjudo , obviously. And #cycling . http://99percentinvisible.org/article/dutch-reach-clever-workaround-keep-cyclists-getting-doored

Rainbow Connection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2DTLbTQj0I

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Dane Bramage http://www.greensboro.com/sports/accxtra/ed-hardin-everyone-played-on-despite-the-warnings/article_129e48f9-f23d-59be-a208-7581a75a5071.html "I do not go out on the field without my helmet (taps shoulderpads) and my shoulder-ma-pads (taps helmet). Do not go out on the field without these things on, because you could get seriously killed. I myself, when I was a little children, I was playing football with my friends, and my head was accidentally ripped from my body, and my head were layin' in the mud, and my body was running around tackling like this (mimes tackling), somehow somebody put my head back on my body, and the doctors said that i had dain bramage." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BerJdS2VJhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BerJdS2VJhA

Noise "And the cows are almost cooing, And the turtle-doves are mooing, Which is why a Pooh is poohing In the sun." A.A. Milne Originally shared by Semicentenary Project

You Stop Dancing When a man is running from his boss Who hold a gun that fires "cost" And people die from being cold Or left alone because they're old And bombs are dropped on fighting cats And children's dreams are run with rats If you complain you disappear Just like the lesbians and queers No one can love without the grace Of some unseen and distant face And you get beaten up by blacks Who though they worked still got the sack And when your soul tells you to hide Your very right to die denied And in the battle on the streets You fight computers and receipts And when a man is trying to change But only causes further pain You realize that all along Something in us going wrong You stop dancing. (Townsend) © Fabulous Music, Ltd. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptwq0OjcDVI

Is It In My Head? This is, this morning... http://www.popmatters.com/feature/151735-the-past-is-calling-reconsidering-the-whos-quadrophenia/ http://www.popmatters.com/feature/151735-the-past-is-calling-reconsidering-the-whos-quadrophenia/

Don't Trust Anyone Over 30 "I've done some things in my life I think are very important, and my one sentence in history turns out to be something I said off the top of my head which became completely distorted and misunderstood. But I've become more accepting of fate as I get older." Jack Weinberg http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-11-16/features/9004050125_1_jack-weinberg-california-gubernatorial-candidate-berkeley Originally shared by Semicentenary Project

I Scream, You Scream Back in a bit... Imma headed to the gro' sto' for some Empower Mint. Gotta do my part. Kudos to Habeeni Ben Coheeni and his mentor, Dr. Inferno. http://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/why-black-lives-matter http://www.vox.com/2016/10/7/13199288/ben-jerrys-black-lives-matter http://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/why-black-lives-matter

Havanista Ain't bad atall... www.washingtonpost.com/business/havana-club-v-havana-club-inside-the-rum-war-between-bacardi-and-cuba/2016/07/22/57c32a06-2cb4-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html

Blue State Coming down the PVC pipe to you... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qTJfITfbYNA

Man Made Woman Designed. Upcycled Tank-O-Lanterns by Carolyn Curtis and Scott Krichau. I am a proud owner of a Frankenberry Tank-O-Lantern. Get yours here: https://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/home/YuccaFlatsNM Originally shared by Carolyn Curtis (Wenchkin)

The Glass Cliff Could also be titled, "Handbag Holders Left Holding The Bag". "Amid the turmoil following the vote to leave the European Union, there is a sense in some quarters that rather than shattering a glass ceiling, female leaders risk tumbling down a “glass cliff” — a theory that holds that women are often placed in positions of power when the situation is dire, men are uninterested and the likelihood of success is low." "Brexit, as the British departure from the European Union is known, is a textbook glass cliff. “All the men who were responsible for the mess stabbed each other soundly in the back” and then ran away, Ms. Toksvig said." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/world/europe/glass-cliff-uk-women-politics.html

Agriconomies Of Scale Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/big-food-photo-essay.html

؟‽؟ Originally shared by G.K. Nelson The turf war hasn't yet made it to the parts of the Web I'd like to see affected. http://www.theonion.com/article/4-copy-editors-killed-in-ongoing-ap-style-chicago--30806

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SuperManSplaining Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

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Originally shared by John Scalzi Today's the day: The Dispatcher is out! It's an audio novella narrated by Zachary Quinto (Spock in the new Star Trek movies), and it's available for free through November 2nd on Audible. I'm really very happy with this work, and with Quinto's narration of it. I think you will be too. Here's the link to it: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/FREE-The-Dispatcher-Audiobook/B01KKPH1VA?source_code=AUDORWS0825169I0W

Beardazzled "This collection is dedicated to strong characters who express their individuality in eccentric, yet sophisticated ways." "Unlike flower beards and glittery beards, beard jewellery is wearable outside a highly stylised Instagram photo shoot, and designed for the everyday." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3818758/Time-pimp-beard-Facial-hair-adorned-JEWELS-hot-new-trend-s-aimed-eccentric-sophisticated-man.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3818758/Time-pimp-beard-Facial-hair-adorned-JEWELS-hot-new-trend-s-aimed-eccentric-sophisticated-man.html

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A Tiding Of Magpies Corvids often give gifts to those that favor them, in return. via Kam-Yung Soh http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37519032

Nixies Are Nifty! Originally shared by Damn interesting Long, but interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA

On Point Originally shared by Raymond Arotin My 24 HOUR COMIC - "Pen Pals" is here to view! I put it into a PDF - viewable on your computer, tablet, phone or whatever you crazy kids these days are viewing things on. Want to know what goes on in my head during a period of stress and sleep deprivation? Check it out! #24HCD https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzkDHN2IrqtRUjRWVzMtMzZVb1U/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzkDHN2IrqtRUjRWVzMtMzZVb1U/view?usp=sharing

Doggie Bags via George Station Originally shared by Scott Kreidler 🐶+💼+🚇=❤️ https://www.rover.com/blog/nyc-subway-dogs-fs/

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White Or Black? At last fall’s Southern Foodways Symposium in Oxford, Miss., an annual gathering on Southern culture, Twitty was on stage as part of a food version of “Family Feud.” One question: “Name something Southerners do not put in their cornbread.” His reply cracked up the audience. “I said, ‘Do you want the white answer or the black answer?’ Everybody knew exactly what I meant.” http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/food-drink/article68763427.html

Li'l Folks 2.0 Originally shared by Randy Culler The Peanuts comic strip first appeared 66 years ago today in seven U.S. newspapers. via Frank Beacham  It appealed instantly to children and those who loved childhood. Charles M. Schulz first drew Charlie Brown for a weekly single-panel cartoon called “Li’l Folks” in 1947, in The St. Paul Pioneer Press in Minnesota, where he was born. When he expanded to a strip format in 1950, he was forced to change the name from “Li’l Folks” (which was too close to “Li’l Abner”) to “Peanuts.” The hapless Charlie Brown was made to fail constantly, especially in baseball, most likely because readers could relate better to losing than to winning. Only twice, in 1993, did Charlie hit game-winning home runs. Charlies Schulz died at age 77 on Feb. 12, 2000, hours before his final Sunday strip was published. By then, “Peanuts” had appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries and 21 languages, and he had drawn more than 18,250 strips. When Schulz died, on...

"My God, It's Full Of Stars!"

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