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Yahoo Agrees To Buy Tumblr

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:25:57 -0400

Yahoo Agrees To Buy Tumblr:

Yahoo Inc.’s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash.

Whoa.

supersonicelectronic: Luke Pearson. Illustrations and comics by...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:27:47 -0400

supersonicelectronic:

Luke Pearson.

Illustrations and comics by Luke Pearson:

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Sat, 11 May 2013 00:26:27 -0400

"This is South Street, right guys?"

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:11:16 -0400

“This is South Street, right guys?”

- Overheard on Market Street yesterday. Oh, Walnut Walk, the gift that keeps on ~~giving~~ reminding me that some people don’t know their way around the city despite living here for four years. Never have I heard so many people asking directions to Walnut Street while on Walnut Street.

Hyperbole and a Half is back.

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:16:38 -0400

Hyperbole and a Half is back.

Riker sits down: A compilation of times that Commander Riker...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:56:51 -0400

Riker sits down: A compilation of times that Commander Riker swings his leg over the back of a chair.

How did I not notice this before?

xplanes: sunday fantasy #403: Klaus Bürgle (via jason67’s...

Mon, 06 May 2013 01:20:20 -0400

xplanes:

sunday fantasy #403: Klaus Bürgle (via jason67’s Flickr)

passiondecor-de-marieclaude: ⭐

Mon, 06 May 2013 01:18:49 -0400

passiondecor-de-marieclaude:

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First airplane takeoff from a warship. Eugene B. Ely flies his...

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:53:49 -0400

First airplane takeoff from a warship. Eugene B. Ely flies his Curtiss pusher biplane from USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser No. 2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910. USS Roe (Destroyer No. 24), serving as plane guard, is visible in the background.

[Via Wikipedia]

Despite the precarious-looking angle, he did manage to land safely (on land).

An excerpt on home brewing, from the 18th century

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:39:00 -0400

The many Inhabitants of Cities and Towns, as well as Travellers, that have for a long time suffered great Prejudices from unwholsome and unpleasant Beers and Ales, by the badness of Malts, underboiling the Worts, mixing injurious Ingredients, the unskilfulness of the Brewer, and the great Expense that Families have been at in buying them clogg’d with a heavy Excise, has moved me to undertake the writing of this Treatise on Brewing, Wherein I have endeavour’d to set in sight the many advantages of Body and Purse that may arise from a due Knowledge and Management in Brewing Malt Liquors, which are of the greatest Importance, as they are in a considerable degree our Nourishment and the common Diluters of our Food; so that on their goodness depends very much the Health and Longevity of the Body.

This bad Economy in Brewing has brought on such a Disrepute, and made our Malt Liquors in general so odious, that many have been constrain’d, either to be at an Expence for better Drinks than their Pockets could afford, or take up with a Toast and Water to avoid the too justly apprehended ill Consequences of Drinking such Ales and Beers.

Wherefore I have given an Account of Brewing Beers and Ales after several Methods; and also several curious Receipts for feeding, fining and preserving Malt Liquors, that are most of them wholsomer than the Malt itself, and so cheap that none can object against the Charge, which I thought was the ready way to supplant the use of those unwholsome Ingredients that have been made too free with by some ill principled People meerly for their own Profit, tho’ at the Expence of the Drinker’s Health.

- THE LONDON and COUNTRY BREWER, By Anonymous, 1736.

Love Park Debuts 15-Strong Food Truck Rotation

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:27:15 -0400

Love Park Debuts 15-Strong Food Truck Rotation:

Love Park is introducing more than 15 new food trucks to Love Park lunchers over the summer. Wednesdays will feature new trucks with the food trucks you’re familiar with, vending other days of the week.

Best news.

Huh — the Dude not only abides, he also takes...

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:04:52 -0400

Huh — the Dude not only abides, he also takes pictures:

Since 1984, [Jeff] Bridges has documented the sets of most of his movies, compiling a large collection of wide images that give an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at movie making.

“My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I’ve done my whole life,” he said in a phone interview. “I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.”

nedroidcomics: lexxercise: lesbiaaans: donutrabbit: Here’s...

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:17:12 -0400

nedroidcomics:

lexxercise:

lesbiaaans:

donutrabbit:

Here’s my 2nd year Calarts film!

OH MY GOSH, ACTUALLY THE MOST PRECIOUS THING IN THE UNIVERSE WOW

What a beautiful piece of animation!

I like this so much

The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear. [via]

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:02:54 -0400

The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear. [via]

Via a recent poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation....

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:50:20 -0400

Via a recent poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in there — something like half of people polled felt they didn’t fully understand the ACA, despite hearing a lot about it; more people than I would have guessed oppose expanding medicaid coverage — but this is the craziest thing, to the degree that I’d love to see someone else repeat this to confirm it (possibly with different language — would asking about ‘Obamacare’ get different results?).

sextsfrommarxists: hey girl, our fellow sextarians at...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:01:06 -0400

sextsfrommarxists:

hey girl,

our fellow sextarians at cosmarxpolitan are keeping things steamy. go check ‘em out.

come back soon, though. we’ll go for a walk on the beach and socialize the means of production. ;-D

—Vulgar Sextarian Central Committee

66 behind-the-scenes photos from the set of The Empire Strikes...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:30:15 -0400

66 behind-the-scenes photos from the set of The Empire Strikes Back. [via Metafilter]

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:34:26 -0400

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:36:10 -0400

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:30:58 -0400