Buster Keaton (1895-1966) Early Hollywood producer, director, actor, comedian, stuntman, ladies man, and total fox. 

With a puppy in his pocket. 

mrspoonsi writes "Joining MtGox, Flexcoin today announced they have had their vault wiped out, to the tune of some 896 BTC (about $615,000) by hackers. 'On March 2nd 2014 Flexcoin was attacked and robbed of all coins in the hot wallet. The attacker made off with 896 BTC, dividing them into these two addresses: 1NDkevapt4SWYFEmquCDBSf7DLMTNVggdu [and] 1QFcC5JitGwpFKqRDd9QNH3eGN56dCNgy6. As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss, we are closing our doors immediately.'"

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If you're in need of some high-quality artwork for a prototype or even a full-scale production, check out the Digital Comic Museum. There are over 15,000 golden age comics released to the public domain, free of charge, complete with high-res scans of covers, interiors, even the ads! If you dig deep enough, you'll find work by Ditko, Schuster, and others. So many genres, too: Westerns, Romances, Space Adventures. Literally, a comic called Space Adventures. I'm definitely going to tap it for some scifi game in the future.

I came across this image this morning over on Old House Gardens’ page about forcing bulbs.   I’ve never seen such wonderful forcing pots and I would love to find something as charming as that hedgehog crocus pot for some late winter fun (but I’d be thrilled to have any of them!).

A quick eBay search turned up absolutely nothing.  Has anyone ever seen something like this?  Know a source? Or perhaps you know someone who is making modern day versions?  Do share – I would be so grateful.

image from Old House Gardens — originally sourced from Peter Henderson Catalog NYC, 1900. 

Here’s lovely garden of cacti and succulents, on the tops of cupcakes! Alana Jones-Mann made them, and will show you how you can do it yourself. Make your favorite cupcakes, cover them in a bed of “sand,” and mix up some cactus-colored icing. Of course, you’ll do this to impress people, but warn the person who grabs the tall cactus about the toothpick inside that keeps it upright. But if your guests think they are too pretty to eat, your job is done, and you can eat them yourself later! -via Blazenfluff

Exactly what it sounds like: 46 calories per 200ml.

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vh1:

You did it, girl! 

historicaltimes:

Steam powered mobile bathing house of King Alfonso XIII, St. Sebastien beach, Spain 1908.

bessiemucho:

It’s good to be the king.

http://grazeland.wordpress.com/tag/king-alfonso-xiii/

Just read that again

"Steam powered mobile bathing house"

~Slavoj Zizek

On this day, Rodney King

Restrictions of the distribution law has Opa-Opa owner Antonio Rizos so frustrated he has to be continually talked out of giving up retail beer sales, his head brewer says

A stream of European jihadists have traveled to Syria to wage holy war. Now a group of European neo-Nazis are traveling to Ukraine to save the white race.

humanoidhistory:

Astronaut Ed White photographs his spacecraft during his EVA in the third orbit of the Gemini 4 mission, 1965. (via)

From the Lunar and Planetary Institute's Lunar Map Catalogue comes a gorgeous series of charts of the Moon's nearside, farside and poles.

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Rodarte, AW14, New York.

From a construction perspective, the Rodarte collections tend to revive or reference the sort of techniques you’d expect to see in a dusty craft magazine whether it’s patchwork and quilting, or in the case of Autumn-Winter 2014, smocking and crochet. In a way it is by adopting these homely, retro construction techniques that helps to give depth to the awkward nostalgia of their collections.

Awkward in the sense that there’s obviously deliberate choices that are made in the fabrics, styling and pattern cutting that help to maintain a naive feeling in the collection, rather than opting for out and out glamour. For example, where lace fabrics are used they are often pieced together in clashing colours, rather than layered like a haute couture gown. Where crochet is used it is often scrunched and laced with lurex, in this case sprawling over tops and bags.

There are lots of “pretty” elements, such as sparkly fabrics and beaded smocking but even these are played down. For example, sparkly fabrics were used in this collection on deconstructed jackets that seemed to hang from their lapels, sometimes paired with oversized collars or clashing facing colours.

The styling of the collection also played into an almost gawky tween feeling because aside from the bookish glasses and glittery lips and nails, the evening dresses were sometimes layered over turtle necks made from mottled cut and sew knits. It’s almost as though someone’s been told to go back to their room and put a skivvy on before they are allowed to go out in their new dress.

The real gowns of the collection were the perfect example of this down played aesthetic. If you are going to drape some evening dresses with silk satin and tulle dotted with gold, why not decorate these dresses with star wars icons, like Yoda and C-3PO just so that it doesn’t all get too serious?

You can see more examples of smocking and gain a better understanding of the technique by viewing Contemporary Smocking Techniques»

Images via Vogue.co.uk»

Ukraine put its military on high alert Sunday in response to Russia’s move to seize control of the Crimean Peninsula, and it threatened war against Moscow if the Kremlin made further incursions into Ukrainian territory as Western powers scrambled to find a response to the crisis.

Last week, Bright Eyes musician Conor Oberst filed a lawsuit for libel against a reported "anonymous commenter" who posted on various websites that he raped her. But Joanie Faircloth was not anonymous.

"Touch the screen" -

Freshly Picked: Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland (Nintendo - DS - 2007) 

TIM DRAPER, a rich Silicon Valley investor who wants to divide California into six states, began his press conference this week with the word “Shit!”, as he toppled the microphones placed before him. That may also be how he ends his campaign. Even if he secures the 807,615 signatures he needs to place his idea on the ballot, and somehow manages to convince a majority of Californian voters to back it, it must still be approved by the Californian legislature as well as Congress. That will not happen.

Mr Draper, who made his fortune backing the likes of Skype and Baidu, is no fool; his motives in pursuing this quixotic dream are unclear. Still, even if his answer is silly, he is asking a good question. With 38m people of innumerable backgrounds working in sectors from marijuana to manufacturing, spread over 164,000 spectacularly diverse square miles, there is little to knit California together. Its icons—Hollywood, Silicon Valley, beaches—are regional, not statewide. The same goes for media markets and sports teams. There are vast health and income disparities across California; two of Mr Draper’s new states would...Continue reading

FINALLY. FROM CHURNING MAGMA AND BILLOWING GASES I HAVE SHAPED AND MOLDED THIS PARADISE. ALL THAT REMAINS IS TO POPULATE IT WITH CREATURES MADE IN MY IMAGE. I DON’T WANT THEM TO HAVE TO WORK OR FORAGE FOR FOOD, THOUGH, SO I SHOULD PROBABLY MAKE SOME KIND OF ANNOYING, IGNORANT, SELF DESTRUCTIVE AND NEUROTIC BIPEDAL ASSHOLES WHOSE INTENSE LONELINESS EVEN IN THE MIDST OF THEIR OWN KIND WILL COMPEL THEM TO SHELTER, FEED, ADORE AND PAMPER MY PRECIOUS CHILDREN.

Nordic Mythology, UCL.

Why Baldr isn’t the Pagan Jesus.

John Adams doing yardwork.