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12 Jun 15:29

Williamsburg Pizza Party Serving Free Pies from “Every NYC Pizzeria” TONIGHT

by Angel Chang

As impossible as it sounds, the Standard Creative Studio will be serving free pies from “every pizzeria in New York City” tonight in Williamsburg. The pizza party organizers tell Gothamist that they expect they’ll have “1 pie per pizzeria. Final count TBD…

Photo: Standard Creative

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12 Jun 15:00

Are You Supporting Slave Labor by Eating Shrimp?

by Sarah Theeboom
Kevin White

I'm going to assume the answer is 'no' b/c shrimps are delish

Shrimp are delicious, but the more you know about the industry surrounding them, the less palatable they become. Yesterday, The Guardian released an 18-minute video which is worth taking the time to watch. It’s the culmination of six months of investigative reporting…

Photo: Phu Thinh Co/ Flickr

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11 Jun 17:52

Whale-tooth Necklace (Lei Niho Palaoa)

Whale-tooth Necklace (Lei Niho Palaoa)

Date: early 19th century
Geography: United States, Hawai'i
Culture: Hawai'i
Medium: Walrus ivory, human hair, fiber
Dimensions: W. 4 1/4 x D. 16 in. (10.8 x 40.6 cm)
Classification: Bone/Ivory-Ornaments
Credit Line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
Accession Number: 1979.206.1623

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11 Jun 17:50

PornBurger Creates Cheeseburger Pop Tart, World Ends

by Angel Chang

Attention, burger lovers and breakfast-food enthusiasts: A new, ingenious breakfast burger mash-up creation is here to tease and entice. The “I Can Haz Pop Tart” burger comes courtesy of the PornBurger food blog, which has previously gifted us burgers like the cajun spiced…

Photo: PornBurger

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11 Jun 17:47

Poem of the Day: An Ode to Himself

by Ben Jonson
Where dost thou careless lie,
Buried in ease and sloth?
Knowledge that sleeps doth die;
And this security,
It is the common moth
That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

Are all th' Aonian springs
Dried up? lies Thespia waste?
Doth Clarius' harp want strings,
That not a nymph now sings?
Or droop they as disgrac'd,
To see their seats and bowers by chatt'ring pies defac'd?

If hence thy silence be,
As 'tis too just a cause,
Let this thought quicken thee:
Minds that are great and free
Should not on fortune pause;
'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

What though the greedy fry
Be taken with false baites
Of worded balladry,
And think it poesy?
They die with their conceits,
And only piteous scorn upon their folly waits.

Then take in hand thy lyre,
Strike in thy proper strain,
With Japhet's line aspire
Sol's chariot for new fire,
To give the world again;
Who aided him will thee, the issue of Jove's brain.

And since our dainty age
Cannot endure reproof,
Make not thyself a page
To that strumpet, the stage,
But sing high and aloof,
Safe from the wolf's black jaw and the dull ass's hoof.


Ben Jonson

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11 Jun 16:25

Penguin Daddies - Happy Father's Day!

by Katie McKissick

11 Jun 01:02

To the mother and daughter posing for pictures with the "drunk" guy... - m4ww

by robot@craigslist.org
... he was dead.

He may have looked just drunk but he was indeed a corpse. You posed next to him thinking it would be a funny memory of your time in New Orleans and now you have a picture of the two of you with a deceased man.






10 Jun 21:32

Wishes

by robot@craigslist.org
Free wishes!
Make them count!
:)
10 Jun 20:13

Contemplating the short suit

by Gina Martinez
Kevin White

Yes i want to wear this vs wool pants on the subway in late july...but No! please someone with more fashion sense tell me this wont become a thing...

A menswear suit in which the pants are actually shorts.
10 Jun 15:17

iOS 8 thwarts key form of smartphone tracking, in potential boost for iBeacons

by Blair Hanley Frank
iOS 8
One of the new features in iOS 8 that Apple didn’t mention publicly last week is designed to stop companies from following iPhone users as they walk around in public. Frederic Jacobs, a software engineer at Open Whisper Systems, tweeted a slide from one of Apple’s sessions at WWDC last week that outlined how the company plans to foil tracking systems by using a random network identifier. The new feature thwarts tracking systems that follow a phone’s Media Access Control (MAC) address – the unique identifier a device uses when it connects to a network – as it looks for available... Read More on GeekWire
09 Jun 19:33

Coming Soon To Wall Street: Oculus Rift Headsets Hooked To Bloomberg Terminals

by Chris Gayomali
Kevin White

@phil

Is this the future of trading?

Immersing yourself in an Oculus Rift can transport you to majestic fantasy worlds you otherwise might never get to experience, but virtual reality could soon be used to help facilitate more quotidian tasks, too--like staring out at a cascade of financial data flying at you from all angles.

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09 Jun 17:00

Games Contained Within American Football

by DOGHOUSE DIARIES

Games Contained Within American Football

Basically American Football is like a combination of film school … and war.

09 Jun 15:02

4.5 Degrees

The good news is that according to the latest IPCC report, if we enact aggressive emissions limits now, we could hold the warming to 2°C. That's only HALF an ice age unit, which is probably no big deal.
07 Jun 11:45

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fuckyeahdementia:

The best of Story Time Jesus.

Cool story Jesus!

05 Jun 10:57

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03 Jun 06:36

WSJ: Google Spending $1 Billion on Satellites to Cover Earth in Wi-Fi

by Jamie Condliffe

WSJ: Google Spending $1 Billion on Satellites to Cover Earth in Wi-Fi

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google plans to spend over $1 billion on a fleet of satellites that will be used to provide internet to parts of the world that currently lack digital connections.

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03 Jun 03:21

Unpacking Mona Lisa at the end of World War II (1945)



Unpacking Mona Lisa at the end of World War II (1945)

03 Jun 03:14

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02 Jun 16:56

mon-petit-pony: hay45h1: (via This Shiba Inu and his kitty...











mon-petit-pony:

hay45h1:

(via This Shiba Inu and his kitty best friend are too adorable to ignore!【Photos】 | RocketNews24)

Meet Kikuchiyo the Shiba Inu and her feline friend, Torajiro! 

This melts my heart

02 Jun 14:13

Mapping Gotham

by Jonathan Crowe

Map of Gotham City I was not aware that Batman's Gotham City has had a consistent map for the last fifteen years or so. Its geography was defined in 1998 by illustrator Eliot R. Brown for the "No Man's Land" storyline but has been used ever since, including by the Christopher Nolan trilogy of movies. Brown describes how the map came to be on his website; the story has also been picked up by Smithsonian.com. Thanks to Caitlin and Dwight for the tip.

01 Jun 04:39

You Know What Your Next Breakfast is Going to Look Like After Seeing This

You Know What Your Next Breakfast is Going to Look Like After Seeing This

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30 May 15:05

Did you ever walk into a room and and forget why you walked in?

Did you ever walk into a room and and forget why you walked in?

That's how dogs spend their lives.
30 May 15:05

How many Irishmen does it take to change a lightbulb?

How many Irishmen does it take to change a lightbulb?

10. One to hold the bulb in place and 9 to drink until the room spins.
30 May 14:11

Be More Like Dandelion

by Katie McKissick

29 May 22:31

If Your Couch Could Talk [infographic]

by Aisling Clare
Kevin White

By Age 30 he should have replaced that old ass couch

I remember my first couch. It was a sturdy piece of furniture with an outdoors-themed print, made from a combination of dark wood and velvety fabric. In fact, we had a coffee table, armchair, rocker and miniature rocker to match. For my family, the couch was where we watched Saturday morning cartoons, opened Christmas presents and ate dinner together most nights. After several years with that set of furniture, we had it reupholstered and taken to my grandma’s house, where it still resides to this day. Every time I visit my grandma’s house and sit on that couch, I’m reminded that it is just as much a part of my family as she is.

The furniture in our homes is an important part of our daily lives, but its value goes beyond how comfortable we feel when we sink into the seat. The average couch will last for eight years, be host to more than 1,200 family dinners, experience approximately 1,600 spills and cater to more than 750 visitors. And although your couch can’t cheer you up when you’re feeling down or celebrate with you when you’re on top of the world, it will still be there in your memories.

[Super A-Mart]

 

Couch Infographic


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27 May 19:14

Spring babies 2014

Kevin White

click through for cuteness overload

Around the world, animals new to this earth experience life. In zoos and in nature, photographers captured a variety of species during these moments. --Leanne Burden Seidel (31 photos total)

Twin polar bear cubs Nela and Nobby play outside their enclosure at Tierpark Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, April 7. (Michael Dalder/Reuters)
27 May 19:06

Game of Thrones Map Marker Set

by Jonathan Crowe

Game of Thrones Map Markers (Dark Horse) Dark Horse has released a Game of Thrones map marker set, based on a map and markers briefly seen in the first season of the HBO TV series. What surprises me is how much more the map resembles a real-world medieval map, in its use of symbols and text, than do the usual fantasy maps, including those for Westeros (though, as I've argued before, real-world medieval maps were much more information-dense, and covered in text). At $200, it's not cheap, but the markers are up to six inches in height, and the map is made of fabric and roughly four by three feet in size. It's available for purchase at Amazon and ThinkGeek, among others.

27 May 15:24

Spurrier prepping for life after Clowney (Yahoo Sports)

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2013 file photo, South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier calls for a timeout against Central Florida during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Orlando, Fla. Spurrier wasn't sure he'd hang around 10 seasons at South Carolina when he took the job. Now he isn't ready to leave. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Steve Spurrier believes the South Carolina Gamecocks have more success ahead, even without recent No. 1 NFL draft pick Jadeveon Clowney. The 69-year-old Spurrier acknowledged he wasn't sure how long he'd coach South Carolina when he returned to college football in November 2004. Instead, Spurrier's prepping for his 10th season while overseeing the greatest run in Gamecock history.


27 May 14:08

493. The man at the grill is the closest thing we have to a king. Fetch him beers.

27 May 14:04

Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey

Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey
Robert Frank

Date: 1955–56, printed ca. 1977
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 23.0 x 34.9 cm. (9 1/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, Anonymous Gifts, 1986
Accession Number: 1986.1198.26
Rights and Reproduction: © 2005 Robert Frank

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