If conversations about audio equipment have you fondly remembering terms like “45 rpm”, “B-side”, “mix tape” or “VHF” then you’re probably ancient like me. Or you just rented Guardians of the Galaxy. Either way, this LEGO trifecta of vintage gear is far out, right on, and out of sight… Can you dig it?

First up is this 70s kitchen scene from Swedish retro-fanatic LegoJalex, featuring a portable radio and a color palette that practically defined the home décor of that decade. Looks like something right out of the 1973 IKEA catalog (and strangely, the 2010 catalog). It’s groovy, man.
  
Next, are these super-accurate recreations of turntable / cassette player units from the same era, created by Indonesian builder Yul Burman Karel. I swear, the one on the left looks like the exact one I used as a kid. Ok, time to boogie!

Luca Iaconi-Stewart is building a "1:60 model of an Air India Boeing 777-300ER made entirely from manila file folders," with an unbelievable level of detail (it even has working mechanisms!) Read the rest

micdotcom:

Newspaper and family show the exact right way to treat a transgender teen

A birth announcement is a beautiful thing. Especially 19 years after the fact.

In today’s Australian Courier Mail, the Bogert family issued this awesome birth announcement by way of a  ”retraction.” The announcement, which has since gone viral, exemplifies the right way to embrace your transgender child.

From the delightfully-named Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a video depicting what they call "vemödalen" defined as "the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist."

They really are the dumbest people in America, and most obnoxious, too. Here’s an example: police in Texas set up a DUI checkpoint, where cars were stopped and drivers quickly checked to make sure they weren’t driving with a blood alcohol over the legal limit. That’s a nuisance, I’m sure, but a minor inconvenience compared to sharing the road with drunk drivers.

Kory Watkins, a Texas libertarian and open carry proponent (so you already know he’s an idiot) objected to the police doing this job, so he was protesting at the check point, and apparently also somehow warning drivers approaching the check point so any drunkards could avoid it (a truly civic-minded fellow), when irony struck.

A drunk driver was going around 100 mph and smashed into the back of me, Watkins said on his Facebook page. I could not control the car, I went sideways, then flipped 3 times, hit a cement piller to stop my roll and put me in a ditch on The side of (Interstate) 287. I was 2 miles always from being home. I am incredible lucky to be breathing. I can’t tell you how lucky I am to be alive.

Wait, there’s more! He doesn’t believe drunk driving should be illegal — it should only be a crime to smash into people.

If someone goes out to eat and has a few drinks, drives home and is responsible in doing so. Nobody is hurt, no property was damaged, there is no crime.

So drink yourself into a half-blind stupor, get into your car, weave all over the road, and the police should just step back and watch until you run over a little old lady trying to cross the road…then they can arrest you. Not before.

Jesus. Libertarians.

But wait, there’s still more!

The police were right there, and came over to help. They discovered that he didn’t have a valid driver’s license. Why? Because he’s a fucking libertarian.

I don’t ask for permission to drive a car I paid for on a road I paid for, Watkins said.

So they gave him a $300 ticket.

Now Watkins is angry because everybody is smirking at the irony and laughing at him. Sorry, guy. FREE SPEECH. You get to be a slapstick dumbass, we get to point and laugh. It’s the libertarian way!

hop aboard!

Laine Nooney of The Atlantic writes about Softporn, a 1981 text adventure.

Upon booting the floppy disk, the player was given control of a “puppet,” a human male through which the player executes textual commands. PLAY SLOTS. BUY WHISKEY. WEAR CONDOM. SCREW HOOKER. Softporn is set in a vague, 70s-infused urban dystopia entirely comprised of a bar, a casino, and a disco.

Denver police were videoed savagely beating David Flores and his pregnant girlfriend by Levi Frasier, who had his tablet confiscated and the video deleted after one of the cops shouted "camera" -- but the video had already backed up to the cloud. Read the rest

trapcomplex:

ronpaulproblems:

Seen in Hong Kong. 

I want everybody alive to see this because these five words are iconic and emblematic of a movement. They will not fucking kill us all.

whitegirlsaintshit:

neckboi:

phoeni-xx:

no:

honestly everyone that tries to justify the murder of that 12 year old boy in any way doesn’t deserve to live another second.. That’s so horrifying like there isn’t even some shitty rumor that he stole something and racists still find a way to sleep at night and justify this shit. 12 years old…

Meanwhile white mass shooters holding automatic weapons are apprehended and given a trial. Black children don’t get to play with BB guns though.

white boy school shooters get fandoms but we gotta prove why innocent black people dont deserve to die

a fucking christmas movie about a lil white boy getting a BB gun for christmas and shooting his goddamn eye out evokes a chorus of “awwwwwwwws” amongst white america, but a little 12 year old boy just got killed for playing with a bb gun

micdotcom:

The 85 richest people on Earth own as much wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest 

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ryanestradadotcom:

I have had the honor of working on two different comics projects with Don Hertzfeldt. Flight, and Fusion Future. But this is the story of my first interaction with the man.

Best possible answer

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do-not-touch-my-food:

Fried Cheesecake Roll-Ups

gohoneycocolove:

Chris Rock just said the most insightful thing on race 

“ So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship’s improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, “Oh, he stopped punching her in the face.” It’s not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn’t. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.”

http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/chris-rock-frank-rich-in-conversation.html

skelenabones:

i’m gonna print this out as a sticker

jamesfactscalvin:

this

bearpigman:

"They should be fired and fined for their misconduct while in uniform" I WILL LET THE IRONY SINK IN

 

sixpenceee:

The majority of creepy metallic noises in sci-fi or horror movies are made by an instrument called a Waterphone. You can hear what it sounds like here.

Offices are dangerous.

goodbyeandthanksforallthefish:

Glitches in the Matrix

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Snazzy Labs reviewed the "monstrously big," "incredibly uncomfortable" gesture input device called The Ring. Its verdict: a $269 "piece of shit." (more…)

Just go look at the list. The police are really good at eliciting final words of disbelief and desperation.