But is it free range? [x]

Monopoly, Bruce Sterling

bethanyfae:

I WAITED SO PATIENTLY 

thegirlwhocriedfoxface:

hostagesituation:

My friend had a guy sitting way too close to her on the bus and he was trying to read her text messages, so we damn well gave him something to read.

incredible.

GoPro is trying to build a media empire by capturing moments that other video cameras sometimes miss, and it just might achieve that feat if its latest (and arguably most dramatic) footage is any indication. The company mounted its action cams in the...

memeguy-com:

Wait for it

6.8M views in 48 hours.

(Tipped by JMG reader JP)

yisusfishus:

illu-antics:

gnumblr:

bootycheck

That’s some fierce booty.

booty game HELLA STRONG

It seems like whenever someone is looking for an easy or obvious way to inject RSS with mass market appeal, the answer is always to be more like social media. 

But that answer is neither obvious or easy. RSS is not social media. RSS will never be a best way to publish your birthday pictures on your wall. It will never pull from your Facebook profile, get you a better Klout score, or get your photos onto Instagram.

But we do believe that the community building and information sharing that happens in social media ought be even more powerful in RSS. The question is how to translate social sharing into the RSS reader world without compromising our core values. 

Last week I talked about why I believe RSS is the best tool for getting the content you want. Of course, there is a catch to that premise. For RSS to work, you already need to know that you want stuff from a particular site. And that obviously doesn’t work if there’s interesting stuff you don’t know exists. 

I also understand that RSS can sometimes deliver too much stuff, and users can drown in information. You can get also create your own echo chamber, never discovering new content or having your horizon broadened. 

Instead of mocking the more inane aspects of social media, let’s take the best parts and run with it. Our goal is to deliver stuff that’s been read, vetted, and recommended by people whose opinions you respect. Or at least people who have good taste.

We’re going to grapple with that issue of how to do that without compromising our core principles. I know there are some strong feelings out there around this issue. Let’s hear it. 

ungratefullittleshit:

Times Tumblr Raised Serious Questions About “Harry Potter”

flergleblergle, laugh with me

unicorns-happiness-and-death:

lieutenantbites:

unicorns-happiness-and-death:

lieutenantbites:

allahembrace:

superfantasticclub:

balladoftarby:

derpygrooves:

thank mr skeltal

thank mr skeltal

thank mr skeltal

thank mr skeltal

thank mr skeltal

Skeletal*

ITS NOT SKELETAL YOU FUCK READ THE POST. BAD BONES AND NO CALCIUM IS YOUR CURSE FOR 1000 YEARS!!!!!!

Fuck me sideways and up a wall god dammit

A group of seven Swedish amateur astronomers have achieved their goal of replicating the Voyager probe's iconic 1979 flyby of Saturn by using images taken with their own ground-based telescopes.

Read more...

Minnesota’s long, tortured, and very, very complicated relationship with "Fargo."

Only two weeks left to get a copy of Augie!

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Our first guest on Song Exploder is Jimmy Tamborello, aka Dntel, aka one half of The Postal Service (the other half being Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie). Jimmy breaks down the song The District Sleeps Alone Tonight, and talks about his instruments, his influences, and accidentally making a loop out of Jenny Lewis's backing vocals.

latimes:

"Where’s Spot?" author Eric Hill has died at age 86. His books about Spot the puppy, aimed at preschool-aged kids, sold more than 60 million copies internationally.

Images: Penguin Young Readers Group

Courtney shared this story from Super Opinionated.

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Recognizing the needs of today’s multitasking preschoolers, PBS has announced that it will add a shorter, half-hour version of Sesame Street to its lineup beginning Sept. 1—just as the carefree idleness of summer fades, and our children’s thoughts return once more to the looming end of the fiscal year. As PBS’s Lesli Rotenberg explains to The New York Times, the traditional hour-long Sesame Street will continue to run in the mornings, when most kids still make time for learning how to count before the markets open. But now it will also be accompanied by the new, 30-minute version that airs in the afternoons, which will excise the more frivolous, serialized segments, such as “Abby’s Flying Fairy School,” and get down to the brass tacks of telling busy modern youngsters the day’s letters of the alphabet. This shorter Sesame Street is also specifically being designed ...

Some days, it feels like it can be difficult to get people excited about space exploration. It's space! It's the universe! Get excited already! Which is why NASA, being the lovable nerds that they are, have decided to use Peter Cullen, AKA the voice of Optimus Prime, to get you pumped about the Hubble's successor.

So sit back, relax, and listen as the sultry voice of Peter Cullen shows how the James Webb Space Telescope will transform and roll out...for science!

via NASA

To contact the author of this post, write to chrisperson@kotaku.com or find him on Twitter at @papapishu.

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lowlivindaddy:

baking-waffles:

Nuclear test 15 megatons, Nevada, 1953, various angles.

Nightmares.

anyone else hear the score from the nuke scene in T2 in their head

Here’s the firm truth: The Final Member (trailer here) is a documentary about penises. Or, well, the world’s only penis museum. Even if you’re not into weird science (or, for that matter, penises), it’s still an excellent, surprisingly heartfelt film about identity, legacy, and obsession. It’s informative and funny to boot. And we’re giving away a copy of the “Collector ‘Package,’”, out on DVD and Blu-ray from Drafthouse Films today. In addition to the film itself, it includes “a signed certificate of authenticity, a penis donation form for the Icelandic Penis Museum and an actual bull penis preserved in a glass jar and sealed with wax.” Every apartment needs one.

To enter, tweet this and only this:

#TalkAboutStiffCompetition: @TheMarySue is giving away a copy of Drafthouse Film’s #TheFinalMember, & I want to win. http://bit.ly/1r2x5rq

with no changes or additions by this Friday, 6/20 at noon EST. You have to be following us on Twitter so we can get in touch with you if you win. We’ll be giving away one copy, DVD or Blu-ray (your choice), to a winner in the US or Canada only.

If “penis museum documentary” didn’t grab you already, here’s The Final Member‘s synopsis from its official site:

Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland—a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle—boasts the world’s only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður “Siggi” Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and every “thing” in between. Lamentably, Siggi’s collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen. Siggi’s world changes dramatically when he receives generous offers from an elderly Icelandic Casanova and an eccentric American. However, as the competition for eternal penile preservation heats up between the two men, Siggi soon discovers that this process is more complicated than it initially appeared.

In their debut feature film, Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math follow Siggi on his dogged, often emotional quest to complete his exhibition in a peculiar, yet startlingly relatable, story of self-fulfillment and the value of personal legacies (both big and small).

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hodad

Namedrop:

I’ve been living in Alex’s apartment for the past month while he was in LA making this re-release happen. If you haven’t seen it, check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZw2Hxdq1QE

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my work shoes

years ago when i got promoted into the ranks of management at my university IT job, i made the very clear decision to continue, on most days, to dress the way i did as a developer. this included continuing to wear my many, assorted, colorful vans. often mismatched.

i knew at the time that this might be perceived to mean i wasn’t to be taken seriously, or that i didn’t know how to play grown-up, or that i wasn’t getting with the program.

perhaps all valid. but i felt that my effort should matter more than my shoes. i work hard and i deliver, i should be able to wear what i want. the results should speak for themselves.

naive? maybe. but when i later got promoted into the director-level ranks, i was promoted wearing my red shoes.

recently a colleague i’ve worked with for years ran into me at an event. he said, “i hope this doesn’t sound strange, but i’m really glad to see that you still wear your red shoes.” i was a bit confused and he continued, “they didn’t change you. you didn’t become one of them.”

since then i’ve thought of all the ways that my simple decision to wear what i liked had subtly influenced things around me. how it “meant” something in ways i’d not intended, but that still might be true. then this morning bombtune posted the harvard business school article, “The Manager in Red Sneakers”, and i can see that my small choice can be read as a bold statement.

a statement not intended… but still, true.

there’s a re-org happening in my department. there’s a strong possibility i may be promoted again. i started to consider if maybe i need to re-think my personal dress code. maybe i’m hurting my teams’ credibility. maybe…

but no. if they’re going to promote me, they know who i am. and i’ll be wearing my red shoes.

joshreads:

itswalky:

georgetakei:

I think I know what they were going for, but definite could be read the wrong way… http://ift.tt/1igH8Un

ha ha ha ha ha

I have seen the Maryland version of this plate with my own eyes, it was amazing and beautiful