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jonnovstheinternet:

my friend tried the potato setting on his microwave

More like the meteorite setting.

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Apparently, Chicago is becoming even more like its Watch Dogs doppelganger than we first thought. Researchers are deploying networked, sensor-equipped lamp posts from this July onward to learn how they could help urban planning and safety. They'll...

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bethanyfae:

I WAITED SO PATIENTLY 

How I feel when I have to talk about my artwork.

zamotdredhart:

Now that is prank dedication

pmon3y69:

drdawg:

my friend Pete literally makes me cry with his snap stories

this is me, i am pete, love me 

socialismartnature:

This sculpture by Issac Cordal in Berlin is called “Politicians discussing global warming.”

Remember that evidence of the early gravitational waves formed by the Big Bang? Apparently, it's not as surefire as scientists once thought. The newly peer-reviewed findings note that there's "unquantifiable uncertainty" in the source data; cosmic...

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The gentlemen who brought you the video of dogs being shown magic tricks (dogs have no time for them tricks, yo) have come up with a brilliant and new way to freak dogs out in a humane way: By barking at them. You'd think dogs wouldn't care, but these dogs freak the fuck out and it's hilarious.

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yisusfishus:

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gnumblr:

bootycheck

That’s some fierce booty.

booty game HELLA STRONG

In “How Sony’s Betamax lost to JVC’s VHS Cassette Recorder,” Engineer Guy Bill Hammack takes on the videotape format wars of the late-1970s/early-1980s, explaining why Betamax ultimately lost out, in spite having some clear advances over the VHS format.

Betamax versus VHS dispells the notion that simply being first to market is the most important issue. It reminds us that simply being better in one area isn’t enough — here the superior image quality of Betamax.

What do you do with the abandoned railways that once held the promise of trans-continental linkage and progress? Some have converted them into tourist-friendly pathways. But Mexican artists and brothers Ivan Puig (previously) and Andrés Padilla Domene decided to traverse the nearly 9,000 km of railway in Mexico and Ecuador that, in 1995, was abandoned and left to decay. But they didn’t travel in any old fashion. In a project that ran from 2010 to 2012 the artists rode in a striking silver road-rail vehicle called SEFT-1, which they designed and built themselves so as to travel both on rail and road.

The multi-year journey, which was documented online, explored abandoned rail but also the notion of modern ruins, and “how the ideology of progress is imprinted onto historic landscapes.” (via Hyperallergic)

Siobhan Thompson of Anglophenia gives a wonderful verbal tour of the British Isles, performing 17 of the regional accents found in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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If you’re afraid of heights, caves, the dark, suffer from claustrophobia or vertigo, this might not be for you, but if not, a small Welsh town has the perfect subterranean adventure for you: the world’s largest underground trampoline. Just unveiled in Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales, Bounce Below is a network of trampolines and slides mounted to the walls of an abandoned slate mine at heights of 20 feet to 180 feet off the ground. Visitors are welcome to climb, bounce, slide, and jump in the netting amidst a technicolor light show. Tickets are available online and the space will open to the public July 4th, 2014. (via My Modern Met)

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