Cooper Griggs

donaldbarjas:

Lololol

I would like to add Brosephus

Zen Dog [x]

Salt water is flowing down the slopes of Mars, like tears on her cheeks mourning oceans lost. http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/mro/martian-seasonal-flow-20140210/#.Uvp1RPldV8l

Michael Botticelli, the deputy director of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, tried to play coy with Rep. Earl Blumenauer about the administration's willfully ignorant position on marijuana prohibition, but the congressman wasn't going to have any of it, and gave him a terrific tongue-lashing.

In the end, Botticelli mustered up some unconvincing false outrage and played his "won't someone think of the children" card. I feel sorry for Botticelli, because he looks like he wants to blurt out the truth but he knows his boss will have his head if he does.

wilwheaton:

bookoisseur:

Well we’re all going to die.

I, for one, welcome our new terrifying mechanical bovine overlords.

But what does the meat taste like?

Mantra for the Day
#lifeisgood #mantra #orchid #life #flower #goodmorning #ineedconvincing

theremina:

DERP

maddieonthings:

This is what happens when Maddie goes grocery shopping 🐶😭 #dogbonesfordays

kateoplis:

“Nearly half of U.S. states have legalized marijuana in some form, whether medical or recreational. But marijuana remains illegal under federal law, and as a result, the legitimate businesses selling the drug are subject to sky-high tax rates.

Dispensaries can’t deduct traditional business expenses like advertising costs, employee payroll, rent and health insurance from their combined federal and state taxes. That means dispensary owners around the U.S. often face effective tax rates of 50 to 60 percent — and in some states, those rates soar to 80 percent or higher …

In other words, the federal government rakes in tax revenue from pot shops while prohibiting them from accessing the same financial benefits afforded to non-cannabis businesses. …

Federal tax code 280E, an antiquated Internal Revenue Service rule enacted in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs campaign, explicitly prohibits any deduction from any business that ‘consists of trafficking in controlled substances.’ Marijuana is currently listed alongside heroin and LSD as a Schedule I narcotic under the Controlled Substances Act. …

'All we want is to be treated like other businesses,' said Mike Elliott, executive director for the Medical Marijuana Industry Group which represents marijuana businesses in Colorado. 'The federal government doesn’t recognize our businesses as being legitimate, but they do demand our taxes. It’s really unfair treatment.' …

“More than one dispensary owner, who requested anonymity when speaking about specific financial issues, told HuffPost that they estimated by the end of the year, they’ll be paying more than $1 million in sales tax to the federal government. And for some businesses, that tax is in cash.”

“More than a dozen states are expected to legalize marijuana in the the coming years. One recent study has projected a $10 billion legal marijuana industry nationwide by 2018.”

The Feds Won’t Legitimize Pot, But They’ll Still Tax The Hell Out Of It | HuffPo

magicalnaturetour:

Gatlinburg, tennessee by jeff wiggins

CINEDRONES ARE AWESOME (by ANTIMEDIA)

Apparently with the right electronics you can submerge a record player and still get nearly perfect audio, as demonstrated in this Submerged Turntable installation by artist Evan Holm. To see how it all comes together, here’s a short documentary showing how he brought a set of submerged turntables to SFMOMA. (via Dennis Hlynsky)

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immersivespaces:

Did Frank Lloyd Wright Create America’s Greatest Office? 

Happy Monday! These photos are from the SC Johnson headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1937. Although the lily-pad columns in the building’s Great Workroom are impressive, Wright’s brilliant design pervades even the smallest details. The chair fabric was color-coded by department, each desk had a streamlined inbox/outbox system, and some chairs (like the one pictured above) had only three legs, supposedly to keep typists from slouching too far to either side.

A few days out of Hawaii, we cross the International Date Line...well, we have some flexibility in deciding when to actually "cross" it, so the powers that be decide that we will celebrate Martin Luther King day (rather than skip it) and then go to sleep on Monday night, and wake up on Wednesday morning. Good choice.

A lone ship we encounter about five days out of Hawaii

Gary grades his Geologic Hazards field lab essays as it storms all around us...

In July 2012, Errol Morris ran an experiment in The New York Times titled “Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist?” Readers were presented with a passage from David Deutsch’s book The Beginning of Infinity. The passage was followed by two yes-or-no questions asking readers whether they supported Deutsch’s claim and how confident they were in their answer.

Here is the interesting part. Morris was not interested in what people thought about Deutsch’s claim or whether they were optimists or pessimists. He actually was interested in knowing if a typeface could influence how people perceived the presented information. In other words, can a typeface affect the credibility of written text?

What the 40,000 participants didn’t realize was that, while they were all presented with the same passage, it was in different typefaces. Six typefaces were utilized in this experiment: Baskerville, Helvetica, Comic Sans, Computer Modern, Georgia, and Trebuchet.

The results showed that statements in Comic Sans inspired the highest amount of disagreement. Helvetica was not far behind. They failed to ignite the believability factor with the readers.

The results showed that people were more likely to agree with the statement when presented in Baskerville.

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The original experiment

The article I gleaned this from, which has other interesting notes about the impact of typeface on how we understand what we read.

Capitalism is weird

peterfromtexas:

A size comparison between the titanic and a modern cruise ship

Filed under: Motorsports, Celebrities

If you haven't been worrying about the fate of Michael Schumacher, perhaps now is the time to start. Doctors have spent the past two weeks attempting to bring the seven-time Formula One World Champion out of the coma he's been in since a December 29 skiing accident, but attempts to elicit responses to "deliberate stimuli" have been absent. Rather, Schumacher has only displayed reflex twitches.

The report comes from Germany's Bild-Zeitung, which was picked up by Fox Sports, so we'd like to stress that this is not an official update. Schumacher's medical and PR teams have been quiet since the initial announcement that doctors would begin easing the German's sedative levels.

According to the German publication, Schumacher's wife, Corinna, continues to spend her days at the driver's bedside, talking to him. Patients in Schumi's condition have been known to show improvements when being exposed to a continuous, familiar voice. As explained in previous posts, patients that remain in induced comas for too long may never wake up, or if they do, suffer from mental deficits and personality changes.

In other Schumacher-related news, it's been reported that newly retired team principal, Ross Brawn, has been by to visit the stricken F1 driver. Brawn was instrumental in Schumacher's rise to the top of the sport, as team principal for all seven of his championships.

As always, should new information on Schumacher's condition become available, we'll be sure to let you know.

Michael Schumacher not responding to stimuli originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Using dismembered plastic parts from old dolls and other toys, artist Freya Jobbins assembles these exceedingly strange portraits of people and pop culture icons. Chances are when viewing these you fall firmly into one of two camps: the highly amused or the highly disturbed. Regardless, it’s hard to deny the incredible amount of labor that goes into each piece, from the exploration of form and the use of color to make each anatomical amalgamation.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa and raised in West Sydney, Jobbins is influenced in part by Guiseppe Archimboldo’s fruit and vegetable paintings as well as Ron Mueck’s oversized humans. I first encountered Jobbins’ work close-up at the Toy Cycle exhibition in Tel Aviv back in December courtesy of Kinetis, and despite the mild case of heebie-jeebies it was impossible to look away as I tried to figure out how each piece came together.

You can see more freaky faces over in Jobbin’s online gallery and on Facebook. (via Juxtapoz, FastCo)

Anyone who follows Colossal knows that digital animation and motion graphics are a rarity here, but this clip is a solid exception. Created by Universal Everything, Walking City is a slowly evolving video sculpture that gradually changes form through dozens of permutations while the core motion, the act of walking, remains the same. Via Universal Everything:

Referencing the utopian visions of 1960’s architecture practice Archigram, Walking City is a slowly evolving video sculpture. The language of materials and patterns seen in radical architecture transform as the nomadic city walks endlessly, adapting to the environments she encounters.

At almost 8 minutes long it’s a captivating view for such a simple premise, it’s fun to imagine the buildings and architectural designs that inspire each step. (via Colossal Submissions)

unpopular opinion: i give not one fuck about the olympics.
never have.