Cooper Griggs

the uncomfortable song.

Attention: New Kitten Cam

I repeat: New Kitten Cam!

http://new.livestream.com/tinykittens/firefly

What's happening over the water?

This is amazing

heartheambience:

Just with the family….

count the number of things wrong with this picture…

Ron Funches Oakstreet Speakeasy (by İlker Gürpınar)

Introduced in 1998, the vaccine sold well at first. But then opponents spoke out: self-described ‘vaccine victims’ — perhaps similar to people today who claim the MMR vaccine causes autism. Back then, they said that the Lyme vaccine gave them arthritis.

“And this sort of got into popular lore,” Poland recalls. “It got on the Internet. There were a number of East Coast lawyers who started putting together class-action lawsuits. There were anti-vaccine advocacy groups that were formed.”

And there were threats against the scientists who had worked to help protect people against the disease. Poland had to hide where he lived. Steere got a security detail.

The clinical data did not back up any of this. The trials had not shown such side effects. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control looked into the claims, and then continued to recommended that people exposed to tick-infested areas get the vaccine.

But it was too late. Sales had plummeted. Four years after offering people immunity against Lyme, SmithKline Beecham stopped making the vaccine. The second vaccine-maker, Pasteur Mérieux Connaught, saw what had happened and never put out its own product.

So that mech we mentioned last night—you know, the one that's made by the same studio that built armor for Pacific Rim and Iron Man—it's now officially going around Comic-Con. Here's some footage of the mech trying its best to befriend a little girl, brought to us by by Stan Winston School.

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Would you like to learn about making this stylish fire pit?  House and Fig has the detailed instructions for turning an old washing machine drum into this fire pit for under $10 and in less than an hour.   Hard to believe – but totally do-able.  Go check it out. 

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Grilled Fontina + Blackberry Basil Smash Grilled Sandwiches

today amtt, bogo and i embarked on this howsweeteats.com recipe* and are happy to report: not only are these sandwiches dead easy to prepare, but they are absolutely delicious.

*beer not strictly part of the recipe, but it doesn’t hurt.

Fuck Jar Jar Binks!

In this video, comedian Ron Funches breaks down which awesome African American characters to cosplay — and which ones to avoid at all costs — at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Scenes around the world of those “did you see that” lightning bolts, dramatic storm clouds, and distant downpours.

See, and share, more photos in the Thunderstorms Abound gallery and Lightning group.

Photos from Kai Eiselein, dmguz, Alan McCord, dangerousmeta, Eye of the Storm Photography, JordanDoane, NicLeister, amy32080, WyldeNikonShooter, and Julieta Toledo Widensky.

Jamie Frith

Paddy McDougal

Sean Creamer

Brian Day

Linda Tanner, GoingSLO on Flickr

Ibai Acevedo

stowmaries aerodrome

Lou Rouge

eggii

Flickr Finds returns with its 32nd installment here on Colossal. These are just a few of my favorite photos seen on Flickr the last few weeks, I urge you to click through and learn more about all the different photographers. See previous Flickr Finds. (thnx, megan!)

This is what happens when you mix Mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2) and Ammonium chromate (NH4)2CrO4 and then set it on fire. I was honestly expecting the fiery volcano part, but at about 30 seconds in something… horrifying happens. The kids witnessing the experiment really make the video. “The kraken!!!!” (via The Awesomer)

In my years working in technology, I have learned a few things. These lessons have become oft-repeated refrains when speaking to people, so I thought I'd collect them so I have a link to send folks when needed.

1. Given enough time, any object which can generate musical notes will be used to play the Super Mario Brothers theme on YouTube.
2. Judging by their response, the meanest thing you can do to people on the Internet is to give them really good software for free.
3. Three things never work: Voice chat, printers and projectors.
4. Once a web community has decided to dislike a person, topic, or idea, the conversation will shift from criticizing the idea to become a competition about who can be most scathing in their condemnation. (See The Law of Fail.)
5. Any new form of electronic communication will first be dismissed as trivial and worthless until it produces a profound result, after which it will be described as obvious and boring.
6. If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault. (See the post on this topic.)
7. Most websites treat "I like it" and "This is good" as the same thing, leading to most people on the Internet refusing to distinguish between "I don't like it" and "It's not good".
8. When a company or industry is facing changes to its business due to technology, it will argue against the need for change based on the moral importance of its work, rather than trying to understand the social underpinnings.
9. People will move mountains to earn a gold star by their name on the Internet.
10. The only way to get useful feedback from people on the Internet is to ask questions that are actually answerable, instead of open-ended.

Bonus rules which apply equally on the Internet and off:

• Never argue against logic with emotion, or against emotion using logic.
• We hate most in others that which we fail to see in ourselves. (That's pretty much where this blog started, 14 years ago.)

Paris-based artist Ludo (previously) has been active lately with works popping up all over France. His trademark monochromatic paste-ups with dripping green highlights often merge technology with plants or insects to create what he calls a “new order of hybrid organisms”. To see more of his work you can always stop by StreetArtNews or follow the artist’s blog.

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