Christopher Lantz

Spotted in @SebJabbusch's feed: a keyboard for conspiracy theorists, with lots of handy shortcuts: chemtrail, Nazi, HAARP, and, of course, Jews. (via Super Punch) (more…)

Thomas Frank is scorching on the subject of university tuition hikes and the complicity of the press in blaming everything except for bulging administrations and cuts to state universities for the 30-year spiral of super-inflationary price-hikes from America's post-secondary sector. Where he really nails it, though, is about two thirds of the way through, when he discusses the mental shift that allowed all this to happen: once universities started advertising themselves as paths to individual high-earnings (instead of seats of learning and forces for national prosperity), there was no reason for anyone to want to see them as subsidized, universal, accessible institutions: Read the rest

Peanut, a rescue dog who survived being set on fire as a puppy won the dubious distinction of being the “World’s Ugliest Dog” for 2014 at the Sonoma Marin Fair. Peanut’s human, Holly Chandler of Greenville, South Carolina, has said that she entered Peanut in ugly dog contests in order to raise awareness around the subject of animal abuse.

Chandler wants to use the national contest as a platform to bring awareness to animal abuse and the damage that it can cause. “It will not be about winning or losing. It will solely be about telling people his story and showing that we cannot stick our heads in the sand,” said Chandler. “Animal abuse happens, it is time to face it and come together to stop it.” Because of the fire, “Peanut” lost his lips so his teeth show, and his eyes don’t close because his eyelids were burned. She said many people have called her dog hideous, and she gets disgusting looks when they are out in public. But Chandler says after lots of love and understanding, “Peanut” is now a happy and healthy dog.- WITN 7

via reddit, WITN 7, Neatorama

The “father of physics” Sir Isaac Newton (played by Weird Al) and the Internet’s favorite science educator Bill Nye square off in yet another epic rap battle of history.

The Gregory Brothers are back with a new electro-pop summer jam and boy, it’s got a lot of herpin’ and derpin’.

via http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-only-ultimate-disaster-that-can-befall-us-I-have-come-to-realise

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edwardspoonhands:

catholicteenslut:

she wants him to ram the soul out her body

I actually looked into this once, because it seemed so odd to me. He’s actually talking about how his mom supported him through all his years of training and that she died before she got to see him win or something like that. So that’s her sad, sympathetic face…not her “ram my soul out of my body” face. 

Dudes frequently confuse the two…

The four time Tony Awards host became a Tony Award winner this past Sunday night when he won Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

alex-v-hernandez:

mydrunkkitchen:

tyleroakley:

Aurora is the Disney HBIC.

——- I am completely obsessed with this.

wormwoman

This has been a series! I love it!

Celebrate the National “Take Your Dog to Work” Day (yes, it is a thing) with one of the funniest and most self-aware memes about the man’s best friend.

"The Prime Directive is paramount, the Prime Director is sacrosanct, the... wait, these blissed-out primitives worship a computer inside of a big stone head? Fuck the Prime Directive, it must be destroyed!"

From a Facebook post by Gareth Branwyn.

Allen Park, Michigan-based professional sculptor Bobby Causey has created a beautiful collection of hyperrealistic latex sculptures based on famous Hollywood actors and movie characters. You can view more from Bobby’s series on his website and deviantART gallery.

photos via BobbyC1225

via Daily Art, DesignTAXI

"QUANTUM SHOT" #873 Link - article by Avi Abrams You cannot "step into the same river twice", but some rivers are so full of heavenly colour that you are tempted to linger "The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power... sometimes when the rocks loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam." -- Myrtle Reed, Old Rose and Silver Yes, rivers hold a presence in our hearts comparable to that of an ocean, but more dynamic, more alive and in tune with a changeable human nature. An ocean is a ponderous entity, immense and immovable, but rivers flow and change their character; their nature is at once boisterous and disciplined, humbly contained within the geological framework allotted to them. (images credit: Andrei Ermolayev) Some rivers sparkle with many colors, and today we are going to look at some of the most colorful rivers in the world, covering only a few with more waiting for future installments of our "Awesome Nature" series: Corte Pequena Faro: the Blue Dragon This aerial photograph showcases the stunningly blue water - the reflection of the sky above - of the river near Faro, Portugal. Here are the coordinates on GoogleMaps: (image credit: Steve Richards) Such beautiful blue color and multiple twists can be a feature of many rivers, best appreciated from a great height - producing stunning aerial photography shots. Lake Nacimiento in California, for example, displays the same dragon-like bristling shape and similarly brilliant color reflecting the clear skies. However, some rivers display similarly brilliant color up close and personal, and the following glacier melt-water river is perhaps the most vivid of them all: Stunningly Vivid Blue River, fed by the Petermann Glacier in Greenland This is melt water, of course, with thousands of melt ponds (some having a cutesy heart shape) all around it; but it is also a flowing river of intensely blue color which can be experienced on an organized kayak trip for those daring enough to go. Petermann Glacier is 70 km long and can be 600 m deep... "In August 2010, a giant iceberg measuring 260 square kilometres (100 sq mi) broke off from the floating portion of Petermann Glacier reducing its area and volume by about 25% and 10%, respectively." (images via) River of Five Colors: Cano Cristales Also known as "the river that ran away from paradise," and "the most beautiful river in the world", the Crystal River is located near La Macarena, Colombia, and sports five distinct colors within its waters - yellow, blue, green, black, red - which change their hue and brilliance depending on a season (best observed in September-November) and on a life-cycle of the Macarenia clavigera weeds lining the riverbed. (images via) To access the river you will have to fly to La Macarena and then take a horseback trip into the "Serrania de la Macarena" National Park, so it is not that easy to get there - but the rewards of witnessing and even swimming in all this radiant glory speak for themselves. Check out these lovely water-eroded pits in rock where you can even submerge yourself for a brief "fish in a bowl" experience: There is also an abundance of miniature waterfalls, adding to the spectacular beauty of the place: (images via) Color it Green: Lovely, Curvaceous River Uvac in Serbia This light-green beauty is located in Special Nature Reserve Uvac, namely the Uvac Canyon, which is also known for being a habitat of huge Griffon Vultures, which can have a wingspan of almost three meters... (image via) Color it Red: Washed Sand Changes Rivers into "Blood" This is the much-revered Yangtze River in China, which turned color one day (most vividly near Chongqing) due to some washed out sand - and caused an ecological scare in the news as it was initially thought to be caused by somebody dumping chemicals in the river: (images credit: China Photo Press / Barcroft Media ) Another washed sand "red river" was spotted in Madagascar - this is an aerial shot over the Bombetoka Bay in Betsiboka region: (image credit: Oledoe) Color it Rainbow: Incredible Volcanic Ash-infused rivers of Iceland Intense volcanic activity in Iceland leads to overall abundance of other-worldly landscapes, and this apparently includes rivers which look like they were lifted bodily from the surface of some other planet - an ancient Mars, perhaps, bountiful with water reflected over the shimmering alien sand. Russian photographer Andrei Ermolayev took these fantastic aerial shots over the Southern coast of Iceland: (images credit: Andrei Ermolayev) These incredible river-made patterns don't even seem natural, but rather a handiwork of a fairy-tale maiden, an ornament to adorn the blushing face of the Earth, to cherish for ages to come: (image credit: Andrei Ermolayev) Article by Avi Abrams, Dark Roasted Blend. ALSO READ: "MOTHER NATURE AS AN ABSTRACT ARTIST" -> CONTINUE TO THE "AWESOME NATURE" SERIES ->

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.

via Tastefully Offensive

Yesterday President Barack Obama hosted the first ever Maker Faire at the White House (see previous post). The event featured more than 30 DIY inventions, including a robotic giraffe and a low-cost newborn incubator. The President announced several initiatives during the event intended to help support and educate American makers. He also named July 18th a National Day of Making.

“Our parents and our grandparents created the world’s largest economy and strongest middle class not by buying stuff, but by building stuff — by making stuff, by tinkering and inventing and building; by making and selling things first in a growing national market and then in an international market — stuff “Made in America.” — President Barack Obama

"Our manufacturing sector's been adding jobs for the 1st time since the 1990s." —Obama #NationOfMakers #MadeInAmerica pic.twitter.com/MXuYkvYABP

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 18, 2014

photos by Pete Souza

Don’t Tread On My Internet is an amusing Teespring T-shirt featuring an Ethernet cable coiled up in an homage to the Gadsden flag. Full proceeds for the sale of the T-shirt are being donated to the Internet advocacy nonprofit Fight for the Future.

via Alexis Ohanian

House of Halo has stripped the music out of the music video for the 2013 song “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry. They left in some of Katy’s actual vocals and then added in silly noises, voices, farts, and burps. We previously wrote about their musicless version of the song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams.

Here is the original music video:

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MOUNTAIN is a mountain simulator video game by artist David OReilly. The exact gameplay mechanics are still a mystery, but the game asks a series of existential questions when booted up and uses the answers to procedurally generate a mountain with dynamic weather. MOUNTAIN was first previewed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on June 12th at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles as part of Venus Patrol’s HORIZON event.

MOUNTAIN is scheduled to release late June, early July on PC, Mac, and iOS.

MOUNTAIN previewed around 1:15:00

images via David OReilly

via Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Boing Boing

In this new animated episode of Realistic Garfield by The Pete Holmes Show, a veterinarian finds the famous comic strip cat Garfield to be morbidly obese and his owner Jon Arbuckle turns out to be a flat-out psychopath.

Garfield’s diet may actually be the least of Jon’s problems.

The Robot Restaurant is a Tokyo club that has gained notoriety for its mind-boggling sci-fi cabaret show and its garishly illuminated interior. Completed in 2012 at a cost of $10 million, nearly every surface of the club is decorated in lights, mirrors, or flat panel monitors. The robot cabaret show, however, is the main event. The spectacle encompasses seven or so acts including robot boxing, dancers riding a robot tank, and other sci-fi madness. For more on the Robot Restaurant, see this For 91 Days in Tokyo post (featuring a couple videos) and this Tokyo Weekender article.

photos via For 91 Days in Tokyo

via For 91 Days in Tokyo, Neatorama

Rat Queens is a sass and sorcery comic published by Image Comics featuring four women kicking butt during fantasy adventures written by Kurtis J. Wiebe with art by Roc Upchurch. The comic follows the trials and tribulations of Hannah, Dee, Violet, and Betty as they deal with sex, drugs, and very angry monsters. The full run of the comic as it currently exists is available digitally via Image Comics’ website.

Variety recently reported that Weta Workshop‘s Pukeko Pictures and Heavy Metal have teamed up to adapt Rat Queens into an animated television series.

images via Rat Queens

via Variety, The Mary Sue