Oakfairy

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I mean, I’m not ruling it out, but my hole needs a little romance. 

Perhaps a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant. My hole likes places where you get free unlimited breadsticks. 

You’ll need to take The Hole to a movie. A romantic comedy where there is some kind of misunderstanding. Be sure to buy popcorn and milk duds. 

As the night winds down, you must walk The Hole to the door. A kiss is acceptable—no tongue.

Repeat 3 to 4 times.

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Use protection. 

cartoonpolitics:

"In the US, there is basically one party, the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population." ~ (Noam Chomsky)

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This is hands down one of the best Silk Spectre cosplay we’ve seen! The perfect mix of an awesome costume and great photography!

Model: Hannuki.

[Source: Hannuki on Deviantart.com]

Mario is such a jerk…

[Source: Jeremy Kaye of Up and Out Comics]

The Moon might be much bigger, and farther away, than you think it is…

[Kurzgesagt]

thygirl:

He got himself stuck

angelclark:

Historic Black and White Pictures Restored in Color

1. Women Delivering Ice, 1918
2. Times Square, 1947
3. Portrait Used to Design the Penny. President Lincoln Meets General McClellan – Antietam, Maryland ca September 1862
4. Marilyn Monroe, 1957
5. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of Titanic’s sinking the night before. (April 16, 1912)
6. Easter Eggs for Hitler, c 1944-1945 
7. Sergeant George Camblair practicing with a gas mask in a smokescreen – Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942
8. Helen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin in 1919
9. Painting WWII Propaganda Posters, Port Washington, New York – 8 July 1942
10. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge ca 1935

geekandsundry:

ALL ABOARD THE PARTY TRAIN! 

If you’ve donated $10 or more to TableTop Season 3, you’re getting ANOTHER bonus perk! Our friends at Days of Wonder are giving our backers free Steam codes for Ticket to Ride! Back the campaign here!

Did you skip out of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 before the X-Men: Days of Future Past credits scene clip reveal? Don't worry we've got the clip right here for you to watch, and it's stuffed to the gils with mutants. Wonderful.

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From the developers of everything Elder Scrolls comes a game so immersive you’ll forget to eat, sleep, or make any friends at all. You’ll spend countless hours trapped in a far off land; and when you finally emerge from the game, you’ll only find disappointment and boredom back in the real world.

[Smosh Games]

photoshopwilwheaton:

1 million and the great RPG show! This is freaking amazing! Congratulations to Wil and the whole team at Geek and Sundry, and congrats to all us fans, who have an amazing show to look forward to!

And it’s not over yet! There’s still days to go, and extra funding to get.

Wil and his owlbear friends have taken over the Co-Optitude title sequence set to have a little party. You know it’s going to be wild, when an owlbear wears a Wesley sweater!

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A study from The Ohio State University found that eating could reduce aggression between you and your spouse.

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[thetelegraph]

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It's good to know the proper way to thaw foods , but when it comes to fish, save yourself the time and effort and just cook it straight from the freezer.

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Note: A version of this article originally appeared on my Google Plus page, but rumor has it G+ may be going the way of phlogiston and N-rays. I didn’t want to lose this article, since it’s one of the coolest facts about our solar system, so I figured I’d update it and put it here on the blog. That way I can link to it when I talk about Saturn’s rings.

The planet Saturn is beyond question the jewel of the solar system. Its magnificent system of rings is awe-inspiring, composed of countless tiny particles of water ice, each orbiting the gas giant planet individually. Sculpted by the gravity of the planet and the orbital dances of dozens of moons, the rings are divided into a few major rings and thousands of narrower ringlets.

They’re also huge: The main ring system spans 300,000 kilometers (180,000 miles), and some fainter rings are cast even wider! But they're also amazingly flat. Seriously, truly flat: Observations indicate they are only 10 meters (32 feet) thick in some places, up to as much as a kilometer (0.6 miles) in others.

That’s more than just flat. That’s practically two-dimensional! Let me show you why.

Let’s take the bigger number, and assume the rings are a kilometer thick. If the main rings are 300,000 kilometers across, that makes the thickness-to-width ratio 1 in 300,000, or 0.0000033.

How thin is that? Well, a common simile used for thinness is a sheet of paper (i.e., “paper thin”). But how thin is that? A standard sheet of US writing paper has dimensions of 8.5 x 11 inches (about 22 x 28 cm) in width and height, and (for 20 pound paper) only about 0.004 inches (0.1 mm) in thickness.

Even if we use the larger dimension of 11 inches, the thickness-to-width ratio of a piece of paper is then 0.00036, over 100 times the ratio of Saturn’s rings!

In other words, to scale, a piece of paper is 100 times thicker than Saturn’s rings. And that’s using the thicker number for the rings, 1 km instead of 10 meters. If we go with the thinner number, the ratio jumps another factor of 100, so a piece of paper is 10,000 times thicker than Saturn’s ring, to scale!

Want to think of it another way? If you wanted to make a scale model of Saturn’s rings using paper, you’d have to use a sheet 10,000 x 11 inches = 1.7 miles across!

We’re using the wrong phrase. We should say something is “Saturn’s rings thin.”

It’s truly astonishing that a structure so huge, so vast—it stretches more than three-fourths of the distance from the Earth to the Moon!—can be so ethereally thin. But that’s physics at work. The particles forming the rings may have once had all different tilts as they orbited Saturn, but if they did, they would have collided with each other. The details are a bit complicated, but collisions would steal angular momentum from the particles, and their orbits would tend to flatten out. This kept happening until the particles were spread out so thinly that collisions stopped occurring, which happens when the rings were only a few times thicker than the size of the biggest particles in them—a few meters across. That’s why the rings are so thin.

Once again, processes in physics are both vast and subtle, and what seems surprising to our intuition is actually inevitable in reality. That’s one of the many reasons I rely more on science than in our own easily fooled human brains!

Science is a way of helping you understand the Universe, but it’s also a way of helping you trust it. It always follows its own rules.

[Geek Universe]

You wouldn’t accept lag offline, so why do it online? ume.net, a fiber broadband provider, performed an experiment. Four volunteers got to experience internet’s biggest disturbance in real life – lag.

[umeaenergi]

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Clearly, I’m in the minority of folks who watched Almost Human on Fox, because the network has announced that there will be no second season.

The “buddy cop” show starred Karl Urban and Michael Ealy as “a human and lifelike robot partnered together as detectives in the year 2048,” according to Cinema Blend.

Was the show perfect? No, but it showed promise, and the chemistry between Urban and Ealy was refreshing and yes, adorable. But — like Firefly — Fox aired the show’s 13 episodes completely out of order which possibly aided in its demise.

According to Geek Tyrant:

Fox followed Almost Human‘s pilot with Episodes 5-8, then aired Episode 3, then jumped to Episode 10, then finally got around to airing the intended second episode of the series. They closed out the series with episodes 4, 11, 12 and 13.

Even though each episode technically, sort of “stood alone,” there was a larger subplot that ran through many of them, so it’s no surprise the show had even more trouble gaining traction if the episodes jumped around so severely. (Now, I’ll have to go back and re-watch them IN ORDER, as the show creators intended!)

But as my friend Adam put it, no second season may have its bright side: Maybe now Urban will be free to do a Dredd sequel.