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I don’t know the Where or Why behind this photo, but…who cares?!

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This Man With Severe Cerebral Palsy Created Mind-Blowing Art Using Just A Typewriter

Last year, 22-time Emmy award-winning reporter John Stofflet posted this news video he created for KING-TV in 2004, featuring Paul Smith and his artistic talents.

See the full video to see more of Smith’s artworks and to learn more about his inspiring story go here. 

lolneincom:

Gotta love new features!

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Lolnein by Vincent Kunert [website | tumblr | twitter | facebook]

Catvengers, assemble!

Catvengers by Keyyu [tumblr | redbubble]

miguelmarquezoutside:

Park sign installed today.

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We all know that saying no is a necessary part of keeping a healthy schedule. Take on too much of others' work and you lose your ability to manage your own life. To get an idea of just how important that balance is, try keeping a "No List" of every time you told someone no.

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Otis really likes bugs. Perhaps a little too much.

Artwork by Chris Gugliotti [webcomic | tumblr]

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This is last months’ Corg Life. All new Corg Life comics return tomorrow! With a special surprise…

And they're adorable. This is it, right? This is how the robot apocalypse happens: With a vanguard of cheerleaders doing synchronized routines with color-changing pom poms. We'll be too distracted when the overlords follow.

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The New Yorker is finally ready for the digital age. This is their first-ever GIF cover.

This is gorgeous. This is something I would totally subscribe to on a tablet and read on my commute.

memeguy-com:

There is no good and evil there is only power

From Reservoir Dogs to Pirates of the Caribbean, Astronauts venturing into space have been recreating famous movie posters to promote their missions for a while now, and for Expedition 42, there was only one possible choice: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

From Flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti:

I am incredibly excited to share with you the Expedition 42 poster! If you like it half as much as I do, it will still be your favorite expedition poster ever.

Enjoy, don’t panic and always know where your towel is!

Featuring (from left to right):

Terry Virts and Anton Shkaplerov as Zaphod Beeblebrox
Aleksandr Samokutyayev as Humma Kavula
Barry “Butch” Wilmore as Arthur Dent
Elena Serova as Ford Prefect
Samantha Cristoforetti as Trillian
Guest star: Robonaut, as Marvin the Paranoid Android

[Source: Samantha Cristoforetti on Google+]

No matter how well you train your dog, they sometimes slip away from you. You try to get them back, and they just don't want to come. One Quora user has a solution: run the other way.

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Och nu har jag vaknat, fast det inte ens är oktober.
För jag är så glad! Jag har hittat GULA kulor. Det finns ingenting som gör en gran så göttig och mysig och lyxig som några gula kulor.
OBS: Det är INTE guld vi pratar om. Den kalla, kyliga, lätt billiga guldlooken. Det får man förstås också ha med. Men det är inget surrogat för det o-så-viktiga - och O-SÅ-OMÖJLIGT-ATT-FÅ-TAG-PÅ gula. Speciellt inte när man som jag bara köper okrossbara kulor. Livet är för kort för glas som går i kras på självaste granen.

Dessa norpade jag åt mig på B&Q (byggvaruhus) för en spottstyver i veckan. Japp, pyntet finns redan i butik. När jag såg att de hade gult och okrossbart fick jag fan förhöjd puls. Det är pyntets heliga graal.

Anyhow. Jag fattade liksom det där med gult i granen på ett medvetet plan för ett par år sedan när Kirstie Allsopp hade ett julprogram på teven. Hennes gran var SÅ fin, lite skandinaviskt sparsam, och hon hade EN kornblå matt kula, EN lejongul, och EN cerise. Resten var röda.
Det var _magiskt_. Gult gör att något liksom ... händer.

Happ, du tror jag är knäpp nu. Det må vara hänt. Så länge du kommer ihåg mitt toppentips: att ha lite varmgult i granen. OK?
Varsågod.

P.S: Granhitler föddes när hon gick Reklam- och dekorationslinjen och gjorde praktik på NK i Göteborg tidigt 90-tal. Granhitlers arbete bestod i att klä, och i vissa fall tillverka dekorationer till ca 150 julgranar till det fina varuhusets årliga köpfest.

I’ve gotten a number of emails over the years from people asking whether they are being haunted by a recently deceased person. I’ve also gotten emails from people asking if animals slaughtered for food ever come back and haunt the people who ate them. So let’s talk a little about hauntings and how that all works.

No matter what the circumstances were surrounding your death, you are immediately offered the opportunity to slough off your mortal identity, cross over into the light, and release any mental or physical affliction you carried while alive.

The vast majority of beings with souls do this. They let go and move on. Instantly and totally. Whether they died peacefully in their sleep at age 90, or whether they were gunned down, committed suicide, or eaten by humans, most beings just let go.

Why? Because our natural state is being in the soul-state. Our natural state is as a loving tendril of Source consciousness, and when we let go of our bodies, we immediately and quite joyfully return to that state of being one with the universe and with Source.

Why would we stick around, waving our arms and saying “boo” at people who are still alive? Why would we continue to suffer by staying angry or upset at the circumstances or people that may have contributed to our release?

But, you ask, don’t people want justice?

Justice is a human concern, a human need. The reality is that your soul remembers that you came to earth to play. So when you die, your soul remembers how utterly freaking awesome it is to return to the ether. There is no strong desire to stick around and haunt anyone. Even someone who did you wrong.

So who are all these ghosts that walk around plantations or battlefields, reliving their final moments for all to see?

Some people who die tragically choose not to cross over so quickly. They are locked into their memory and may act out or replay it for many years. But eventually they let go and are guided to the light.

I also see people sticking around when they fear judgment from the other side. Murderers, rapists, and others who fear God’s judgment can hang out a little longer if they desire. It’s not healthy though and it’s completely unnecessary. But this is why hauntings are rarely happening by people who had a lovely life. Only those who fear judgment have the impetus to hang on to this life and identity as long as they can.

Now let’s make a distinction between hauntings and visitations. Once you cross over peacefully and well into that good old light, that doesn’t mean you’re completely disconnected from your living loved ones. You are allowed to check in and tune in to see how your family is doing. But you’re not haunting them.

You’re connecting energetically from your new plane, you’re not hanging on to this plane in a desperate attempt to avoid judgment, siphoning the energy of the living to maintain your place in limbo. No. You’ve integrated onto the other side and upon occasion you check in. That’s a visitation and is usually pleasant for both parties.

Animals who are slaughtered do not haunt the humans or other animals who ate them. Only the body was eaten, not the soul, which is intact in every way on the other side.

The beings that bother you most from the other side are the non-corporeal, never-been-human type who feed off fear and control. But that is not a haunting in the strictest sense of the word.

Hauntings are truly rare. Souls released from the confines of their bodies are more than eager to return to the ether.

I ett blogginlägg har Phonebloks berättat mer om Project Ara, vilket är Googles satsning på en modulär och uppgraderingsbar smartphone. Första Project Ara-telefonen beräknas fortfarande komma tidigt 2015. En fullt fungerande prototyp sägs presenteras under en utvecklarkonferens i december.

Eftersom Android inte är byggt för att hantera dynamisk hårdvara har Project Ara samarbetat med Linaro för att anpassa Android L. Modifierade versionen av plattformen kommer tillåta att användare byter ut de flesta typer av moduler, förutom processor och skärm, utan att enheten först stängs av. Det inkluderar moduler som exempelvis kamera och batteri.

Modulerna för Project Ara kommer säljas online i en butik som liknar Google Play. Komponenterna behöver certifieras innan de säljs till konsumenter. Är ni intresserade av en modulär smartphone vars komponenter går att byta ut och uppgradera på egen hand?

Inlägget Project Ara kommer tidigt 2015, kör modifierad version av Android L dök först upp på Swedroid.

OnePlus har som bekant haft ett inbjudningssystem för köp av företagets första och hittills enda smartphone One. Systemet har använts för att se till att beställningarna inte skenar långt framför produktionen. I en frågestund på Reddit berättar tillverkaren nu att lanseringen inte gick som planerat. Gänget missbedömde efterfrågan, som blev runt 30 gånger högre än väntat.

Things definitely haven’t gone as planned. Looking back, we probably misjudged demand by 30x, and are scrambling to catch up. Our team wasn’t built to handle this growth. We’re hiring like crazy, and things should be under control in a few months.

Företaget berättar även att det inte kommer gå att köpa One i år utan inbjudan eller förbeställning. OnePlus menar att de hellre växer långsammare men på ”ett hälsosamt vis” än att riskera att gå under. I samma veva nämner tillverkarens anställda att de planerar att släppa uppföljaren till One under andra eller tredje kvartalet 2015. Även nya telefonen kommer sannolikt ha ett inbjudningssystem initialt, enligt OnePlus.

Not in 2014. We understand that our current method may be slowing our growth down, but we’d rather grow slower and in a healthy way than taking too much risk and going out of business. Risk management is extra important in our scenario where we don’t have hardware margins.

Inlägget OnePlus: Efterfrågan blev 30 gånger högre än väntat dök först upp på Swedroid.

The Simpsons' couch gags have turned into a showcase for different directors and animators who often turn the opening credits into spectacular short films. We're particularly in love with the sublime strangeness of last night's couch gag, which imagines the animated family some 8,000 years in the future.

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A fantastic and all too true comic by Dave Mercier (MercWorks) and Andrew Bridgman from Dorkly.

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It had to happen I guess, someone absolutely had to make a sexy version of Olaf from Frozen for Halloween this year. Yandy.com is well known for their slightly “risqué” costumes, and the rest of their Frozen-inspired costumes are totally ok, but Olaf, really?

[Yandy - Sexy Halloween Costumes]

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rashaka:

You don’t really understand Star Trek until you’ve seen Galaxy Quest.

Galaxy Quest is the best of all the Star Trek movies.

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Hello by Ben Pearce [flickr]

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