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“I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil, and that is what our pictures attempt to do.” — Walt Disney

Sam Loyd devised this puzzle in 1898. Begin at the heart in the center and move three squares in any of the eight directions, north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, or southwest. You’ll land on a number; take this as the length of your next “march,” which again can go in any of the eight directions. “Continue on in this manner until you come upon a square with a number which will carry you just one step beyond the border, thus solving the puzzle.”

Interestingly, Loyd devised this puzzle expressly to defeat Leonhard Euler’s method of solving mazes. “Euler, the great mathematician, discovered a rule for solving all manner of maze puzzles, which, as all good puzzlists know, depends chiefly upon working backwards. This puzzle, however, was built purposely to defeat Euler’s rule and out of many attempts is probably the only one which thwarts his method.” The original puzzle, as published in the New York Journal and Advertiser, contained a flaw that permitted multiple solutions. That’s been corrected here — there’s only one way out.

Click for solution …

Please, damn.

There are probably lots of racists out there who actually believe this.

pleatedjeans:

Coachella Weekend Lineup for People Who Aren’t Going to Coachella

Man, I really love nail art. You might not share the same kind of enthusiasm for crazy custom manicures, but we can all agree that the Laser Girls' 3D-printed nails are decidedly cooler than your average press-on acrylics.

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This is a pretty good play so far.

huh

reasonsmysoniscrying:

Reasons Somebody’s Son is AWESOME:

Chaz Rorick, student at Rush-Henrietta High School (near Rochester, NY), took pictures of himself posed and dressed like every US President.

HOW AMAZING IS THIS?

via cobaltcglass

One tiny chip in the unthinking white supremacy of our media.

Yeah, speak up, right wing assholes, I thought you were tough on immigration.

Throwback Thursday

A Tea Chart I made to remember how to make a cup of tea for everyone who comes by the house. 

-navyvice

They maaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

He’s 100% correct.

#Stock Tips: A Zine About Soup

wonklife:

How we’ve changed how we die. (via 40 charts that explain the world) CC @Ilovecharts

Some of your old books may contain hidden artworks: Beginning in the 17th century, a book’s binder would sometimes paint a watercolor scene on the edge of the book’s page stack. If the pages were then gilded, the image might remain hidden for years until the pages were fanned.

Sometimes two different images are hidden in the same book, revealed successively when the pages are fanned “up” and “down.” In rare cases paintings are hidden not just on the book’s fore edge but on the top and bottom as well, offering a panoramic view of the painting’s subject.

“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.” — Nietzsche

This book came out in 2011. Pictured on its cover is the Myspace logo, Scooby Doo, a Logitech webcam, Mickey Mouse, an old cellphone, and “The Thinker,” among other things. This would be funny as a statement about how parents will never understand the media the next generation consumes, but, no, it’s sincere, and it also quotes Hall And Oates and Little Richard when talking about “contemporary music.” 

A bunch of films just got nominated as Officially Really Good Movies by the Committee of People Who Are Good At Watching Movies. This is all very exciting, and millions of people are going to watch this awards ceremony. Unfortunately, the process is all very subjective and suffers from individual tastes or whose DVD screener came with a free box of Junior Mints.

So this is why we need to instate the TOURNAMENT OF MOVIES. Every year it will be a very scientific process using exact numbers: Who had the most sad parts? BEST PICTURE. Which main character showed the most emotions? BEST ACTOR/ACTRESS. Which movie was the loudest? BEST SOUND DESIGN.

This removes all gray areas and subjectivity from filmmaking (finally!) and has the added benefit of encouraging studios to make BIG LOUD MOVIES that are FULL OF EMOTIONS. Seeing one movie would be like seeing twenty, and you’d be so exhausted you’d only want to watch one a year. Accurate AND affordable!

-wes

Seriously. Racists, you aren’t fooling anyone.