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The BBC Doctor Who site has a River Song Quiz.

Reblog with your score. At the end of River Song Day, we’ll add up everyone’s scores, divide by 3000 (or some other number that results in a hilariously impossible result), and use the phrase “Hello Sweetie” that many times this weekend.

Look, I got us both confused, ok?

Explodingdog at the Daily Dot

(via The Daily Dot - Comics - explodingdog)

I make the same mistakes

New drawings at Explodingdog.com from titles submitted to me on twitter this morning.

MIT is rightfully proud of alumna Limor Fried, the superhero hardware hacker behind AdaFruit Industries, creators of fantastic DIY, open source electronics components and kits. We're proud of Limor too! From MIT News:

Apart from selling kits, original devices and providing hundreds of guides online, Adafruit works around the world with schools, teachers, libraries and hackerspaces — community technology labs — to promote STEM education, designing curricula in circuitry and electronics, among other initiatives.

The company has released an online children’s show called “A is for Ampere.” On a weekly Saturday night program, “Ask an Engineer,” anyone can ask Fried questions online or show off their original devices.

One of Fried’s favorite stories, from a young viewer of “Ask an Engineer,” illuminates what she sees as the growing diversity of engineering. “A parent emailed us after watching the show with his daughter,” she says. “I had another engineer on the show with me — my friend Amanda — and this parent’s daughter asked, ‘Dad, are there boy engineers too?’”

"Meet the maker"

Over at Tenth Letter of the Alphabet, a fascinating history of the Star Wars logo. Above left, a decal created during the film's pre-production, to be used on film cans and other early materials. "This was how we first pictured Han Solo," production designer and artist Ralph McQuarrie explained in The Star Wars Scrapbook: The Essential Collection. "It could be a sort of Luke character, but I think it’s more like Han. Anyway, George decided that Han Solo should be a more relaxed character, and his costume was changed. But this decal was designed before the change.” Above right, the early corporate letterhead after "The" was dropped. The lettering, based on the Precis font, was by concept artist and SFX tech Joe Johnston. "Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars"

Ever wonder what it would look like to plot every single geotagged tweet since 2009 on a map? Twitter has done just that.

Twitter posted these maps of Europe, New York City, Tokyo and Istanbul on its blog Friday. They use billions of geotagged tweets: Every dot represents a tweet, with the brighter colors showing a higher concentration of tweets. It's pretty amazing how the mapped-out tweets clearly match with population centers, highways and the like — though perhaps that's obvious.

1. Europe

2. New York City

3. Istanbul

4. Tokyo

More of Twitter's geotagged maps are available on Flickr. What do these maps reveal to you? Share in the comments. Read more...

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A federal judge has ordered Google to comply with the FBI's warrantless requests for user data, rejecting its claim that the demands are illegal. Google had requested that the court modify or discharge 19 National Security Letters, a form of request that bypasses the courts and which generally forbids the recipient from disclosing their existence. The hearing, presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Ilston, was held in secret, reports CNET; the FBI issued nearly 200,000 of the letters between 2003 and 2006, with 97 percent including a gag order.

Sausage roll inspiration from CHOW, pasta with chickpeas, and berry pie bars in today's Delicious Links. 

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Em 1883 foi inaugurada a Brooklyn Bridge, até então a maior ponte suspensa do mundo, que tinha sido construída ao longo de 13 anos, ao custo então exorbitante de US$ 15,5 milhões.

O Curbed compilou uma série de fotos históricas dessa icônica ponte ao longos dos anos. O acervo veio do Museum of the City of New York e da Library Congress.

Atravessem > http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/05/22/130_years_of_brooklyn_bridge_photos_decade_by_decade.php

de pessoas, então…

the characters of doctor who capturing my emotions perfectly

Empire State Development, the New York State agency devoted to promoting New York businesses, threatened the (extremely excellent) Everyman Espresso shop with a lawsuit because they used an "I [Coffee Cup] New York" logo (the logo appears on the knuckles of Sam Penix, who co-owns Everyman). After Everyman took the sign down, Empire State Development's lawyers demanded "an accounting of all gross revenues generated during the period when the I ♥ NY® Trademark was used" so that they could figure out how big a bill to send to a small New York business for using it.

“Basically, it’s extortion,” he said. “It’s also ironic because we are being threatened by the entity that has vowed to grow our New York business.”

The mission of Empire State Development, the department’s parent agency, is indeed “to promote a vigorous and growing economy, encourage the creation of new job and economic opportunities, increase revenues to the State and its municipalities, and achieve stable and diversified local economies.” Empire State Development is also home to the state tourism department, which started an effort last year to revive and reinvent its “I ♥ NY” campaign.

On Monday, Everyman slapped a “Censored” sign over the logo on the door of its second shop, on West Broadway in SoHo, which opened last summer. Everyman’s principals are complying with Ms. Neumann’s request, albeit under protest. “We just think there’s no likelihood of confusion,” Mr. Terrana said.

A Cup Is at the Heart of a Trademark Dispute

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

pulpflesh:

Behind the Scenes - Doctor Who

Jon Pertwee hanging out with a Yeti is always going to be adorable to me :D

starkidcorner:

omg

Doctor Who in Colors → Yellow & Blue

theswinginsixties:

John Lennon

Ten’s Ties

doctorwho:

A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

dropsdafal:

1910, caras.

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les-modes:

Dress for the races by Margaine-Lacroix, photo by Félix, Les Modes July 1910.

triguenaista:

problackass:

glovesinthesummertime:

thechanelmuse:

Photos that speak: Fuck your fountain. Fuck your tree. Fuck voter suppression. Fuck your labels. Fuck your stereotypes. Fuck your hatred. Fuck your restaurants. Fuck that dude. Fuck police brutality. Fuck white supremacy. 

I have nothing left to say.

The pictures they don’t show in our US History books.

And two of these pictures aren’t very old either. One was taken in 2012 I think? (Not sure).

doctorwho:

maebyfeatherbottom:

#(Alien race sings Sounds of Silence)#Doctor Who#Should I tag this#Arrested Development#?#Whoops just did.

timothydelaghetto:

This is what I BEEN sayin! Preach that shit, Aziz!

Who said proposals should be long and complex? Six seconds will do just fine

Curt Buthman, a business consultant from Los Angeles, used Vine to propose to girlfriend Marsha Collier Tuesday night. It was the definition of short and sweet

@marshacollier I love you! #WillYouMarryMe<3 #custserv shrd.by/opFrXY

— Curt Buthman (@curtbuthman) May 29, 2013

Um, uh, YES @curtbuthman - I will MARRY YOU! #custserv

— Marsha Collier (@MarshaCollier) May 29, 2013

The engagement is the first in Vine history, which is why it quickly went viral afterward. The two were immediately bombarded with congratulatory tweets from strangers across the web who witnessed the #WillYouMarryMe hashtag Buthman paired with his Vine Read more...

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If someone asked you how many social networks you actively use, how many would you list? To start, you need Facebook to share your personal updates, Twitter to share the latest news, Google+ for Hangouts, Pinterest for recipes, Instagram for your photos, Foursquare to share your location-based tips, LinkedIn for professional updates, Tumblr for cat GIFs and, before you know it, you're reflecting on how you find time to use all of them.

In a post on Quora, a user wrote, "I have noticed in myself … that becoming continuously and actively involved in a new social network often leads soon to the cessation of involvement in another one." A user in the thread replied, "It's difficult for any single person to maintain relationships in more than three communities at a time, [but] I'd say that a very social, highly engaged person can manage up to nine with success." Read more...

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