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(A robot spy cam keeps an eye on penguins in Adelie Land, Antarctica: more at NBC News.)

In an age of the ubiquitous 3D printer, it’s easy to forget the joy and beauty of handmade craft. Take, for example, the 400-year old Japanese art of creating kokeshi dolls. These traditional wooden figurines were said to have been originally made as souvenirs to sell to people visiting the local hot springs in Northern Japan. Although there are about 10 different styles, each doll is made with an enlarged head and cylindrical body with no arms or legs.

In the video, produced by tetotetote, an organization highlighting the arts and crafts of Sendai, Japan, Yasuo Okazaki woodturns solid blocks into the head and body using just a few tools. Okazaki’s “Naruko” style of making the dolls was passed down to him from his father and features stripes at the top and bottom of the body and bangs with red headdresses. I don’t think there’s anything more soothing and hypnotic than the sights and sounds of watching these dolls emerge from a spinning block of wood.

we-smoke-the-blunts:

oh my god

colorcombos:

important photoset of dogs in blankets

Bird lands on a page about itself.

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It’s closing in on Halloween, and Kodie is all decked out in his favorite….er, spider. (And here’s some animated .GIF ACTION of the K-Man, just ‘cuz.)

Our unbelievably Cute ResQte Of The Week comes from Beth W., who is the Social Issues Reporter for the Asheville Citizen-Times. “I had a great day at work today because I got to cover this,” she says. The “This” she is referring to are six puppehs (That’s Captain America up top- he’s been spoken for) rescued last month- with five of the six now available for adoption at Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation.

These little guys are known as “The Parkway Puppehs,” after they were found by two fishermen near the local Blue Ridge Parkway. Their names are in the hovers! (Photographer: Corrine Baker.)

If You’re Interested™:

* Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation is at 256 Industrial Park Drive in Waynesville, NC. (Map.)
* Adoption application is here.
* If you’re chosen, the adoption fee is $125.

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Thank god Smaug never had to

Conte-me mais sobre a terrível influência da Barbie…

Muito tempo atrás, quando era moda crianças fazerem trocentos cursos além da escola, eu cismei (sim, fui eu, não vou gastar uma baba em analista pra sair culpando meus pais) de fazer artes marciais. Como foi antes do Karate Kid, entrei no judô. Algumas aulas depois o professor colocou os novatos para lutar com com veteranos. Minha adversária era uma guria de uns 16 anos, magra, altona.

“Mulher? Tranquilo, vou dar um yppon nela”, pensou o futuro Daniel LaRusso. Quando abri os olhos de novo eu já estava no chão, o joelho dela no meu peito e meu braço em uma posição anatomicamente incompatível com um vertebrado.

Nesse dia percebi que competência independe de sexo, e por mais piadas de loura e mulher dirigindo que eu faça, a Sabine Schmitz vai continuar chutando bundas fazendo Nurburgring em 10:08. Em uma van.

Na área de tecnologia trabalhei com homens e mulheres, competentes e incompetentes, indo da engenheira e analista que como Projeto Final de faculdade criou um sistema operacional à Analista de Suporte de uma grande empresa de petróleo que quando viu um PC aberto perguntou “o que são esses quadradinhos pretinhos?”.

A carência de mulheres na área de TI não tem nada a ver com incapacidade, é um problema sistêmico, que vai dos babacas emasculados pela possibilidade de uma mulher ser o que 99% dos homens já são, mais competentes do que eles, e passa pela própria criação, onde se a menina gosta de LEGO a mãe leva no psicólogo com medo que ela desenvolva algum tipo de desvio, como querer cantar MPB.

Isso tudo é parte de uma discussão maior, mas nem que seja pelas festas de fim de ano na TI, precisamos de mais mulheres em tecnologia, e isso será tema do próximo GDG Drops, um evento informal do Grupo de Desenvolvedores Google de São Paulo.

Amanhã, dia 30/10 na sede paulista, na Google Brasil Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 3477 — 18º andar., São Paulo.

É gratuito, mas precisa se inscrever antes, via MeetUp, clicando aqui. Vagas preferencialmente para mulheres, assim como no meu coração, se bem que pensando bem isso soou meio comprometedor.

The post Corre que dá, miga! Mulheres e tecnologia, no Google amanhã 30/10 appeared first on Meio Bit.

twisted-transistorr:

paindemands-tob3-felt:

pandabearjayy:

I absolutely love the end result.

i can’t believe i watched that

i thought this was going to take me on a spiritual journey and it did

I can still remember the day we met. She swam by and glanced at me, with a look that was so shy… Well, not shy, really, it was more — what’s the word? — demure. No, bashful… actually, more like coquettish… Flirtatious? Sly? Sneaky-lookish? Hang on, it’ll come to me…

Via Animal Planet. (I know, that’s probably not a koi. Cope with it.)

Published today from Harper Design, Shake Puppies is the latest jowl-flapping canine photo book from Portland-based pet and wildlife photographer Carli Davidson. The dangerously adorable collection of images is a follow-up to her 2013 book Shake that similarly featured high-speed photos of adult dogs caught mid-shake as their ears, lips, fur and drool flies in every direction.

Davidson began photographing animals while on staff at the Oregon Zoo, a passion that eventually led to a career shooting portraits of exotic animals, pets with disabilities, and a plethora of cats and dogs. Shake Puppies is available now through Amazon.

- that there’s a Big Baseball Game starting at this very second. No idea who she is rooting for, either.

From Jo B., who says “Fun to take, but I have now lost my favorite sweatshirt to Kit, who think’s it’s an awesome cave-bed.”

[*Note- We must note, in the interests of equal time, we've not received any puppehs in Royals attire. -Ed.]

naamahdarling:

urulokid:

facebooksexism:

thebluelip-blondie:

skeptikhaleesi:

brownglucose:

nextyearsgirl:

The absence of women in history is man made.

How petty

just look at babe ruth’s face tho

so confused

so lost

i love it

pure hater shit

Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of. 

From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:

"I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day."

Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.

A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”^[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.^[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”

TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard

These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”

They gave up.

They couldn’t handle it.

Losers. 

Teenage girls are amazing.

This is Miko, a champagne pink fox

sweetguts:

unclefather:

you’ve been hit by- you’ve been struck by a smooth criminal

this is the greatest moving picture file that has ever been placed on the internet

In this clip from BBC's Good News with Russel Howard we see a culture clash take place on the subject of "spooky disease vectors".

[You might say I'm all ears.]

Mail Online.

Oooooo, you’d better ru-u-u-u-un! Look at me floating, so sca-a-a-a-ary! Oooo-EEE-oooo, I’m coming for yo-o-o — yeah, okay, I just fell into some white stuff, trying to make it work for me, all right?

Blue Footed Booby noticed in the earlier Maru video that, in fact, the mysterious cow we see in most of the videos has a map of the world on it! And so it does:

So, applying a little logic (a lot of Amazon.jp boxes in Mugumogu’s house, yo) we checked the site, and….bingo.

Cost is $52 USD and change as of this writing, according to the converter.

NO idea if they’ll ship worldwide.

manicpixiescreamnewt:

sickfuture:

cd in a microwave

it looks like an ancient rune activating its magic

The last Rats, It’s Monday for ‘Tocktober. This time next week….Nosevember! (He’d qualify for that, too!) From Shutterstock.