firehose

ilovecharts:

Will The Internet Love This?

joebluefox:

8981amatou:

Goni Montes

I cannot deal with this art, it’s too incredible

Mario Kart 8's Women of Racing ⊟

I can’t keep up with all the Luigi GIFs/videos bombarding the internet and Fox News, so here’s a cute doodle from Gigi D.G. (Cucumber Quest) instead. It pairs well with these pics Social Justice Wario posted for Mario Kart’s “Women of Racing Organization” billboards.

I like this. My wife isn’t into Mario Kart at all, but she’s into racing and fixing cars, and I’m sure she’d get a kick of this. Also, Birdetta should be in the game instead of Waluigi.

BUY Mario Kart 8, Mario Kart 7, upcoming games

houghtonlib:

Caveat Lecter: Laboratory tests confirm that a book at Houghton Library is bound in human skin. (Two other Harvard books believed to be bound in human skin were actually sheepskin.)

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Want to put someone through "gom jabbar," like the Bene Gesserit did in the Dune series? First you'll need a needle filled with "meta cyanide." That, I can't help you with. Then you need a box that can cause burning pain without harm. It's all possible if you use the "Thermal Grill Illusion."

Read more...

s-leary:

thegirlwiththethornonherside:

aaaaaaawwwwww

These two win at internetting.

Net Market Share

As the now unsupported (unless you know the right workaround) Windows XP slowly declines, this month packed one surprise: mobile Safari lost its majority share of the mobile Web. Though the browser still holds a plurality of the usage share, it dropped below 50 percent this month.

Net Market Share

Net Market Share

In the desktop world, Internet Explorer was up 0.29 points, Firefox fell 0.19 points, and Chrome was also down by the same margin. Safari and Opera were up imperceptibly, gaining 0.06 and 0.02 points, respectively. Firefox's Chrome-like new interface appears to be doing little to attract users. The new interface was a risky move, as the change had the potential to alienate long-standing Firefox fans. Without seeing a win in terms of market share, one may wonder if the development effort was really worth it.

Net Market Share

Net Market Share

Mobile Safari was down a remarkable 3.05 points in May. Though the mobile market shows a lot more volatility than the desktop one, this is nonetheless a big swing, and it takes Apple's browser below 50 percent for the first time since the iPhone's explosive launch. In the long run, this was inevitable. Android is substantially outselling iOS, and even though Safari appears to be the mobile porn-browsing solution of choice, its time as the top mobile browser cannot last forever. It's still the most popular single browser, but the Android pair—Android Browser, down 0.69 points, and Chrome, up 1.39 points—will overtake it eventually. Opera Mini was also up, gaining two whole points. Internet Explorer and BlackBerry both fell marginally, losing 0.15 and 0.04 points respectively.

Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments

flo-we-rs:

look at these evil lesbians destroying the sanctity of marriage

somefancyname:

me

rvya:

that’s it. that’s the whole show.

semensperms:

Pam Grier

taishou-kun:

Women observing stars.  1936, Japan

Artist Oota choou 太田聴雨 (1896-1958)

Hoshi wo miru josei 星をみる女性  - 

For some unknown reason, Geek extraordinaire Tom Murphy, took all the lines from Star Wars that are spoken in English and divided the footage into a clip per word. He then took the 11,684 resulting bits and alphabetized them.

Here’s the dialog from Star Wars — or “ARST ARSW,” as Murphy fittingly titled it — in alphabetical order from the 201 instances of the word A to the single use of the word Zone…

(via Reddit)

Some fun facts for those who aren’t watching and counting along with the whole thing…

• The word lightsaber only appears once.
• The most common word is the, of course, said 368 times.
• The word with most screen time is you, at 52.56 seconds.
• The 11,684 total words are comprised of 1695 unique words.
• There is a 4-way tie for the longest word in Star Wars between responsibility, malfunctioning, worshipfulness, and identification, all 14 letters.

And finally, the most important question… Which edition did he use for this important project?

This is the Special Edition to troll Han-shot-first purists. Everyone knows the original is the most legit.

Adding to a week already dominated by casting updates and space pigs from the set of Star Wars: Episode VII, Lucasfilm has reminded everyone that there’s still so much more to be preemptively overanalyzed by naming Josh Trank to direct one of its previously slated standalone Star Wars films. Trank joins Gareth Edwards as another filmmaker to make the jump from breakthrough indie fare like Chronicle and Monsters to big-budget versions of those, Fantastic Four and Godzilla, and now to the hyperspace of one of the biggest film franchises ever. As with Edwards, what character Trank will be tackling for his non-episodic Star Wars movie isn’t yet known, though rumors have persisted that Boba Fett and Han Solo are first on the docket. And hey, if Trank does end up making that “young Han Solo” movie, it goes without saying that his muse Michael B. Jordan would make ...

she-kicks-she-throws:

devildyke:

tamorapierce:

xkyaliix:

she-kicks-she-throws:

Photos from 1935 Japan via Old Photos of Japan.

Japanese school girls practicing naginata (薙刀). Naginata is a pole weapon traditionally used by members of the samurai class. It consists of a wooden shaft with a curved blade on the end. In the modern martial art form of naginata, it is carved from one piece of Japanese white oak or it features a replaceable blade constructed from bamboo. Practitioners wear protective armor called bogu (防具). It is very similar to the armor worn by practitioners of kendo. In modern Japan, naginatajutsu is practiced especially by women.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and tag tamorapierce here because this is just too cool for words. 

And that limb held, `cos here I am, with thanks!

Look at them, at the easy grace with which they wait, at their focus on the weapon and beyond it, the opponent.

#reblogging for atma

okay yay this means i can add on to this

the reason the naginata is used primarily by women is because wives of samurai (who were part of the bushi/warrior class in japan, and everyone in the bushi no class no matter what was a warrior. and yes, women could be samurai too) would often be the ones to defend the house. which means they got trained in their own arts, a lot of them a lot more direct, efficient, and brutal than what samurai were trained in. because when your house/kids/livelihood are threatened, you want shit that works right now. that’s the most important thing you have is your house and family and in no way are you gonna let some punks threaten you like that. so it became very rapidly associated with women, which is a high honor for this, because it’s a scary, efficient weapon, with its long handle giving superior leverage that overcomes most swords with ease.

as someone training in the samurai arts, and who has fought against naginata a few times, these things are fucking effective and scary, and can easily take me out in less than a few seconds. i’ve fought against eishin-ryu, katori-ryu, and tendo-ryu style naginata techniques and they all kick my ass, with tendo-ryu ranking up there as one of the most deadly arts i’ve ever practiced against. the head of tendo-ryu lives near me, actually, and she’s a little old lady who takes absolutely no shit whatsoever and is confused as to why more women in the US don’t do naginatajutsu.

absolutely fear samurai women always. this is no joke. these women are the realest deal you can find.

Thank you! I sit here in delighted fascination. :3

I have one of these. (It was a super thing when my sensei told me years back that the best thing about finally having a female student was that now there was someone he felt happy to teach the naginata styles to.) It’s a lovely weapon… and incredibly effective. When properly used, no one armed with a mere sword can get anywhere near you. Also very effective against mounted opponents…

We all talk about the Bechdel Test all the time, because it's so simple: Does a story have two women who talk to each other, about something other than a man? But almost every time it comes up, we all dismiss it, because it's too simple or too arbitrary. But actually, the Bechdel Test is more important than anyone realizes.

Read more...

powells:

Our Cedar Hills Crossing store is hiring an Assistant Manager! Want to join the team that puts on events like these as well as David Sedaris, Tom Robbins and more (coming in June!)? Apply now!http://powells.us/Yw4T3p