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jigglypuff:

I made a birthday card for my little brother

becausebirds:

BIRD EGG BIRD EGG BIRD EGG

The above ominous illustration is a detail from a 1921 ad in the Washington Times for Brodt's Inc., a Washington D.C. hat seller:

The cryptosymbolic imagery of this ad is blatant to the knowledgeable paranoid: The owl is, of course, a favorite symbol of the NWO, especially the Bohemian Grove Cabal branch that manages D.C. It's perched atop the Washington Monument, which is pointed with an aluminum pyramidion that serves as a psychotronic prism for the distribution of the NWO's mind-control signals throughout the Capital (more, albeit credulous, details about the pyramidion's construction can be found here).

Naturally to the orthonoiac reader, being an ad for hats, the super-deformed Washingtonians all have their heads covered -- but really their juxtaposition to the monument/mind-control-tower informed the NWO elite controlling the psychotronic machines of state that Brodt's was the place to get their required hat-camouflaged aluminum head-shielding to avoid succumbing to their own mind-control. Presumably closer reading of the ad copy will reveal the secret watchword or hand-sign used to notify Brodt's' sales staff that one was interested in the "special hats".

Even the "everybody knows" slogan, ostensibly a harmless reference to Brodt's renowned hattery, is really a statement of the psychotronocracy's goal of ubiquitous orthonoia: "everybody knows what we make them know".

Interestingly, the Brodt's ad was repurposed later that year to promote an appearance by baseball legend "Babe" Ruth at their new 14th St. location (which caused a "near-riot") -- possibly the earliest recorded link between Major League Baseball and the mind-control satellites*.

* Yes, there were satellites in the 1920s. The Shadow Space Program was well established long before Sputnik. As all true paranoids are aware, the real hoax of the Moon landing was that it was faked on a soundstage at the USAF base on the dark side of the Moon.

It's pretty awkward that the LA Chapter of the NAACP was scheduled to give Donald Sterling a lifetime achievement award in a couple weeks. Many of us had never heard Sterling's name before this weekend. But for those who had, the fact that Sterling was a pretty big racist, both personally and in his business practices, was pretty well-known. So, Peter Dreier asks, why was the NAACP in so deep with him?

Amazing concept of how planes will be flown in the future, from Popular Mechanics, 1932.

The future of space cocaine, 1932.

I love those two.

He's wide open and ... how the heck did he miss that?

Dwight Howard is super-excited for the Rockets' playoff game against Portland. He's so excited, in fact, that he's botching easy dunks!

This is pure, distilled "welp" in a single GIF. Keep reaching for the stars, Dwight, you can do it.

LOPEZ FACE

With the Clippers returning home for Game 5, the players would like to make an even stronger statement against owner Donald Sterling than they did in Game 4.

Los Angeles Clippers players are considering making a "stronger statement" than they did in Game 4 in protest of racist comments made by a man on recorded audio tape alleged to be owner Donald Sterling when the team returns home for Game 5 of their first-round series against the Golden State Warriors, according to Yahoo! Sports' Marc Spears.

The Clippers staged a protest prior and during a 118-97 Game 4 loss at Golden State on Sunday, wearing their shooting shirts and practice jerseys inside-out. As the players took the court, they all tossed their warm-up jackets to mid-court before warming up:

The Clippers took off their shooting shirts and dumped them at center court. pic.twitter.com/Nod5QWsWJy

— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) April 27, 2014

Matt Barnes and Jamal Crawford were the two players behind the protest. In addition, Clippers players also wore black wristbands on their left arms and black socks.

There had been some discussion of boycotting the game during a team meeting on Saturday, but the decision was made to play and instead go ahead with a protest. With the team returning to Staples Center for Game 5 on Tuesday, the players would like to come out with a bigger statement, although it's unknown just what it will be.

Clippers players haven't said too much about the controversy, but head coach Doc Rivers has spoken out on numerous occasions. Rivers admitted the whole situation has been a bit of a distraction:

"The mental preparation, on the other hand, I just -- honestly, I don't know," Rivers said. "Because, listen, as much as this is basketball, this is life. And our guys, they have family. They have friends. And they have cell phones. And I can't imagine how much they've been pulled on and talked to and what you should do and what you shouldn't do and what you should say. And that's abnormal to a normal playoff game."

Going home would seemingly be a benefit for the Clippers, but Rivers isn't so sure:

Doc Rivers: "We’re going home now. Usually that would mean we're going to our safe haven. And I don’t even know if that’s true."

— J.A. Adande (@jadande) April 27, 2014

The NBA is still looking into the alleged comments and hope to complete the investigation within a few days.

marshmallowviscera:

people talkin like “I thought this was supposed to be the future where are my flying cars”

yall do know that surgeons recently 3D printed a new skull for a woman and that we have machines who learn and recognize themselves in mirrors and recently we found a galaxy that SHOULDN’T EXIST

like

fuck flying cars, guys

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  - 

fem-wolf:

superwholockthecomic:

Putting negativity under the cut for my more sensitive followers.

Also Time of the Doctor spoilers abound so.

You’ve been warned.

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"The soul has been pushed aside to make room for the puzzle."

yep

Temple at Kom Ombo half-buried in sand, Egypt, ca. 1880

The Brix Gaming is a photogenic little machine, but it's not quite as good as it needs to be.

Andrew Cunningham

Mini desktops are a growing market, but so far it's a market that Intel has had the run of. The company's own "Next Unit of Computing" (NUC) and efforts like Gigabyte's Brix Pro are diminutive but much more capable than the wimpy "nettops" of yesteryear.

Now it's time for AMD to get in on the fun. The company sent us two Gigabyte mini PCs that are roughly the same size as the Intel versions, but these machines use AMD A8 chips instead of Intel ones. While the smaller, cheaper GB-BXA8-5545 (which we'll be reviewing in full in a separate piece) is basically just an AMD version of the NUC, the Brix Gaming (yes, that's the device's full name) is something else altogether. The race-car-red machine combines AMD's CPU with a true dedicated AMD GPU, promising a level of graphics performance that we haven't yet seen in a mini desktop.

Unfortunately, this is one of those times when reality doesn't quite match expectations. The Brix Gaming does have a much faster GPU than any mini PC we've seen, but it has to make a few too many compromises to get there.

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I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a year, and I might as well get it out there now that I’ve just read that Google is backing away from Google+.

It’s not surprising that Google is getting away from Google+.  It was actually a really good product, but the thing has had zero traction with real people.

But, I have to be honest, the way Google has handled Google+ has totally pissed me off.  No, I’m not among the legions who have been unhappy about Google integrating Google+ into all of their other products.

I’m pissed because Google blew an amazing opportunity.  Google possessed a totally simple and easy way to make Google+ practical and relevant, but somehow, I don’t know how, they f***ed it up.

What am I talking about?  Let’s rewind to March 13, 2013:

We have just announced on the Official Google Blog that we will soon retire Google Reader (the actual date is July 1, 2013). We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go.

Naturally, there was a lot of reaction and angry Reader users.

But, Google could have avoided angry Reader users and given Google+ a massive boost by simply integrating Reader into Google+.

Yes, just that simple…make it so that you could follow an RSS feed as though it were another user in G+.  Make it so that you could put RSS feeds into circles, and share them, just like you do with other G+ users.

If Google would have done that G+ would have taken off like wildfire and nobody would have ever looked back.  I have no idea why they didn’t, but for some reason the lost potential has irritated me for a year.  And, here we are now, with the whole effort going down the tubes.

What a waste.

pushtosmart:

Gaming’s Top Female Protagonists: Aveline de Grandpré

ohyeselifresh:

my neck

my back

my pizza

and my snacks