mr owl, how many licks does it take to get to the centre of a tootsie pop? [owls head rotates, begins to spit blood, eyes firing lasers]

— fuckface academy (@apollilaire) June 3, 2012

This probably didn’t need to be a team effort, but that’s ok…

No matter how annoying she gets, the cat just can’t get the dog to notice her. He’s very patient…

hey, sorry for the lack of posts recently, but i’ve been working on this thing that’s been taking up most of my time.  hopefully i’ll be able to share it soon. 

Washington Post

US plans sweeping new system to constantly monitor habits of workers with ... Daily Journal This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. U.S. intelligence officials are planning an electronic monitoring system ... US plans to scan workers with secret clearancesGlens Falls Post-Star US plans new system to constantly monitor habits of workers with secret ...Vancouver Sun all 18 news articles »

San Francisco Chronicle

'Slain' Mexico cartel leader dies a second time San Francisco Chronicle MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cartel kingpin Nazario Moreno Gonzalez had two lives. One ended in late 2010 when the leader of a vicious drug gang ruling the western state of Michoacan was supposedly killed by federal police. The second ended just after his 44th ... and more »

130186:

Ana Locking Fall 2014

forever-is-just-another-infinite:

 

bazook:

pinkypyro:

kevinsanoposts:

Six hundred goddamn AD

Six hundred. Goddamn AD.

This needs to be en-grained in every single living human.

dark-zeblock:

I found some old art books today called ‘Celtic Art: The methods of Construction by George Bain’ Which, I found interesting. I only have 4 out of the 7, they are very old (From 55 years ago). I thought I would just share some scans from them, some people might find them useful. :)

Edit

And I just noticed there is two images the same. -_-” Sorry about that, I’ll replace it with a different one later… -_-‘

ancientpeoples:

wooden cosmetic spoon in shape of a mouse 

Egyptian used spoons to mix their eye make up on. 

Egyptian, New Kingdom, 18th dyasty, 1525 - 1295 BC. 

Source: Metropolitan Museum 

tect0nic:

Little Owl by Phil Scarlett via 500px.

An Olive Branch No One Wants

Established in 1982, Olive Garden is a chain of fast casual dining of Italian-American cuisine, famous for its endless supply of bread sticks (and salad) during the meal and infamous for serving subpar food in cookie-cutter, generic, faux-Italian settings. There are more than 800 Olive Gardens around the world; the large majority in the U.S. but locations range from Mexico to Canada to Kuwait. Olive Garden is owned by Darden Restaurants, who own a total of 2,100 restaurants that also include Red Lobster and LongHorn steakhouse. In an investor presentation this month, Darden announced that because of Olive Garden's "same-restaurant sales lagging Knapp-Track recently" they are "implementing a comprehensive brand renaissance plan to regain momentum" that includes a redesigned logo and restaurant, among other changes. The full investor presentation (PDF) states that Lippincott "assisted" in the redesign of the logo but clear, full credit is not given.

New logo development based on work assisted by Lippincott, a nationally-recognized design firm, that started with the modified brand positioning as the foundation for initial creative design, followed by qualitative research to further shape the design, then validated based on quantitative research to confirm the final design.

Darden's Strategic Action Plan to Enhance Shareholder Value

The reason this review is a few days late and behind the rest of the internet is because I was trying to see if I could get any additional information or images beyond what was released. Unfortunately there was nothing else to be had but in between the announcement and today, the response to the Olive Garden redesign has grown surprisingly and unnecessarily mean. Before I could get to it, The Fox is Black has compiled some of the harsher criticisms of the new logo that, more than harsh critiques are mean-spirited "snarkoulism" (snark + journalism), particularly Fast Co.Design's review that should make its editors recoil with embarrassment. Does the logo deserve the despondent response it has received? Yes. But the feedback is useless when the best thing the media can compare the logo to is children's cursive writing.

I think I have eaten at Olive Garden once, or perhaps it was Macaroni Grill, who knows. It wasn't great but it wasn't awful. It's just an average American chain trying to pass on as a faux, distilled, bizarro-world experience of what it might be like to eat pasta in Tuscany. The old logo reflected that perfectly: the faux stucco texture, the giant grapes on a vine, the friendly script wordmark. Nothing about it is genuine. And that's fine because there is nothing genuine about Olive Garden representing Tuscany. The problem with the new logo is that it is attempting to transform most of the previous logo's elements into something contemporary and fresh. The grapes are now generic-looking olive branches; the texture is gone; the word "Kitchen" has replaced "Restaurant" in the logo's descriptor; and the more "human" script typography has been replaced by an upright, clearly computer-made script font — an extremely bizarre and inconsistent set of letters, granted. Whatever small semblance of hand-craftedness the old logo had is completely gone now.

As a graphic device that is meant to be reproduced constantly, the new logo is much better — it's scalable and only needs two colors. But as a graphic device meant to convey joyous pasta dinners in a family-oriented setting this logo is simply too chic for its own good, looking more appropriate for a body wash brand or even, obviously, a range of cooking oils. There is a big dissonance between this logo and the image we have of Olive Garden and it's going to take a lot more than an investor presentation to convince the media that this is the right logo but perhaps in five years it will be just right. I am not defending the logo because the execution is completely bonkers but the aesthetic and message it's aiming for are, arguably, going in the right direction and as long as that direction includes endless breadsticks, I believe the ROI will be evident.

Scandal - Season 2 “Hunting Season”

Artie Hornbacher, Huck and Olivia Pope examine “Thorngate” - the NSA software used to spy on the public.

I suspect this code is actually from a Wolfram Mathematica .nb file (although I cannot find the exact code)

The passenger manifest issued by the airline included the names of two Europeans - Austrian Christian Kozel and Italian Luigi Maraldi - who were not on the plane. Their passports had been stolen in Thailand during the past two years. An Interpol spokeswoman said a check of all documents used to board the plane had revealed more "suspect passports", which were being investigated. "Whilst it is too soon to speculate about any connection between these stolen passports and the missing plane, it is clearly of great concern that any passenger was able to board an international flight using a stolen passport listed in Interpol's databases," Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said.

I don't know how to feel about this ::: USA Today really isn't sure what to make of the new Babymetal video

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

onthesideoftheotters:

crazypeoplejail:

help me I can’t stop laughing

DID HE JUST RUN ALL THE WAY TO THE SEATS TO CLAP FOR HIS TEAM OMFG

McGruber writes "Austin ranks number one in the nation when it comes to offering the largest tech salaries that have been adjusted for cost of living expenses, such as housing, groceries, utilities and other necessities. This is according to a study by TriNet, a company I had never heard off, that provides (buzzword alert!) cloud-based human resources services. The seven major tech hubs, ranked by cost of living adjusted average salaries: 1. Austin: $105,000; 2. Atlanta: $103,000; 3. Denver-Boulder: $98,000; 4. Boston: $79,000; 5. Silicon Valley: $78,000; 6. Los Angeles: $70,000; 7. New York: $56,000." It's true that Austin has cheaper real estate than Silicon Valley, or London, but what this kind of analysis can't capture well is the worth for an individual of living in a particular place. Some jobs are easier to do from Texas (or Timbuktu) than others, and opinions vary wildly about the importance of climate, culture, alternative job options, and other factors. New York living is expensive, Yes, but it comes with a free bonus if New York is where you want to be. Some people even like Los Angeles. Is there a place you'd rather be but forgo because of the cost of living, or a place you'd consider simply because it would amplify your salary?

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

To help combat a steady wave of shoplifting a 7-Eleven store in the Japanese region of Kanto is requesting the public’s assistance.

A pilfering feline has stolen hundreds of yen worth of cat food from the helpless convenience store.

The cat is described as three-apples-tall, black, and walks in an aloof manner. It’s believed to be armed and dangerous and neither police nor 7-Eleven advise the public to try and lure it in with promises of head-scritches.

(via Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Japanese 7-Eleven requests public’s help in stopping feline crimewave)

tastefullyoffensive:

Gender-bent Disney Princes