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Wisconsin White Deer Surprised by his own Antlers Shedding

Art critics call the paintings of the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin “primitive” and “appalling."

My patronus is a fainting goat. 

This is your favorite #GRAMMYs tweet right here.

Is it just me or are some of the Grammy performances so far seem to be really demonic?? Looks like there is a lot of evil in the world..

— AJ McCarron (@10AJMcCarron) January 27, 2014

Demonic GRAMMY moments, ranked.

(1) SATANIC Katy Perry

(2) Taylor Swift, POSSESSED BY RAP MUSIC

(3) GOTH LORDE

(4) RUNNNNNN A.J.

(5) A #brand got in on the fun!

Hey @Pharrell, can we have our hat back? #GRAMMYs

— Arby's (@Arbys) January 27, 2014

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Rep. Radel Resigns Amid Cocaine Scandal Talk Radio News Service A congressman who was caught buying drugs from an undercover federal agent last fall has resigned from office today. In his resignation letter, Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) said that, professionally, he could not “fully and effectively serve as a United States ... Candidates reactions to Trey Radel's resignation announcementLehigh Acres News Star all 432 news articles »

Veteran CBS host laughs in Cruz’s face after he repeatedly denies shutting down government

North Korea has a volcano. About a millennium ago, it had one of the largest eruptions in Earth’s history. You probably didn’t know that. And that’s okay. Because North Korea is so closed off to outsiders that most people — even some scientists — have no idea.

These two cats are prepared for battle with their fancy Mandarin Orange helmets.

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Marlboro Man actor dies from lung disease natmonitor.com The print model for Marlboro cigarettes, who later campaigned against smoking, has died after complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. National Monitor, Mary Locke | January 27, 2014 ... and more »

americaengland:

the-voice-leading-nazi:

WHAT THE FRACK ARE THOSE THIS IS HIGHLY DISTURBING

hello yes this is an arctic hare! they’re like little pup-buns

My “white” cousins in the north are hella dope yo!

An anonymous reader writes "Google and Samsung have signed a global patent cross-licensing agreement aimed at reducing 'the potential for litigation' and enhancing innovation. The deal will cover 'a broad range of technologies and business areas' and apply to both existing patents and any filed over the next decade. The move is also expected to strengthen their position against rivals such as Apple, which has filed multiple lawsuits worth billions of dollars for alleged patent infringements."

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Artist Mimi Yoon has responded to the controversy surrounding her variant cover for IDW Publishing’s The Powerpuff Girls #6, which was withdrawn last week by Cartoon Network following complaints that the illustration “sexualized” the pre-teen animated characters. The chain of events began early last week when retailer Dennis Barger Jr. singled out the cover (at [...]

You’ve never seen David Tennant like this. Behold the Doctor Who 10th Doctor Mr Potato Head. Proof that Timelords are grown, not born. The Doctor has his signature wardrobe and his sonic screwdriver, plus you can mix and match parts from other potato head toys. Sit him on your shelf and have a good laugh […]

Not helping, Neil.

When Atwood met Munro: ‘Nice books are boring’

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shubbabang:

you know that thing where you scrunch up your arms and it looks like you have only hands well this one time when i was little i kept it up for 3 days no matter where i was

one time i also pissed off my entire family for 3 days

mistercoventry:

heinrippy:

mistercoventry:

i had a daydream about a muslim mermaid and she had a hijab made of seaweed with a little starfish on it

I think I got a little carried away. Hijab mermaids!

AH!!

THIS IS THE CUTEST EVER I NEED MORE

fuck-yeah-online-shopping:

Earrings by Arajera   ☆ | ☆ | ☆

Watson’s getting married! And we’re all invited to celebrate the charming couple, solve a highly coincidental murder, sit through an overly long best man’s speech, and get amazingly drunk. After a particularly rocky opener in the disconnected and emotionally-throttled “The Empty Hearse,” “The Sign of Three” settles in as the squishy middle of the third season. And while it solidifies this series’ increasingly-meta tone (there’s plenty of fan service here), it also provides breathing room for some welcome beats with its lead characters.

The majority of the episode takes place at the wedding itself, with liberal flashbacks to the pair of seemingly-unrelated cases that, because this is TV, come together at the very height of the festivities. But its best moments are the rare, quiet moments between Sherlock and Watson slipped in among the set pieces and memory callbacks. In particular, this episode gives Watson a moment to step beyond ...

It's not like he had anything else to do tonight.

The Royal Rumble is in Pittsburgh this year. What else is in Pittsburgh? Maybe some sports?

YEAH SPORTSSSSSS.

Good thing the NFL didn't have anything else going on Sunday.

(I mean, we THINK this is Ben Roethlisberger. It may just be the midpoint between Wil Wheaton and Kevin James.)

Sreekar Saha sent in this sign and expressed puzzlement over the English translation:

Before trying to figure out precisely what the Bengali says, I'd like to point out that, in essence, what the English says very politely is "Do not loiter" (not as strong as "No trespassing"). Telling people not to do nothing is not the same as telling them to do something.

Now, to tackle the Bengali. First of all, I was surprised by the variety of transliterations (not to mention translations) that I received from native Bengali speakers and Indologists. Perhaps this is due to the fact that there is no normative or standard transliteration for Bengali in English (I really don't know if there is or isn't). But I suspect that the differences in some cases may be due to dialectal and even idiolectal variation. For example, whether ফ is "f" or "ph".

I will give several of the transliterations for the sake of comparison. Then relying on charts from Omniglot and Wikipedia, you can follow along for yourself if you wish to do so (fortunately, the lettering on the sign is clear and distinct).

1. BINAA PRAYOJANE GHURAAPHERAA KARBEN NAA
(NOTE : AA stands for LONG A)

2. vinā prayojane ghurāpherā karven nā

3. bina prayojane ghurafera karben na

4. bina proyojone ghuraphera korben na

5. bina proyojone ghurafera korben na

6. bina proyojone ghurafera karben na

Here are some of the translations I received from the experts:

1. Do not loiter about if you have no business/nothing to do.

2. Don't wander around without purpose.

3. Do not hang around / wander without reason.

4. Without necessity do not hang out.

5. Without it being necessary, don't loiter / run around 'n stuff [here].

Leopold Eisenlohr, who provided the fifth translation, also offered these interesting notes:

Bina = without (probably same in Nepali? same in Hindi), proyojone= necessary, korben na = "you will not do" as a polite imperative, and ghurafera is more interesting. Ghura means to go around, spin around, as you would say for somebody running errands all over the neighborhood or something. In Bengali there is this lovely device of repeating the word with a different initial consonant, which gives the meaning "and stuff." Shower is chaan, so chaan-taan is "showering and doing all the other bathroom stuff like shaving etc;" packing-tacking means "packing and all the other stuff you do when you're getting ready to go on a trip. Usually the repeated word comes with a T, but I guess ghurafera just sounds better than ghura-tura.

[LATE UPDATE 1/21/14:  Two native speakers disagree with this explanation of ghuraphera.  See the comments of Debraj Chakrabarti and Native Speaker below.]

There's something about this sign (both in the English and in the Bengali) that leaves me pondering all sorts of existential issues. I have had the same sort of feeling after watching many a Satyajit Ray film, listening to Rani Shankar play an evocative raga, or reading a poem by Rabindranath Tagore.

[Thanks to George Cardona, Leopold Eisenlohr, Prasenjit Dey, Tansen Sen, Saroj Kumar Chaudhuri, Sunny Jhutti / Singh, Abdullah Mahmud, Philip Lutgendorf, and Fred Smith]