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richarcl:

batreaux:

my daughter made her first text post today. it said “dada”. i didn’t reblog it.

nevver:

Where’s your head at?

erikkwakkel:

Mr and Mrs Doodle

Meet Mr and Mrs Doodle. They are drawn rather crudely in a late-15th-century manuscript from England, where they accompany, appropriately, a Latin astrological text that includes a section on faces. At first it appears as if the faces are true doodles. That is to say: they seem executed thoughtlessly and without aiming to express something specific, besides the fact that they reflect the theme of the text. Looking more carefully, however, we observe a Latin caption above the lady’s face, which states Madame Percula, uxor Pilati: “Madame Percula, wife of (Pontius) Pilate” - the latter perhaps being depicted by the bearded male from a nearby page. Percula was a well-known figure in 15th-century England, where she appeared in, for example, literary texts. In Play 30 of the York Corpus Christi Plays she introduces herself as follows: “I am madam precious Percula, the praise of princes, wife to Sir Pilate, lord without peer. I am a perfect lady in every way, I have wit and am wise.” (lines 37-39). Shining example of ladyhood and perfection (though not of modesty), she was deemed worthy of inhabiting the face that stared at the reader as he read about the stars. Rockstar doodle.

Pic: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby MS 88 (15th century). More information here.

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Tintypes, Victoria Will

nyhistory:

December 2, 1939: The first flight from LaGuardia Airport takes off for Chicago.

C. Koetzner, Airplane flying over Manhattan skyline, ca. 1950s-1960s. Print. New-York Historical Society # 84121d

jakbowler:

http://imgur.com/a/lUWTG

kateordie:

eiffelart:

this is the most important comic page I’ve ever drawn

This is why Matt and I work together

Illusion City (Aisystem/Micro Cabin - Sega Mega CD - 1993)

If these were the actual uniforms, we might watch the actual game.

The Pro Bowl is stupid, but @DrawPlayDave is brilliant. Here are some of our favorites from his latest collection of illustrations at Kissing Suzy Kolber, where you can and should find many more alternate jerseys.

The Pro Bowl jerseys America deserves, but not the ones it needs right now.

More like SiliCON Valley, (because all football players are thugs, you see).

Shirts and Skins is just classic. #tbt

Reminder: There are more at KSK! Go! Look!

when I see pretty pictures of animals I tag it “style inspo” and I thought I should let myself be inspo’d, so this is based on this

Overriding guided missile with jQuery in the TV series Strike Back (series 1, episode 5).

jgc says: “And not just any jQuery code: once more WordPress makes an appearance. Here it’s JavaScript from the wp-admin directory”. 

The anti-pornography firewall run by the UK's four top internet providers has blocked the latest League of Legends update because it happens to contain the letters "s," "e" and "x" in a row in two of its file names, The Guardian reports. The filter ...

girl-vs-sex:

The United States gets a truly embarrassing ‘D’ in reproductive rights. Where does your state rank?

Hell yeah, Nevada!

You C and lower states need to get your shit together.  Because reproductive rights isn’t just being able to get an abortion.  It’s accessing birth control, getting proper sexual education, and just woman having control of their bodies in general is what having reproductive rights is about.

Get with the fucking program.

And don’t you find it funny that the DC has “No Rank, No Grade” written next to it?

GO, OREGON and BOO ALMOST EVERYWHERE ELSE.

In SketcHistory, The A.V. Club gets the story behind some of our favorite comedy sketches from the people who made them.

The sketch: “The Barry Lutz Show” (a.k.a “Monkey Torture”) from the second-season premiere of The State

The story: In conversation with talk show host Barry Lutz (Michael Ian Black), zoologist Dr. Martin Crank (Thomas Lennon) details the process he lovingly calls “monkey torture”: a battery of psychological torment breaking new ground in the field of torturing monkeys. When Dr. Crank’s subject Little Ricky is brought in for a live demonstration of monkey torture, Ricky and Barry get a surprise from Crank’s friend Terry (Michael Patrick Jann).

The people:

Thomas Lennon, actor, screenwriter, director; performer and writer on The State

Michael Ian Black, actor, screenwriter, director, TV host; performer and writer on The State

Michael Patrick Jann, director; segment director, writer, and occasional performer on The ...

Delisle’s map of the Mississippi River (1702)

Guillaume de L'Isle (Delisle)'s Map of the Mississipi River, from 1702. Map of the Mississippi River – Delisle Date: 1702 Author: Guillaume de L'Isle Dwnld: Full Size (12.5mb) Print Availability: See our Prints Page for more details pff This map isn't part of any series, but we have other featured maps that you might want to check out. Another Guillaume Delisle map of the Mississippi River. He must've loved that...

the BIG Map Blog - Interesting maps, historical maps, BIG maps.

As a whole, Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD is not a very good game. The PC port of this former PS Vita exclusive looks gorgeous, but that doesn’t hide the problems underneath. The maps are huge, without providing any real reason to explore (beyond a few bland side quests and collectible items). The pacing is choppy, indicative of its easy-to-set-aside handheld origins. Bugs are everywhere, ranging from unprompted costume changes to finicky usable objects to falling rocks hanging in mid-air. Stabbing, climbing, and being stealthy are normally my jam, but within a couple hours, the missions felt routine. There were a few bright points, but overall, I was underwhelmed. And yet, I can forgive Liberation its flaws. This game fell short of the adventure I was hoping for, but it’s worth playing for one glorious, shining reason. Her name is Aveline de Grandpré.

It's been over 50 years since Marvel effectively began the Silver Age of comics, and while the company has had its ups and downs, their output cannot be denied: Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, the Avengers — their contributions to pop culture have been enormous. But not every comic Marvel published was a masterpiece — in fact, some aren't even good. And some are so bad that Marvel would like to pretend never existed at all. Here are 10 of them.

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Bad Lip Reading has created two hilarious bad lip reading parodies of the NFL (part one and part two). Quarterback Tom Brady tells a teammate that he “made some chicken rolls” and Peyton Manning mentions that “old folks and allergies” sure do gross him out.

Another Super Bowl, another Bad Lip Reading. No more kung fu!

Here is the original bad lip reading parody of the NFL from January 2013:

video via Bad Lip Reading

by Juan and others

Defiance Games has posted a longer-form reply to the situation that occurred between them and Torn Armor. Source From the update: Let us preface all this by saying that Defiance Games has had it’s share of ups and downs and we’ve made a lot of mistakes along the way. It has definitely not been a [...]

Comic for September 4th, 2013.