Nautical trade routes stretch like so many lengths of string in this arresting visualization of intercontinental commerce in the 1800s. The map that emerges highlights not only several continents and their busiest ports, but the various trade winds that cycle through the lower reaches of Earth's atmosphere.

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judgecorp writes "Pinterest could be in trouble — a British firm has successfully claimed ownership of the European trademark 'Pinterest', even though it has not yet used the term in any public products. Pinterest was formed in 2011, and popular by 2011, but did not launch in Europe until 2012 — months after the UK company Premium Interest had registered the trademark. That trademark has now been confirmed by the European Commission's Office for the Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). Since so much of Pinterest's business is based on its name, the ruling could force Pinterest to change its name — a move which has precedents: Microsoft is changing the name of Skydrive because it infringes the trademark of British broadcaster BSkyB, normally known as Sky."

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hextrovert:

'Don't Read The Comments' cross-stitched piece by Esther Ní Dhonnacha on Etsy.

twigwise:

unoetrino:

UNSTOPPABLE.

nyoom

Don't you dare forget football is being played.

Things have gotten a little weird in Mobile ever since Alabama lost in the Sugar Bowl. This is what's passing for game-day attire at Sunday night's GoDaddy Bowl.

(Photo via @CorkGaines)

Somewhere in the vast infinite loneliness of space there's a faint signal possibly being picked up by extra-terrestrial life. Their mission: Understand humans and their games.

Heck, forget aliens -- who the heck understands why this is happening at all?

On April 22, 2013, Miles J. Stark of Clay County, West Virginia made a bad decision.

ANIMATED: Here’s how close the Packers came to blocking that kick

Pictorial Alphabet | Antonio Basoli | Via

Over the Mooon

"The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. Currently recorded in Los Angeles, it is the longest currently running, regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States and the third-longest-running show on NBC after Meet the Press and Today. […] On April 3, 2013, NBC announced Jimmy Fallon would become the new host of The Tonight Show. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will premiere February 17, 2014, midway through the 2014 Winter Olympics, and will relocate the show to New York for the first time since 1972." (Source: Wikipedia)

Design by: Pentagram (Partner: Emily Oberman, New York, NY)

Opinion/Notes: I included both the old Tonight Show and Late Night logos since this new logo sort of replaces both and so that the Jimmy Fallon-ness of his old logo can be used for context. The new logo is fine, nothing too exciting or too boring. I like how the "O"s align in a diagonal. I wonder if the moon will get tiring after a while. It's also hard to beat the stepped approach of the Late Night logo (also designed by Oberman).

Update: A moonless version has been provided, which can be used as an alternate logo.

Related Links: Deadline story with press release about the host change
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From the moment the bill to ban genetically engineered crops on the island of Hawaii was introduced in May 2013, it garnered more vocal support than any the County Council here had ever considered, even the perennially popular bids to decriminalize marijuana.

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T-Mobile to buy some spectrum licences from Verizon for $2.4 bln Reuters Jan 6 (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc said it would buy some spectrum licenses from Verizon Wireless for about $2.4 billion in cash. The deal includes certain 700 Megahertz A-Block spectrum licenses in the United States, T-Mobile said in a statement. Verizon ... T-Mobile Buys Spectrum From Verizon Wireless For $2.4 BlnRTT News AT&T now has one more reason to fear T-MobileBGR Sector Update: Technology Shares Higher Pre-Market; T-Mobile Rises on Plans ...NASDAQ Engadget -Investor's Business Daily -Reuters Canada all 35 news articles »

The Feds can't see them. Or hear the digging. They don't know how many there are or where they are headed. They know only that the tunnels are coming. And when they cross our border, when the soil gives way and the drugs start flowing, it's already too late.

Liz Cheney said in a statement early Monday morning that her decision to abruptly end her Senate campaign was prompted by health concerns in her family.

Canadian Tire commissioned Ice Culture, a company specializing in custom-made ice sculptures, to build a working Canadian Tire truck out of 11,000 pounds of ice. They had the custom truck created “to prove how reliable the MotoMaster Eliminator Ultra AGM battery” was in very cold conditions.

We did something that has never been done before. We tested our Motomaster Eliminator Battery. We’ve frozen our battery to -40 degrees celsius, and really put it to the test. We thought what better way to do it then a truck made out of ice. We wanted to create that kind of wintery environment, and start that truck.

On December 12, 2013 the Canadian Tire Ice Truck attempted to set a World Record for being the first, self-propelled ice creation to drive. Not only did the Ice Truck drive but it travelled 1.6 kilometers in its record-setting attempt.

videos and images via Canadian Tire

via Ice Culture, Gizmag

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trinandtonic:

i-come-by-it-honestly:

Mallory Orberg on fire on twitter today (as usual).

YUP

if you are super interested in calling something your “spirit animal,” I am pretty sure you mean Patronus instead.

Close up of a honey bee covered in dandelion pollen. Focus-stacked composite image. Photo credit: Alex Wild.

You can find more of Alex Wild’s nature photography from 2013 here. They’re stunning.

spaceexp:

Discarded rockets of the Apollo 11 voyage. Found at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean by Amazon.com’s billionaire, Jeff Bezos.

steampunktendencies:

Octopus playing chess. Created by Leigh Dyer at the chess square at Butler’s Gap in George Street, Old Town, Hastings, East Sussex

From: http://deeperdesign.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/is-iron-man-made-of-lego/

I was re-watching Iron Man recently and noticed something interesting. During Iron Man’s first “boot up sequence”, in the “terrorist” caves of Nowhereistan, some butchered C code is displayed on a faked up laptop screen.

The code displayed on screen, although missing some syntactically important characters such as semi-colons, is actual valid C source code. So valid in fact that I wondered where it came from.

Read the original post to find out the Iron Man/LEGO connection.

amazonchique:

Gail Simone mentioned this afternoon that she had originally hoped to turn Alysia Yoeh, Barbara Gordon’s roommate, into a sidekick character named Mouse. I’m a firm believer that every medium needs more trans characters, especially as proactive character archetypes, so I took the liberty of a quick costume design.

Unfortunately (fortunately?) for poor Mouse, all my designs lately look like post-apocalyptic survival wear. I also pulled in some influences from Stephanie Brown Robin (my personal favorite) for Bat-tradition.

This is really cute, and weirdly, I WAS going to give her a baseball bat!

When even complaining is a luxury.

johneggbutt:

have-a-plate-of-fuck-you-too:

mousaka:

YOU CAME TO THE WRONG NEIGHBORHOOD, MOTHERFUCKER

THAT IS THE ANGRIEST ZEBRA I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE

IT GETS FUNNIER THE MORE I WATCH IT

I WILL EAT YOUR FAMILY

theremina:

Persepolis (2007)