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petermorwood:

carudamon119:

オツカレ　ノヴァ ‏@Tired_Nova 

さぁどうかしらね～

Funny how a sidelong slantendicular look changes an expression…

I thought, “Isn’t that lovely, the unusual words the reblogger knows. What an intelligent person.” …And then looked up and saw who’d reblogged it. :)

Jim Benton used two things to make this two-panel comic work: a twist on the "expected" outcome of this situation and the fact that "It's me you want" has two meanings. It's simple and pitch perfect.

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If he were running for office, this would be the smear campaign.

TREASON, cries the crowd waving pitchforks. TREASON MOST FOUL, they shout, brandishing torches, not realizing how linear time works.

A young Colin Kaepernick at Lambeau Field wearing a Brett Favre jersey. pic.twitter.com/OlvCDJyaQv

— Sports Pics (@TheSportPics) January 5, 2014

Remember that when he was in fourth grade, Kaepernick wrote a letter to himself saying he wanted to play for either the Niners or the Packers. Called his own shot. Well then, he should be happy with however tonight's game plays out!

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wintercart:

this is my favorite part of kill bill

adrfabrika: [ pen + after ] www.adrfabrika.info

This is the first year that German brewers have commercially harvested new hop strains since... well, forever.

thecivilwarparlor:

Alfred R. Waud- The World Came To Understand The Civil War Through The Eyes Of Battlefield Artists

Photographer Timothy H. O’Sullivan took this photo, one half of a stereo view of Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper’s Weekly, while he sketched on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July of 1863.

Alfred Waud was recognized as the best of the Civil War sketch artists who drew the war for the nation’s pictorial press. Waud could render a scene quickly and accurately, with an artist’s eye for composition and a reporter’s instinct for human interest.

At a time when the shutterspeed of cameras was not fast enough to capture action, the public’s only glimpse of battle came from the sketch artists. Waud’s apparent courage under fire and passion for the men he depicted drew him dangerously close to the fighting, and his drawings portray more intimately than those by any other artist the drama and horror of this country’s most devastating conflict.

The anime series Serial Experiments Lain contains a screen shot of Conway’s Game of Life in LISP. (source @nmu102)

piplup-commander:

These are all going into my daily vocabulary right the fuck now.

A Shayne Graham field goal as time expired gave the Saints a 26-24 road win over the Philadelphia Eagles, and a date with the Seattle Seahawks next weekend.

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Book bracelet, made in England, c.1840

New submitter sfcat writes "Companies, headhunters and recruiters increasingly are using social media sites like Facebook to evaluate potential employees. Most of this is due to a 2012 paper from Northern Illinois Univ. that claimed that employee performance could be effectively evaluated from their social media profiles. Now a series of papers from other institutions reveal exactly the opposite result. 'Recruiter ratings of Facebook profiles correlate essentially zero with job performance,' write the researchers, led by Chad H. Van Iddekinge of FSU (abstract. Not only did the research show the ineffectiveness of using social media in evaluating potential employees, it also showed a measurable biases of the recruiters against minorities (African-American and Latino) and against men in general."

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The Sci-Fi blog io9 posted yesterday about a fantasy writer who could well have become as famous and influential as Tolkien – had she been a man. Naomi Mitchison, author of The Corn King, The Spring Queen and Travel Light, was a friend of Tolkien’s, and one of the proof readers for  The Lord of the Rings. But her own books have been neglected and forgotten.

Amal El-Mohtar reviews Travel Light, the story of a little orphan girl who is brought up by bears, then dragons, and abandons her dragon lifestyle of hoarding to hit the road, says she fell from a great height when she discovered the book, as an adult, and realised that she could have been reading it alongside her childhood favourite, The Hobbit.

That Mitchison’s life and works should have been so unfairly relegated to secret history drove home my feeling of books as points of divergence to alternate timelines; that having read The Hobbit rather than Travel Light at that fragile, formative moment of being a child in Lebanon standing at a crossroads of languages, religions and literary traditions nudged me into a different life. Who might I have been if I had met Halla Bearsbairn before Bilbo Baggins? How different might my attitude toward dragons have been if I’d met Uggi before Smaug? How different would the spiritual landscapes of fantasy and science fiction be if they had accepted as antecedents works that showed a corrupt Byzantine Christianity and sympathy toward Islam?

But, most crucially for me, I wonder: Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?

After a cursory inquiry on Facebook, it turns out that a handful of feminist fantasy and scifi geeks I know have heard of the author, but none have read her books.

Her Wikipedia entry says that as well as being a prolific writer, Mitchison was an active socialist and feminist fighting for the rights to birth control and abortion.

Travel Light is available on the US Amazon site, and some of the other novels, a memoir, and a biography are available on the UK site.

 

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For those in need of some light reading this weekend, the latest comical proposal hitting the Linux kernel mailing list is to have a new project writing portions of the kernel in the Perl programming language...

magictransistor:

Antoine Vérard, L’Art de Bien Vivre et de Bien Mourir (The Art of Living Well and of Dying Well), c. 1494.

Fergus Wilson, one of England's largest landlords, has announced that he will no longer rent to people receiving welfare benefits, and has served all of his benefits-receiving tenants with eviction notices. He says that the cuts to benefits in the UK have resulted in an unacceptably high level of rent arrears, so high in fact that rent guarantee insurers will no longer cover properties let to welfare tenants.

The problem of social housing tenants falling behind on rent will get much, much worse shortly, when the "universal credit" scheme is introduced -- a massive change in the way benefits are paid that has delayed by massive IT problems.

The hardest hit groups of tenants are elderly people and single mothers, as well as people who are too disabled to work.

"Tenants on benefits are competing with eastern Europeans who came to the UK in 2005 and have built up a good enough credit record to rent privately. We've found them to be a good category of tenant who don't default on the rent. With tenants on benefits the number of defaulters outnumbers the ones who pay on time," he said.

"Single mothers on benefits have been displaced to the bottom of the pile; sympathy for this group is disappearing. There aren't enough places for people to live."

Dan Wilson Craw, a spokesman for campaign group Priced Out, says he is dismayed to hear Wilson's announcement: "Evicting tenants because you're suddenly upset about new government policies is unbelievably heartless, and could lead to more people deciding not to claim benefit for fear of losing their home, and sinking further into poverty," he said, "This is just one symptom of a wider housing market that is simply not working in the consumer's interests. The instability and poor conditions that private tenants have to deal with would not be tolerated in any other market."

Buy-to-let property supremo shuts door on housing benefit tenants [Emma Lunn/The Guardian]

On the other hand, there's really not a better way to sum it all up ... if you're a Chiefs fan.

Thousands of column inches will be devoted to the Indianapolis Colts' incredible 45-44 comeback win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday. For Chiefs fans, none of it will sum it up as well as the front page of Sunday's sports section in the Kansas City Star.

The Sunday @kcstar is not a happy read for #Chiefs fans. pic.twitter.com/vACexDRWsi

— Jeff Rosen (@jeff_rosen88) January 5, 2014

So much (bleep).

PapayaSF writes "Proposed new rules require that funding portals register with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Intermediary Regulatory Authority. In addition, investors must have access to a business plan, use of proceeds, a valuation of the company, and financials, so Certified Public Accountants may be needed. The SEC estimates that for amounts under $100,000, the fees will be 12.9% to 39% of the money raised, though it may drop to under 8% for higher amounts. Is this needed regulation, or bureaucratic overreach?"

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199714424:

Black Tight Killers (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1966)

Never enough. 

I *think* Captain Marvel should be fine (I’ve got a six year old boy and I can’t think of anything off the top of my head from the previous run that I wouldn’t let him read), but I would always recommend you pre-screen.  

Edited to add — yes! Check out Princeless. 

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OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy

This is from last April but it’s #new2me. And now I must find a source for the Canadian dog show in order to make my life complete.

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