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fancycannibal:

if I ever get married I don’t want an expensive ring like I really don’t if I got a ring worth $15,000 I’d be mad do you know how many video games and pop tarts we could’ve bought with that

ANIMATED: It’s called HOCKEY, not FOOTPUCK

Blue Facade | Egon Kronschnabel

Drawing a Map from Memory | Via

Can you draw a map of the world just from memory? And if you did, how accurate do you think your map would be? Probably not very. You’d forget some land masses, make things too close too each other, bulge continents the wrong way and hastily add stuff without knowing where they would go. But still. You’d at least get the general shape down, right? Well, here’s what it looks like when people draw a map of the world from memory.

Reddit user zaaakk got 30 people together and had them draw a map of the world. The maps were then digitally merged to form the new world (according to amateur artists/normal humans). From the looks of it Alaska, Greenland and Antarctica seemed to have disappeared, central America is much wider, Europe and Russia look swollen beyond belief and Asia and Africa sort of just blend together.

let-s-build-a-home:

Dear Tumblr

You put on the Radar a photo of an Artist on Tumblr but not from his Blog: Matthias Heiderich

The picture is linked but without any captions, why as editors we need to obey to the good editors Guidelines and not you ?

Why choose a lazy curator ?

Why choose a lazy curator, when goods are banned from the Radar ?

You know i love you Tumblr, and i’m very thankful for all you gave me, but lots of editors work seriously to find good artists on Tumblr everyday and they deserve to see this work on the Radar like before.

 + Tumblr is creators platform but also a “inspiration database” so curators needs support and visibly too.

Happy New Year 2014

Benoit

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"Princess Sparklefists lives in the Statue of Liberty, helps people and protects the Earth."

As of Dec. 29, the number of homicides recorded for New York City this year stood at 332. It’s a drop of 20% below the homicide rate of 2012 (419 murders) and the first time in over half a century that the city saw less than one murder a day on average. The historical data for homicide rates come from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data.

The reasons behind the dramatic decline of the past two decades will continue to spark fierce debate. Was the drop in the 1990s due to police commissioner William J. Bratton’s focus on broken windows, or the impact of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, as famously argued in Freakonomics? And did more recent declines happen as a result of “proactive policing”—programs such as “stop and frisk” and “Operation Crew Cut“—or in spite of it?

Update: A lot of readers have commented that the above chart is misleading because it doesn’t take changes in population into account. That is true in general, but it in this particular case, adjusting for population does not do much to change how the data look and takes away from the chart’s simplicity—the point is to express the total number of murders that took place in a given year.

Nonetheless, it’s a fair point, so here is a chart of murders in New York City on a per capita basis going back to 1900.

Phoenix, Madrid, even Astana: These are the cities we tend to hold up as examples of the havoc that construction booms — and busts — can wreak on a housing market. Ireland is in the news less, but its situation is just as dire.

joekeatinge:

leseanthomas:

Photos of some of Team Black Dynamite Season 1 production crew: Carl Jones (Executive Producer/Head writer) Myself (Creative Producer/Supervising Director) Chase Conley (Supervising Character Designer), Ronald Wimberley (Character Design/Layout Assists) Denzel Whitaker( Voice Actor/Editor) Roni Brown (Production CoOrdinator) Roger Webb (Color supervisor) Damon Moran (Prop Supervisor) Diego Molara ( Clean-up/design/color assist). 

Tight crew. Good peoples. We’re all extremely busy working hard on Black Dynamite Season 2. 2014!!!!

Holy crap — that is one insanely talented lineup.

The Running Into Wall Guy

Mashable artist and writer Max Knoblauch has created an illustrated series of the “8 Most Common Video Game Characters.” You can view more of Max’s funny characters online.

We created this illustrated guide to the characters we seem to meet time after time, game after game. We love them, hate them and have witnessed them die disturbingly often. We control their fates like we control their movements: recklessly and selfishly. Trust us, we know them when we see them.

The Conflicted Space Marine

The Almost, Nearly, Just-About-Invincible Boss

The Scantily Clad Mega-Soldier

images via Mashable

Sure, gold has done badly this year. And a few gold miners have done even worse.

But, for our money, corn—or maize, if you like—takes the crown as the worst investment of 2013.

The end of 2013 finds corn down 39% from where it was a year ago, hovering around $4.23 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade.

That’s the steepest one-year decline on records that stretch back to 1960.

Why? Excess supply.

A mammoth crop this year from the US—the world’s largest corn producer—produced just shy of 14 billion bushels, eclipsing the previous record set in 2009.

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From the MIT Technology Review:

Every five minutes, it searches twitter for several hundred set phrases that tend to correspond to any of the usual tired arguments about how global warming isn’t happening or humans aren’t responsible for it.

I don't understand the point.

Arguing with people that clearly do not believe in science will produce no viable fruit. A better approach may be to search for Tweets that are asking for information about various theories or data sets and provide links. Those are the ones that can be positively influences.

“Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth” (larger)

Artist Jason Thompson has created a beautiful series of Dungeons & Dragons walkthrough maps. You can download each of the maps — with and without extra detail — in PDF form on the official Dungeons & Dragons website.

“Slave Pits of the Undercity” (larger)

“Isle of Dread” (larger)

images via Wizards of the Coast

via MAKE

When 51-year-old Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato started seeing strange pictures of her eight-year-old Shiba Inu dog Kabosu popping up on the internet this past August, she was a little freaked out. “I was taken aback,” Sato, an elegant, brown-haired woman given to wide smiles, recalled. “It felt very strange to see her face there. It was a Kabosu that I didn’t know.” What Sato didn’t realize was that Kabosu had unwittingly become the face of “doge,” the white-hot internet meme that plasters photos of Shiba Inu with fractured phrases written in rainbow-colored Comic Sans type. The images often feature a “wow” in one corner, then a series of intensifiers, like “so” and “such,” paired with nouns relevant to the picture. “So scare,” “such dapper,” “many skill,” some examples read, like a surreal narrative of the dog’s inner monologue. A snapshot of Kabosu perched on a couch, glancing sidelong at Sato’s camera with tan eyebrows raised, paws warily crossed and mouth pulled back, was suddenly Photoshopped onto a Twinkie, a giant rock, a Canadian landscape, and a Christmas sweater. The dog’s face was used as the symbol of Dogecoin, a flash-in-the-pan Bitcoin alternative popular enough to be targeted in a recent heist. Kabosu was used to mock politicians in the United States and Canada. And though she had seen some of the images online, until just a week ago Sato had no idea what the doge meme actually was. She had just wanted to share some cute pictures of her pets on the internet.

cuntinentul:

can someone make this a bumper sticker

Friday afternoon, a company called Brander solicited comedian Patton Oswalt via Twitter to ask him to tweet about products they represent, and Oswalt ended up having a lot of fun with it.

While headlines proclaim young adults are hooked on the joys of sexting, a forthcoming study examining the practice has found college-age sexters in committed relationships frequently engage in unwanted sexting, and will exchange explicit message or photos for reasons that have little to do with attraction or arousal.

“No.” “No.” “No.” “Yes.” She’s regretted the lie that sent him to prison ever since.

The southern tip of Greenland, as captured by NASA’s Aqua Satellite, December 30, 2012.