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starkidkay1230:

I literally just threw my phone.

blackbanshee:

raptorix:

beggars-opera:

Is there a classic movie bloopers fandom because there needs to be one

OH MY GOD THESE THINGS REALLY EXIST???

james cagney’s face when he breaks the door omfg

Sesshomaru, a striped tabby, found out the hard way (as most cats do) that the Christmas tree is merely ornamental and is not a good thing to climb. Whoops.

video by Jeri Anderson

image via Cheezburger

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Kelly Sue DeConnick:
Also the symbol on his/her armor is for the Taira clan
which would waaaaay predate photography

Laurenn McCubbin:
man, ok YOU are an internet detective
and, scary knowledgeable about Japan

Kelly Sue DeConnick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taira_clan
I’m wondering, though if the character being played is the onna-bugeisha Hōjō Masako.
The Taira clan wiki page mentions the Hōjō as being a branch family of the Kammu Heishi.  
Anyway.  Regardless.  It’s a cool picture.  

Laurenn McCubbin:
I love you nerd

Kelly Sue DeConnick:
I am a nerd.
And I am also exactly right.
Hōjō Masako would have worn the Taira clan mon.
...which is probably why her name comes up when you do the search by image, even though she died in the 13th century.
It’s somebody playing her.

Laurenn McCubbin:
Huh. That's so post modern
Your reflection is seen as more genuine than your reality

Kelly Sue DeConnick:
Now who’s the nerd?

Laurenn McCubbin:
hee hee

spaceexp:

The coldest place on earth is in the East Antarctic Plateau, but not at the highest peak. Rather, the coldest spots develop just downhill from a ridge that runs from Dome A to Dome Fuji. Data from NASA-USGS Landsat 8 satellite, and NASA’s MODIS sensor on the Aqua satellite. Article

ttamz:

i love this so much

theodp writes "On the final day of Computer Science Education Week, the Hour of Code bravado continues. Around 12:30 a.m. Sunday (ET), Code.org was boasting that in just 6 days, students of its tutorials have "written" more than 10x the number of lines of code in Microsoft Windows. "Students of the Code.org tutorials have written 507,152,775 lines of code. Is this a lot? By comparison, the Microsoft Windows operating system has roughly 50 million lines of code." Code.org adds, "In total, 15,481,846 students have participated in the Hour of Code. Of this group, 6,872,757 of them used the tutorials by Code.org, and within the Code.org tutorial, they've written 507,152,775 lines of code." On YouTube, however, a playlist of the Code.org tutorial videos has distinctly lower numbers, with only 2,246 views of the Code.org Wrap Up video reported as of this writing. So, any thoughts on why the big disconnect, and how close the stats might reflect reality? Code.org does explain that an 'Hour of Code' is not necessarily an 'hour of code' ("Not everybody finishes an Hour of Code tutorial. Some students spend one hour. Some spend 10 minutes. Some spend days. Instead of counting how many students 'finish one hour'; or how much time they spent, this [LOC] is our simplest measure of progress"). So, with millions being spent on efforts to get Code.org into the nation's schools — New York and Chicago have already committed their 1.5 million K-12 students — is it important to get a better understanding of what the Hour of Code usage stats actually represent — and what their limitations might be — and not just accept as gospel reports like AllThingsD's 15 Million Students Learned to Program This Week, Thanks to Hour of Code ("every other school family in the U.S. has a child that has done the Hour of Code")?"

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ancientpanoply:

A video made for the Museum of Cluny, and its “The Sword: Uses, Myths and Symbols” exhibit. It tries to dispel some of the beliefs that are still prevalent today about the weight and mobility of fighters in plate armor and show some of the techniques used in combat against armored opponents

The binary Catalyst graphics driver is pre-installed and does work on Valve's SteamOS...

mbstone writes "Scientists at the University College of London — where argon was originally discovered in 1894 — have now found spectroscopic signatures of molecules of argon hydride (ArH), said to be produced via explosive nucleosynthesis in a core-collapse supernova in the Crab Nebula. The post-supernova molecular dust was observed by the Herschel Space Observatory shortly before it ran out of coolant in April.."

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fuckyeahdinoart:

fuckyeahdinoart:

Happy holidays, dino lovers! Our theme has had a winter wonderland makeover! It’s a combination of an idea I got from this amazing holiday sweatshirt on etsy, clip art found here, some snowflake brushes, and way too much time on my hands! We hope you enjoy it. If you’d like to use it as your background, click here for the seamless version and be sure to throw us some credit.

It is that time of year again!

The pope responds to his conservative critics.

What am I looking at.

The real showdown of the week. Much closer than the actual game will be.

This is what happens when you're an artist & you live in a #Redskins AND @Atlanta_Falcons household. #housedivided pic.twitter.com/0OgLdnRfOS

— Washington Redskins (@Redskins) December 15, 2013

REDSKINS JACKET VS. FALCONS JACKET: WHO YA GOT?

The tale of the tape:

Falcons Jacket: has "Atlanta" misspelled as "ALTANTA"

Redskins Jacket: lol wtf

At least Washington can win SOMETHING today. Redskins jacket vs. Falcons jacket: whoever wins, we lose.

Francis Xavier week #4:

Amazing F. Xavier quickly whipped up the Jesuit mob.

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OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy

@rooster?

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For his Mikenesses series, Adventure Time and Bravest Warriors cartoonist Mike Holmes drew himself (often accompanied by his cat Ella) in the styles of more than 100 different cartoonists and animators. It's a neat study that shows a real understanding of the styles—and it's also incredibly charming.

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 “The Long Game” (season 1, episode 7; originally aired 5/7/2005)

(Available on Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Instant Video.)

“Come on, how could you get on board without knowing where you are?” “Look at me. I'm stupid.”

Every episode in Christopher Eccleston’s single season as the Doctor has its own distinct identity. “Rose” is the one that restarts the grand adventure, while the subsequent episodes “The End Of The World” and “The Unquiet Dead” represent the show’s first journeys to the future and to the past. “Aliens Of London” and “World War Three” will forever be the ones that introduce the farting aliens—these aren’t always good identities—while “Boom Town”… well, we’ll get to that in a couple weeks. “Bad Wolf” and “Parting Of The Ways” are the grand finale, while “Dalek,” “Father’s Day,” and the two-parter “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances” are the acknowledged classics. That just leaves “The Long Game,” which is just ...

art-of-swords:

Sword of Goujian

• Dated: Spring and Autumn Period (771 to 403 BCE)
• Discovered: 1965 in Jiangling County
• Medium: bronze
• Present location: Hubei Provincial Museum, Hubei Province, China

The Sword of Goujian is an archaeological artifact of the Spring and Autumn Period (771 to 403 BCE) found in 1965 in Hubei, China. Renowned for its sharpness and resistance to tarnish, this historical artifact of ancient China is currently in the possession of the Hubei Provincial Museum.

In 1965, while an archaeological survey was being performed along the second main aqueduct of the Zhang River Reservoir in Jingzhou, Hubei, more than fifty ancient tombs of the Chu State were found in Jiangling County. The dig started in the middle of October 1965 and ended in January 1966.

More than 2,000 artifacts were recovered from the sites, including a bronze sword. In December 1965, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the ruins of Jinan, an ancient capital of Chu, a casket was discovered at Wangshan site #1. Inside, an ornate bronze sword was found with a human skeleton.

The sword was found sheathed in a wooden scabbard finished in black lacquer. The scabbard had an almost air-tight fit with the sword body. Unsheathing the sword revealed an untarnished blade, despite the tomb being soaked in underground water for over 2,000 years.

On one side of the blade, two columns of text are visible. Eight characters are written in an ancient script. The script was found to be Bird-worm seal script (literally “birds and worms characters” owing to the intricate decorations of the defining strokes), a variant of seal script. Initial analysis of the text deciphered six of the characters, “King of Yue” and “made this sword for [his] personal use”.

The remaining two characters were likely the name of this King of Yue. From its origin in 510 BCE to its demise at the hands of Chu in 334 BCE, nine kings ruled Yue, including Goujian, Lu Cheng, Bu Shou, Zhu Gou, and others. The identity of this king sparked debate among archeologists and Chinese language scholars.

The discussion was carried out mostly in letters, and it involved famous scholars such as Guo Moruo. After more than two months, the experts started to form a consensus that the original owner of the sword was Goujian, the King of Yue made famous by his perseverance in time of hardship. So the entirety of the text reads “[Belonging to] King Goujian of Yue, made for [his] personal use”.

The sword of Goujian is 55.6 centimetres (21.9 in) in length, including a 8.4 centimetres (3.3 in) hilt; the blade is 4.6 centimetres (1.8 in) wide at its base. The sword weighs 875 grams (30.9 oz). In addition to the repeating dark rhombi pattern on both sides of the blade, there are decorations of blue crystals and turquoise. The grip of the sword is bound by silk, while the pommel is composed of eleven concentric circles.

The Sword of Goujian still has a sharp blade and shows no signs of tarnish. To understand why, scientists at Fudan University and CAS used modern equipment to determine the chemical composition of the sword, as shown in the table below.

The body of the blade is mainly made of copper, making it more pliant and less likely to shatter; the edges have more tin content, making them harder and capable of retaining a sharper edge; the sulfur decreases the chance of tarnish in the patterns. It is likely that the chemical composition, along with the almost air-tight scabbard, led to the exceptional state of preservation.

Sources: Baide Baidu | Wikipedia | Freedom for Vietnam

The tree is up

My father is a good man. He loves his family, and worked hard for years to support us. He is thoughtful, considerate, and an excellent listener. Unfortunately, like many people of his generation who came of age in the Britain of the 1960s, he is also a racist.

“I only want to play human beings. I’ve been around for thirty years and there’s been a lot of cartoons, a lot of craziness going on in life, and I’ve just decided to stick with human beings. I’ve been offered a lot of roles, and I guess I would be further along in my career if I had taken them, but I do have to say the respect of my parents, the respect of my children, is of utmost importance to me, and I try to do roles in which I am portraying human beings with certain characteristics rather than cartoons. There’s a big difference between the gay police captain and the police captain who happens to be gay. Because the gay police captain has to be the butt of the joke, whereas the police captain who happens to be gay is a part of the world, he’s an integral part of the world and so it’s much harder to ostracize, to alienate and to basically demean or be contemptuous to someone who’s, in essence, inside the family.”

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Andre Braugher   (via heisenbergsays)

Because Andre Braugher is exemplary. And Brooklyn-Nine-Nine is good.

Are standing room only airline tickets the future of flying?