Little Girls Are Better at Designing Superheroes than you is a project where pictures of superheroes are drawn based on the costumes of girls!
This submission is Marvelous M and Gorgeous G! They’re two sisters who fight crime with feathered magic wands.
The illustration was done by yours truly, Alex Law! :D
Here's a brief look at American slang in 2014. "Bae," if you've never heard the word before, is a term of endearment used to convey affection toward a significant other or some good thing that's caught your eye. In common parlance, it might be used in a sentence like "She's the bae," indicating that the subject is the speaker's lover or dear friend. It's cute, and it's in vogue with the youngs, having exploded on Instagram and Vine in recent months. Unfortunately, it may be time to kill the word off entirely now that #brands have figured out they can sound like the #teens by using it. Exposing these missteps is the Twitter account Brands Saying Bae, and it's high time we commend their all-too-necessary work.
For example: BAE can also refer to BAE System, a British aerospace and security company. AT&T is excited about partnering with BAE. Should anyone be calling BAE the bae? No. Still, we have this embarrassing little faux pas:
Arby's is equally confused:
And the appropriation of urban youth culture doesn't even start there! What is this supposed to mean?
This account, in exposing corporate silliness, is the best we've seen since the CIA burst onto Twitter with its own form of comedic gold. Right now, internet, we implore you. Stop these brands before they bae again.
I hope that no wise man will defame this laborious task of mine, since I undertake it on behalf of all who love the Liberal Arts. Not for painters alone but for all who use compass and rule, and measuring line—that it may serve to their utility.
DÜRER, Albrecht: Of the Just Shaping of Letters
(Source - so you can spell your own name/nick/url)
Whip Appeal | 1934
Josephine Baker standing besides her brand new ride, a 1934 French Delage D8-15 cabriolet.
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when the doctor slaps ur butt after ur born n they go, “it’s a ___!” ur just like “truuuu” 4 ur whole life
firehose'Police in Massachusetts have arrested a woman who they say smeared uncooked bacon and sausage all over a police station dispatch window offering to "feed the pigs."'
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It's officially official.
The Kansas City Chiefs were oh so close to finally getting a touchdown reception from one of their wide receivers on Sunday. Early in the second quarter against the San Diego Chargers, Dwayne Bowe caught a pass and churned toward the end zone, poised to break the team's bizarre season-long drought. But just inches from the goal line, a defender jarred the ball loose.
It bounced into the end zone, where Travis Kelce, a tight end, recovered it for a score.
The Chiefs threw 18 touchdown passes this season. Not a single one was caught by a wide receiver.
Given that Kansas City operates a conservative passing game geared toward getting the ball to running backs and tight ends, it's not shocking that the wide receiver corps didn't post big numbers -- only two of the team's top six receivers were wideouts. But zero touchdowns?
That means that Bowe got paid $11.485 million this season to not visit the end zone. He did finish second on the team with 60 receptions and 754 yards, but he's getting paid the big bucks to score.
On Sunday he was close ... and yet so far.
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And 2014’s Worst Currency Was…Bitcoin.
It’s been a bad year for the Russian ruble and a terrible 12 months for the Ukrainian hryvnia. But it’s been a catastrophic 2014 for Bitcoin, the virtual currency. While acknowledging that my currency forecasting prowess means I’m driving a desk rather than tanning on a beach, the gyrations do seem to offer some valuable lessons .
Bitcoin is second only to gold on the list of topics guaranteed to arouse the wrath of the Internet trolls. Yet relentless promotion can’t hide these facts: The digital currency peaked at a value of $1,130 just over a year ago. Its plunge of more than 56 percent in 2014 makes it the world’s worst performing currency this year, according to Bloomberg, which tracks 175 foreign-exchange values.
Read more & see our previous bitcoin posts here.
Pharrell is more than just a guy with a big hat who has made an appearance on every popular song of the last few years—his verse on “Let It Go” is incredible—he’s also a member of N.E.R.D., the occasionally defunct rock/funk/whatever band, and the writer behind “Happy,” the most sorrowful dirge of the year. He also happens to be a noted SpongeBob Squarepants fan, and now, through some miraculous series of events, he has managed to combine all of that for his next gig: getting back together with his old pals from N.E.R.D. and writing a song for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water.
“Squeeze Me,” a song Pharrell wrote for the upcoming underwater nature film recently appeared online, and Spin has an embed of it. The site describes the song as “fluffy island funk,” but that doesn ...
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"Bitters pod"
"LIQUEUR"
Somabar is a kitchen-top robotic bartender that stores different cocktail ingredients and precisely mixes drinks with just the touch of a button on a proprietary smartphone app.
Conventional bottles or containers are bulky, wasteful and boring, that’s why we designed our SOMA PODS. With their friction-fit seal mechanism, SOMA PODS not only store ingredients for your favorite craft cocktails but also detach from your SOMABAR easily. Your airtight Soma Pods plug into a proprietary friction fit seal mechanism allowing for easily interchangeable ingredients while also ensuring your Soma Pods never leak. Liquid is quickly extracted from the Soma Pods using positive displacement pumps to make your cocktail with dead-on accuracy, every time. When you press that button on the app, your SOMABAR will take the ingredients from scratch, infuse bitters (if you are in the mood) and dynamically mix them in precise quantities using positive displacement pumps before pouring out your craft cocktail in less than 5 seconds.
Founders Ammar Jangbarwala and Dylan Purcell-Lowe are currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order to bring Somabar to market by July 2015.
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do men have resting bitch faces as well or do they not have negative characteristics ascribed to them for putting on a neutral rather than a deliriously happy facial expression
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FEAR THE BROW, MANU.
Blocking shots is nothing new to Anthony Davis. But blocks like these make it look like he's spiking volleyballs on the court. Someone might even need to replace that panel in the floor.
Davis' destruction didn't stop at Manu. Tim Duncan also fell victim to the mighty brow:
Words of advice: don't shoot on Anthony Davis.
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firehose' a. The festival of the Holy Innocents (28 December), commemorating the massacre of the male children of Bethlehem by Herod (Matthew 2:16).'
' b. The day of the week corresponding to the day on which the festival of the Holy Innocents falls, considered to be unlucky throughout the following year (cf. quot. 1625 at sense 3).'
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The Great Recession might be over (in the US, at least) but it has left behind widened racial inequality in unemployment and wealth.
The unemployment rate for white Americans over 25 who had not finished high school was 9.7% in 2013. The unemployment rate for black Americans who went to college but didn’t graduate, meanwhile, was 10.5%. That’s an increase from 2007, before the recession:
This same trend can be seen among recent college graduates. Unemployment for black graduates between the ages of 22 and 27 was at 12.4% in 2013, compared to 5.6% for all college grads in that age range, according to a May report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (pdf). The number was even lower for white college graduates in the age range—4.9%, the study’s co-author told the New York Times.
That’s a gap of 7.5 percentage points. Compare that to 2007, before the recession, when the gap still existed but was much smaller—1.4 percentage points. Black Americans with college degrees then had a 4.6% unemployment rate, while white Americans with undergraduate degrees were at 3.2%, the Times notes.
The recession doesn’t just affect people coming out of college. The median net worth of white households was 10 times that of black households’ median wealth in 2007, and 13 times the median wealth of black households in 2013, according to a recent Pew report.
Why are white Americans recovering from the recession so much better than black Americans?
The CEPR study points out that the recession made it difficult for all young people to get jobs, and racial prejudices have always skewed the labor market against black applicants in the US—employers are less likely to call back applicants with names that sound African American.
Additionally, black US graduates who do work are more likely to be overqualified than other Americans. Of the recent black college graduates (age 22-27) working in 2013, 55.9% did not require a four-year degree for their jobs, up from 45% in 2007. For all recent college grads, that number has hovered around 44% for the last decade, and was at 45% in 2013, according to the report.
And even black Americans who are wealthy recovered at a lower level than white Americans, at least in part because the two groups invest their money differently. Stocks, which white Americans invest in more so than black Americans, have done well since the recession ended, while black Americans tend to pursue more conservative investments like certificates of deposit, life insurance and savings bonds.
