firehose

Courtney shared this story from Super Opinionated.

---

pop-punkcowgirl:

If I ever reproduce, this will be what my child will wear.

CUTE!

#Videovember 9 Watch me color a panel in Rocket Girl!

itwbennett writes The WordPress development team on Thursday released critical security updates that address an XSS vulnerability in the comment boxes of WordPress posts and pages. An attacker could exploit this flaw to create comments with malicious JavaScript code embedded in them that would get executed by the browsers of users seeing those comments. 'In the most obvious scenario the attacker leaves a comment containing the JavaScript and some links in order to put the comment in the moderation queue,' said Jouko Pynnonen, the security researcher who found the flaw.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

An anonymous reader writes Google [Thursday] shared an update from Project Loon, the company's initiative to bring high-speed Internet access to remote areas of the world via hot air balloons. Google says it now has the ability to launch up to 20 of these balloons per day. This is in part possible because the company has improved its autofill equipment to a point where it can fill a balloon in under five minutes. This is a major achievement, given that Google says filling a Project Loon balloon with enough air so that it is ready for flight is the equivalent of inflating 7,000 party balloons.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

While Charles Mingus was recording "The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever" with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, he was working on another masterpiece of sorts. Mingus figured out how to get his cat, Nightlife, to poop in a toilet — and he decided he’d share his method with the world.

deletlng:

bird of war

Nikola Tesla is celebrated as a genius who had an amazing ability to envision the future. He predicted cellphones, television, and even elements of the internet long before any of these things existed. But he also had some weird ideas about the social issues of tomorrow. Which is why he's become an unlikely hero in the so-called Men's Rights community of today.

Jennifer Gable, an Idaho customer service coordinator for Wells Fargo, died suddenly Oct. 9 on the job at age 32. An aneurysm, according to stunned friends. Just as shocking, they say, when they went to Gable’s funeral in Twin Falls, Idaho, and saw her in an open casket — hair cut short, dressed in a suit and presented as a man.

Heavy-tweetin' ESPN baseball writer Keith Law has been noticeably silent for the last couple of days. That's no coincidence—he's been given a Twitter timeout by ESPN, and we're told that it's for loudly and repeatedly defending Charles Darwin from transitional fossil Curt Schilling, his Bristol colleague. Schilling, the former pitcher who rejoined ESPN as a baseball analyst in September after eight months away to deal with mouth cancer, took to Twitter on Nov. 12 to rail against evolution and in favor of creationism.

Swallow, Tony Pinkevich

Lost in the media glare surrounding the nearby Flight 93 National Memorial is this oddity, unveiled only eight months after the crash in front of Shanksville-Stoneycreek School. It's a 7.5-foot-tall cluster of metal seedpods-on-stalks that have human hands bulging out of them -- a pleasing blend of Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

The unnamed memorial was the brainstorm of Cornell Companies Inc., a Texas-based builder and operator of private prisons (At the time, Cornell was trying to get permission from Pennsylvania to build a federal prison in Clearfield County). According to a company press release, the memorial was meant to honor all of the students and adults at Shanksville-Stoneycreek School who pitched in and helped in the aftermath of the crash, which happened just a mile away. "Cornell could not let this display of heroism become a mere footnote to the history of the larger event."

The corporation picked Jan Loney, a local metal artist, to build the sculpture. She in turn enlisted students, faculty, and even janitors and lunch ladies from the school to press their hands into modeling clay, then transferred the handprints onto the seedpods.

The completed memorial was dedicated with much fanfare on May 17, 2002. Shanksville-Stoneycreek School invited President George W. Bush to attend; he didn't, but the Pennsyvania Director of Homeland Security did.

The memorial was supposed to be surrounded by nine large stones, each inscribed with an inspiring quote, including the then-ubiquitous "Let's Roll!" and one from President Bush. If they were ever set in place, they're gone now. The only stone that remains is one crediting the sculpture to Cornell Companies Inc.

Original Source

Uniformed police officers patrolled the venue ahead of the show, while a lone protestor joined attendees outside the center with a hand-made sign that read "Rape is no joke." "I just want to make sure someone came out," said the protester, 47-year-old Julie LeMaitre. "I don't want it reported that nobody cared."

Since no one interested in buying the old Sellwood Bridge, the county says it's just going to pulverize the ornate concrete railings.

Lewis & Clark College administrators have launched an investigation and are restricting students' access to campus dorms after discovering racially charged anonymous comments on social media. The comments on Yik Yak, an online app that works like an anonymous message board, came in response to another user who posted a reminder Nov. 14 about a campus conversation about race planned for that night. One respondent posted an image of a gun. Another wrote "you're letting coloreds in the chapel now?" It's the latest in a string of threatening Yik Yak posts that have resulted in school disciplinary actions or criminal cases since the app launched last year.

Courtney shared this story from Super Opinionated.

---

parliamentrook:

eveshka:

nehirose:

voidbat:

mizkit:

werpiper:

aghostforafriend:

Bullshit

BRILLIANT

oh, how beautiful!

::makes series of angry sounds::

what. what. what are you doi— whaaaaaaaaaaaat.

oh my god.

Wait. What???

ooooooohmygod

unexplained-events:

Codex Gigas or Devil’s Bible -the largest medieval manuscript in the world."Legend" has it that the scribe was a Benedictine monk who was walled up alive for breaking his monastic vows. To bear this penalty he promised to create in 1 night a book to glorify the monastery forever, including all human knowledge.Near midnight he knew he could not complete this task alone so he sold his soul to the devil. Satan completed the manuscript monk added the devil’s picture out of gratitude for his aid.

A high-res scan of part of the codex is on the Wikimedia Commons.

foglicious:

12th Fav Stop-Motion Film: JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

Museums | The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has added comics to its permanent collection for the first time. Abigail and William Gerdts donated 176 comics, including Zap Comix and Arcade: The Comics Revue. Judith Brodie, curator of modern prints and drawings, cited the influence of comics on artists such as Andy Warhol […]

“By early Friday morning Handler expanded that to a bigger admission: “My remarks on Wednesday night at #NBAwards were monstrously inappropriate and yes, racist.” He added, “It would be heartbreaking for the #NBAwards conversation to focus on my behavior instead of great books. So can we do this?” Handler pledged a minimum gift of $10,000 to the Indie GoGo Campaign for #WeNeedDiverseBooks, and said he will match contributions over the next 24 hours up to $100,000. (“I’m in for $10,000, and matching your money for 24 hours up to $100,000.”) Within the first couple of hours, that pledge drew over $10,000 in individual donations towards the matching goal.”

- (source) In response to his racist remarks at the National Book Awards, Handler will match all pledges made to #WeNeedDiverseBooks. Go, Go, Go

We Need Diverse Books on IndieGoGo (via beyondvictoriana)

Lemony Snicket Makes Series of Racist Jokes at National Book Awards:

jhameia:

korraisnottan:

lightspeedsound:

hibernatingsunflower:

hibernatingsunflower:

frantzfandom:

After Jacqueline Woodson accepted the National Book Award in young people’s literature for her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming last night, host Daniel Handler shared a “joke” about her with the audience: she’s allergic to watermelon. Get it? Because she’s black. You can feel the tension in the room through your screen.

fuck your racist ass fave 

WHAT

I looked up the source link and then went to Handler’s twitter! He’s apologized, admitted the jokes were racist, and is now donating money to We Need Diverse Books.

WHAT THE FUCK tho I’m still pissed

Mary:

So am I but at least he’s admitted to it unlike most celebrities…still mad though.

ETA: He’s donated $10,000 AND is matching donations up to $100,000!!! SO if you were planning on donating to WNDB this is the time to do it because every dollar you put in will be doubled by Handler.

Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) is now chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, and Science. His Houston district is close to the Johnson Spaceflight Center, so he's enthusiastic about NASA—and he's especially excited about a mission to Jupiter's moon, Europa.

Read more...

design-is-fine:

Hans Gugelot, sewing machine, 1972. Foto: Gustav Hildebrand. © SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek

Photos by Jason Quiqley.

I don't know if you heard about this, but Justin Timberlake played a show in Portland last night. And whether you went or not, you'll want to fixate those peepers on the great shots Jason Quiqley got while crammed into the photo pit up against the stage (first three songs, no flash). We've also got a full report of the show, which sounded fantastic, so hop on over to End Hits and get the lowdown!

[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

don’t be ashamed, mr. president. thanks to 320×200 full-color VGA technology, the line between reality and the computer world is almost impossible to detect. god help us but the door to a virtual world of crime and eroticism is wide open

have a great weekend everyone