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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:27:27 -0500

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Extra Special EP PACK! Digital download of the album plus your name and link on our website and your name printed in the CD booklet! AND an exclusive Acoustic EP of 4 older age of rockets songs (Elephant and Castle / Avada Kedavra / Petales Ament La Salete / insmileoutblood … this will have electronic drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and some other things … not just a guitar / vocal performance). A SECOND EP of new covers including the Age of Rockets cover of Oats We Sow by Gregory and The Hawk. (Both EPs may someday become available on the internet but you will have them many moons before such a thing happens) In addition to this You will be get the Sleep EP of 3 new songs to help you fall asleep and as an extra special gift you will get the Moonbear LP which is the all electronic side project of Age of Rockets and Field Mouse (sounds kind of like the drive home)!!

Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:37:01 -0500

Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider:

livejamie:

No, really. This isn’t from The Onion.

"Do you know what a humanist is? My parents and grandparents were humanists, what used to be called..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:48:36 -0500

“Do you know what a humanist is?
My parents and grandparents were humanists, what used to be called Free Thinkers. So as a humanist I am honoring my ancestors, which the Bible says is a good thing to do. We humanists try to behave as decently, as fairly, and as honorably as we can without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. My brother and sister didn’t think there was one, my parents and grandparents didn’t think there was one. It was enough that they were alive. We humanists serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any familiarity, which is our community.”

- Kurt Vonnegut. A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

Best bathroom reading book ever. You can read a lot of it on your computer here - http://tinyurl.com/kvhuman

yup. that’s me. mikearauz: Phoot Camp

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:22:01 -0500

yup. that’s me.

mikearauz:

Phoot Camp

thedailywhat: Chart of the Day: “Explicit Support for Same-Sex...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:17:49 -0500

thedailywhat:

Chart of the Day: “Explicit Support for Same-Sex Marriage by State and Age” (pdf) by Jeff Lax and Justin Phillips of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Created using data collected for a joint paper on gay rights.

Prof. Lax breaks it down:

Seven states cross the 50% mark overall as of our current estimates, but the generation gap is huge. If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or older, none would allow same-sex marriage. If policy were set by those under 30, only 12 states would not allow-same-sex marriage.

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Nobody’s perfect. oldhollywood: Marilyn Monroe,...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:36:56 -0500

Nobody’s perfect.

oldhollywood:

Marilyn Monroe, photographed with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and her admittedly superior breasts on the set of Some Like It Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder) (via drmacro)

“[The tailor on Some Like It Hot] measured me, 16, 34, 43, 18, 19, 18,” Tony Curtis later recalled, “and then he goes to Marilyn - this is all in the same day and this is the truth…He comes in to Marilyn’s room and Marilyn had on a pair of panties and a white blouse and that’s all. He put the tape around her legs, looked up at Marilyn and said, ‘You know, Tony Curtis has got a better-looking ass than you. She was standing there, she unbuttoned her blouse, and said, “He doesn’t have tits like these!’”

For once, I think we need these salty stories, because Monroe needs all the salt she can get. The Marilyn industry is so deeply soaked in her crack-ups-shaking the poor woman until we can hear the slosh of booze and the rattle of pills-that it’s a relief to get back to the floozie with the forked tongue.

-Anthony Lane, excerpted from “On Billy Wilder”, The New Yorker

Photo

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:53:57 -0500

squeeslocum: Baby Poo!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:59:05 -0400

squeeslocum:

Baby Poo!

On Halloween, Irish peasants would beg the rich for food. For those that refused, they would play a practical joke. So, in an effort to avoid being tricked, the rich would hand out cookies, candy, and fruit – a practice that morphed into trick-or-treating today.

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:23:20 -0400

ohyeahfacts:

(source)

The jack-o-lantern tradition comes from an old Irish folk tale about a man named Stingy Jack. It was said that he was unable to get into heaven and was turned away from the devil because of his tricky ways. So he set off to wander the world looking for a resting place. For light, Stingy Jack used a burning coal ember in a hollowed out turnip. When the Irish immigrated to the U.S. during the Great Potato Famine of 1845-1850, they found that turnips were not as readily available like they were in the homeland. So they started carving pumpkins as a replacement for their tradition.

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:21:07 -0400

ohyeahfacts:

(source)

Wave

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:40:05 -0400

Who else has google wave? I have invites.

I think I want to change my signature.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:21:34 -0400

can you even do that after you are 18? what would it take - another ID, visits to all the banks, signing next to old documents, or would you just keep your old one to match old documents and then for new things use the new one?

Edible Bacon Fat Candle Is Here to Tease NYC For too long bacon...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:16:25 -0400

Edible Bacon Fat Candle Is Here to Tease NYC

For too long bacon lovers have cursed both the darkness and their deceptive, maddeningly inedible, bacon-scented candles. Who hasn’t raised a bacon-scented candle to their lips and tried to drink the savory-smelling wax, only to be badly burned by the meretricious aroma and nauseating flavor?

And yet, halfway across America, diners at David Burke’s Primehouse in Chicago can enjoy their bacon candle smell and eat it, too. Primehouse chef Rick Gersh’s bacon candle reportedly smells as good as it tastes, and the in-house butcher shop sells it to guests.

All of this has come to light because Chef Gersh is in town for a couple of days cooking at David Burke’s Fishtail on the Upper East Side. We’re told his candle is made with rendered bacon fat and stands two inches tall with a vegetable base wick; once lit the candle lets off a bacon aroma and is then poured over dry aged beef, scallop sashimi, “or any other delectable treat worthy enough to be covered in bacon.” Hm, how about pouring it directly down our throats, does that work?

The edible candle is not currently used at David Burke’s restaurants in New York—though it would fit right in at the eccentrically festive Townhouse—but you can order it from Chicago by calling (312) 660-6000. It costs $5, plus shipping and handling.

amcj:meerkamper:ilovecharts:oberholtzer: Left vs Right |...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:09:37 -0400

amcj:meerkamper:ilovecharts:oberholtzer:

Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

This is just a little unfair.

I don’t know, growing up with both sides… it seems about right - drastic and simplified, but accurate.

(via annagrimm) my first thought was, that’s no moon.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:38:49 -0400

(via annagrimm)

my first thought was, that’s no moon.

icanread: (by boboeatsbabies)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:22:10 -0400

icanread:

(by boboeatsbabies)

thedailywhat: Are You Fucking Kidding Me, Japan?! of the Day:...

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:35:19 -0400

thedailywhat:

Are You Fucking Kidding Me, Japan?! of the Day: The Japanese hidden camera show “Panic Face King” (AKA The Super Terrific Happy Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Variety Hour) seems to think it’s a good idea to lock a man in a room with a bunch of strangers and then proceed to have them picked-off by an unseen sniper.

And the laughter… so much horrible, horrible laughter…

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"To alleviate another kind of noise, the D3S also features a Quiet Shutter Mode which substantially..."

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:39:47 -0400

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To alleviate another kind of noise, the D3S also features a Quiet Shutter Mode which substantially reduces the sound of the camera’s mirror-down cycle, which is perfect for shooting in sensitive environments, such as movie sets, meetings, ceremonies, or while photographing wildlife.

whoh!

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- Nikon Press Center - THE IMAGING EVOLUTION CONTINUES: THE NIKON D3S ILLUMINATES NEW LEVELS OF POWER AND PERFORMANCE FOR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Nikon D3S SLR pushes ISO boundaries | Cameras | Macworld

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:31:21 -0400

Nikon D3S SLR pushes ISO boundaries | Cameras | Macworld:

I would have slept in a line overnight to buy this camera if it recorded at 1080.

really tempting though…

Polaroid Lives! | GOOD

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:46:19 -0400

Polaroid Lives! | GOOD:

(via noahkalina)