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beatonna: crisis in the classroom

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:58:15 -0500

beatonna:

crisis in the classroom

Reblog if it's okay to befriend you, ask questions, ask for advice or just have a nice chat.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:10:23 -0500

drawnblog: A highly detailed illustrated map of Italy and its...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:18:02 -0500

drawnblog:

A highly detailed illustrated map of Italy and its foods. By Antoine Corbineau.

fotojournalismus: A view of the Cannaregio channel, partially...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:17:53 -0500

fotojournalismus:

A view of the Cannaregio channel, partially iced because of unusually low temperatures, in Venice on Monday, Feb. 6.

[Credit : Luigi Costantini / AP]

hollyhocksandtulips: Unidentified woman with an important...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:51:45 -0500

hollyhocksandtulips:

Unidentified woman with an important message…

wnycradiolab: Krulwich slept with a transistor radio under his...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:56:27 -0400

wnycradiolab:

Krulwich slept with a transistor radio under his pillow as a kid? What? Yeah.

Love this show.

Sweet Sounds of Science

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:44:05 -0400

Sweet Sounds of Science:

wnycradiolab:

A sonic gallery from the New York Times Magazine lets you play with 9 Radiolab sound effects.

Awesome.

"If re-elected, our government will not be taking this action. I will not allow this move. The..."

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:37:41 -0400

“If re-elected, our government will not be taking this action. I will not allow this move. The command and control of the Pacific fleet will stay in the Pacific, at Esquimalt.”

- Apparently concerned that tax credits that won’t take effect until some hypothetical future budget-balancing occurs were too concrete, Harper is now promising to keep not doing things that the government already wasn’t doing beforehand. (via defeatist)

Not entirely true: David Pugliese from Postmedia has been reporting on the possibility of a transferring command of the Pacific fleet from Esquimalt to Halifax. This would be an odd way to celebrate 100 years of the Royal Canadian Navy - Esquimalt and Halifax were the first two bases in 1911.

defeatist: Fairly accurate depiction of almost all political...

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:21:06 -0400

defeatist:

Fairly accurate depiction of almost all political discourse in North America right now?

If only the truth were so simple…

Wait a second, I’m not the defeatist…

motherjones: “There’s no reason why, technologically, we can’t...

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:03:20 -0400

motherjones:

“There’s no reason why, technologically, we can’t employ nuclear energy in a safe and effective way. Japan does it…”

— Barack Obama, speaking at a town-hall meeting in 2009. Read more in Kate Sheppard’s story, “Obama Touted Safety Record of Japan’s Nuclear Industry.”

Far by it for me to defend the president of the United States, but that was a reasonable statement. The plant is holding up well considering it was designed to withstand an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.2. The difference between 8.2 and 8.9 on the Richter scale is logarithmic (exponential). So the .7 isn’t as small a difference as it looks.

All things considered, he may want to revisit that thought.

"So often absolutely ordinary in appearance, a good library should offer escape routes down the most..."

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:10:54 -0500

“So often absolutely ordinary in appearance, a good library should offer escape routes down the most extraordinary avenues, pathways into different worlds from the one you’ve left outside. Ridding our villages, towns and cities of libraries, which are essential in shaping a nation’s consciousness, seems like a direct attack on the soul of the country.”

- ‘If you tolerate this …’: Nicky Wire on library closures | Books | The Guardian (via lastyearsgirl)

"Learn to draw! If you don’t, you’re gonna live your life getting around that and trying to..."

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:10:47 -0500

“Learn to draw! If you don’t, you’re gonna live your life getting around that and trying to compensate for that.”

- Saul Bass, Brain Pickings (via nevver)

heyoscarwilde: art by Daniel Clowes | scanned from Ice Haven |...

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:52:08 -0500

heyoscarwilde:

art by Daniel Clowes | scanned from Ice Haven | Pantheon Books | 2005

ilovecharts: via Kurt White Still not paying the bills.

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:11:30 -0500

ilovecharts:

via Kurt White

Still not paying the bills.

drawnblog: Toxie’s Dead (by Enkhtulga) Here’s a cartoon we made...

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:50:43 -0500

drawnblog:

Toxie’s Dead (by Enkhtulga)

Here’s a cartoon we made for NPR’s show, Planet Money. It’s about Toxie, a personified toxic asset that helped burst the housing bubble. Enjoy!

This is featured as a supplement to a recent episode of This American Life. And let me tell ya, NO ONE explains finances better than the kids at Planet Money.

Directed and animated by Stephen Neary. Assistant animation and backgrounds by Connie Li Chan. Sound design by Robin Arnott.

"If the commonplace book tradition tells us that the best way to nurture hunches is to write..."

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:48:50 -0400

“If the commonplace book tradition tells us that the best way to nurture hunches is to write everything down, the serendipity engine of the Web suggests a parallel directive: look everything up.”

- Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From, quoted in @jbj’s great review of the book (via austinkleon)

35mmpaul: (via nrrdgrrrl, lumos-maxima) Truth.

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:50:56 -0400

35mmpaul:

(via nrrdgrrrl, lumos-maxima)

Truth.

deepthinking: Comic Book Classics, Re-imagined as Dime Store...

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:44:31 -0400

deepthinking:

Comic Book Classics, Re-imagined as Dime Store Paperbacks - This is awesome - io9

Sorry, I like these “redesigns” in general, but this is unnecessary. Just this Watchmen one: I haven’t/won’t followed the link. Not on the basis of some Platonic form of Watchmeniness…or fanbydom.

deepthinking: “The Marvelous Cartoon Wigs Museum” - Pop Culture...

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:05:36 -0400

deepthinking:

“The Marvelous Cartoon Wigs Museum” - Pop Culture T-shirt by Rodrigo Leonardo Batista Ferreira

35mmpaul: juliasegal: moosiemoose:deepdownsouth:mindflayed:iamn...

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:34:15 -0400

35mmpaul:

juliasegal:

moosiemoose:deepdownsouth:mindflayed:iamnotanartist

my world has been destroyed.