We are merely made of star stuff

A female organism living and schooling in Ohio. INxJ

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Penn reveals that he wasn’t available for this interview. Seriously though, some cool things in this article. Sample:

You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest. My partner, Penn, and I once produced 500 live cockroaches from a top hat on the desk of talk-show host David Letterman. To prepare this took weeks. We hired an entomologist who provided slow-moving, camera-friendly cockroaches (the kind from under your stove don’t hang around for close-ups) and taught us to pick the bugs up without screaming like preadolescent girls. Then we built a secret compartment out of foam-core (one of the few materials cockroaches can’t cling to) and worked out a devious routine for sneaking the compartment into the hat. More trouble than the trick was worth? To you, probably. But not to magicians.

Sounds like the best trick you can pull is to obsess longer than everyone else.

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[trulydiscombobulated]

Best. Present. Ever.

[merelystarstuff-blog]

 I kinda want the universe.  

[scribemo-blog-blog]

A library of free documentaries online. Educate yourself.

[thequantumlife]

I will derive! (A Calculus song)

[schrodingermania-blog]

This is beautiful.

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[sandandglass]

[typewrittenword]

[merelystarstuff-blog]

Words to keep inside your pocket:

Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.

Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful. 

Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound. 

Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling. 

Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like. 

Aubade - a song greeting the dawn. 

Ephemeral - lasting a very short time. 

Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal. 

Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound. 

Billet-doux - a love letter. 

Redamancy - act of loving in return.

[loveclaire]

“One such woman leader, Qin Liangyu, was the wife of a native tribal chieftain in the western province of Sichuan.”

The Search for Modern China - Jonathan D. Spence

So…I’m going to have a threesome? In China? In the seventeenth century? With a married couple? That’s pretty kinky I guess.

[plithith]

 One of them, however, disappeared, and I had to conclude that he must have been torn to pieces by wild beasts; I have not seen him since.

Genesis 44:28 The Bible

I am in a school lounge and this is the book closest to me.  This is kind of hilarious.

[merelystarstuff-blog]

 --Esta noche tienes aire meditabundo --dijo mi padre, buscando la conversación.

La Sombra del Viento

I'm reading a Spanish book for class. It says (roughly)  "This night has a meditative air," said my father, looking for conversation.

[theatlanticvideo]

An Aerial Video of Amazing ‘Snow Circles’ Art Traced in Fresh Powder

Artist Sonja Hinrichsen enlisted five volunteers create beautiful geometric forms in the snow with their footprints. Cedar Beauregard, a cinematographer specializing in aerial photography, captured this footage of the piece with a remote-control helicopter, as well as these still images on Flickr.

[prostheticknowledge]

Monopoly: Web Lovers Edition

Created by Make Some Design

Monopoly is a board game played by two to eight players. It is played on a board with spaces.In the original version the spaces were named after streets.These streets are actual streets in Atlantic City in New Jersey in the United States.But now, all internet in this board :)

More Here

[laughterkey]

Uh, Tumblr is opening ground and Yahoo is the most valuable property? ‘Kay.

[inothernews]

So someone just stuck web logos in random places I guess.

[shortformblog]

We want a “Get out of 4chan free” card.

[merelystarstuff-blog]

 I like the 4chan idea. I'd also like to see Reddit on there somewhere. Maybe have the highest two properties be Microsoft and Apple. And if you're feeling generous, put Linux/Ubuntu on there.

I also don't like that the utilities are now tax spots. It could be for something like paying for the internet connection.

This could be a lot better, but one problem I see is that the internet changes all the time. What's famous and popular now could be totally different within 5 years.

[stinson]

Barney dancing to “single ladies”

[nostalgia-shake]

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whoa

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wtf omg

witchcraft of the highest degree

[iamemiloo]

[plithith]

This sounds lovely. I can’t know if I’m actually compatible with people until I meet them so I’m not going to say “he’s perfect!” or anything, but he sounds like he’s on the right track with knowing what he wants and that’s admirable.

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[themolerat]

i hate to admit it but that is a valid point

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Yes, because vaginas (and by extension, their owners) are just items that wait around for a penis to come around and open them them up (though I must ask what, exactly, is being locked up in this analogy?).

This imagery is arbitrary and sexist in its design. I could just as easily say that a bowl that holds lots of cheetohs is a great bowl, but a cheetoh that has been in lots of bowls is probably old and nasty and nobody would want it.

Now I want cheetohs.

And penis.

Because I’m a shitty lock.

Edit: Note, sex is awesome for everyone and I don’t actually believe either sex is a slut for having lots of consensual sex. Just pointing out how that carefully crafted analogy can fall apart if you change the terms for the orifice and phallic object.

[schrodingermania-blog]

Oh my god that bowl analogy is amazing.

[merelystarstuff-blog]

Just wrote a paper for class without using the verb "to be." Granted, a page and a half poses little problems, but I fight for more descriptive and larger vocabularies one page at a time.

And plus, it made writing the paper more interesting.