Outside, inside, this is a moon without a tide

[sosuperawesome]

Citrine Honeycomb Earrings // MargayB

[voynichs]

british romanticism: i went into the woods and i found a beautiful woman, but she wasn’t really a woman, she was my Muse and the woods is my mind

american romanticism: i went into the woods and found the devil and he gave me a clock, but the clock was actually the industrial revolution and it fucking killed me

[callimachean]

italian romanticism: i went into the woods and toppled face down over a root which proves nature is but a cruel stepmother, also this must somehow be a sign that God wants us to get rid of those fucking austrians

[firmine]

french romanticism: i went into the woods and found a peasant woman, but she wasn’t really a woman, she was the Republic and the woods is the people of France, wild, free and unconquered

[wapiti3]

LICHEN IT!

[musictheoryaugmented]

The “classical” station went silent while I was driving today

[tolkien-in-beleriand]

Every time I read that post about doing things out of spite I remember that C. S. Lewis put that fucking street lamp in Narnia because Tolkien once said that no good fantasy story would have a lamp in it.

[culturenlifestyle]

Steve Axford Captures Strange And Undocumented Australian Fungi 

Steve Axford is a photographer on a mission to discover a thread of alien fungi, which has never been captured before. Axford lives in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales and has ample opportunity to explore the undisturbed habitat and wildlife located in that region. Armed with his lens, Axford travels in the latter territory to photograph species of mushroom and fungi that science has no name for yet. He snaps images of fungi. lichen, moulds - each distinct in color, shape and texture. 

Sprouting from the damp soil like exotic corals and psychedelic umbrellas, their shape conflicts with the native fauna and flora, which gives us a small sense of the overwhelming way in which nature operates right under our noses. 

Axford aims to exhibit the aesthetic beauty of nature that is often sadly eclipsed by science. He takes his fascination for exposing obscure ecosystems, which have lived in isolation. He eliminates the objective aspect of nature by highlights its physical beauty through photography. 

[artsnquotes]

Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (via wnq-art)

[andrewhickeywriter-deactivated2]

Remember that St Nicholas was jailed and stripped of his bishopric for punching Arius in the face during the Council of Nicea, so if you get on the naughty list, he might do more than just not give you any presents.

Also, apparently the best way to get on the naughty list is to argue that Christ and God are ὁμοιούσιος (of similar substances) rather than ὁμοούσιος (of the same substance), so watch your iotas.

[nickjb]

He’s making a list He’s checking your name To see if you think God and Christ are similar or same Santa Claus is punching in town

[lexstrasshittyblog-deactivated2]

I asked the librarian for a book about Pavlov’s dog and Schroedinger’s cat.  She said it rang a bell but she wasn’t sure if it was there or not.

[newblogisjacindaelena]

Graham Gercken

[neuroxin]

[alienpapacy]

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

[slatestarscratchpad]

I met a programmer the other day Who said “A vast and blocky plastic box Stands in my workspace; in it, so they say Half-dead, a chip from Intel lies, which clocks 566 M-hertz; the CD drive And fifteen gigs, and bundled AOL Must have seemed neat when Reagan was alive But now the stickers on its lifeless shell Seem only fit sad memories to revive And on the light beige case are words that say: “THIS COMPUTER IS NEVER OBSOLETE SURF! INVEST! EMAIL! TYPE! SHOP! TRAVEL! PLAY!” The monitor is dark; near its defeat My new and shiny MacBook whirs away

[simplyirenic]

#ozymand OS (via gravything)

[coolthingoftheday]

Bonsai apple tree growing a full-sized apple.

[kingfucko]

it must have worked so hard!

[currentsinbiology]

Crows May Learn Lessons From Death

In their report, which appears in the November issue of Animal Behaviour, Ms. Swift and Dr. Marzluff propose that crows pay careful attention to their dead as a way to gather information about threats to their own safety. “It’s a long-term learning opportunity,” Ms. Swift said. “Knowing that you need to be wary in a particular place — that’s valuable.”

The presence of a dead crow could tell other crows that a particular place is dangerous and should be visited with caution. The loud calls the birds make could be a way to share information with the rest of their group.

“Work like this helps to remind us of the cognitive complexity that exists in animals other than humans,” said Teresa Iglesias, an evolutionary biologist affiliated with Australian National University who was not involved in the study.

[cathysdoodles]

Maple leaf dragon is after your maple syrup

[meowth]

[palemelancholy]

ghoulishghouls:

#that little bat has no clue that it is embodying halloween right now  #because it does not understand what holidays are #it does however#understand what pumpkins are #as it can eat those #it cannot eat halloween

[stephantom]

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

// Magic. Do not touch.

// When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing // Now, God only knows

#define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers

stop(); // Hammertime!

// drunk, fix later

// Replaces with spaces the braces in cases // where braces in places cause stasis $str = str_replace(array("\{","\}")," ",$str);

/** * For the brave souls who get this far: You are the chosen ones, * the valiant knights of programming who toil away, without rest, * fixing our most awful code. To you, true saviors, kings of men, * I say this: never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, * never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, * never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. */

(x)

[awesome-picz]

Pics Of Birds Cuddling Together For Warmth Will Melt Your Heart