a splendid bauble

these aren't the droids you're looking for. move along.

[nevver]

New Years Resolutions

[npr]

Could A Bus With Sleep Pods Replace Airplanes?

A new startup wants to revolutionize how we travel long distances using pretty simple technology: a bus with beds. Only, they're called pods.

There’s a new long-distance travel option on the horizon: a double-decker bus with pods for sleeping. It’s called, simply, Cabin. And it’s an overnight service — like a red-eye — designed for people who love going places, but hate being in transit.

[betterbooktitles]

[nevver]

Good to see everyone’s got their priorities in line.

[miguelmarquezoutside]

[nevver]

You are here

[splendidbauble]

#NowPlaying Bach: St John Passion, BWV 245 (Johannes-Passion) by Johann Sebastian Bach

[tooyoungtoreign]

MA Soundtrack ♔ Plainsong by The Cure

[aleriehightower]

Marie Antoinette + costumes (48/56)

[vivelareine]

Marie Antoinette (2006)

[skunkbear]

A very furry story from the history of the space race! Khrushchev’s move strikes me as brilliant: half, “we may be engaged in a cold war, but we’re still human!” and half, “the dogs we sent to space are already having babies. How’s NASA coming along?”

Apparently, Pushinka (which means “fluffy" in Russian) was examined before arriving at the White House to check for listening devices.

Images: Daniel Mogford/Flickr, Ralphdj/Wikimedia Commons, The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, 

[npr]

What a cool story, and cute dogs! -Laura

[nprfreshair]

The 17th feature by Joel and Ethan Coen is a Hollywood comedy set in the 1950s called Hail, Caesar!—which is also the name of a Biblical epic within the film. Josh Brolin plays the tough, resourceful studio executive trying to keep that movie and others afloat, and the cast includes, among many others, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, and Channing Tatum. Film critic David Edelstein has this review.

Coen Brothers Spoof Old Hollywood, With Mixed Results, In ‘Hail, Caesar!’

[shitmystudentswrite]

Timebender

My younger sister is three years older than me.

[newyorker]

The Borowitz Report: Shkreli Miraculously Makes Nation Side with Congress

According to polls taken after his appearance before the despised legislative body, Shkreli’s smug, smirking, and utterly douchey performance had the effect of temporarily transforming members of Congress into marginally sympathetic figures.

More from The Borowitz Report. 

Photograph by Pete Marovich / Bloomberg / Getty

[shitmystudentswrite]

What a wonderful world

No one knows who the Louis Armstrong of Mars will be.

[tooyoungtoreign]

“I wish I could go with you.”

[vivelareine]

Marie Antoinette (2006)

[tooyoungtoreign]

How is her bosom? I have not looked at the archduchess’s bosom, Your Majesty. Oh, didn’t you? It’s the first thing I look at.