tinybot

Wonderful things come in tiny packages.

[jojo-the-bird]

I think I’m depriving myself of the life I could have to the life I make myself believe I’m bound to.

[tinybot]

I love this. What you believe is 100% of what you get out of life. Disillusionment can cloud even the most positive but misguided attitudes. What we wake up each day to face should reflect the future we want for ourselves.

[philosophybits]

“We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.”

— Michel de Montaigne, Essais

[tinybot]

That's pretty good. ESID, so wisdom comes in many forms and isn't one-size-fits-all.

[iglovequotes]

https://iglovequotes.net/

[tinybot]

What was that?  Wait, that’s it, our gift, it’s happening now, the present.It’s good to look forward to what’s next, but isn’t it a travesty to what we have now?  I like digging through the remains of my past to find what it left behind for me today.  I sift and sort, throw out some and keep the keepers.  One day their value will all be known, but for now they’re companions for the journey..  Take stock in what those who are with you.

[iglovequotes]

https://iglovequotes.net/

[tinybot]

This is something I’d like to teach my children.  Sometimes though, they won’t chase, they’ll just stand there, unsure.  At first meet, maybe not so important but definitely when the relationship grows you’ll want someone who really values you, your relationship.

[iglovequotes]

http://iglovequotes.net/

[tinybot]

I like this, it’s like Google search’s autofill.

[iglovequotes]

http://iglovequotes.net/

[tinybot]

His will is eternal and guiding.

[iglovequotes]

http://iglovequotes.net/

[tinybot]

A little visual twist is there to make its point.

[8-bitfiction]

[nprfreshair]

The same technology that allows Facebook to recognize faces on its social network can allow machines to analyze medical scans and recognize when there are signs of illness and disease.

Cade Metz, NYT tech reporter, on the evolution of artificial intelligence  (via nprfreshair)

Psychologists and gamblers have been raving for years about the tell tale facial signs that reveal what another is secretly up to.  Darn it, we got ourselves the technology for a bona fide lie cheat detector!

[iglovequotes]

http://iglovequotes.net/

[tinybot]

ok, i’m not a big fan of cats, but this was cute.

[srsfunny]

Hogwarts Is Real

[tinybot]

Yes, there may have really been classmates that looked like the famous Hogwarts trio.  Lol.  Enjoy, Vero.

[tinybot]

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

http://www.bing.com/search?q=priscilla+queen+of+the+desert

[tinybot]

For the moment / Every Little Thing

[tinybot]

queen s in the desert

[nprfreshair]

The man behind the most popular female comic book hero of all time, Wonder Woman, had a secret past. Creator William Moulton Marston, had a wife — and a mistress. He fathered children with each of them and they all secretly lived together in Rye, N.Y. And the best part? Marston was also the creator of the lie detector.

Harvard professor and New Yorker contributor Jill Lepore reveals this and other surprising details about Marston in the new book The Secret History of Wonder Woman.

“I got fascinated by this story because I’m a political historian and it seemed to me there was a really important political story that had been missed that’s basically as invisible as Wonder Woman’s jet,” Lepore tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross.

Marston, who was a famous psychologist, made up Woman Woman in 1941. He was interested in the women’s suffrage movement and in Margaret Sanger, the birth control and women’s rights activist — who was also his mistress’ aunt.

A feminist icon, Wonder Woman was an Amazon woman who forces people to tell the truth with her magic lasso. She was a controversial figure in the 1940s because of her overt sexuality and her link to bondage. Her costume was inspired by Marston’s interest in erotic pin-up art.

“There’s no simple story here,” Lepore says. “There are a lot of people who get very upset at what Marston was doing … ‘Is this a feminist project that’s supposed to help girls decide to go to college and have careers or is this just like soft porn?’”

The full interview: 

The Man Behind Wonder Woman Was Inspired By Both Suffragists And Centerfolds

Photo via Retronaut

[nprfreshair]

The new Wonder Woman movie comes out tomorrow. Terry Gross talked with historian Jill Lepore a few years ago about the surprising history behind the comic book icon. 

[dancinginthestormyrain]

[tinybot]

There is a certain joy in awaiting the coming celebration.  From anticipation in darkness, there is great light for the world.  Sending blessings to all.

[tinybot]

At that age, the comedians I liked most were the ones who called out the bullshit and gave voice to my anger—the Marx Brothers, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Jay Leno.

Sick in the Head, Judd Apatow

After singing “The End of the World as We Know It” by REM, I am a few steps closer to knowing the identity of references such as “Lenny Bruce”.  It looks like Judd Apatow knows something about this comedian.