The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

kateoplis: “I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:57:09 -0400

kateoplis:

“I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.”

— Erica Jong

thedailywhat: PROTIP of the Day: How to Eat Milk & Cookies...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:55:53 -0400

thedailywhat:

PROTIP of the Day: How to Eat Milk & Cookies Like a Boss

laughingsquid: Dogs Outlandishly Dyed and Groomed to Look Like...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:55:19 -0400

laughingsquid:

Dogs Outlandishly Dyed and Groomed to Look Like Fictional Characters & Wild Animals

Photo

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:50:30 -0400

inothernews: Protestors march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:31:18 -0400

inothernews:

Protestors march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The rallies, set off by a 10-cent hike in public transport fares and which have broken out in cities across the country, have moved beyond the rising costs of public transportation and toward anger over tax burdens, corrupt politicians and woeful public education, health and transport systems. (Photo: AP via The Telegraph)

kateoplis: “Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:29:34 -0400

kateoplis:

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”

— Roberto Bolaño

kateoplis: Porthole Perspectives

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:29:11 -0400

kateoplis:

Porthole Perspectives

jtotheizzoe: via thekidshouldseethis: From PBS Digital...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:26:28 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

via thekidshouldseethis:

From PBS Digital Studios’s UnderH2O team, go on a Blackwater Drift Dive:

The vast, unexplored ocean is filled with wonderful and mysterious creatures. This week, we journey far offshore for a midnight drift dive with over 1,000 feet of water between us and the seafloor. The animals here are bizarre and beautiful, and little is known about their biology.

Related viewing: The Deep Sea, The Secret Life of Plankton, The Plankton Chronicles: Sea Urchin, and Green Bomber Worms.

If you didn’t know that what you are looking at is real, you wouldn’t believe it was real. Welcome to alien Earth, the undiscovered deep. It’s even weirder at night!

Great new channel from PBS Digital Studios (who also produce my show, full disclosure).

jtotheizzoe: This is the clearest lake in the world. And a very...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:25:10 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

This is the clearest lake in the world. And a very fine lake it is. Klaus Thymann captured this and other stunning photos of New Zealand’s Blue Lake, 95% as clear as distilled water. Its source is filtered by mountain rocks and it’s above the treeline, so it misses out on most runoff.

Via The Guardian

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:23:51 -0400

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

"There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:19:15 -0400

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”

- Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It (via divinepics)

inothernews: THINGS TO DO IN DENVER THAT YOU DREAD Don’t look...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:18:18 -0400

inothernews:

THINGS TO DO IN DENVER THAT YOU DREAD Don’t look now, but a tornado touched down on the runways at Denver International Airport on Tuesday. Nine flights had to be diverted as a result; the airport suffered no damage as passengers and staff ran for cover inside. We’re thinking that somehow the airlines will find a way to charge a fee for this. (Photo: @Brister via The Weather Channel)

"Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:13:39 -0400

““Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.””

- Louis C.K. (via 30thcenturyboy)

Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.

The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.

Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.
(via fishingboatproceeds)

laughingsquid: Five cdza Members Cover Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:09:24 -0400

laughingsquid:

Five cdza Members Cover Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ on One Piano

jtotheizzoe: The Mad Hatterpillar The caterpillars of the Gum...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:06:59 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

The Mad Hatterpillar

The caterpillars of the Gum Leaf Skeletoniser moth have an interesting claim to fame. They wear their old heads as hats. See, as caterpillars like this grow, like many insects, they shed their exoskeletons for a new larger size. Only this one decides to keep a souvenir every round. When it matures into a moth, the heads are lost.

I particularly liked Bug Girl’s definition of a the function of moths and butterflies:

“Moths and butterflies are just flying gonads that make new caterpillars”

I wonder if it knows how a raven is like a writing desk?

(via Bug Girl’s Blog)

The 25 movies to which 'World War Z' is a sequal, probably

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:05:25 -0400

npr:

World War A (in which Isaac Newton is bonked on the head and still bravely figures out gravity)

World War B (spun off from a VH1 reality show)

World War C (in which two dudes hit each other with cellos for 2.5 hours)

Read the rest at NPR’s Monkey See blog.

pbsdigitalstudios: Beer & Biodiversity from Minute...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:01:25 -0400

pbsdigitalstudios:

Beer & Biodiversity from Minute Physics.

Drink (and spend!) responsibly!

flavorpill: The 50 Books Everyone Needs To Read, 1963-2013

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:59:52 -0400

flavorpill:

The 50 Books Everyone Needs To Read, 1963-2013

kateoplis: Autobahn “I drive around the streetsan inch away...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:10:00 -0400

kateoplis:

Autobahn

“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality
and possible love.”

Bukowski

kateoplis: “Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:40:27 -0400

kateoplis:

“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”

— Hunter S. Thompson