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2:41 PM, May 17th, 2013
2:25 PM, May 17th, 2013

wired:

shortformblog:

michaelhayes:

heyveronica:

soon

YOLO!

If Microsoft tries to acquire them it’d be Mumblr.

If Facebook tries to acquire them it’d be Fumblr.

Beginning of the end?

YAHUMBLR!

Reblogged from WIRED
12:47 PM, May 17th, 2013

Dad puts Google Glass on his toddler, letting us all remember what it’s like to be a child. (via Buzzfeed)

12:25 PM, May 17th, 2013

picturedept:

Everyday there are lives at home and on the other side of the world that go unnoticed; lives that may matter little to the personal hustle of trying to pay rent, get children to do their homework or figure out how late to leave the couch and still make it to work on time; but everyday photojournalists celebrate these lives.

From children playing while 1,034-plus bodies are pulled from the rubble of a clothing factory in Lahore where shirts are sewn for wealthy westerners, to the tattered remains of an American flag on a still ravaged New Jersey coast line on the six month anniversary of Hurricane Sandy; these documentary images take us beyond a scrolling news flash on the bottom of a cable news show and ask us to look. To look and if we stop long enough to force us to stare for a moment; to question why.

Click though to The Daily Beast to see all the images for the week in pictures.

Reblogged from Picture Dept
11:47 AM, May 17th, 2013
Sorry if this gives you nightmares, but I thought you should see it. 

Sorry if this gives you nightmares, but I thought you should see it. 

Reblogged from Us Weekly on Tumblr
1:00 PM, May 14th, 2013

theamericanprospect:

“I really like your idea. If we had guns that shot chocolate, not only would our country be safer, it would be happier. People love chocolate. You are a good boy.”

Joe Biden wins at constituent services. This letter, to a Wisconsin second-grader, is so sweet and sad and just right.

Reblogged from The American Prospect
6:27 PM, May 13th, 2013

In a continuing effort to prevent our Tumblr followers from being productive, go do a Google image search for “atari breakout”

(h/t @samir)

4:05 PM, May 13th, 2013
The battle for the fairytale, 13th century Castle Itter was the only time in WWII that American and German troops joined forces in combat, and it was also the only time in American history that U.S. troops defended a medieval castle against sustained attack by enemy forces. To make it even more film worthy, two of the women imprisoned at Schloss Itter—Augusta Bruchlen, who was the mistress of the labour leader Leon Jouhaux, and Madame Weygand, the wife General Maxime Weygand—were there because they chose to stand by their men. They, along with Paul Reynaud’s mistress Christiane Mabire, were incredibly strong, capable, and determined women made for portrayal on the silver screen.
Near the end on WWII, Americans and Germans fought together against an SS division. Seriously, HOW IS THIS NOT A MOVIE?
3:23 PM, May 13th, 2013
digg:

Random Access Memories is now streaming on iTunes. No need to go to Piratebay.

What do y’all think? (Also, if that link doesn’t work, here’s the iTunes ones that is working for us.)

digg:

Random Access Memories is now streaming on iTunes. No need to go to Piratebay.

What do y’all think? (Also, if that link doesn’t work, here’s the iTunes ones that is working for us.)

Reblogged from Digg
1:12 PM, May 10th, 2013

digg:

theweekmagazine:

From KUCB:

A flock of eagles descended on the Safeway parking lot last week, prompting police intervention.

Public Safety Director Jamie Sunderland says several people called in short succession on Thursday afternoon to report the melee.

Sunderland: “One of our officers went over there and there were 40 eagles sitting on, in and around several vehicles in the area.”

Sunderland says the eagles were feasting on garbage bags of fish product in the bed of a pickup truck.

More: “Police Break Up Eagle Party at Safeway

This is terrifying.

Pretty sure I’ve had this nightmare…

Reblogged from Digg
10:40 AM, May 10th, 2013

We got 8,831 points on GeoGuessr. Can you beat us? Warning: If you have anything to do this morning, don’t click here. 

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