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thisistheverge: Yahoo among bidders for Hulu, as reports say...

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:29:33 -0400

Yahoo among bidders for Hulu, as reports say employees heading for exits

"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:08:59 -0400

“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.
GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!— An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.”

- Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen

nevver: Seasonal faults lines, Google Maps

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:39:52 -0400

Daniel Schwarz: Juxtapose

Daniel Schwarz: Juxtapose

Daniel Schwarz: Juxtapose

Daniel Schwarz: Juxtapose

nevver:

Seasonal faults lines, Google Maps

Hopeful, anticipatory … The juxtaposition of hammer...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:34:39 -0400

Hopeful, anticipatory … The juxtaposition of hammer dulcimer, cello, violin, piano, with a tension build into downtempo breaks — I really dig it.

shitroughdrafts: Fast & Furious 6, by Chris Morgan. 2013.

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:22:52 -0400

shitroughdrafts:

Fast & Furious 6, by Chris Morgan. 2013.

sesamestreet: Sesame Street? Arrested Development? The...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:43:25 -0400

sesamestreet:

Sesame Street? Arrested Development? The connections are as Ann on the nose of plain’s face.

Yet more ambient/downtempo music I code to..

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:43:00 -0400

Yet more ambient/downtempo music I code to..

digg: Every chicken dance ever.

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:41:18 -0400

digg:

Every chicken dance ever.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 16:35:16 -0400

mediaite: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:41:23 -0400

mediaite:

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’

laughingsquid: Art Student Freaks Out & Destroys Her...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:26:39 -0400

laughingsquid:

Art Student Freaks Out & Destroys Her Painting After a Critique

Amy’s Painting Company?

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Wed, 22 May 2013 12:46:37 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 12:13:53 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 10:09:05 -0400

rafimama: shortformblog: wired: We got an EXCLUUUUUSIVE...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:37:16 -0400

rafimama:

shortformblog:

wired:

We got an EXCLUUUUUSIVE first-hand look at the brand-spakin’-new Xbox One.

GO CHECK IT OUTTTTTTTT.

(deleted some interim comments to not give too big a wall of text)

… [E]ven multiplayer matches that can grow to 64, even 128 participants, rather than the usual limit of 16 or 32.

Welcome to 2002. Battlefield 1942 could host 64 players on one map (if I wanted to be really snarky, I would pull out Gemstone III or Neverwinter Nights or UO or Meridian 59).

I’ll admit, the entertainment system / streaming aspects look intriguing. But not enough that I’d shell out paper on this thing.

Overall, though, I’m very underwhelmed. It has the horsepower of a middle-of-the-road gaming PC, and all the vendor-lockin you’d ever want.

I’ll stick to playing fun games on Steam Big Picture, rather than shelling out $80 for a not-so-fun-but-cost-orders-of-magnitude-more-to-develop game on this hunk of dissapoint.

You can hear it crash into the ground.

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:45:43 -0400

You can hear it crash into the ground.

17threasonforfallingoutofthesky: itsvondell: johnthedragon: d-...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:42:19 -0400

17threasonforfallingoutofthesky:

itsvondell:

johnthedragon:

d-dinosaur:

Look at this cute fucking thing.

I want twenty of them.

OMFG BABY

oh wow that’s SO cool i’ve never seen one of these before

THAT. THAT RIGHT THERE…IS A PREYING MANTIS AND A HORNET HYBRID.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! IT WILL STING YOU, MATE WITH YOU, THEN EAT YOUR HEAD.

AUGH. SCIENCE YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR.

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

Exclamation: Yahoo! Takes Over Times Square

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:14:36 -0400

Exclamation: Yahoo! Takes Over Times Square:

yahoo:

By Jackie Reses, Chief Development Officer

I am so pleased to share that our New York City-based Yahoo! team will soon move into an incredible, four-story space just around the corner from Times Square. It’s thrilling for us – and really an important sign of the new direction of Yahoo! –…

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:53:41 -0400

seventhsons:

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:52:14 -0400

seventhsons: