‘Hey, if being a geek means you’re willing to take a 400-page book on vaccines and where they work and where they don’t, and you go off and study that and you use that to challenge people to learn more, then absolutely. I’m a geek. I plead guilty. Gladly.’ Microsoft’s Bill Gates: A rare and… Continue reading Untitled
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dear-photograph: Dear Photograph, Dad never took a picture of me, ever. Then I noticed his reflection in the glass.Happy Father’s Day, Dad. Anonymous
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dear-photograph: Dear Photograph, I miss that playground. Anonymous What a wonderful idea. The whole tumblr is fantastic.
Turns out that Amina, and her stories from Damascus, are complete works of fiction. The actual author, Tom MacMaster, published the following apology: I do not believe that I have harmed anyone — I feel that I have created an important voice for issues that I feel strongly about. There are enough inspiring true stories in the world that we don’t need to lie to people just to get their attention.
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If we dropped our defense spending to 2% GDP, we’d still be spending almost as much as Russia, France, Britain, and China combined. (Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/military-spending?fsrc=rss)
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All roads lead to philosophy, on Wikipedia You can play with the tool here. (Source: http://flowingdata.com/2011/06/08/all-roads-lead-to-philosophy-on-wikipedia/)
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That includes burglarizing my former psychoanalyst’s office (for material to blackmail me into silence), warrantless wiretapping, using the CIA against an American citizen in the US, and authorizing a White House hit squad to “incapacitate me totally” (on the steps of the Capitol on May 3, 1971). All the above were to prevent me from… Continue reading Untitled
So terribly sad.
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That is one bad-ass sheep. Shrek captured the public’s imagination in 2004 after he evaded the annual shearing roundups for the previous seven years by hiding in caves on his farm on the South Island. When finally found, he was clad in an astonishing 60 pounds (27 kilograms) of wool. (Source: http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/07/6803192-new-zealand-mourns-death-of-shrek-the-famously-shaggy-sheep)