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Kirschgarten (via andreas.thomet)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:45:51 -0500

"Most episodes of Man v. Food begin with host Adam Richman dropping into an American city and..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:28:14 -0500

“Most episodes of Man v. Food begin with host Adam Richman dropping into an American city and announcing his intent to commit an elaborate crime against his alimentary canal. (In a typical instance, he introduces St. Louis’ locally famous Crown Candy Kitchen and its standing challenge to diners to slurp down five 24-ounce malt milkshakes in half an hour.) Then, in scenes functioning like the undercard bouts at a championship boxing match, he goes about town eating tasty things in nonrevolting proportions. And then there you are at home, taking an unseemly volume of pleasure in rooting for Richman to plow through 74 ounces of beef in one sitting.”

- A journey through the Travel Channel. - By Troy Patterson - Slate Magazine

before the beep - oldtobegin: (via zoya) God damn it people,...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:54 -0500

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"The £4 billion particle-collider faced more than a year of delays after a helium leak stymied the..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:26:21 -0500

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The £4 billion particle-collider faced more than a year of delays after a helium leak stymied the project in its first few days of operation. It is gradually being switched back on over the coming months but suffered a new setback on Tuesday morning. Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva noticed that the system’s carefully monitored temperatures were creeping up. Further investigation into the failure of a cryogenic cooling plant revealed an unusual impediment.

A piece of crusty bread had paralysed a high voltage installation that should have been powering the cooling unit.

”

- Large Hadron Collider stalled again… thanks to chunk of baguette - Times Online

Frosty Buck (via nugefishes)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:40:43 -0500

Frosty Buck (via nugefishes)

Geese rising (via ARHiggins)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:35:13 -0500

Geese rising (via ARHiggins)

y00 h00!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:23:22 -0500

y00 h00!

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:56:35 -0500

y00 h00!

Obama is totally thinking: Man, I want that...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:59:42 -0500

Obama is totally thinking: Man, I want that beard.

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:19:20 -0500

y00h00:

The 15 Stupidest Products Of All Time: The Final List (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

"Once initiated, the counterattack would be controlled by so-called command missiles. Hidden in..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:58:16 -0500

“Once initiated, the counterattack would be controlled by so-called command missiles. Hidden in hardened silos designed to withstand the massive blast and electromagnetic pulses of a nuclear explosion, these missiles would launch first and then radio down coded orders to whatever Soviet weapons had survived the first strike. At that point, the machines will have taken over the war. Soaring over the smoldering, radioactive ruins of the motherland, and with all ground communications destroyed, the command missiles would lead the destruction of the US.”

- Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

Halloween Festivities | The White House

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:29:53 -0500

Halloween Festivities | The White House

Go Maria! (via if objects are much too solid)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:53:58 -0500

Go Maria!

(via if objects are much too solid)

"On the social side, however, the conservative trope about theirs being the ideology of freedom is a..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:03:34 -0400

“On the social side, however, the conservative trope about theirs being the ideology of freedom is a total joke and an ugly lie. These are the people who want the government in your underpants, who want the government reading your mail without a warrant, who want to control who you sleep with and who you marry, and who even want to force you to live in agony when you just want to crawl off and die. These are the people who stood in the doorways blocking the movements for racial and sexual equality.”

- Big Bad Government Is Coming to Get You | CommonDreams.org

"The ABC data estimate that 30.4 million Americans now pay to buy a newspaper Monday through..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:41:39 -0400

“The ABC data estimate that 30.4 million Americans now pay to buy a newspaper Monday through Saturday, on average, and about 40 million do so on Sunday. These figures come from 379 of the nation’s largest newspapers. In 1940, 41.1 million Americans bought a daily newspaper, according to the Newspaper Association of America.”

- The accelerating decline of newspapers - washingtonpost.com

DAVID GARRETT: LIVE IN BERLIN | Thunderstruck (AC/DC) | PBS (via...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:39:09 -0400

DAVID GARRETT: LIVE IN BERLIN | Thunderstruck (AC/DC) | PBS (via PBS)

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:51:40 -0400

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A Sculpture Garden Energizes Des Moines - NYTimes.com

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:33:14 -0400

A Sculpture Garden Energizes Des Moines - NYTimes.com

"Astronomers said Wednesday that a race halfway across the universe had ended in a virtual tie. And..."

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:40:13 -0400

“Astronomers said Wednesday that a race halfway across the universe had ended in a virtual tie. And so the champion is still Albert Einstein — for now.”

- 7.3 Billion Years Later, Einstein’s Theory Prevails - NYTimes.com

love all this | Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:07:39 -0400

love all this | Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the Beatles…