Friday, January 27, 2012

good:

Kids are awesome - two 17-year olds launch a lego into space on $400! 

Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad now have an awesome topic for their college essays. They launched a homemade balloon into space as one lucky lego got the ride of his life. The lego carried a Canadian flag and was attached to a video camera, collecting evidence of the journey. 

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Just listening to their story on PRI’s The World. Pretty cool stuff.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

twentyfourbit:

Wilco: “Dawned On Me” (Official Video)

It’s been three decades since the last appearance of Popeye in a hand-drawn form, but today the iconic spinach-loving Sailor Man returns along with Olive Oyl, Swee’Pea, Wimpy, Bluto, and… Wilco. Watch above as director Darren Romanelli and King Features bring the classic cartoon back to life, just in time for Jeff Tweedy to settle Bluto and Popeye’s near-century-long rivalry for the love of Olive Oyl, once and for all.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012
We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’: we must always be a nation of ‘haves’ and ‘soon-to-haves.’

Republican governor MITCH “I really said that” DANIELS, in delivering the GOP response to the State of the Union Tuesday night.

Continuing the Republican theme of “I deny that this nation has poor people, impoverished people, and what other civilized societies might otherwise term ‘the underclass.’”

(via inothernews)

This just proves that the modern iteration of Conservatism in America is devoid of any remnant the long standing bastion of small “c” conservatism known as ‘reality’

Monday, January 23, 2012
ilovecharts:

Bible Family Tree
by Jim Belote at the University of Minnesota.
via hoppzor

Clear as can be.

ilovecharts:

Bible Family Tree

by Jim Belote at the University of Minnesota.

via hoppzor

Clear as can be.

Friday, January 20, 2012 Thursday, January 19, 2012
Jack Black on Yo Gabba Gabba. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while.   It’s on Netflix. Season 2, episode 16.   Yo Gabba Gabba’s pretty cool. The Shins were on as the musical guest on a show the girls watched last week. Now Eleanor is listening to my Shins records and looking forward to their new record coming out.

Jack Black on Yo Gabba Gabba. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. It’s on Netflix. Season 2, episode 16. Yo Gabba Gabba’s pretty cool. The Shins were on as the musical guest on a show the girls watched last week. Now Eleanor is listening to my Shins records and looking forward to their new record coming out.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

T-12 hours and change until I fly to Las Vegas.

annaetc:

And, of course, I have no clean clothes, I’ve only just found someone to take care of my cat (side note: maryqueenofscouts is my hero), and I’m eating frosted Pop-Tarts for dinner. AM I AN ADULT YET, YOU GUYS?

Funny. Melissa and I leave for Vegas in approximately 12 hours. STL-ORD-LAS.

Bummed because we waited too long to get tickets, and Southwest was sold out for their direct flight.

As a result we’re stuck on American.