Mom does daughter's hair for "crazy hair day" at school.
I used to make replica Spider-Man movie costumes when I was in high school until Marvel sent me a cease and desist letter for copyright infringement.
TIL John Lithgow played the William Shatner role in the Twilight Zone remake of "Nightmare at 20,000 feet." Years later when Shatner appears on 3rd Rock from the sun he says "It was a horrible flight! There was a man on the wing of the plane!"; Lithgow responds, "The same thing happened to me!"
15-year old lands a 1080 on a skateboard at the X-Games
This literally just happened to me. Fml.
Preying Mantis Wasp.
This may be the greatest piece of mass effect humor i have ever seen
I held a bouquet of kittens last weekend...
Been a lot of this going around on Reddit lately.
A new theory states that space & time started as one dimension each (basically a straight line). As it cooled, the universe warped into the 2nd-4th dimensions, and it might eventually be promoted again, to a five-dimensional state. Sounds bizarre? There's actually some experimental evidence for it.
"The only thing wrong with this bill is that Elizabeth thought of it and I didn't." - Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's student loan bill
Strippers of Reddit: which customers do you hate, and what aspects of the job do people probably not know?
I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC. Why don't you have a seat and AMA?
Bill Murray talks about the last time he saw Gilda Radner. Great great article.
NASA: Meteor slams into Moon, causes explosion visible to naked eye on Earth
My buddy and Marine brother, Armando Torres, has been kidnapped in Mexico.....
Good news for Google Fiber: Broadcast TV audiences are cratering faster than ever
Random Access Memories now available for streaming on Spotify
My favorite company policy. Got this perk for the second time today.
I don't always...
We need a new strategy.
In response to The Most Chivalrous Man in the World: I will now forever wonder this.
This was easily the greatest part of Zack of Miri
I think this will melt your heart...
My dad and a group of lawyers are walking from San Diego to Sacramento to raise awareness of 12 inmates proven factually innocent who are still in jail. They've already walked 265 miles in 21 days.
I used to make replica Spider-Man movie costumes when I was in high school until Marvel sent me a cease and desist letter for copyright infringement.
My dad and a group of lawyers are walking from San Diego to Sacramento to raise awareness of 12 inmates proven factually innocent who are still in jail. They've already walked 265 miles in 21 days.
Support from one big goalie to another (from imgur)
This guy was told by his Homeowners Association that he couldn't fly the American flag in his yard....
I put together an Ultimate Spider-Man Costume. Here's how. [x-post from r/cosplay]
Made my mom laugh more than I've ever seen (18 years later re-creation)
Awesome water art
Drew my prom date flowers. My family has little money and I am decent at art, so my idea was to draw my girlfriend some roses using charcoal and cutting them out... But she just texted me saying she really wants real flowers; I cannot afford them and hope she sees I tried my best
:) [oc]
microscopic "rose" grown in a laboratory at Harvard University using a solution of chemicals and minerals.
Flamingo on the beach
Every year on Norwegian constitution day this guy at my school dresses up in all Norway colors, stands on top of his car at the front of the parking lot and waves his Norwegian flag while blasting Norwegian music and handing out Norway stickers. He truly loves his home country.
There were some awesome rare lenticular clouds over West Yorkshire today!
I finally became a U.S. citizen today!
The saddest thing I've seen all day
Squared Circle (xpost from woahdude)
Two women showing uncovered legs in the public place for the first time. Toronto, 1937
They caught him! Saw this on the freeway.
My name is Andrew and I was born during Hurricane Andrew. My parents waited nearly 20 years to give me this shirt.
Slow day at the office. I regret nothing
My dad found his old "School's Out" record, and it still has the crusty panties it came with.
9 year old throws first pitch at baseball game. Dad ended up being behind the plate back home from Afghanistan.
My friend's car stalled out on the freeway.
Spotted in Oz
Anagram like a boss.
A new theory states that space & time started as one dimension each (basically a straight line). As it cooled, the universe warped into the 2nd-4th dimensions, and it might eventually be promoted again, to a five-dimensional state. Sounds bizarre? There's actually some experimental evidence for it.
Study: Marijuana Buffers Pain of Social Exclusion. New research suggests one reason for the popularity of pot may be that it helps people cope with the pain of loneliness.
Recent Nature issue "Whales: No mass strandings since sonar ban"
Marijuana use associated with lower risk of diabetes, obesity: American Journal of Medicine
European research team suggests that the average intelligence level of Victorian-era people was higher than that of modern-day people
NASA announces Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever Recorded
Amazon has unusually high cat density, finds study
Alaska volcano shoots ash 15,000 feet into the air
A new study of impact marks on the bones of ancient prey shows that spear-throwing techniques go back at least 90,000 years ago in Africa and offers a new method of determining how prehistoric hunters made their kills.
I literally had to stop my car to listen to this Radiolab segment. It blew my mind collectively 3 or 4 times on subjects like language and spacial reasoning. well worth the listen!
Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?
Human stem cells cloned for the first time
Moon Hit By Largest Meteoroid Impact in 8 Years
Hofstadter Butterfly Effect Observed for the First Time: Scientists from Japan and the United States have directly observed a rare quantum effect that produces a repeating butterfly-shaped energy spectrum first theorized by physicist Douglas Hofstadter in 1976
Whether we?re listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley
Youngsters use dementia drugs to boost brain power, survey finds
Clinical trial shows kava is effective for treating anxiety disorders
College Women Exceed NIAAA Drinking Guidelines More Frequently Than College Men
Anteater's birth in female-only pen stumps zoo staff
Citizen Science and Crowd-Funded Science at its best - Analysis of Peer Reviewed Climate Research confirms 97% agreement of anthropogenic warming
The annual Intel ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair) just announced this year's winner. Congrats to Ionut Budisteanu for winning. You all can read about his project and the other winner's projects here.
Suicidal behaviour is a disease, psychiatrists argue
Ecologists warn of overreliance on unvetted computer source code by researchers
Invasive ladybird has biological weapon
Dancing with Devils
Good news for Google Fiber: Broadcast TV audiences are cratering faster than ever
Rep. Mike Rogers sponsored CISPA, a bill that would give the FBI new power to access private user data. Rep. Mike Rogers is also the front runner to become the next director of the FBI.
Samsung co-CEO: The Galaxy S4 is Samsung?s fastest-selling smartphone ever with shipments topping 6 million units in two weeks, likely to pass 10 million units next week.
MIT's cheetah robot runs faster, more efficiently, can carry its own power supply (video)
Is Reddit censoring openly racist users?-Administrators appear to have targeted one of the site's most controversial subgroups
Banking Privacy More Important than Copyright Enforcement, Court Rules: Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN pressured one of the largest banks in the Netherlands to hand over the details of an owner of a file-sharing site. The Court said the bank has more responsibility to protect its customers? privacy
Retired IT manager Nigel Clarke has launched a website that lists the call centre menu sequences for accessing thousands of services
Computer scientists to FBI: don't require all our devices to have backdoors for spies
Welcome to Google Island
Tesla Has A Fresh $1 Billion -- And Lots of Ways To Spend It
BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of All Upload Traffic, VPNs are Booming
Nintendo to profit from user videos posted to YouTube
Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox PCWorld
Aussie government tries to block two sites, takes down 1,200
Google engineers: We're trying to fix Android fragmentation
Australian scientists discover a way to print A3 size solar panels using 3D printing technology.
Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist?s laptop
Why Goldman Sachs Just Bet $500 Million on Elon Musk's Solar Business
Go inside the factory making 'human' robots
Hacker serving 5-year sentence invents ATM add-on to prevent theft
LinkedIn outlaws sex workers from putting up ?professional profiles?
Google Is Prepping A Sneak Attack On Microsoft Office
There need to be more executives like this.
Glasgow scientists create single-pixel camera for 3D images
Want To Destroy Any Hope Of Serious Cybersecurity? Give The DOJ Its Desired Backdoor Wiretaps On All Communications
The power of CSS through logo reproduction
The UK government pays me to write open source all day (X-post from /r/opensource)
Guide to using Affine Transformation Matrices to translate, rotate, scale, reflect and skew 2D (or 3D) objects.
Frameworks Round 5
The Elusive Universal Web Bytecode
Porter/Duff Compositing and Blend Modes
Friendly Interactive Shell (fish) 2.0 released
The Dangers of Book Learnin?
OpenGL 101: Textures
DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 5: Using D Alongside a Game Engine by Manu Evans
Graphical way to learn branching using Git
Getting Started with Play 2, Scala, and Squeryl
Decoupling Code: Braids, Weaves and the Complecting Problem
Using dynamic resolution scaling to improve FPS: An Interview with the Creator of HiAlgoBoost
Mark 1 FORTH Computer
Why choose DI interception over aspect oriented programming?
Data Initialization and Sections in C++
LISP Prolog and Evolution
Polymer Project by Google
Blog: Help, My Serial Data Has Been Framed: How To Handle Packets When All You Have Are Streams
Math.Floor(value + 0.5)
MacroPy: Project Report and Future Directions
Learning Effectively: The Path To Expertise
A Journey Through the CPU Pipeline
JavaScript Regular Expression Enlightenment
15-year old lands a 1080 on a skateboard at the X-Games
Unknown Heroes.
Unbelievable wood carver makes impossible designs. Has been carving since the age of 10, now 64. Crazy.
My friend's interesting talent.
Shiiiiiit, time to go out and stock up on Top Ramen and tuna
Taxi pulls illegal U-turn, instant justice
My favorite Louis CK clip. Smoking pot with 20 year olds
My friend has sang/played this Adele song for his dog since he was a puppy. His dog recognizes it every time and sings along.
Black man running through white peoples neighborhood
Alex Trebek is a Jerk
Dexter Season 8: Official Trailer
Reddit.
France: Man Wants Free Kisses But Receive a Special Free Gift
Bill Burr - Epidemic of gold digging whores
Woman blocks road, then claims cyclist is attacking her
Toronto Maple Leaf Fans Reaction Throughout Game 7 Collapse
F-22 thrust vectoring. Amazing piece of aeronautical technology
Could care less - David Mitchell
Reddit Photoshoppers Demonstrate Their Awesomeness
David Beckham: 50 yard goal vs Wimbledon, 1996.
Thomas Sowell Dismantles Feminism and Racialism in under 5 Minutes.
Best interviewer ever
People react to video camera on a sushi-go-round in japan
Joe Rogan explains Dr. Phil (1:36)
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