February 2012
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You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral →
whitachi:
thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first…
January 2012
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I am not going to shut up about this. If we don't... →
ACTA is much, much scarier than SOPA/PIPA. Sign!
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If you’re not making mistakes, man, you’re not pushing yourself hard enough.
– Chris Johns, editor, National Geographic Magazine
(via bigbigtruck)
SOPA and PIPA blackout tomorrow
But why does it have to be tomorrow? Tomorrow, my first actual day off since last Tuesday? I just cranked out a memorial montage for my grandmother’s service in less than a week, not to mention the crazy all-nighter I’m still coming down from; I had plans for you, internet!
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May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the...
– Irish blessing - in memory of my grandma
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SOPA Emergency IP list →
anglophonic:
So when those in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 imgur.com 173.231.140.219 google.com 74.125.157.99 youtube.com 74.125.65.91 yahoo.com 98.137.149.56...
December 2011
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Jeez, it's almost new years...
I should pop some things up here. Soon!
November 2011
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Disqus!
I am feeling accomplished. Figured out how to install Disqus (adds the ability to leave comments on tumblr posts/ essentially any blog/site) and, and! edited the html of this theme to fit it in seamlessly. Win!
What else can I fiddle with…
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tumblrbot asked: ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?
October 2008
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Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out? by Ron Koertge
– Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave your house or apartment. Go out into the world. It’s all right to carry a notebook but a cheap one is best, with pages the color of weak tea and on the front a kitten or a space ship. Avoid any enclosed space where more than three people are...
September 2008
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Huh.
So this is tumblr; I think I like it.
Night of the Living, Night of the Dead, by Kim Addonizio
– When the dead rise in movies they’re hideous and slow. They stagger uphill toward the farmhouse like drunks headed home from the bar. Maybe they only want to lie down inside while some room spins around them, maybe that’s why they bang on the windows while the living hammer up boards...