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We told them that combining genetic material from Col. Sanders with the Jolly Green Giant wasn’t wise, but would they listen?

Perhaps they’ll listen next time.

http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/645-520x408.jpg

(From Retronaut, of course)

5 days ago0 notes

Hmm… Is this taking ‘love of ice cream’ too far - or just far enough?

http://cdn.coolest-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/f4aad8b67b5b4ba59ba7fdcfcae1e341-300x203.jpg

Yes, that is a combination lock to prevent others from snaffling your ice cream in a communal fridge!

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20120522/ben-jerrys-euphori/

6 days ago0 notes

visioluxus:

Corset

1 week ago27 notes

Okay, this? Is wonderful. And silly.

crumpetfighter:

© 2011 Rebecca Head

Based on a true story. A really stupid one. 

For a simple gag, the coloring on this officially took me TOO LONG. Initially I was adding gradient to each individual color section, and it came out way too “For Better or for Worse” (which is still one of my favorite newspaper comics, but still, not really what I am going for.)

Also : I am really short.

Also also: this comic makes my hair look about 10x cooler than it actually is.

1 week ago87 notes

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"People get really irritated by mental illness. ‘Just fucking get it together! Suck it up, man!’ I had a breakdown, and a spiritual friend came to visit me in the psych ward. And they said, ‘You need to get out of here. Because this is the story you’re telling yourself. You know, Patch Adams has this great work-group camp where you can learn how to really celebrate life.’ It’s something people are so powerless over, and so often they want to make it your fault. It’s nobody fault. I started thinking of suicide when I was 10 years old—I can’t believe that that’s somebody’s fault. Like, ‘Oh, you’re just an attention getter.’ Mental illness isn’t seen as an illness, it’s seen as a choice…. I have a joke about how people don’t talk about mental illness the way they do other regular illnesses. ‘Well, apparently Jeff has cancer. Uh, I have cancer. We all have cancer. You go to chemotherapy you get it taken care of, am I right? You get back to work.’ Or: ‘I was dating this chick, and three months in, she tells me that she wears glasses, and she’s been wearing contact lenses all this time. She needs help seeing. I was like, listen, I’m not into all that Western medicine shit. If you want to see, then work at it. Figure out how not to be so myopic. You know?’"

Maria Bamford  (via yeshairy)

Putting the “BAMF” in Bamford.

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2 weeks ago5,162 notes

The local ‘small ads’ site seems to be having some fun with its google adverts:

19 results found for ikea within 20 miles of <town>

<snip>

“Ads by Google:         Body Armour

Hmm. And how about if I don’t go during the bank holiday?

3 weeks ago0 notes

This? Is awesome. Mr. Sendak, you are missed.

emmyc:

kecky:

unwindingeyes:

RIP Maurice.

what a beautiful human being

OMG

(Source: gifmovie)

3 weeks ago31,947 notes
Neil Gaiman: Libraries - More important than ever. →

neil-gaiman:

I’m a graduate student earning my master’s in library science, and everyone asks me, “Why are you doing that? Libraries are going extinct because of e-readers!” Obviously, I don’t agree, but I’m curious - what’s your opinion on libraries today and in the future, and do you own an e-reader?
3 weeks ago948 notes

Resurrection of the Daleks, then, and now (well, okay, then and 2008)

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/05/resurrection-of-the-daleks-19842008/


(warning, contains falling Dalek, and 80’s fashions.)

3 weeks ago0 notes
"I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become."

Carl Jung

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3 weeks ago31 notes
Proof that it is not what you say (or indeed, ask), but how you say it.

Proof that it is not what you say (or indeed, ask), but how you say it.

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2 months ago15 notes

“Now listen-up, dix-huit”

This thing really needs to be voiced by Windsor Davies:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/03/mighty-morphing-hexapod-bot-is-back-now-rolls-with-the-punches/

2 months ago0 notes

New - from Dübreq!

It’s crazy and wonderful that this even exists:

Prototype Motor-car Top Trumps - from 1978! (Retronaut)
[Click for ’70s awesomeness!]



Also: I want the ‘Modulo’, dammit.


2 months ago0 notes

Third picture down in this excellent Retronaut article http://www.retronaut.co/2012/03/colour-photographs-of-sevastopol-1940s-1970s/ :

Yep, looks like Sebastopol beat both Boris and Ken to the bendy-bus by, oooh somewhere between between 30 and 60 years? Burned!

(NB: Yes, I understand that this is in reality, probably a tram, not a bus. This is of course just another point in its favour, not a flaw)

2 months ago0 notes