"The mountain lion hissed as she was trapped in the family's garage; the three dogs yipped relentlessly without giving up their position on the cat."

[via Lia]

"Haunted by memories of failure and embarrassing moments from his youth, award-winning writer Robin Hemley decided to go back for a second chance."

"You might want to have a local backup of your Flickr photo library for a variety of reasons. Maybe you lost your local copy due to a drive failure, or want to consolidate everything in one place as a backup. Or perhaps you just want to synchronize your uploaded pictures with an iPod or AppleTV automatically. At last, after much searching, I’ve found a solution that works perfectly, and is perfect for automation."

"I've been trying to find a suitable camera bag for some time now. At the moment, I've been using either my ordinary black and yellow Nikon camera bag which came with the D40 or my Mischa Barton handbag."

"After a factory had found a 40-million-year-old whale fossil in a limestone kitchen counter, researchers investigated the stone's fossil-packed Egyptian quarry, which could shed light on the origins of African wildlife."

NYTimes: ""Several of his larger works present a characteristic blend of purity, violence and monumentality now aimed at demonstrating simple principles of motion or mass in breathtakingly sculptural ways. In 'The Big Wheel,' Burden uses a motorcycle's rear wheel to set a three-ton iron flywheel, the survivor of a 19th-century factory, into a fast and furious spin that lasts about three hours."

It's not what you think.

"I admit it. I love it when the sky is falling. There is no more delicious a state of being than the imminent threat of disaster."

"So, go ahead and buy Brushes. That's cool — Steve Sprang deserves to be rewarded for his creativity. But I think we should be recognizing Jorge Colombo as the artist who uses these tools as well. A work like this beautiful sketch of an interior at Grand Central Terminal starts at just $20. Our technologies are succeeding best when they become invisible or irrelevant compared to the ideas they're being used to express."

another quote to add to my community presentation.

via Mario

A most excellent term heard while listening to On the Media.

A most excellent use of emoji.

"'Judges are like umpires,' Roberts said at the time. 'Umpires don’t make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.'"

pretty.

Why no. No I don't!

I <3 Carol.

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