January 2012
60 posts
Watchnpr:
A Lego in space.
guardiancomment:
guardian:
Video: Youtube/mathewmho
Lego man in space: one (very) small step
Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras to a balloon carrying the toy astronaut 24km above Earth. A week after launch they recovered their Lego man in a field,...
“This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s...”
– Justice Blackmun, Roe v. Wade. Roe was decided 39 years ago today. (via wisconsinforward)
5 tags
The awkward moment when people ask you about your...
itotallyrelate:
icanrelate.info
“Society is like a stew. If you don’t keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on...”
– Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
No Surprise. Oakland Police Chief Lied to... →
wilwheaton:
After the October 25th raid on Frank Ogawa Plaza / Oscar Grant Park, and before the November 2nd General Strike, a campaign by all the powers that be in Oakland had started to discredit anyone and anything associated with Occupy Oakland. And so, to no one’s particular surprise, in the emails poured over by KTVU reporters was found a note that might as well have caused the...
“[I]t is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a...”
– Violet Rose, in Three Steps to Better Sex (via muffdiver)
This reminds me of the post going around which contrasted the pathologizing of public breastfeeding with the gratuitous, objectifying images of women’s breasts that can be found in advertising.
The legal and social message is that our...
5 tags
Eminent scientists and their tattoos →
It is not simply the thing in the tattoo itself that matters. Archaeopteryx is, in itself, just an old bird. But it is part of the transition dinosaurs made from the Earth to the sky; it is an example of how new forms evolve from old, of how we are so lucky to live in an era where we can recognise fossils not as harmonic formations taken on by rocks themselves, but the flattened and...
5 tags
USA TODAY: Economy adds 200,000 jobs in December,... →
