Skimming the Surface

I organize my clothes by color and drink espresso with my pinky up.

permalink jockohomo:

Tiny Caravaggio Self-Portrait Revealed by Technology - “A tiny self-portrait of Caravaggio hidden in one of his most acclaimed works can be seen clearly for the first time after cutting-edge technology was used to peer through decades of grime.” (Filed under Sunday Smash and Grab i.e. This Weeks’ Leftover Micro-Bursts)

jockohomo:

Tiny Caravaggio Self-Portrait Revealed by Technology - “A tiny self-portrait of Caravaggio hidden in one of his most acclaimed works can be seen clearly for the first time after cutting-edge technology was used to peer through decades of grime.” (Filed under Sunday Smash and Grab i.e. This Weeks’ Leftover Micro-Bursts)

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So here’s the upshot: of the 4.6 Gy of Earth’s known history, there’s only been enough oxygen in the atmosphere for us to survive for about 0.5 Gy. For roughly 90% of the Earth’s history we couldn’t even breathe the air. And about 10-25% of the time, there have been ice ages so savagely fierce that the glaciers reached the tropics: odds are good that any meat probe landing on solid ground during these periods would rapidly die of exposure. So historically, Earth has only been inhabitable about 8% of the time — assuming you are lucky enough to find some solid ground. Once you factor in the random surface distribution, we’re down to about 2% survivability.
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President Obama Taps Cassandra Butts to Serve as Senior Advisor at the Millennium Challenge Corporation

This is the title of the release that just got passed around my office.  I think ‘taps’ was probably not the best word to choose.

permalink jasencomstock:

You are unemployed because the NYT needs to use a graphical representation so you can understand what 10% means.  Or actually, the NYT has some of the best graphics people in print and online media and they are just keeping busy Mr. Smartypants.
via wonkette.

jasencomstock:

You are unemployed because the NYT needs to use a graphical representation so you can understand what 10% means.  Or actually, the NYT has some of the best graphics people in print and online media and they are just keeping busy Mr. Smartypants.

via wonkette.

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The call to arms went out last week.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who made her name suggesting that Barack Obama and other Democrats have “anti-American” views, appeared on Fox News on Friday night and urged Americans to come to Washington to protest: “We need to pay a house call on Nancy Pelosi and tell her what she can do with the Pelosi health-care plan.”

They came as directed, about 5,000 tea-party regulars and antiabortion activists, to the West Lawn of the Capitol on Thursday for what Bachmann called a “Super Bowl of Freedom,” sponsored by Republican members of Congress. And what a game it was.

By the time it was over, medics had administered government-run health care to at least five people in the crowd who were stricken as they denounced government-run health care. But Bachmann overlooked this irony as she said farewell to her recruits.

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soylentgreenispeople:

hmmmmm. What is wrong with this picture? I wish I could throw up my first communion bread from when I was 8 all over these sons a bitches.

wow.

Apparently the church wasn’t completely tapped out from paying out all those legal settlements…

thewarindrew:

soylentgreenispeople:

hmmmmm. What is wrong with this picture? I wish I could throw up my first communion bread from when I was 8 all over these sons a bitches.

wow.

Apparently the church wasn’t completely tapped out from paying out all those legal settlements…

permalink notthatkindagay:

15th St. NW, Washington DC

This is why we can’t have nice things.

notthatkindagay:

15th St. NW, Washington DC

This is why we can’t have nice things.

permalink thatguychad:

Plastic Bottles, 2007 by Chris Jordan60x120”Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
View partial zoom here.View detail at actual size here.

thatguychad:

Plastic Bottles, 2007 by Chris Jordan
60x120”

Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

View partial zoom here.
View detail at actual size here.