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Some of my favs:
Preparing:
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ empty seat:
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Guest of honor: Daniel Hernandez
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“No, YOU lie!” coalspeaker
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arnoldbtruthingtonofaccuracylane
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Season 2 of The Walking Dead now on TV (via):
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Rachel Maddow’s response to Bachmann’s official Tea Party response:
pantslessprogressive
The Stockholm Metro, or Stockholms tunnelbana, is the metro system in Stockholm, Sweden. The system has three main lines and one hundred stations, 47 of which are subterranean and 53 are aboveground (surface and elevated) stations.
~ I like photos to be identified :)
Another bullshit study that I completely disagree with:
“While showing a happy face is considered essential to friendly social interactions, including those involving sexual attraction – few studies have actually examined whether a smile is, in fact, attractive,” says Prof. Jessica Tracy of UBC’s Dept. of Psychology. “This study finds that men and women respond very differently to displays of emotion, including smiles.”
In a series of studies, more than 1,000 adult participants rated the sexual attractiveness of hundreds of images of the opposite sex engaged in universal displays of happiness (broad smiles), pride (raised heads, puffed-up chests) and shame (lowered heads, averted eyes).
The study found that women were least attracted to smiling, happy men, preferring those who looked proud and powerful or moody and ashamed. In contrast, male participants were most sexually attracted to women who looked happy, and least attracted to women who appeared proud and confident.
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I’d like to know exactly where these women are currently institutionalized…







I love seeing men smile. The issue is that these kinds of photos are rare — photographers POSE men to not smile. So now we’re conditioned to see men not smiling and that’s all we have to judge attractiveness. Google the men above and you’ll find hardly any images of them looking happy or laughing — but you will find a ton of Twilight-Emo poses to choose from.
Seriously, how could women not be attracted to a man who looks happy?
(Source: underthemountainbunker.com)
Photo Credit: NASA
npr:
What Really Happened To The National Cathedral During the #DCQuake
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I’ll bet she’s glad that’s over with.
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Boing Boing reader Porter Yates shares this photo, titled “The Earth is Flat,” with the Boing Boing Flickr Pool—and explains:
Looking onto Andean fields near Simiatug, Ecuador. My vantage point was from ~ 13,000 ft. The clouds filled the valley below as the sun began to set. I had never seen a sky quite like this.
Beautiful!
via: BoingBoing
A lightning show at the Grand Canyon
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image: theblackflamecandle
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Interesting photographic perspective — or really bad place to wake up?
BuzzFeed editors are down at Occupy Wall Street where the big march is underway.
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PHOTOS: Teaparty vs. #OccupyWallStreet — which group have the media taken more seriously?
And the larger question is: WHY?
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I think this door needs one of those little stuffed dachshund draftguards.
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Orphans no more: National Geographic photos of bebe elephant keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: New York City: Occupy Wall Street protester Brandon Watts lies injured on the ground after police attack on Zuccotti Park, November 17, 2011.
brandongblatt: Occupy Wall Street man being attacked by cop

juliomcdorkpants: Minutes ago at OWS NY.
ericmortensen:Occupy Wall Street: “blood and shoe left behind minutes ago” Photo by documentary filmmaker Luci Westphal.
It’s unclear whether this guy knocked off a police officer’s cap or was kicking barricades. In any event, he was stopped – cold.
Livestream with Tim Pool at http://www.ustream.tv/theother99