my ethos

one day.

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:52:41 -0700

one day.

mr-moderngentleman: The color. The fit. The lapel-collar-tie...

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:10:08 -0700

mr-moderngentleman:

The color. The fit. The lapel-collar-tie ratio. Its all perfect wrapped up in a v neck sweater.

Tacos are better on Tuesdays: Igniting change & spreading it like wild fire

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:39:02 -0700

Tacos are better on Tuesdays: Igniting change & spreading it like wild fire:

icecreamisbetterwithafork:

About a month ago my Dad called, and left a message that went something like this:

So and so’s, sisters, partner works for Richard Branson, and they think you would be a great fit for this event coming up on his private island. Am I allowed to pass along her phone number to you?

My Dad is…

saltairandfarm: modernman-neanderthal: beardage. Ray...

Fri, 04 May 2012 09:26:56 -0700

saltairandfarm:

modernman-neanderthal:

beardage.

Ray LaMontagne

museumofusefulthings: 40 Uses for WD-40: 1. Protects silver...

Thu, 03 May 2012 08:48:37 -0700

museumofusefulthings:

40 Uses for WD-40:

1. Protects silver from tarnishing.

2. Removes road tar and grime from cars.

3. Cleans and lubricates guitar strings.

4. Gives floors that ‘just-waxed’ sheen without making them slippery.

5. Keeps flies off cows. (I love this one!)

6. Restores and cleans chalkboards.

7. Removes lipstick stains.

8. Loosens stubborn zippers.

9. Untangles jewelry chains.

10. Removes stains from stainless steel sinks.

11. Removes dirt and grime from the barbecue grill.

12. Keeps ceramic/terra cotta garden pots from oxidizing.

13. Removes tomato stains from clothing.

14. Keeps glass shower doors free of water spots.

15. Camouflages scratches in ceramic and marble floors.

16. Keeps scissors working smoothly.

17. Lubricates noisy door hinges on vehicles and doors in homes.

18. Removes black scuff marks from the kitchen floor - Use WD-40 for those nasty tar and scuff marks on flooring. It doesn’t seem to harm the finish and you won’t have to scrub nearly as hard to get them off. Just remember to open some windows if you have a lot of marks.

19. Bug guts will eat away the finish on your car if not removed quickly! Use WD-40!

20. Gives a children’s playground gym slide a shine for a super fast slide.

21. Lubricates gear shift and mower deck lever for ease of handling on riding mowers…

22. Rids kids rocking chairs and swings of squeaky noises.

23. Lubricates tracks in sticking home windows and makes them easier to open..

24. Spraying an umbrella stem makes it easier to open and close.

25. Restores and cleans padded leather dashboards in vehicles, as well as vinyl bumpers.

26. Restores and cleans roof racks on vehicles.

27. Lubricates and stops squeaks in electric fans

28. Lubricates wheel sprockets on tricycles, wagons, and bicycles for easy handling.

29. Lubricates fan belts on washers and dryers and keeps them running smoothly.

30. Keeps rust from forming on saws and saw blades, and other tools.

31. Removes splattered grease on stove.

32. Keeps bathroom mirror from fogging.

33. Lubricates prosthetic limbs.

34. Keeps pigeons off the balcony (they hate the smell).

35. Removes all traces of duct tape.

36. Spray it on their arms, hands, and knees to relieve arthritis pain.

37. WD-40 attracts fish. Spray a little on live bait or lures and you will be catching the big one in no time. Also, it’s a lot cheaper than the chemical attractants that are made for just that purpose. Keep in mind though, using some chemical laced baits or lures for fishing are not allowed in some states.

38. Use it for fire ant bites. It takes the sting away immediately and stops the itch.

39. Removes crayon from walls. Spray on the mark and wipe with a clean rag.

40. If you sprayed WD-40 on the distributor cap, it would displace the moisture and allow the car to start.

The basic ingredient is Fish Oil. Saw Picture here. Uses found here.

allisterann: Yesterday:) tcwtour: Justin Timberlake and The...

Tue, 01 May 2012 07:19:30 -0700

allisterann:

Yesterday:)

tcwtour:

Justin Timberlake and The Civil Wars, Late Night with David Letterman

Photo

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:26:55 -0700

tastefullyoffensive: [bbc]

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:21:38 -0700

tastefullyoffensive:

[bbc]

cannot wait for this album.jhnmyr: Here’s a clip of the first...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:39:21 -0800

cannot wait for this album.

jhnmyr:

Here’s a clip of the first single off Born and Raised, called “Shadow Days.” I’m excited to share the first bit of sound from the album… Been looking forward to a post like this since October 14, 2010, the first day I started writing this group of songs. Enjoy.

good: The Alarming Rise of Jeremy Lin’s Black...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:58:51 -0800

good:

The Alarming Rise of Jeremy Lin’s Black Antagonists

Overnight, Lin went from a nobody development league player to the toast of New York City, and all via a glorious burst of athleticism that rivaled the greats of old. The world loves a Cinderella story, especially when the little guy is like Lin, a kindhearted, good-looking underdog with a Harvard degree and a deep faith in God. Everything was beautiful. But then came the bowing. Sadly, it appears as if Jeremy Lin’s fame has brought out black celebrities saying offensive things about him.

Read it on GOOD→

newyorker: Lovings at Home In 1950, a young man from Central...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:10:41 -0800

newyorker:

Lovings at Home

In 1950, a young man from Central Point, Virginia, went seven miles down the road to hear some music. Seven brothers named the Jeters were on that night, playing bluegrass in a farmhouse. The young man had come for the music, but couldn’t help noticing a young woman in the audience. The man, Richard Loving, was white; the woman, Mildred Jeter, was black and Cherokee. Seventeen years later, as a result of their meeting, the Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act, along with anti-miscegenation laws in fifteen other states, ending the legal prohibitions against interracial marriage.

On view until May 6th at the International Center of Photography, “The Loving Story” highlights the human element of the Loving v. Virginia case, bringing the ardor that fueled the Lovings’ half-decade of appeals into heart-rending focus…

- For more selection of photographs of Richard and Mildred Loving: http://nyr.kr/wLrC3t

I’m Not Okay With Chris Brown Performing at the Grammy’s and I’m Not Sure Why You Are

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:17:08 -0800

I’m Not Okay With Chris Brown Performing at the Grammy’s and I’m Not Sure Why You Are:

blairsings:

Just saw this on twitter (thanks, Luci!). Excellent article re: Chris Brown performing at the Grammy’s.

I’m Not Okay With Chris Brown Performing at the Grammy’s and I’m Not Sure Why You Are

I’ve been following the Yeardley Love trial this week and have been reminded of how serious and dire…

to call it epic is an understatement

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:21:30 -0800

akomuzikera:

it took 5 sets, 5 hours and 53 minutes for novak djokovic and rafael nadal to make a grand slam history record. it was the best match i’ve seen (so far)! and the longest grand slam final at that!

djokovic def. nadal 5-7 6-4 6-2 6-7(5) 7-5.

tennis really is the greatest sport ever!

kateoplis: mills: Kateoplis posted a “Moon model by Johann FJ...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:45:44 -0800

kateoplis:

mills:

Kateoplis posted a “Moon model by Johann FJ Schmidt at Chicago’s Field Museum, 1898.” One can scarcely imagine a more beautiful representation of knowledge, that strange abstraction which exerts so much control over the irreducible physical cosmos; as David Deutsch noted in his first TED talk:

Now how do we know about an environment that’s so far away, and so different, and so alien, from anything we’re used to? Well, the Earth —our environment, in the form of us— is creating knowledge. Well, what does that mean? Well, look out even further than we’ve just been —I mean from here, with a telescope— and you’ll see things that look like stars. They’re called “quasars.” “Quasars” originally meant quasi-stellar object. Which means things that look a bit like stars. But they’re not stars. And we know what they are. Billions of years ago, and billions of light years away, the material at the center of a galaxy collapsed towards a super-massive black hole. And then intense magnetic fields directed some of the energy of that gravitational collapse. And some of the matter, back out in the form of tremendous jets which illuminated lobes with the brilliance of —I think it’s a trillion suns.

Now, the physics of the human brain could hardly be more unlike the physics of such a jet. We couldn’t survive for an instant in it. Language breaks down when trying to describe what it would be like in one of those jets. It would be a bit like experiencing a supernova explosion, but at point-blank range and for millions of years at a time. And yet, that jet happened in precisely such a way that billions of years later, on the other side of the universe, some bit of chemical scum could accurately describe, and model, and predict, and explain, —above all— what was happening there, in reality. The one physical system, the brain, contains an accurate working model of the other, the quasar. Not just a superficial image of it, though it contains that as well, but an explanatory model, embodying the same mathematical relationships and the same causal structure.

Now that is knowledge. And if that weren’t amazing enough, the faithfulness with which the one structure resembles the other is increasing with time. That is the growth of knowledge. So, the laws of physics have this special property. That physical objects, as unlike each other as they could possibly be, can nevertheless embody the same mathematical and causal structure and to do it more and more so over time.

It is not solely humanity which is capable of this; all life, to some degree, embodies knowledge as a function of selection processes which reward, so to speak, successful adaptive responses to environments. But humans have a vastly greater degree of precision and accuracy in their knowledge than any other creature, in part because our knowledge is so often explicit, rather being than coded into inexplicit, lossy genomic systems; in part because our knowledge is representational in many ways, rather than merely responsive to stimuli; in part because of our capacity for abstraction and generalization; and largely because ours is aided, in innumerable ways, by tools we have constructed to help acquire knowledge.

These tools now themselves contain models precisely as our minds do; inside this room is a model of the moon, just as inside your mind are the models for countless phenomena you will never witness, never touch or feel, and yet whose shape and behavior you can predict with stunning accuracy. We know a great deal through statistical computation, but all such computation is contingent on explanatory models which “embody the same mathematical and causal structure” as this or that element of the natural world.

Man is above all else the maker of models. Real knowledge is not merely predictive but virtualizes; one needn’t go to the moon; one merely keeps a model of it at hand.

FOLLOW MILLS.

"The thing is — and this is kind of important — governments are not corporations. I cannot stress..."

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:43:04 -0800

“The thing is — and this is kind of important — governments are not corporations. I cannot stress this enough. There’s the obvious point that in democracies, legislatures tend to impose a more powerful constraint than shareholders, making it that much harder for leaders to execute the policies they think will be the most efficient. … There’s been a lot of bragging in the 2012 primary about candidates that have “real world” business experience, and how that translates into an effective ability to govern. That logic is horses**t. Being president is a fundamentally different job than being a CEO — because countries are not corporations.”

- Dan Drezner, America Isn’t a Company

okaysamurai: A few extra lyrics never hurt anyone… Follow me on...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:34:43 -0800

okaysamurai:

A few extra lyrics never hurt anyone…

Follow me on Facebook or Twitter for updates about new videos!

fromageetalpinisme: books on books on books temperatures: Main...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:05:16 -0800

fromageetalpinisme:

books on books on books

temperatures:

Main Hall by Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County

THIS!#geeklovewhereisthecoool: SUPER HEROES BY AGAN...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:14:41 -0800

THIS!
#geeklove

whereisthecoool:

SUPER HEROES BY AGAN HARASHAP

Artist Agan Harashap’s project “Super Heroes”, plants comic book’s most renowned figures into the midst of history. The attention to detail and styling is painfully good; creating an unusual and often eerie mirage that will make fans wonder if these characters are in fact real.

Cherbourg-Normandy 1944

Soldiers from the 7th US Army carry the priceless artworks down the steps of Meunschwanstein Castle where hoards of European art treasures, stolen by the Nazis, were hidden during World War II.

Afghan resistance fighters returning to a village destroyed by Soviet forces, 1986

June 9, 1944, German soldiers are brought back this photo was taken in the sector of Taret Ravenoville. The coastal area between Utah and Quinéville was cleaned of June 7 to 13 men by the 22nd and 39th regiments.

By October 13, 1941, the Wehrmacht had arrived at the Mozhaisk defense line. Zhukov decided to concentrate his forces at four critical points: Volokolamsk, Mozhaisk, Maloyaroslavets and Kaluga. The entire Soviet Western Front, almost completely destroyed after its encirclement near Vyazma, was being recreated from scratch.

Heinrich Himmler inspects a prisoner-of-war camp in Russia.

One of those reoccurring dreams from childhood.

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:38:33 -0800

One of those reoccurring dreams from childhood.

npr: WOWWWWWwwwww publicradiointernational: kqedscience: Blue...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:34:36 -0800

npr:

WOWWWWWwwwww

publicradiointernational:

kqedscience:

Blue Morpho butterfly tree

Nature wins out in the “wondrous” category every time.