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Footprints on Flickr. May 22, 2013 Port Franks, Ontario Dad...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:06:00 -0400

Footprints on Flickr.

May 22, 2013
Port Franks, Ontario

Dad looking at the lake

Shot on a very windy and stormy looking day.

30 Minutes of Music - Episode 12June 2, 2013256kbps*Sounds best...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:20:00 -0400

30 Minutes of Music - Episode 12
June 2, 2013
256kbps
*Sounds best with over-the-ear headphones*

*NEW* — A VERSION FOR EARBUDS!

Download the MP3 (Right-click, ‘save link as’)

Subscribe with iTunes! (Or other RSS reader)

Track List [PDF]

0:00 – T. Rex – Mambo Sun (Electric Warrior)
3:58 – Vampire Weekend – Ya Hey (Modern Vampires Of The City)
9:11 – The National – Demons (Trouble Will Find Me)
12:40 – Air – Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping (Pocket Symphony)
16:42 – David Bowie – Space Oddity (Space Oddity)
21:42 – Blur – The Universal (The Great Escape)
26:09 – Patrick Watson – Quiet Crowd (Adventures In Your Own Backyard)

Download other episodes here!

shortformblog: “The 24 Most Melodramatic Pieces Of Yahoo/Tumblr...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:38 -0400

shortformblog:

“The 24 Most Melodramatic Pieces Of Yahoo/Tumblr Fanart” should be enough to make you question if you’re really that angry about this buyout, when you see how many people are far angrier than you.

home-of-hip-hop: fuck yahoo Today in “Things Not...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:59:45 -0400

home-of-hip-hop:

fuck yahoo

Today in “Things Not Actually Tweeted”

iwanttotouchdeanwinchestersbutt: fandom-mused: please yahoo...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:17:00 -0400

iwanttotouchdeanwinchestersbutt:

fandom-mused:

please yahoo just leave us alone. we’re happy as we are

is that moon moon

Yahoo ain’t going to do shit to Tumblr or to your stupid fandoms, calm your tits people. Christ..

Photo: Songquan Deng

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:09:10 -0400

Photo: Songquan Deng

nslayton: cjwho: Monument to a troubled past: Inside the...

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:06:50 -0400

nslayton:

cjwho:

Monument to a troubled past: Inside the enormous crumbling communist HQ Bulgaria cannot afford to maintain or demolish

This place never gets old.

breakingnews: Ohio man charged with kidnap, rape as women...

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:07:49 -0400

breakingnews:

Ohio man charged with kidnap, rape as women found

AP: Authorities have announced that they have filed kidnapping and rape charges against a Cleveland man arrested after three women missing for about a decade were found at his home on Monday.

Homeowner Ariel Castro has been charged, while his brothers Pedro and Onil Castro are being held. The brothers face no charges at this time.

Photo: A missing poster still rests on a tree outside the home of Amanda Berry Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland, Ohio. (Tony Dejak)

flavorpill: no to bad things. Vague Protest. (by The Vision...

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:04:32 -0400

flavorpill:

no to bad things.

Vague Protest. (by The Vision Beautiful)

matthewkeys: Streamageddon is here: Tomorrow, Netflix will lose...

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:57:22 -0400

matthewkeys:

Streamageddon is here: Tomorrow, Netflix will lose nearly 2,000 movies on its streaming service after deals with Warner, MGM and Universal lapse. Warner is moving its movies to its own streaming service that costs $10 a month. By the end of May, movies and TV shows under the CBS-Viacom umbrella may also go away. [More at Mashable]

THANKS MATT…. Don’t I look like an idiot..

Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig?

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:29:30 -0400

Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig?:

Attention Foodie “Oh the good old days of unprocessed cooking” Hipsters:

Contrary to the myth of the happy, apple-cheeked great-great-grandmother, cooking has rarely been seen as a source of fulfillment, historically speaking. In Colonial America, kitchen work was viewed as a lowly chore, often farmed out to servants (who, needless to say, did not spend a lot of time exulting in the visceral pleasures of pea shucking). In the 1800s, middle-class women supervised immigrant kitchen maids (or slaves), while pioneer women and rural housewives sweated over wood fires and heavy iron pots. (Fun fact: until the mid-1800s, many large households employed a small dog called a “turnspit dog” for the unpleasant task of turning the roast over the fire.)

“People were happy to work in factories and get off the farm!” groans Chris Bobel, a women’s studies professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. “The factory girls from Lowell [Massachusetts, one of the earliest textile mill towns], it was esteemed work, to be able to put on shoes and go sit at a sewing machine all day.”

And while there are genuine problems with today’s industrialized food system, the idea that food was purer and more wholesome in the past is also pure fiction.

“The media has done a good job of convincing people that their food isn’t safe, when almost certainly the opposite is true,” says Rachel Laudan, a food historian. Laudan points out that eating has always been an inherently dangerous enterprise, but one that has gotten progressively safer over the years with the rise of better sanitation and government standards.

Prepasteurization, children frequently died from cholera, listeria, or bovine tuberculosis after drinking tainted milk. Butter was often rancid or adulterated with anything from gypsum to gelatin fat to mashed potatoes. Until the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, penny candy might be colored with lead or arsenic, pickles with copper compounds. Malnutrition was endemic well into the twentieth century, especially in the parts of rural America we like to imagine as pastoral paradises.

Yet, due to the pervasive romanticization of the preindustrial family farm, today only 60 percent of Americans say they believe they’ve benefited from modern food technologies (including pasteurizing, fermenting, drying, freezing, fortification, and canning). Of the 60 percent who believe there are benefits to modern food technology, only 30 percent say modern technologies have increased food safety. In reality, we’ve all benefited vastly from these technologies, and many of us would actually be dead without them.

Photo

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:24:00 -0400

DEBUNKING UPDATE

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:01:00 -0400

Many photos and video being circulated of what people believe to be the fertilizer plant explosion near Waco, Texas.

Some of them, however, are NOT ACCURATE.

This video, for example, says it’s of the plant in question.
In reality, it’s video of the PEPCON disaster in 1988. [VIDEO]

This photo:

Is also NOT of the fertilizer plant explosion.

It’s actually a photo of the 2008 Big Spring refinery explosion.

So again, BEWARE.

youarelookingatthis: spider-mannam-redips: janglingargot: talo...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:45:49 -0400

youarelookingatthis:

spider-mannam-redips:

janglingargot:

taloa-nashoba:

determinatenegation:

Everyday

Every time some dumb fuck says something about bombing North Korea off the map I want to scream. Those babies faces, that could be my baby. I see my own daughter in all of their innocent faces. That is the same blood in her veins.

Yes. There are loads of ordinary people in North Korea, just like anywhere else. Warm, good-hearted, normal people with families and dreams. Their government has serious, frightening issues, but their citizens are just trying to live their lives in a country that often makes it really freaking hard for them. Never forget this.

Never blame the population for the sins of the government.

The issue I have here is that it’s not that the Media doesn’t want people seeing these images, it’s that it’s almost impossible to get them with North Korea’s censorship laws.

You fool! Can’t you see it’s easier to blame the media!?

IF You want to still see my random shit posted from time to time, I have a WordPress blog I'm going to post more often on.

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:55:12 -0400

IF You want to still see my random shit posted from time to time, I have a WordPress blog I'm going to post more often on.:

I’m sorry Tumblr, but I can only take so many GIFs and social justice blogs before it starts to get annoying.

That being said I’ll still post here from time to time (like funky images, or 30 Minutes podcasts) but for random shit I’m doing, like my journalism program (or just random stuff I think of) I’ll probably post it to WordPress.

Roger Ebert 1942 - 2013 Drawing by Kagan McLeod

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:55:55 -0400

Roger Ebert

1942 - 2013

Drawing by Kagan McLeod

The Culture of Fear

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:03:00 -0400

The Culture of Fear:

From my other non-Tumblr blog

To tumblr, or to WordPress…. That.. is the question…

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:00:09 -0400

To tumblr, or to WordPress….

That.. is the question…

"I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves. That’s what bums me out about those..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:03:04 -0400

“I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves. That’s what bums me out about those shows where people are judged so harshly by fucking musicians that hardly even play an instrument on their own fucking albums. It makes me really mad.”

- Dave Grohl in NME, March 23th 2013

thefrogman: Extra Ordinary by Li Chen [website | twitter] [h/t:...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:48:25 -0400

thefrogman:

Extra Ordinary by Li Chen [website | twitter]

[h/t: miniyo]