I learned about this painting yesterday at an MIT Summer Summit for the GAMBIT department. It was awesome (obvs) but when I learned about this painting, I wanted to make sure I noted it for future replica purchase.

The painting shows dozens of different games being played by children in the 1500's. If you click through to this particular site, the owner, Bruce Van Patter, has provided a sharp - and appropriate - criticism of game culture of today.

Somehow missed this connection 3 years ago but McCain's & BSG's Tigh's look EXACTLY ALIKE.

It's not real, but oh how awesome it would be...

I am not understanding, but I don't think understanding is needed.

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‘It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times’?!

Brilliant site!

LOLz

Pretty.

You probably think this doesn't apply to you, but it does.

No image, but click through and check it out.

Tommy Craggs — I'll just let the Times explain:

An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in "The Hobbit"; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins's sword was called Sting.)

I love everyone involved in this correction — Dickey for the Tolkien homage, the Times for reporting it, the nerd readers for objecting, and the Times again for correcting the mistake so punctiliously. (Though if you want to be technical about it, Orcrist, in the Elvish language of Sindarin, means "goblin cleaver," and thus the Times's "Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver" is a redundancy.)

Image via this video, in case you've forgotten

[NYT, via Reddit]

Love her.

This. Is. BRILLIANT.

Unbelievable & totally believable.

Worth referencing next year.