ChristyRae

sovietpostcards: 1970

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:16:49 -0500

sovietpostcards:

1970

ratsoff: GPOY

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:08:36 -0500

ratsoff:

GPOY

"It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If’in you don’t know by now An’ it..."

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:05:55 -0500

“

It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If’in you don’t know by now
An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don’t matter anyhow

When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I’ll be gone
You’re the reason I’m travelin’ along
Don’t think twice, it’s all right

Well, it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An’ it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe
I’m on the dark side of the road

Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
But we never did too much talkin’ anyway
So don’t think twice, it’s all right

It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, babe
Like you never did before
It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, babe
I can’t hear you any more

I’m a-thinkin’ and a-wonderin’ walkin’ down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I’m told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don’t think twice, it’s all right

So I’m walkin’ down that long lonesome road, babe
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell
But goodbye’s too good a word, babe
So I’ll just say fare thee well

I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right

”

inhabitat.com

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:16:49 -0500

inhabitat.com

catscientists: Dr ‘Fluffy’ Pearcey programming CSIRAC...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:18:23 -0500

catscientists:

Dr ‘Fluffy’ Pearcey programming CSIRAC (Australia’s first Computer) to dispense cat fud.

collegehumor: Cool Pranks For Cats [Click to see them all] Pwn...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:46:10 -0500

collegehumor:

Cool Pranks For Cats [Click to see them all]

Pwn that owner.

sovietpostcards: 1954

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:40:04 -0500

sovietpostcards:

1954

explore-blog: What the night sky will look like over the next 7...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:39:37 -0500

explore-blog:

What the night sky will look like over the next 7 billion years, in 19 seconds.

(↬ It’s Okay To Be Smart)

explore-blog: Benjamin Franklin’s famous list of thirteen...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:14:28 -0500

explore-blog:

Benjamin Franklin’s famous list of thirteen virtues, as it appears in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin wrote the list in 1726, at the age of 20.

"Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is..."

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:14:14 -0500

“Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes. Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science. There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.””

- Carl Sagan (via cracked)

tranqualizer: [photo: a mural in Chicago reads, “no human being...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:11:07 -0500

tranqualizer:

[photo: a mural in Chicago reads, “no human being is illegal. national security is used to foster inter ethnic tension.” there is surrounding artwork that includes butterflies and flowers resting on barbed wire that is also draped at some points with torn flags.]

sharonlittletomato:

Found this mural walking around Chicago.

explore-blog: Begin the new year with some of history’s most...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:06:09 -0500

explore-blog:

Begin the new year with some of history’s most beautiful definitions of love.

cracked: The Mountain Goats - This Year Obligatory.

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:04:38 -0500

cracked:

The Mountain Goats - This Year

Obligatory.

Photo

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:59:18 -0500

good: Help Build a Vibrantly Multilingual World- Laura Welcher...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:58:39 -0500

good:

Help Build a Vibrantly Multilingual World
- Laura Welcher wrote in Culture, Future and Language

Most people don’t know this, but there are a lot more languages spoken in the world than the ones we hear every day. In fact, there are around 7,000 different languages, and each one tells a part of the story of our human experience on Planet Earth.

This tremendous richness of human linguistic diversity took thousands of years to develop, yet it is rapidly disappearing. Linguists expect that within the next century we will lose up to 90 percent of the world’s languages as we converge on a few of the mostly widely used ones for global communication and commerce.

Continue reading on good.is

Illustration by Tyler Hoehne

collegehumor: Screencap - You’ve clearly thought this through

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:57:52 -0500

collegehumor:

Screencap - You’ve clearly thought this through

ncpssm: There are several alternatives to cut the deficit...

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:20:36 -0500

ncpssm:

There are several alternatives to cut the deficit rather than using the Chained CPI. Seniors, veterans, and middle-class rely on Social Security as a source of their income and can’t afford any cuts.

"Both paper and envelopes should be of fine quality. It conduces to fine penmanship, and perhaps..."

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:19:38 -0500

“Both paper and envelopes should be of fine quality. It conduces to fine penmanship, and perhaps inspires the writer with fine thoughts. Coarse paper, coarse language, coarse thoughts, — all coarse things seem to be associated.”

- A vintage guide to the art of writing letters, 1896. (via explore-blog)

explore-blog: Moses Harris’s 1766 chart, one of 100 diagrams...

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:07:04 -0500

explore-blog:

Moses Harris’s 1766 chart, one of 100 diagrams that changed the world, was the first full-color circle. The 18 colors of his wheel were derived from what he then called the three ‘primitive’ colors: red, yellow and blue. At the center of the wheel, Harris showed that black is formed by the superimposition of these colors.

ratsoff: Teen Magazine, January 1971. (superseventies.)

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:54:39 -0500

ratsoff:

Teen Magazine, January 1971.

(superseventies.)