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“Cigarettes are like squirrels. They’re not dangerous until you put one in your mouth and light it on fire.” [via celluloidblonde]

This is what life was like before Google fixed it.

(via Shoebox » Chuck & Beans)

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

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Mark Twain in Following the Equator

The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster. What we focus on changes what we notice. Our brain filters information, seeing one thing in a situation instead of something else, based on what we identify with, what we have our attention on, what we’re looking for—more or less consciously.

— David Allen, Productive Living

Pleatedjeans put together this video chain of TV shows referencing other TV shows.

The clips are from come from Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, Community, South Park, Hannah Montana, Law and Order, Beavis and Butthead, Full House, The Simpsons, Scrubs, Gilmore Girls, The Office, Entourage, Arrested Development, Family Guy, The Fresh Prince, Saved by the Bell, Married With Children, Friends, …and back to Saturday Night Live

Marry a happy person.

(via Dilbert comic strip for 02/10/2012 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.)

Art History Through Sci Fi-Colored Glasses

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go with a group.

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- African proverb

Wordpharmacy is a concrete poetical work, which playfully equates the structure of language with pharmaceutical products. It consists of ten medicine boxes, each representing one of the ten word-groups. Each box contains a leaflet that functions as an instructional poem, guiding the reader’s ingestion of the given word group.

(via Wordpharmacy Family)

I don’t know if anyone I know will get this.

(via ThinkGeek :: ~/ Sweet ~/ Welcome Mat)

Under the Microscope #6 by CambridgeUniversity

Cancer cells get attacked by a killer T cell in this video by University of Cambridge researchers.

Cytotoxic T cells are very precise and efficient killers. They are able to destroy infected or cancerous cells, without destroying healthy cells surrounding them.

Countries & Colour by Jerod Gibson

This is an ongoing series of geographic prints. I’ve been wanting to do a series with a digi-watercolor style for awhile as well as doing something that involved countries. The two parts seemed to go hand in hand very good, and melded into a nice minimalistic abstract designs.

Scott Adams shares the one goal he focuses on that serves the multiple priorities in his life.

The way I approach the problem of multiple priorities is by focusing on just one main goal: energy. I make choices that maximize my personal energy because that makes it easier to manage all of the other priorities. Maximizing my personal energy means eating right, exercising, avoiding unnecessary stress, getting enough sleep, and all of the obvious steps. But it also means having something in my life that makes me excited to wake up. When I get my personal energy right, the quality of my work is better, and I can complete it faster. That keeps my career on track. And when all of that is working, and I feel relaxed and energetic, my personal life is better too.

I am… via Flickr Blog. Iamaustin published the photos from this lovely project in his photostream.

The Scale of the Universe 2

Bobby Neel Adams spliced together photos of six individuals from when they were children and adults to make these interesting Age-Maps.

Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, spoke to Stephen Hackett of 512pixles about why he chooses text as his medium of choice.

Text is an amazingly versatile medium. Relative to other media, text has very low production costs, both in authorship and distribution. One person can produce a great essay or even a complete book. It’s much harder to be a one-person filmmaker. And since text as a medium does not have a fixed timescale like audio and video, it can be easily skimmed or read at any desired speed. In the digital world, text becomes even more useful. It takes up almost no space by today’s standards, it can be easily indexed and analyzed, and tools like mine can edit, restructure, and reflow it to do all sorts of different things. The ease of producing, distributing, and messing around with text has resulted in an effectively infinite supply of great expression, information, and entertainment being written and read in this wonderful medium. Whatever you want to read, there’s already more of it than you could read in a lifetime, and there’s probably more being produced right now.

This Venn Diagram from New York Magazine shows an incredible amount of overlap in the titles and themes of various reality show.

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Afghanistan – touch down in flight by Augustin Pictures

As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan.

Be sure to watch it in full screen.

If there’s no good reason to use the feature, why have the feature?

(by Jason Robb)