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Chris Mohney: The Tornado Nature
A repost vis a vis the tragedy in Oklahoma. I’ll finish writing out some thoughts about today’s other thing some other time.
Some people in my family were killed more than ten years ago by a tornado in Alabama, and some survived. Those who died, died bad, and the…
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Interested Interlude, 1940s.
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A “drugstore cowboy” preparing to deliver orders on his bicycle in Texas, 1938.
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Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.
FUCKING THANK YOU.
hero status
(via mothereffervescent)
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Mel Brooks tells David Bianculli about the late Madeline Kahn:
I’m in tears thinking about Madeline. And what an incredibly gifted gift from god, Madeline Kahn. The funniest and most talented comedienne I think, including people like Carol Burnett who are great, you know, and Gilda Radner who was magnificent, but nobody — listen to me, David Bianculli — nobody could approach the magnificence and wonder of Madeline Kahn. She was really a great gift to us all. … I saw art [in her], not just funny. But I saw a person who was gifted with art. She’s the only one who actually could have worked in opera as an opera singer, as a coloratura. She was that talented or I think she could have worked as a longshoreman in New Jersey. I don’t think there’s anything that Madeline Kahn couldn’t do.”
GIF of Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein (1974) via trixiedelight:
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Helios-A and Helios-B (also known as Helios 1 and Helios 2), are a pair of probes launched into heliocentric orbit for the purpose of studying solar processes. A joint venture of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and NASA, the probes were launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Dec. 10, 1974, and Jan. 15, 1976, respectively.
The probes are notable for having set a maximum speed record among spacecraft at 252,792 km/h (157,078 mi/h or 43.63 mi/s or 70.22 km/s or 0.000234c). Helios 2 flew three million kilometers closer to the Sun than Helios 1, achieving perihelion on 17 April 1976 at a record distance of 0.29 AU (or 43.432 million kilometers), slightly inside the orbit of Mercury. Helios 2 was sent into orbit 13 months after the launch of Helios 1. The Helios space probes completed their primary missions by the early 1980s, but they continued to send data up to 1985. The probes are no longer functional but still remain in their elliptical orbit around the Sun -
To say that if you use this special pronunciation option you “fail to speak properly” is lunacy. The truth is the opposite: you fail to speak the normal style of Standard English properly if you don’t use [gənə]. Saying “I am not going to put up with it” with every vowel and consonant pronounced individually in its stressed form makes you sound like an extraterrestial (“Do. Not. Fear. Us. We. Will. Not. Harm. You”).
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I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks profanity is somehow more harmful to our children than images of violence and misogyny.
— M.I.A. (via janejacqueline)(via girl-non-grata)
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Storm 5-20-13 (by Charles Cook)
This is apparently the formation of the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma. The footage is as spooky as it is fascinating.
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The Sea’s Strangest Square Mile
Sit back and let your eyes soak up this goggle-fogging journey to the Lembeh Strait near Indonesia by Shark Bay Films. It’s known as one of the richest homes of odd coral reef creatures on Earth.
Lightning-quick eels! Coral-colored, pregnant frogfish stuffing their bellies with wriggling prey! Baby cuttlefish!! BABY CUTTLEFISH!!!
(via kottke)
