January 2011
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8tracks: Cosmic Love
Because I’m such a cool nerd:
10 tracks: for Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, power couple of science. “In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.” -Carl Sagan
Featuring Benn Jordan, Sigur Ros, Florence + the Machine, Bjork, The Veils, Antony & the Johnsons, God Is An Astronaut, Marina & the Diamonds, and...
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In the last two weeks...
bensk:
I left a company that it had been my dream to work for since I was 14.
Started a new job, that continually amazes me.
But I don’t want to talk about that. I really just want to talk to someone about this:
I’m sad I missed this, but the idea…well, it speaks for itself:
Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in...
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Egypt
fuckyeahancienthistory:
There are a million things to say about what is happening in Egypt right now. We will focus on what is happening to the antiquities.
Classical Archaeology News on Tumblr is updating regularly with news
There was looting in the National Museum in Cairo and artefacts have been destroyed
Zahi Hawass has commented on the destruction of two mummies
There is a large fire...
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Something I just noticed.
jensenapples:
cupcakesinthetardis:
givemetimeandacrayon-:
In this picture
Craig and his snake mug are making the same face.
Dear god someone take this computer away from me.
HAHAHA
THIS IS WHY I LOVE PEOPLE
APPRECIATE
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I have resorted to eating a block of bittersweet baker’s chocolate. I need to bake a real dessert when I get home…
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Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. - Be patient and tough; some day...
– Ovid (via goodmorningsunsh1ne)
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Mo money, mo problems.
– John D. Rockefeller (via historysaidwhat)
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Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection....
– Vincent van Gogh
(nathanielstuart)
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In a life short and uncertain, it seems heartless to do anything that might...
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (via mohandasgandhi)
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etymology of the word IDIOT
sisterspock:
Idiot as a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs (“person lacking professional skill,” “a private citizen,” “individual”), from ἴδιος, idios(“private,” “one’s own”).[2]
Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. “Idiots” were seen as having bad judgment in...