February 2012
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Academy Awards 2012: Putting Blackface in Context →
Since this (blackface+ Oscars+ 2012) happened, there’s been a lot of grumbling about how it’s “just a joke” and how “it’s not a big deal.”
This is followed by a lot of anxiety and hand-wringing about being “too sensitive” on the part of people who were offended by it (blackface+ Oscars+ 2012)
The implication is that if you are “too sensitive” then your feelings are invalid because they are...
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10 Great Masters of Tilt-Shift Photography
mentalflossr:
They look like models but they’re not.
ShortFormBlog: Newly discovered fossil sets record... →
shortformblog:
130 lbs. the weight of a considerably colossal, ancient penguin, as extrapolated from a recently unearthed fossil
5 feet the portly penguin’s height, making it both the tallest and heaviest penguin known to science source
» Move over, Emperor penguin. While you may be the largest penguin left in these modern times, 27 million years ago you would have been dwarfed by science’s...
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AsiaDog for lunch!
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My computer just tried to eat two other computers...
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Paint Your Own Nebula →
black-tangled-heart:
Awesome!!!
I started playing with this after my sleep meds kicked in. Whoa.
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teleport without pants is not a real spell: A New... →
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One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech, but we do draw some limits. As a company, we’ve decided that some specific kinds of content...
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Georgia Rep. Fights Anti-Abortion Bill with... →
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Lesson learned:
When making a buffalo chicken grilled cheese sandwich, there is such a thing as too much cheese.
EDIT: Nevermind. Just made a grown man cry with this sandwich.
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I honestly bet that Brett Ratner really wished he was organizing the Grammys...
– Seth Rogen at tonight’s Spirit Awards (via kateoplis)
ESPN Had Another Headline Issue Today, And This... →
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Me: Want to watch Back to the Future with me?
Steven: I'm watching Ghostbusters II right now.
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