seen in Silverlake, CA.
Yes please.
seen in Silverlake, CA.
Yes please.
Photo of the Day: From the Official White House Flickr Feed: “Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a Republican member of the Cabinet, feigns being a blocking back for President Barack Obama as he arrives backstage to meet with GOP House leaders before speaking to their issues conference at the Renaissance Baltimore Harbor Place Hotel in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 29, 2010.”
Adorable President is adorable.
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There. He felt it again. The whole house had unmistakeably slid toward the retaining wall, as if inching toward edificial suicide.
(Photo: Jason Schmidt, Dwell, February 2010)
The 51st entry in Charles Messier’s famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula—a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194. Over 60,000 light-years across, M51’s spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy, NGC 5195. Image data from the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys was reprocessed to produce this alternative portrait of the well-known interacting galaxy pair. The processing sharpened details and enhanced color and contrast in otherwise faint areas, bringing out dust lanes and extended streams that cross the small companion, along with features in the surroundings and core of M51 itself. The pair are about 31 million light-years distant. Not far on the sky from the handle of the Big Dipper, they officially lie within the boundaries of the small constellation Canes Venatici. Image Credit: NASA, Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI). Additional Processing: Robert Gendler (via NASA - M51 Hubble Remix)
This is Fischer’s representation of the low-frequency moans and cries of a humpback whale’s mating song, with the time axis running anticlockwise. The sound for this graph was recorded in Hawaii. (Image: Science Photo Library/AguaSonic Acoustics) (via Gallery - Seeing the sounds of the sea - Image 1 - New Scientist)
Chris Hedges (via azspot) (via msbadkittie)
Keep playing Blue vs. Red while Purple TAKES OVER THE WORLD.
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There is joy
in all:
in the hair I brush each morning,
in the Cannon towel, newly washed,
that I rub my body with each morning,
in the chapel of eggs I cook
each morning,
in the outcry from the kettle
that heats my coffee
each morning,
in the spoon and the chair
that cry “hello there, Anne”
each morning,
in the godhead of the table
that I set my silver, plate, cup upon
each morning.
All this is God,
right here in my pea-green house
each morning
and I mean,
though often forget,
to give thanks,
to faint down by the kitchen table
to a prayer of rejoicing
as the holy birds at the kitchen window
peck into their marriage of seeds.
So, while I think of it,
let me paint a thank-you on my palm
for this God, this laughter in the morning,
lest it go unspoken.
The joy that isn’t shared, I’ve heard,
dies young.