I went through a huge X-Files phase when I was younger, so you can bet I’m so super excited about the upcoming sequel! Thanks to Crytomundo.com for posting this poster. YAY!
Tags: entertainment, movie, poster, x-files
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Yesterday I came across a documentary (called Do You Want to Live Forever?) about this man, Aubry DeGrey, a man who says he has figured out how to cure aging. Imagine not only living much much longer, but living those years in the best of health. He has his critics and you can judge for yourself, but you cannot deny his passion for this.
A true maverick, Aubrey de Grey challenges the most basic assumption underlying the human condition — that aging is inevitable. He argues instead that aging is a disease — one that can be cured if it’s approached as “an engineering problem.” His plan calls for identifying all the components that cause human tissue to age, and designing remedies for each of them — forestalling disease and eventually pushing back death. He calls the approach Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS).
Quoted from TED
Tags: aging, aubry de grey, cure, MIT, science, technology, TED, vision
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Internet window shopping. Fred Flare always has such wonderful eye candy.
• New York pocket man tote
• Betseyville call me purse
• Soundgirl denim Tawny shorts
• roller skates!
• Hand Job: a catalog of type
Tags: bag, betsy johnson, fred flare, New York, purse, roller, shopping, skates, type
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Wow, i would love to to be the owner of one or two of these. Not only are they stunning, but they’re probably much much more effective at that whole heating thing, than our terrible tiny P.O.S. radiators.
The Heatwave Radiator is designed by Joris Laarman, a young designer from Utrecht. It is composed of heating pipe with fiberglass reinforced concrete and is manufactured and sold by Droog Design. Due to it’s design and enlarged surface area, the Heatwave conducts heat far better than a traditional metal radiator or floor heating. It’s so nice, we are worried we will want to touch it all the time.
Tags: apartment, design, droog, heating, radiator, therapy
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“History isn’t necessarily what happened. It’s often what people want us to think happened.” - Terry Jones
While I’m at work, I like either play music or put movies/tv shows on in the background. Due to my recent obsession with The Tudors, I’ve been watching documentaries about the period, which randomly led me to a BBC series Terry Jones wrote and hosted: Medieval Life. It’s entertaining, funny and questions what we think of as well established “facts” about the time. I had no idea, but Terry Jones is a popular historian, has written books, and made another series about the Barbarians. In The Observer he explains why he felt the need to create such a show.
The main reason I wanted to make Medieval Lives was to get my own back on the Renaissance. It’s not that the Renaissance has ever done me any harm personally, you understand. It’s just that I’m sick of the way people’s eyes light up when they start talking about the Renaissance. I’m sick of the way art critics tend to say: ‘Aaaah! The Renaissance!’ with that deeply self-satisfied air of someone who is at last getting down to the Real Thing.
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The distortions, obfuscations and downright lies which they and admirers of the Renaissance ever since have fastened onto the Middle Ages still infect our historical vision. The very fact that we call that period (whatever it is) ‘the Middle Ages’ is but one example. The idea that it is a limbo between the bright lights of the classical World and the even brighter lights of the Renaissance is enshrined there in the very title.
Tags: BBC, dvd, life, medeival, middle ages, terry jones, tv
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I think the great “Savings Spree” has pretty much come to a close, though I still need to watch what I buy very closely. I’m not sure how successful the spree was. Food is so very very expensive that that ends up taking the biggest chunk out of my wallet. Anyway, I’m removing the restriction, for now, and kicked it off with this Threadless purchase. Hey, it was on sale!
Tags: savings, shopping, spree, t-shirt, threadless
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I keep slipping further and further back in time with these albums, but trust me, this one is truly worth it. My little brother went through a hug Pink Floyd phase and it was something I never really understood. I mean, I enjoyed “The Wall” and “Dark Side of the Moon” and the bits and pieces of other albums I would hear, but there was nothing to really grab me and keep me. Probably about a year and a half ago I was searching for new music to add to my ever-expanding collection and for some reason I was looking through Pink Floyd’s discography. I recognized most their albums, but had never remembered hearing anything about “Animals.” I decided this was the album I should look into, and boy am I glad I did!
Rating: 10.0
…It is the acute anthropomorphic fantasy, possessing a timeless quality that has thrust it into the category of “classic,” though it may remain forever in the shadow of its more commercially successful older brother, Dark Side Of The Moon. Consisting of three tracks each longer than ten minutes and two tracks under two minutes, Animals is not for the attention- span- deficient. However, within this impenetrable fortress of radio- unfriendly tracks, we hear Dave Gilmour’s guitars at their absolute best, get a full-on dose of Roger Waters’ powerful lyrical imagery, and are presented with the worst elements of our own humanity- packaged in the skins of “Sheep,” “Dogs” and “Pigs (Three Different Ones)”. For those weaned on The Wall and Dark Side, you’ll find Animals to be a whole new bag of feed. Where Floyd’s two most recognizable albums made their mark with operatic aggression and fear, Animals deals in dirt- under- the- fingernails reality, the common smallness that simultaneously binds and repels us all. “Dogs,” a 17-minute study in the commonest of all faults, lazily dispenses bite after venomous bite into the desires that drive us to seize the fast buck and screw anyone that gets in our way…
Quoted from Pitchfork
Tags: albums, animals, music, pink floyd, pitchfork, weekly
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Time to empty your cash, cookies, and refresh the page a few times, because we’ve done a little bit of aesthetic updating in these parts! I have a tendency to do things like this on a whim and without warning, just so you know. Hope you like! Oh, and I was lazy today, I shall have the weekly album up tomorrow, promise.
Tags: admin, updates, website
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Enjoy expanding your vocabulary? Really, really expand it? Here ya go!
8. Osseocaynisanguineoviscericartilagininervomedullary
The word consists of 51 letters. This is a terminology related to anatomy. It appeared in a novel called ‘Headlong Hall’ written by an English writer, 1785-1866.
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10. Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntro -
varrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk
The word of consists of 100 letters. It appeared in the book titled ‘Finnegan wake’ written by Irish author, Andean James Joyce, 1882- 1942. This word refers to the downfall of Adam and Eve.
More words found at Writing Hood. Via Dark Roast Blend
Tags: dictionary, humor, literature, medical, words
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Absolutely brilliant writing! I watched the first season a while ago and, thank Him I bookmarked their page, because I went back yesterday morning to find season 2 had been posted. Joy! Jesus is a totally babe, too. To get you started, here’s the very first episode (season 1):
Praise Him!
Tags: culture, entertainment, humor, mr. deity, religion, video
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