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Ten’s Ties

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:16 -0400

Ten’s Ties

hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy: Needs More Swashbuckling And/Or Explosions: Uses for a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:01:04 -0400

Needs More Swashbuckling And/Or Explosions: Uses for a towel

officialtimwood:

interstellarclaire:

inducecoma:

auroranadventures:

inducecoma:

auroranadventures:

littlekiwifrog:

auroranadventures:

How many uses for a towel can tumblr come up with?
1. Dry yourself.
2. Head wear.
3. Carry a large plate of bean dip.
4. Fight off monsters.
5. Gas mask.
6. Sleeping pad.
7. Pillow.
8. Blanket.
9. Blindfold.
10. Curtains.
What else can we add to the list!?

11. Cape
12. Fort roof
13. Chloroform holder!
14. Fashionable sash
15. Baby-carrier
16. Keeping period-blood off of your bed while you sleep
17. Doing that thing where you twist it and then you snap it at people I could never get that to work but still
18. A sack for your stuff that you tie to the end of a stick when you run away to the circus
19. Makeshift saddle
20. Headscarf for a Mary costume if you’re in a nativity scene

21. Bathmat
22. Keeps your wet self from soaking the car when you drive home from the pool.
23. Hilarious plot device in any romantic comedy, especially anime.
24. Cut holes in it: Zorro mask.
25. Makeshift hammock.

26. Keeps things in your backpack safe from rain while you traverse campus

27. Laptop sleeve

28. Duster

29. For use with texture painting

30. Cool ironing

31. Keeps wet bathing suit butt non-sandy while on beach
32. Cushion for fragile things in a suitcase
33. Tug-of-war rope when you’re little and you have loose teeth that you want out
34. Apparently if you put a towel over a horse’s head it will think that it died and lay down and just stay there??
35. Likewise you can put a towel over a dog’s head and watch them try to wriggle out of it
36. Or you could put it over your own head and a computer screen so the light doesn’t bother the people around you during sleepovers
(31 - 36 from littlekiwifrog)

37. If you wrap a cat or small dog in a towel, you can easily administer medication without being murdered
38. A mat for a mud room so your laminate floors don’t get gross(er)
39. Similar mud mat for a car during rainy/snowy seasons
40. To be kept in the car…to prevent certain stains
41. Pretending to be professor Quirrell or the Sultan from Aladdin
42. Makes a good baby swing for fussy kids
43. Also good for smacking bratty kids because it won’t really hurt and doesn’t count as abuse
44. Sweat rag for gym class
45. Nursing injured birds back to health
46. A way to feel baby animals if you don’t have a bottle, soak the end of a towel in milk. The more you know
47. Protect livestock from flies
48. Protect babies in strollers from sun and other weather
49. Shoe shining
50. Protect toolboxes that you keep outside
51. More even distribution of WD-40 and other lubricant
52. Protect your hands from a leaky spray bottle

53. Staying modest in the event that some punk at your party decides to hook the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a Brownian Motion producer.

54. Mopping up spilled Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster before it burns a large hole in your worksurface.

55. Protecting yourself from breathing in the intoxicating aromas when holidaying near the seas of Santraginus V (Though why anyone would want to do that is not immediately apparent)

56. Measuring light years while traveling in hyperspace.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:14:06 -0400

geniusorinsanity: dianariggslegs: mediavengers: Everyone’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:23:35 -0400

geniusorinsanity:

dianariggslegs:

mediavengers:

Everyone’s calling them The Avengers, but who exactly are they?

Just over a week after the devastating events in New York, Us Weekly pulls together some information about the team dubbed The Avengers.

This is one of the best things.

AVENGERS IN-SERIES META IS MY FAVORITE THING.

vintagenatgeographic: Utase Bune vessels on the Yatsushiro Sea,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:32:36 -0400

vintagenatgeographic:

Utase Bune vessels on the Yatsushiro Sea, Japan

National Geographic | January 1994

How tall were the great composers?

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:42:09 -0400

How tall were the great composers?:

thepianoblog:

Wagner, bless him, only 5’5”, but at least he beats Schubert!

A lovely little infographic, courtesy of ClassicFM.

- The Piano Blog

I’m taller than Beethoven. This makes me happy.

the-meaning-of-liff: Doctor Who Meets Douglas Adams by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:51:09 -0400

the-meaning-of-liff:

Doctor Who Meets Douglas Adams by gonzalexx1 on deviantART

benedictedcumberbabeof221: mighty-thor-of-assgard: danniauttumns: ser-merlin-of-valyria: tumblr...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:07:23 -0400

benedictedcumberbabeof221:

mighty-thor-of-assgard:

danniauttumns:

ser-merlin-of-valyria:

tumblr has fallen

david karp is dead

yahoo is coming

your second sentence only has 5 syllables. Haiku fail. Though… they all do have 5, poem pass, haiku fail.

it wasn’t a haiku, it was a harry potter reference:

“the ministry has fallen

scrimgeour is dead

they are coming.”

fishingboatproceeds: bbc-bestbromancecompany: Nerdfighter...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:05:44 -0400

fishingboatproceeds:

bbc-bestbromancecompany:

Nerdfighter Benedict? Or just failed Vulcan?

As far as I can tell, there are eight possibilities here. (I’ve spent a fair bit of time thinking about this.)

1. Benedict Cumberbatch is a hardcore nerdfighter and when Martin Freeman threw up a gang sign, Cumberbatch was like, “I have one of those.”

2. Cumberbatch, who obviously has a relationship with Star Trek, just naturally changed the Vulcan sign (pulling in the thumbs, turning the palms inward, crossing the arms) in precisely the same way that I happened to change the Vulcan sign when I first made the nerdfighter sign in the halcyon days of 2007.

3. One of the interns on set who has gained the trust of Benedict Cumberbatch was like, “If you do your hands like this, the Internet will get really excited.” And so he did.

4. BBC, in their infinite wisdom, staged the entire photo and Cumberbatch was taught the nerdfighter sign (I MEAN LOOK AT THE PERFECTION OF HIS NERDFIGHTER SIGN! He seems so comfortable and confident in it, almost as if it is muscle memory, almost as if he has flashed it to his laptop screen on hundreds of occasions in the past, but I digress) and this photograph was staged to get people psyched for Sherlock, although what tiny segment of nerdfighteria is not already psyched for Sherlock? Also, if this is the case, who is Martin Freeman trying to advertise to? Residents of the West Side?

5. Benedict Cumberbatch has a relative or a friend who is a nerdfighter and so he is passingly familiar with nerdfighteria and liked what he has seen and wanted to make us all very happy.

6. The nerdfighter sign also happens to be the hand sign of some obscure English gang with which I am unfamiliar called like The East London Wanderers or The Slightly Intimidating Liverpudlians or whatever.

7. Nerdfighteria actually figures in the plot of the new season of Sherlock. Perhaps a nerdfighter has been (wrongly no doubt!) accused of a murder.

8. Benedict Cumberbatch was playing some kind of British version of Rock Paper Scissors against two invisible opponents, and he went double scissors (as any smart person would).

weird-happenings: hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy: Douglas Adams’...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:02:07 -0400

weird-happenings:

hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy:

Douglas Adams’ Starship Titanic

Starship Titanic is a CD-ROM computer game designed by Douglas Adams, and author of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” trilogy. It was released for the Windows 95 platform in 1998.

The player acts the part of a human (whose house the starship crashed into) who goes aboard to help fix the ship, and must solve puzzles to collect the parts of the sabotaged onboard computer, Titania. Once all the parts have been collected and inserted in the correct places, Titania comes alive and talks.

Among the voice actors for the game are former Monty Python members Terry Jones as the Parrot, and John Cleese as the Bomb. Adams himself is the voice of the Succ-U-Bus, and plays the part of the ship’s creator, Leovinus, in one of the closing scenes.

Where can I get this? And how much money do I need to throw to get it?

Yeah, what they asked.

cmyka: MSCED : 094 — 電力組曲 C:電化の暮らし／Guernica Make Something...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:09:39 -0400

cmyka:

MSCED : 094 — 電力組曲 C:電化の暮らし／Guernica

Make Something Cool Every Day is a personal, (ideally-) daily design exercise wherein I churn out type-centric black and white drabbles using song titles, the Univers type family (Kozuka Gothic for Japanese type) and some wonderful images from Wikimedia Commons.

clothespinnedtopaper: the-absolute-best-posts: This post has...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:19:07 -0400

clothespinnedtopaper:

the-absolute-best-posts:

This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

:3

prostheticknowledge: Prototype Real / Digital Info Interface...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:28:04 -0400

prostheticknowledge:

Prototype Real / Digital Info Interface System

Using projection and gestures to create interactive relationship with information - video embedded below:

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word.

“We think paper and many other objects could be manipulated by touching them, as with a touchscreen. This system doesn’t use any special hardware; it consists of just a device like an ordinary webcam, plus a commercial projector. Its capabilities are achieved by image processing technology.”

Using this technology, information can be imported from a document as data, by selecting the necessary parts with your finger.

More at DigInfo here

RELATED: This is very similar to a concept developed in 1991 called ‘The Digital Desk’ [link]

sfux: i feel like people who eat breakfast really have their lives together you’d be...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:24 -0400

sfux:

i feel like people who eat breakfast really have their lives together

you’d be surprised

bemusedlybespectacled: if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever just...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:50:45 -0400

bemusedlybespectacled:

if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever

just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin

ḱerberos means “spotted”

that’s right

hades, lord of the dead, literally freaking named his pet dog spot

chookiemunster: Doctor Who | 50 Years Running <3 by...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:37:32 -0400

chookiemunster:

Doctor Who | 50 Years Running <3 by perpetualpanda

black-frost-x: The Great Gatsby

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:07:49 -0400

black-frost-x:

The Great Gatsby

fairious: wholockian-221b: explore-blog: Ah, yes:...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:46:42 -0400

fairious:

wholockian-221b:

explore-blog:

Ah, yes: Flowcharting the book lover’s dilemma. Yes? Yes.

my life

lohrien: Illustrations by LeKsoTiger

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:56:00 -0400

lohrien:

Illustrations by LeKsoTiger

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Tue, 21 May 2013 11:04:56 -0400