396 photos merged into one image using the lighten blending mode in photoshop. I think this one pretty much covers the colour spectrum of sunsets, lacking only the darker reds. I can’t get enough of this technique!
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#sunset #pretty things
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Watermelon Ice Bar / Famous ice snack of Japan
It is visible like a Watermelon.
However, you can eat the whole of this ice bar.
A seed is Chocolate.
A red portion is a Watermelon taste.
The portion of the green skin is a Soda taste.What do you eat in hot summer?
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#food #yummies #I love watermelon #but I don’t eat it very often because the butchering process is annoying and involves kind of scarily big knives #and I often have trouble finishing an entire watermelon before it goes bad #these sound #awesome
I turned the library chalkboard into a “Dalek-board”. Happy Fourth of July, American (and non-American) DW fans!
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#Doctor Who #art #fanart #puns #chalkboard drawing is a method of art I’ve actually used #allowing me to better appreciate the skill here #(I note there’s a faded picture of another Dalek saying ‘CONCENTRATE!’ in the background)
It’s that time again.
Happy Independence Day!
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#Batman #comic #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #home of the brave
GLASSHOLE.SH
Code script put together by Julian Oliver which detects Google Glass devices on a WiFi network and blocks them:
This script is a response to a comment by Omer Shapira that the presence of Google Glass worn by audience at an ITP graduate exhibition left him feeling understandably uneasy; it was not possible to know whether they were recording, or even streaming what they were recording to a remote service over WiFi.
The … script will find and detect Google Glass on the local network and kick them off.
Still bitter about how the obsession with privacy concerns of Google Glass has completely ruined the device’s potential.
There is always the possibility that someone is secretly recording you. That MP3 player I appear to be absent-mindedly holding in my lap? Totally has an audio-recording function, and you have no way of knowing whether I’m using it. Just because people tend to forget the recording possibilities of smartphones unless they come in Glass form, doesn’t mean those possibilities aren’t there. They’re always there.
Using a facial recognition app that scans the faces of everyone you pass by and compares them to a database (a mixture of owner-taken photos and photos copied from Facebook) of people you know to check for matches is perfectly legal and polite and all those other ways of saying “permitted”, but only if you’re running it on a carbon-based computer. People whose carbon-based computers can’t run the app (or can technically run it, but can’t do anything with it due to problems with their on-board cameras) can go fuck themselves.
(It does kind of fascinate me how thoroughly the ban on facial recognition has been spun as “yay privacy” rather than “Google spitting in the faces (so to speak) of disabled people”.)
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#Google Glass #prosopagnosia #my usual tag for high-tech stuff is #proud citizen of The Future #but in this case it’s more like #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #currently in the stage of citizenship application where #they bog you down in red tape forever
Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters
they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay
“He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.”
“Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies, only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely more likely to kill you if they fell on you.”
“He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.”
“It looked only partly like a spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on, and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.”
“If it was an emotion, it was a totally emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly – again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.”
You forgot the best one though-
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #may or may not have reblogged this before #Douglas Adams
There is nothing I did not love about the International Asexual Conference~
Where did that flag come from? I want a flag that size!
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#asexuality #WorldPride #living vicariously through others’ blog posts #(oh Toronto) #(so close and yet so far)
Today is the 100th Anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. This is a Keystone Stereo View of Sarajevo, from the Keystone View Company’s “The World War” set, probably from the 1920’s.
Interesting side note: The Keystone View Company used a picture of the wrong bridge! This is not the Latin Bridge, near where the assassination took place. This is the Seher-Cehaja Bridge, about half a kilometer upriver. This photo is also facing south, while the assassination took place on the north side of the river.
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#history #neat
Dragon Rats!!
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Dragon-Rats-464041682
Go check out DragonsAndBeasties on Deviantart!
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#rodent #art #adorable #kind of confusing #but cute
The effect of ocean currents: Latitudinal comparison of the United Kingdom and Minnesota [1801×2343]
CLICK HERE FOR MORE MAPS!
thelandofmaps.tumblr.com
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#it always seemed very telling to me #that in the Christmas Invasion episode of Doctor Who #people are worried about the blood-controlled people’s lives only because they think the Sycorax might kill them #it never seems to cross anyone’s mind #that those people could die or suffer permanent damage just from standing on those rooftops #for hours on end #in late December #while too out of it to put on protective gear #…let’s just say it was a *very* fridge-horror-y episode #tag rambles
Brinens and Things 