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imagrowlithegrrr:

The Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus), one of the world’s rarest and most beautiful mollusks

 

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weshookthesky:

that’s an alien, that’s an alien dragon baby. that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

YES FINALLY BACK ON MY DASH I LOVE THIS LIL FUCKER. LOOK AT IT

ohy my fucking god i finally know how my patronus looks like

So of course I read up on it. It’s even more beautiful when it’s in the water, not collapsed like it is on the original pic. It also freakin’ eats Portuguese Man o’Wars. They are also hermaphroditic because, damn, they so pretty, no way are they gonna hit anything but theyselves.

My spirit animal.

nothing will stop me from believing this is a baby lugia

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#pretty things #the more you know

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gigidowns | courtenaybird:

The Get More Out of Google Infographic Summarizes Online Research Tricks for Students

I consistently forget these tricks. Now I have a visual. Thanks, Internet.

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I wish I’d known this in undergrad.

Sending this to my coworkers on Monday.

the site:website.com thing doesn’t seem to be working anymore. :/

Really? Works fine for me. I even tried putting a space between site: and the URL and it still worked.

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#reply via reblog #useful things

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justice-turtle:

yuletidetreasure:

pentapoda:

Self, I thought, you should check on Yuletide and see if the ball has started rolling yet. ANSWER: YES, DEAR GOD. 

PSA for all those like me: 

Yuletide signups close Monday, October 14, 2013.

We were just going to post a plain countdown to the end of sign-ups, but this was too awesome not to share. :)

48 hours till sign-ups close! (Mon 14th, 6pm EDT)

And just in case anyone on my Tumblr hadn’t noticed already: Yuletide sign-ups close at 6pm U.S. Eastern Standard Time on Monday, October 14 (about 36.75 hours after I’m reblogging this).

(The reblogged YuletideTreasure post says EDT or Eastern Daylight Time, our equivalent to British Summer Time. This is a typo. We are not currently on Daylight Time in the US.)

If you want to request fanfic for at least four different small fandoms (of which you are guaranteed to receive a 1000+ word fic for one fandom) and offer to write a 1000+ word fic in a randomly selected one of at least five small fandoms, all fandoms to be chosen from the tag set here… go for it! You have 36-ish hours to sign up, and must have your fic written and uploaded to AO3 by December 22.

(If you don’t have an AO3 account and want to sign up in order to participate in Yuletide, tell the mods. They will expedite your account request.)

If you just want to write fic of any length to a Christmas deadline in these small fandoms, but would rather pick out individual prompts that inspire you — go here! You can browse the comments directly or look through the spreadsheet linked at the bottom of the post which shows requests sorted by fandom. There’s no strict deadline to this part of writing for Yuletide. :D

And if you just want to read fic in any of these small fandoms — well, wait till gifts are revealed sometime on December 25, and revel in the awesome! ;-)

>>This is a typo. We are not currently on Daylight Time in the US.<<

But…it’s October. North American Daylight Savings doesn’t end until 2 AM the first Sunday of November. (And even Europe isn’t until the last Sunday of October.)

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#Daylight Savings Time #reply via reblog #it’s pretty important in my everyday life that I know what time it is in Britain #I have to be careful I’m using the right translation formula at any given time #(also yay Yuletide) #(I don’t really do fic-writing but I love reading Yuletide fics) #(looking forward to that)

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Lost ‘Doctor Who’ Episodes Have Been Recovered, Now Available on iTunes

BBC Worldwide North America announces that a stash of BBC master tapes from the 1960s featuring missing episodes of Doctor Who has been recovered in Nigeria, Africa. The BBC has re-mastered the tapes, and is making two stories, The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear, now available exclusively on iTunes (www.itunes.com/DoctorWho).

Eleven Doctor Who episodes were discovered (nine of which have not been seen for 46 years) by Philip Morris, director of Television International Enterprises Archive, by tracking records of tape shipments made by the BBC to Africa for transmission. Morris says, “The tapes had been left gathering dust in a store room at a television relay station in Nigeria. I remember wiping the dust off the masking tape on the canisters and my heart missed a beat as I saw the words ‘Doctor Who’. When I read the story code I realized I’d found something pretty special.”

BBC Worldwide has re-mastered these episodes to restore them to the fantastic quality that audiences expect from Doctor Who.

The first recovered story, The Enemy of the World, is a six-episode tale which first aired on the BBC in December 1967. The story features Patrick Troughton as both the Second Doctor and his antagonist (Ramon Salamander), alongside companions Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Victoria (Deborah Watling). Episodes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 had previously been missing from the BBC Archives, and were returned by Morris.

Also recovered is the 1968 six-episode story, The Web of Fear. Also starring Patrick Troughton alongside Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling the story introducesNicholas Courtney for the first time as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (who later returns as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart). Episodes 2-6 were feared lost, but now episodes 2, 4, 5, and 6 have been recovered. With episode 3 still missing, the restoration team has reconstructed this part of the story using a selection of the 37 images that were still available from the episode along with the original audio, which has been restored.

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#Doctor Who #oh look an update

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moebius-stripper:

World-shattering realization.

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#this is me out for a walk #being a Generic Passer-by #but remember folks #protagonists save the world #but without us NPCs it wouldn’t be worth saving #I am a coward and I suffer routine-withdrawal easily #I’m basically Bilbo Baggins without the saving grace of being able to think on my feet #I’m a flavour character #but that means that wherever I go I make the world a little richer #a little more vibrant #NPC pride #tag rambles #I’ve had this rant floating around my head for a while now actually