The coziest cult of them all

YouTube – Snuggie Cult

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Firebird Suite

Music is The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, animation from Disney’s Fantasia 2000.

YouTube – Fantasia-Firebird
And a video of the man himself conducting a performance of this piece at age 83.

via Slublog

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Aaron Adding Machines

Aaron Adding Machines
Custom-made calculators designed to look like castaways from an alternate industrial age that never was. Cool, and beautifully made.
via Steampunk Labs

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Greetings and Best Wishes

Greetings and Best Wishes!

Originally uploaded by bcostin

Merry Christmas, everyone!
This is scanned from a really neat fold-out WWII-era Christmas season pamphlet. It advises those on the homefront how to behave during blackouts and enemy attacks. And to better avoid any misunderstandings, it uses the universal [...]

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The clash of resounding arms

On Veteran’s Day, an eerie fragment of World War I. Recorded on the battlefield and preserved for a brighter future which would never know war again:
Gas Shells Bombardment

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I Am Ketchup

You Are Ketchup

You are easy going and very measured in your approach to life.
Popular and well liked, you get along with everyone.
Seriously, everyone loves you!
Your taste tends to be pretty mainstream American.
You go for the classic favorites: burgers, fries, and apple pie.
You get along best with mustard and mayonnaise personalities.

What Condiment Are You?

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The Cabinet of Dr. Obama

The Cabinet of Dr. Obama
The McCain approach essentially puts employer-purchased and individually purchased health insurance on a level playing field, giving people more options and a better chance to find and afford the coverage they need.
The Obama campaign’s attacks on the plan have mostly sought to confuse the public about its benefits by speaking about [...]

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Google supports gay marriage

Official Google Blog: Our position on California’s No on 8 campaign
And I’m ok with that. If gay people want to get married, I say let them. The commitment of marriage is good for the community as a whole, regardless of the genders involved.

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Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research

Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
This is a bad, bad idea. Contrary to some of the commenters, this has nothing to do with a failure of capitalism or market economics. It’s just another example of a poorly run company that is not interested in long-term survival. I suspect the current [...]

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Cicada Attack!

Bryan holds a locust

Originally uploaded by stephmanuel1980

This vicious cicada leaped on my hand and tried to gnaw off my finger. I barely escaped with my life!
Actually, that’s not quite how it happened. I saw it sitting in the middle of the sidewalk and picked it [...]

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