therealnightcrawler:

These things didn’t happen, but this artist must have stalked me growing up. That’s how I looked!

Well played.

Well played.

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The Franco-Swiss border runs through the CERN campus and building 31 is literally just a few feet into France. However, there is no explicit border within CERN and the main entrance is in Switzerland, so the situation of which country it was invented in is actually quite a tricky one. The current commemorative plaque, which is outside a row of offices where people other than Tim Berners-Lee worked on the web, is in Switzerland. To add to the confusion, in case Tim thought of the web at home, his home was in France but he temporarily moved to rented accommodation in Switzerland, just around the time the web was developed. So although, strictly speaking, France is the birthplace of the web it would be fair to say that it happened in building 31 at CERN but not in any particular country! How delightfully appropriate for an invention which breaks down physical borders.
Romney wins 39% of the 2% of Maine Republicans who voted, 194 votes more than the next guy. The Romney colossus cannot be stopped.

A deputy from the Communist Party, Giorgos Mavrikos, threw his copy of the austerity bill at Evangelos Venizelos, the finance minister, during the debate on Sunday.


I know I read a lot of Krugman, but seriously?  How is a slowdown in government spending supposed to revitalize the economy?  We’ve given markets a chance for a long time and it HASN’T WORKED.  We gave bankers as close to free-market power as they’ll ever get without dismantling the government and THEY DID NOTHING BUT FUCK PEOPLE. How does anyone continue to believe that gov’t spending is the problem?

A deputy from the Communist Party, Giorgos Mavrikos, threw his copy of the austerity bill at Evangelos Venizelos, the finance minister, during the debate on Sunday.

I know I read a lot of Krugman, but seriously? How is a slowdown in government spending supposed to revitalize the economy? We’ve given markets a chance for a long time and it HASN’T WORKED. We gave bankers as close to free-market power as they’ll ever get without dismantling the government and THEY DID NOTHING BUT FUCK PEOPLE. How does anyone continue to believe that gov’t spending is the problem?

(Source: rethinksocialism)

ultralaser:

he’s always turning to me at the store and saying ‘tell me not to buy this’ and i’m both a bargain hunter //and// an asshole, so i’m always ‘you should buy this right now’.  he nearly didn’t buy that hat, until i reminded him of the other hat he didn’t buy last year and still regrets.  so he bought it and five seconds later it was his favorite.
TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE.  FORM OF: FIST BUMP.

this is ryan

ultralaser:

he’s always turning to me at the store and saying ‘tell me not to buy this’ and i’m both a bargain hunter //and// an asshole, so i’m always ‘you should buy this right now’.  he nearly didn’t buy that hat, until i reminded him of the other hat he didn’t buy last year and still regrets.  so he bought it and five seconds later it was his favorite.

TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE.  FORM OF: FIST BUMP.

this is ryan

I usually don’t talk about stuff like this on my show, but I really want to thank everyone who’s supporting me. And if you don’t know me very well, if you’re just watching maybe for the first time, or you’re just getting to know me, I wanna be clear and here are the values that I stand for: I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. That’s what I stand for. (x)

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The number of unemployed persons declined to 12.8 million in January [2012]. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 5.5 million and accounted for 42.9 percent of the unemployed.
louobedlam:

Randi’s a special challenge, see.  Greatly involved in SuicideGirls, she’s been photographed a whole shit ton, lots of photographers, lots of different styles. 
So that’s something to work against. 
But those photos also almost always tend to be nude, which actually makes things a bit easier for me.  I tend to view nudity as a distraction in photos, my feeling these days is that it’s easier to shoot a nude, that, like a Polaroid frame around your photos, using nudity in your work guarantees a certain amount of attention.  Bit of a shortcut.  There are gonna be people who dig it just because there’s nudity, regardless of quality.  
Much more interesting to me, with Randi, is getting something interesting, involving, without using nudity, by putting her in what is, in a way, a less comfortable kind of shoot, if only because she’s dressed. 
Though, Randi’s always comfortable, it’s one of the reasons I really dig shooting her. She’s quickly comfortable and gets a real kick out of being involved in photography, which is pretty much exactly what I need from the lady I’m shooting. 

DOUBLE TRUE

louobedlam:

Randi’s a special challenge, see.  Greatly involved in SuicideGirls, she’s been photographed a whole shit ton, lots of photographers, lots of different styles. 

So that’s something to work against. 

But those photos also almost always tend to be nude, which actually makes things a bit easier for me.  I tend to view nudity as a distraction in photos, my feeling these days is that it’s easier to shoot a nude, that, like a Polaroid frame around your photos, using nudity in your work guarantees a certain amount of attention.  Bit of a shortcut.  There are gonna be people who dig it just because there’s nudity, regardless of quality.  

Much more interesting to me, with Randi, is getting something interesting, involving, without using nudity, by putting her in what is, in a way, a less comfortable kind of shoot, if only because she’s dressed. 

Though, Randi’s always comfortable, it’s one of the reasons I really dig shooting her. She’s quickly comfortable and gets a real kick out of being involved in photography, which is pretty much exactly what I need from the lady I’m shooting. 

DOUBLE TRUE

louobedlam:

Randi, 1.30.12

RANDI + LOU O’BEDLAM: TWO GREAT TASTES THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER

louobedlam:

Randi, 1.30.12

RANDI + LOU O’BEDLAM: TWO GREAT TASTES THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER

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Bubble Fantasy III (by Huen *)

Bubble Fantasy III (by Huen *)

benedictusantonius:

How do you compare to Mitt Romney? Click the image to find out.

benedictusantonius:

How do you compare to Mitt Romney? Click the image to find out.

Simply Baked
Crack two eggs in a small, ovenproof ramekin. Top with finely chopped vegetables and a splash of whole milk or half-and-half. Bake until whites are set but yolks are still runny enough for dipping. “Choose whole-grain toast to make this a perfectly balanced vegetarian meal,” recommends Lainie Cooper, a Denver-based nutritionist. (via The 20 Best Ways to Use Eggs Slideshow | LIVESTRONG.COM)

Simply Baked
Crack two eggs in a small, ovenproof ramekin. Top with finely chopped vegetables and a splash of whole milk or half-and-half. Bake until whites are set but yolks are still runny enough for dipping. “Choose whole-grain toast to make this a perfectly balanced vegetarian meal,” recommends Lainie Cooper, a Denver-based nutritionist. (via The 20 Best Ways to Use Eggs Slideshow | LIVESTRONG.COM)