July 2011
2 posts
I have a few questions about this study →
First and foremost being, how does one go about becoming the sort of scientist who researches toast? Is there a special degree for that? Who funds toast studies? Does the dairy industry have an interest in them, on account of the butter?
The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo... →
June 2011
2 posts
Photography Rules →
May 2011
9 posts
"I Would Do It All Again" →
I always get a little teary-eyed when I read about people like this amazing woman, who harbored three Jewish men in her home during Hitler’s reign. She would have been killed in a second if she’d been discovered. I hope I’m never in a position where I have to be so brave.
Bonus awesome points: she used to be a librarian.
Clever! →
A baby seat that mimics the motion of a moving car. Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?
MacGyver recipes →
Cure prussic acid poisoning, turn a casket into a JetSki … it’s all here.
Oh, nerds ... →
The impassioned, pedantic comments are the best part of any science-related article on the internet.
The Brown Sisters →
Every year since 1975 this man has taken a picture of his wife with her sisters. It’s kind of creepy to watch them age.
Here's your chance to buy the Unabomber's... →
Mary Blair →
People just don’t draw or paint like this anymore … although I guess if they did they’d be violating copyright.
The secret life of libraries →
I love libraries. Always have, always will. I also work at a library. It has never, not for a second, felt like work to me. I’m fortunate in that the library district I work for hasn’t been subject to any downsizing. We don’t have the budget we used to five or six years ago, but we have a budget. We’re not open the hours we used to, but we’re still open.
I’m...
March 2011
6 posts
The Manifesto Manifesto →
Finally! →
I have been looking forever for a good tutorial like this. I know very little about sewing but this makes sense to me.
Happy spring, everybody! →
via facebook/cuteoverload
Radiation explained →
Daily Mail-o-matic →
Real-life "Up" →
February 2011
5 posts
Where Have the Good Men Gone? →
Born This Way
“You Dropped a Bomb on Me” by the Gap Band + “Express Yourself” by Madonna = “Born this Way” by Lady Gaga
Photography: Back to the Future →
Irish Giants: not as made up as you might think →
Google, Firefox and Twitter Nikes →
January 2011
7 posts
The Truth About Facebook →
Eyebrows: They're disgusting →
I feel inspired to exfoliate.
The line between "wants" and needs" keeps getting... →
WatchEverything is terrible!
Physics, Schmysics →
I wish! →
Ah, Sweden. →
November 2010
3 posts
Happy Thanksgiving, America! →
http://slushpilehell.tumblr.com/ →
I love it when people say things that people aren’t supposed to say.
You can't make this stuff up. →
October 2010
4 posts
Baby hummingbird!!!!!1!! →
I need this. →
If I had the time and the money ... →
I think I'd made a kick-arse Libby Smithson →
This is where it helps that 1) I share a name with a moderately successful Canadian singer-songwriter who takes up the first, oh, 5,000 or so search results for our shared name, 2) I’ve lived a very boring, un-Google-worthy life, and 3) the only actual search result that leads to me specifically is the cast list for a community theater version of “Honk!” from 2003.
September 2010
7 posts
The Frenemy.: The Babysitter's Club: Where Are... →
thefrenemy:
When I was younger, way back when Lindsay Lohan had an actual prescription to Adderall, girls across America read books. Not Amanda Bynes’ Twitter, or Ashely Olsen’s Fashion Wordpress, but tangible books that weren’t even about vampires. One book series that had quite the following was The…
I'm in love. →
This just in! →
PIGLET IN BOOTS!!!
Earth is awesome. →
Dude. →
I feel tiny and insignificant. In an amazing, wonderful way.
Unhear →
Can’t unsee, but now you can unhear … pretty much you swap one irritating song for another. But I think I’m okay with that.
August 2010
18 posts
Space is awesome. →
Awesomeness. →
“My life suddenly seems long, measured in muffins.”
– Daphne Moon, “Frasier”
A-bloody-mazing →