hay what's this

Cannot quantify amount of love I feel for this video. Why u not...

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:23:42 -0400

Cannot quantify amount of love I feel for this video. Why u not on iTunes, video?? I WANT TO HAVE YOU ;o;

imgoingtobeacook: Bohemian Sour Cream Pancakes with Plum Jam...

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:04:58 -0400

imgoingtobeacook:

Bohemian Sour Cream Pancakes with Plum Jam & Whipped Cream

click image for recipe

devildoll: marielikestodraw: lookatthislittlething: dragonspla...

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:03:56 -0400

devildoll:

marielikestodraw:

lookatthislittlething:

dragonsplash:

Now have some wrestling kittens.

COME ON. IS SOMEONE *TRYING* TO KILL ME WITH CUTE?

AH MY GOD WHAT

THE RULES OF KITTEN FIGHT CLUB

1st RULE: You do not talk about KITTEN FIGHT CLUB.

2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about KITTEN FIGHT CLUB.

3rd RULE: If someone meows or hisses or goes limp, the fight is over.

4th RULE: Only two kittens to a fight.

5th RULE: One kitten fight at a time.

6th RULE: No collars, no glitter balls.

7th RULE: Kitten fights will go on as long as they have to.

8th RULE: If this is your first night at KITTEN FIGHT CLUB, you HAVE to fight.

Anime North this weekend!!

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:02:12 -0400

I will be at Anime North in Toronto this weekend, with rem, and we’ll be talking and drawing and signing things and you should come see us if you can! Details for the scheduling are on my DevArt because I am too ~~lazy~~ BUSY to cut and paste the info:

http://svetlania.deviantart.com/#/d50zgsm

Also, hello, new people who followed this sorry excuse for a Tumblr, thank you very much >^____^< …Wh-whatever possessed you if you don’t mind my asking… (Because I’m about to reblog some kittens, fighting, you’ve been duly warned…)

Uh.

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:06:58 -0400

Had an unsettling dream this am—a large dead owl was lying on the floor of my balcony, guts out, being picked over by pigeons. I shooed the pigeons away, considered how a dead owl was not what I wanted on my balcony and then woke up. O__O;;;;

Any dream symbolism buffs out there, what could this mean??

My own story made me laugh today, therefore sharing the giggles....

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:01:12 -0400

My own story made me laugh today, therefore sharing the giggles. Good night, internet, sleep tight!

preservedcucumbers: Skin tone practice using Lauren K. Cannon’s...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:15:12 -0400

preservedcucumbers:

Skin tone practice using Lauren K. Cannon’s tutorials. Guys this painting stuff is really fun.

Posting this because I figure someone else might benefit from these tutorials, they’re awesome.

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do-it-to-julia: PLEASE REBLOG & SPREAD THE WORD My friend...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:16:48 -0400

do-it-to-julia:

PLEASE REBLOG & SPREAD THE WORD

My friend Michelle Yu went missing yesterday and hasn’t been seen for more than 24 hours. Her family, friends, and our entire school are incredibly worried about her. It is unlike her to go anywhere without telling her family and she has a heart condition which requires that she take daily medication. Here is the news report about her disappearance.

Please help by reblogging this and posting on Facebook if possible. Even if you don’t live in Toronto, you may have friends/followers who do.

We just want her home safely. Thank you.

Big Cartel Blog: Marketing tips from Gussy Sews

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:15:07 -0400

Big Cartel Blog: Marketing tips from Gussy Sews:

bigcartel:

Hi there, I’m Maggie Whitley — also known as Gussy of Gussy Sews! I write a lifestyle blog and design a line of handmade accessories and bags based out of my Minneapolis home. I put a lot of time into my blog and shop, and just recently launched a mentorship program - built…

5 Steps to a More Balanced Media Diet

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:34:24 -0400

5 Steps to a More Balanced Media Diet:

futurejournalismproject:

Every month, GOOD invites its readers to a 30-day challenge and offers up a tip or assignment each day. This month, it’s all about spring cleaning…your life. Today’s post, cleaning up your information diet.

1. Clean up RSS feeds and bookmarks. My Google Reader was the first to get a makeover. I cut out subscriptions that weren’t adding value to my life. TMZ got the axe when I realized that 95 percent of its coverage was of celebrity has-beens and other people I didn’t even know. (TMZ is only great in emergency situations, i.e. Whitney’s death.) Perez Hilton also had to go because the snark is often too egregious and mean-spirited. Both sites post too frequently for me to get through all of their content, so purging those feeds felt like a relief. If you don’t use an RSS, go through your bookmarks folder instead. Ask yourself: Do I trust this source? How much of my time does it take up? What do I get out of reading this content?

2. Let your social feeds lead you to the good stuff. Check out what your friends are reading on social networks. They’ll likely share stories that interest you. Many of my Facebook friends use theWashington Post Social Reader, so I’m often reading much more from my hometown newspaper because I’m clicking through their links. Also, add a few popular media feeds to your Facebook and Twitter so you’re always getting a good mix. I like to balance between straight news (CNN and NPR), smart culture writing (The Awl, Jezebel, The Believer), and a few special-interest sites with great writing (Colorlines, Grantland).

3. Set boundaries. You can get carried away on social networks, of course. You may see lots of news stories but only click on the one about Angelina Jolie’s engagement ring. Understandable—it’s a beautiful ring—but the real answer is to set time limits for yourself. I used to keep my Twitter feed open all day but now I only check in the morning and in the evening. Usually, mainstream news sources are updating their top stories in the morning while the evening stream is a bit more random. That means I feel a bit more informed about serious topics at the start of the day and let myself unwind at the end. Set rules for the amount of time you’re willing to spend monitoring a site. Wired has a helpful graphic about how to break up your nearly nine hours of screen time.

4. E-mail articles. If you’re like me, it’s easier for you to act on something if it’s in an e-mail. Instead of searching for ‘serious’ journalism, let it come to you. For $1.99 a month, I subscribe to The Best of Journalism, a newsletter of excellent long-form journalism curated by The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf. Each week, I get to read some of the best sports, science, international, and local reporting on the web. Some of the stories will make you laugh, others will make you tear up, like this recent selection about the rape of men during war. As extra incentive, I won’t move these messages from my inbox until I’ve read every story inside.

5. Embrace overlaps. For a pop culture junkie, #Kony2012 was the perfect storm of highbrow-lowbrow gossip. We got real discussions about Ugandan military policy, and we also got public masturbation. Overlaps like this can be the best way to get your trashy gossip fix while still weaning yourself off the most superficial stories. If you want to expand on your knowledge of celebrity breakups, start shifting to the next best thing: political scandals. If you’re dying to talk about Chris Brown’s latest collaboration with Rihanna, learning more about his actions in the context of domestic violence discourse will elevate the conversation.

amandaonwriting: Zadie Smith - On Writing 1 When still a child,...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:54:45 -0400

amandaonwriting:

Zadie Smith - On Writing

1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

2 When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

3 Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

4 Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can’t do aren’t worth doing. Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt.

5 Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.

6 Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won’t make your writing any better than it is.

7 Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.

8 Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

9 Don’t confuse honours with achievement.

10 Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.

laughingsquid: Paths to Success

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:50:54 -0400

laughingsquid:

Paths to Success

firstbook: In case you thought we weren’t serious about...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:47:00 -0400

firstbook:

In case you thought we weren’t serious about distributing 1 million books over the course of the next 10 9 days, here are some pictures of the books we are planning on distributing in Seattle.

Get books for the kids in need that you serve by clicking HERE.

Help us get more books to kids in need by clicking HERE.

First Book wants to give away 1 MILLION BOOKS TO KIDS IN NEED OVER THE NEXT 10 DAYS. Here’s the catch: We want the world to know about the issue of illiteracy and how they can help us fight it. In support of our effort, we will give away a book for every “re-blog”, “retweet”, and “share” we get of this message on twitter, tumblr and facebook. Get to sharing.

"The ongoing death of newspapers is not about changes in journalism, or the need for them. It is..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:06:04 -0400

“The ongoing death of newspapers is not about changes in journalism, or the need for them. It is about a business model that has ceased to be relevant in the face of present technology. It used to be a poorly kept secret, but amid a vast array of competing histories, it’s been forgotten like last year’s canceled NBC sitcoms: What made newspapers successful was never the news. Newspapers provided vital services in people’s lives: their connections with their hometown, the notices of local events, the daily topics of conversation, the latest thoughts hovering over Snoopy’s head as he snored atop his doghouse. Many of these services were syndicated, and those that were not - like the classified ads - were intensely well managed. The front page, and the headlines therein, were merely the container…

…The Internet commandeered the services that newspapers once championed and delivered each of these services on an a la carte basis. In an earlier era, it made sense to bundle these services in a single package - the newspaper - and deliver it fully assembled. Today, the Web itself is the package, and each of the services now competes against other similar services in separate, often healthy, markets. And this is as it should be - this is not somehow wrong…

…There is no rational business model that can be formed around solely the production of news, just as many artists will attest that there is no stable business model around just an artist producing art that does not involve dying first. News must be bundled with a service. And that’s a problem, because the Web model is to unbundle everything, reduce every service to its basic and fundamental form, and present it to you as a site or, more recently, as an app. If you ask southern California venture capitalists what types of investments they’re searching for, they’ll tell you they’re looking for that one thing - not six things bundled together, not three existing things that complement one another. One disruptive thing.

And that thing tends to omit the word “news.””

- Scott M. Fulton, III, ReadWriteWeb. On the Difference Between Google and Journalism. (via futurejournalismproject)

futurejournalismproject: NASA Has a Data Problem, And a Contest...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:58:39 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

NASA Has a Data Problem, And a Contest to Solve It

NASA has about 100 terabytes of information gathered from its various space missions. The data sits in various databases created over the years and is difficult to get to and manipulate.

So its Tournament Lab is holding a contest make the data more accessible to both scientists and the public.

Via the NASA Tournament Lab:

[W]hile rich in depth and breath, the [Planetary Data System] databases have developed in a disparate fashion over the years with different architectures and formats for different scientific needs; thereby making acquisition of data problematic!

So, NASA is holding a series of Challenges to generate some simply awesome ideas for mobile or web based applications that will appeal to general users, to search and display compelling facts about the data. Instead of just scientists, our audience will be the millions of school age students, their teachers and parents, game designers and general civilians of the world. We want to deliver this incredible data to users in a way that excites them – and thus, to help them understand the value and potential of this data.

Contest prizes are up to $10,000 and you can learn about it here. If you want to jump right into the data, you can do so here.

Image: Moscow at Night, captured March 28 by the International Space Station. Via NASA.

oceanflowerbird: Neuschwanstein Castle, Allgau, Bavaria,...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:04:16 -0400

oceanflowerbird:

Neuschwanstein Castle, Allgau, Bavaria, Germany (by ~ Floydian ~)

Looks like my dream home T__T Brb, buying lottery tickets or possibly robbing banks with like-minded friends~!

hay what's this

Cannot quantify amount of love I feel for this video. Why u not...

imgoingtobeacook: Bohemian Sour Cream Pancakes with Plum Jam...

devildoll: marielikestodraw: lookatthislittlething: dragonspla...

THE RULES OF KITTEN FIGHT CLUB

1st RULE: You do not talk about KITTEN FIGHT CLUB.

Anime North this weekend!!

Uh.

My own story made me laugh today, therefore sharing the giggles....

preservedcucumbers: Skin tone practice using Lauren K. Cannon’s...

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do-it-to-julia: PLEASE REBLOG & SPREAD THE WORD My friend...

Big Cartel Blog: Marketing tips from Gussy Sews

5 Steps to a More Balanced Media Diet

amandaonwriting: Zadie Smith - On Writing 1 When still a child,...

laughingsquid: Paths to Success

firstbook: In case you thought we weren’t serious about...

"The ongoing death of newspapers is not about changes in journalism, or the need for them. It is..."

futurejournalismproject: NASA Has a Data Problem, And a Contest...

oceanflowerbird: Neuschwanstein Castle, Allgau, Bavaria,...