A COLLECTION OF DISTRACTIONS

🎶goodbye Austin… I’m flying over you🎶 (Taken with...

Wed, 30 May 2012 05:16:15 -0700

🎶goodbye Austin… I’m flying over you🎶 (Taken with instagram)

Firefly the Musical. Right now. (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 29 May 2012 18:16:37 -0700

Firefly the Musical. Right now. (Taken with instagram)

Wonderful sweltering Austin Texas (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:46:28 -0700

Wonderful sweltering Austin Texas (Taken with instagram)

Austin incoming sunset GPOY (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 22 May 2012 19:52:34 -0700

Austin incoming sunset GPOY (Taken with instagram)

"It is summer time! It is time to climb up on things and yell at other things that are too high to..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:29:07 -0700

“It is summer time! It is time to climb up on things and yell at other things that are too high to reach. It is time to mess up the calm quiet routines we built up all winter. With fire. It is time to make yourself proud and everyone else a little nervous.”

- Joey Comeau

Sunburn. (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:51:25 -0700

Sunburn. (Taken with instagram)

Photo

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:43:30 -0700

Eclipse In progress (Taken with Instagram at Symbiosis: Pyramid...

Sun, 20 May 2012 21:27:30 -0700

Eclipse In progress (Taken with Instagram at Symbiosis: Pyramid Eclipse)

Aggregating: San Francisco Bars Quietly Install Facial-Recognition Cameras; Report "Male" and "Female" Crowd Ratios Online

Fri, 18 May 2012 17:49:45 -0700

Aggregating: San Francisco Bars Quietly Install Facial-Recognition Cameras; Report "Male" and "Female" Crowd Ratios Online :

On Friday afternoon, about 20 bars around San Francisco are set to have special “facial detection” cameras turned on as part of a new smartphone app by Chicago-based startup SceneTap.

The cameras, which are mounted above the door of their client bars, scan patrons’ faces as they enter and…

philnoto: MCA Forever

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:42:33 -0700

philnoto:

MCA Forever

"Capitalism doesn’t inspire creativity, it stifles it. There are millions of geniuses that might be..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:41:14 -0700

“Capitalism doesn’t inspire creativity, it stifles it. There are millions of geniuses that might be doing something brilliant, but instead are putting stickers on packets of biscuits they can barely afford for 12 hours a day so some lazy prick can play golf every Sunday with all the other impotent do nothing pricks.”

- Ourben: (via theorthodoxheretic)

One interesting thing about the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression, is that they actively employed artists, to be artists. Not to work in factories or farms, but to be artists.

(via brosephstalin)

theanimalblog: Photo: Craig W. Walsh/iStockphoto.com

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:48:26 -0700

theanimalblog:

Photo: Craig W. Walsh/iStockphoto.com

occupyallstreets: Scientists Use Modified Virus To Make Mice...

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:43:08 -0700

occupyallstreets:

Scientists Use Modified Virus To Make Mice Live Longer

An experimental gene therapy recently tested on mice at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre found that by modifying a non-replicating virus to trigger production of an enzyme that repairs chromosomes, scientists were able to slow down cellular aging in the mice by up to 24 percent.

The study, published this month in the scientific journal EMBO Molecular Medicine, is the first of its kind. Prior anti-aging techniques had been tested only on creatures that had been genetically modified before birth, but this new therapy goes to work directly on a healthy, living subject’s genes.

Mice treated at 2-years-old saw their lifespans increase by up to 15 percent, but scientists said that mice treated at 1-year-old saw the most benefit, with lifespans that lasted up to 24 percent longer.

“In addition to living longer, engineered mice had stronger bones, improved metabolic functions, better motor coordination and balance, as well as improved performance in object-recognition tests,” research director Bruno Bernardes de Jesus said in the study’s executive summary.

“This work provides an important first proof-of-principle that telomerase gene therapy is a feasible and potentially safe approach to improve the healthy lifespan of older organisms,” Utz Herbig, assistant professor at the New Jersey Medical School-University Hospital Cancer Center, explained in an analysis published by EMBO Molecular Medicine. “One of the next steps will be to investigate if similar results can be obtained for other mammals that live significantly longer than mice.”

Source

retrogasm

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:12:00 -0700

retrogasm

divineirony: …and Thomas Edison was a douchebag of epic...

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:49:37 -0700

divineirony:

…and Thomas Edison was a douchebag of epic proportions. Seriously, fuck Edison.

(click the image)

"DHS estimates that as many as 1 million people who are subject to administrative detention or arrest..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:43:36 -0700

“DHS estimates that as many as 1 million people who are subject to administrative detention or arrest annually could now be subject to DNA collection. But it’s important to note that many of these people are not involved in criminal activity. Collecting DNA from anyone detained by the government for any number of non-criminal reasons—especially juveniles—seems to be yet another step on the slippery slope to collecting DNA from everyone in the United States, no matter their status.”

- DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via 3liza)

Chris Hedges: Colonized by Corporations

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:23:20 -0700

Chris Hedges: Colonized by Corporations:

socialuprooting:

The response of a dying regime—and our corporate regime is dying—is to employ increasing levels of force, and to foolishly refuse to ameliorate the chronic joblessness, foreclosures, mounting student debt, lack of medical insurance and exclusion from the centers of power. Revolutions are fueled by an inept and distant ruling class that perpetuates political paralysis. This ensures its eventual death.

In every revolutionary movement I covered in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, the leadership emerged from déclassé intellectuals. The leaders were usually young or middle-aged, educated and always unable to meet their professional and personal aspirations. They were never part of the power elite, although often their parents had been. They were conversant in the language of power as well as the language of oppression. It is the presence of large numbers of déclassé intellectuals that makes the uprisings in Spain, Egypt, Greece and finally the United States threatening to the overlords at Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil and JPMorgan Chase. They must face down opponents who understand, in a way the uneducated often do not, the lies disseminated on behalf of corporations by the public relations industry. These déclassé intellectuals, because they are conversant in economics and political theory, grasp that those who hold power, real power, are not the elected mandarins in Washington but the criminal class on Wall Street.

arcaneimages: Happy Mother’s Day

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:16:08 -0700

arcaneimages:

Happy Mother’s Day

In Germany, police fired 85 bullets in all of 2011.

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:08:54 -0700

foulmouthedliberty:

think-progress:

In the U.S., police fired 90 shots at one unarmed man in Los Angeles.

Ponynose. (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 13 May 2012 14:15:59 -0700

Ponynose. (Taken with instagram)