How to draw an apple in Photoshop
Eren Göksel provides a step-by-step for drawing this apple. How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration
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Extreme rubber band gun, extremely well made!
Incredible rubber band gun, from Japan, of course…
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Punching bag changes color when hit
Love Hate Punch is a punching bag that gives light if you hit it and if
you do your best it changes color from dark red to bright red to yellow
to white.
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One Month in Corral for Disorderly Woman
32-year-old reportedly shows up for sentencing still wearing the costume.
(Middletown, OH) — Saturday night, people in the 3100 block of Wilbraham Road called police to report a woman wearing a cow costume was chasing kids, and blocking traffic. Michele Allen also allegedly urinated on the
porch of one neighbor.
When officers arrived, they told her to go home. But later that night, they found her again, in the 2400 block of Verity, standing in traffic. This time, officers say, Allen smelled of alcohol and swore at them.
She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Allen plead guilty, Monday morning, in Middletown Municipal Court, and sentenced to a month in jail.
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A Neurotic Scotsman
A Neurotic Scotsman Cannot Help Himself From Commenting On The Mistakes Made By Some Of America’S Favorite Film Characters
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Sinestro had the script printed on YELLOW PAPER.
The Green Lantern movie is back on! Minus Jack Black! Early concept art is looking exciting, though sadly we’ll never see Paul Newman in the role of Hal Jordan.
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Diesel SFW XXX
Diesel’s SFW XXX viral will have you looking at pinball machines in a whole different light. And harmonica playing. And the maracas. And corn on a cob. The list goes on.
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Shark attack cupcakes
Moogie made these ass-kicking shark-attack cupcakes (complete with body parts!) for a Shark Art Contest. First prize!
Shark Attack Cupcakes
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Michael Moores latest film free online
Michael Moore’s newest movie Slacker Uprising is available for free download, the “first major major film to be released in such a way,” according to the Associated Press.
“This film, really isn’t for anybody other than the choir,” said Moore.
“But that’s because I believe the choir needs a song to sing every now
and then.”
Caveat:
- It is probably not the first film to do this, but certainly one of the first major films (if it is considered major or not *shrug*).
- Free only for US and Canadians for some reason, but it might work anyway as it only asks to confirm your location.
- There is also online viewing on the Lycos Cinema platform and looks like YouTube has 10 min chunks.
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Free Stargate Worlds Beta
Hey Kids,
Just got my invite for the Stargate Worlds Beta, but sadly the servers are only up on Wednesdays at 4:30 PM PST, when I’m at work, to ensure my continued participation in the beta process, I need to play during those times, if you’re available for an hour or so on Wends, please, drop me a line by commenting below.
-RobDurdle.com
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“Women hold up half the sky”–Chinese proverb
the director of the Harvard College Observatory, became so impatient
with a male lab assistant’s work that he famously declared his maid
could do a better job. Rather than take offense, his 24-year-old maid, Williamina Fleming,
instead took him up on the offer. She ended up working at the
Observatory for the next 30 years, supervising the tedious work of
cataloging photographic plates, but also discovering variable stars and
novae, helping to develop a classification system–and, perhaps even more importantly, hiring nearly 40 female assistants, many of whom went on to have distinguished scientific careers.
These “computers,” as they were called, were a bargain for Pickering:
at first the women worked for free; after a number of years he rewarded
them with a salary–about 30 cents an hour, roughly half of that of the
men who did the same work. As he wrote
in his 1898 annual report, the women computers were “Capable of doing
as much good routine work as astronomers who would receive larger
salaries. Three or four times as many assistants can thus be employed.”
(As a side note, the US Naval Observatory also employed female
— and male — computers around the turn of the century. In 1906, the
computers were paid equally, $1200 a year for both men and women. But
only men had the opportunity for advancement, as, among other things,
the most prestigious jobs at the USNO required a military commission,
which wasn’t available to women.)
Thanks to Pickering and his maid, women were able to make an indelible
contribution to science. The most notable astronomers to come from his
lab were Antonia Maury, Annie Jump Cannon, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
Their discoveries and innovation helped usher in an age of science and
inquiry in astronomy, and helped pave the way for women in the field.
Noted a student of the eminent astronomer Vera Rubin
(who herself got her doctorate in astronomy at Georgetown University in
1954 by taking night classes while her husband waited for her in the
car): “American astronomy became preeminent because of two discoveries: Hale discovered money and Pickering discovered women.”
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So what happened?
Jack Nicholson, circa 1978, showing off his hydrogen powered
car. The accents of the broadcasters, in case you’re wondering, are
east coast Canadian, possibly Newfoundland.
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