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Seaman JeffHK’s latest video is comprised of about 80,000 photos taken in the span of 30 days aboard the container ship where he works. Outside of going to space, sailing the oceans might be the best way to internalize how small we are in the grand scheme of things.

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Scooby Scooby Doo, where are you? A joyful cover version of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon theme song, performed in the Ska style by The Holophonics. In the mood for more? Be sure to give their cover of the Pokémon theme song a listen.

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A truly insane man in Kodal, Norway demonstrates his love for winter by frolicking in the snow with nothing more than his boxers on, and a bottle of booze to warm his cockles. Hypothermia be damned.

Need an idea for a costume? Here’s an awesome idea from down under:

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(PG-13: Language) One of the most depressing and cynical, yet important TV series is coming exclusively to Netflix. The third season of Black Mirror will tackle the effects of technology on identity, privacy and more. Premieres 10/21/16.

Owning a dog is so full of challenges that bringing one home might seem like the easy part. But there’s a lot more to it than buying food, toys, and a leash. Here’s what you need to know to make your dog’s homecoming as happy as possible.

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Come join Richmond Swims as we host our 7th annual

Keller Cove Swim for Kids Sake

This open water bay swim is the 7th annual fundraising event to benefit the youth USA swim team (“Sailfish”) program in the City of Richmond, based at the restored Richmond Municipal Natatorium (“The Plunge”). It will be held at Keller Beach, Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline, in cooperation with East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) who will provide water safety and lifeguard services for the event.

The event includes open water swim competitions for youth (ages 6 to 18) and adult swimmers, at ½-mile, 1-mile and 2-mile distances, wetsuit and non-wetsuit. This is the final event of the Pacific Masters 2016 open water swim season.

The proceeds from the event will be used to providing scholarships to inner-city and at risk youth throughout Richmond, pool rental fees, training equipment, and coaches’ salary.

Since 2010 over 350 children have learned to swim with our swim team and grant funded swim lesson programs. Sailfish swimmers are competing at local and regional swim meets, and give back to the community by volunteering their time at local events and participate in beach clean up day and clean Keller Beach.

2016 Keller Cove Swim for Kids’ Sake

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Artist Corie Willet is a hairstylist by day and makeup and bodypainter by night. The amateur bodypainter said she only started playing with Halloween makeup a few years ago and has been hooked ever since.

She shares all of her amazing artworks on her popular Instagram and Facebook pages where she brings terror and delight to her fans with her pop art zombies and other ghoulish creatures and monsters.

Although not currently available for hire, you can bet that may change as she continues to rise in popularity and her skills continue to evolve.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Throughout history writers have put our thoughts, fears and insights into words we can cherish, remember and live by.

Below is a collection of thought-provoking quotes by some of the most celebrated and revered writers in history.

If you enjoy these quote compilations, be sure to check out our previous posts here.

 

 

 

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

 

 

 

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

 

 

 

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

 

 

 

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

 

 

 

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman

 

 

 

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

 

 

 

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – J.K. Rowling

 

 

 

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway

 

 

 

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

 

 

 

“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’” – C.S. Lewis

 

 

 

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

 

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare

 

 

 

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf

 

 

 

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

 

 

 

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy

 

 

 

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” – Victor Hugo

 

 

 

“Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Tennyson

 

 

 

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

 

 

 

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

 

 

 

“It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.” – Bill Watterson

 

 

 

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

 

 

 

 

 

 

beginning this fall, passengers flying the japanese ANA airways can jet to their destination star wars-style, aboard the new R2-D2 dreamliner aircraft.

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Taking a page from their experiences on and after Firefly, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion are crowdfunding a new comedy series about actors who were on a science fiction show that was cancelled way too soon. Watch the teaser here.

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Another retreat is finished, and I think it was the nicest yet.  I know I say that every time, but this time? I really mean it.  I’m too tired to do more than show you pictures, but here they are.  It. Was. Fantastic.

With more than 46 million vehicles having been recalled so far this year, the thought of accidentally purchasing a used car with safety defects might be a bit nerve-wracking for consumers. A new online search tool from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration aims to take the worry and guess-work out of whether or not a used car has been recalled and fixed.

Late Tuesday NHTSA launched an online search tool that allows consumers to easily check the recall status of their vehicle or motorcycle, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Under the new mandate, NHTSA requires car and motorcycle manufacturers to provide at least 15 years of data and update their information every seven days. Additionally, manufacturers will be required to have a place on their websites where consumers can search for recalls using their vehicle identification numbers (VIN).

Officials with NHTSA say in a news release that they hope the new tool provides drivers with “peace of mind knowing that the vehicle they own, or that they are thinking of buying or renting, is free of safety defects.”

To use the new search tool, consumers must input the vehicle’s 17-digit VIN, which can usually be found in the left corner where the dashboard meets the windshield or on insurance and registration documents. Results will then appear if the consumer has an open recall on their vehicle, and if there are none, owners will see “No Open Recalls.”

The database will only provide information on the vehicle’s safety status and won’t publish personal information or track who checked the recall status of the vehicle, officials with NHTSA say.

With new recalls being announced almost daily, knowing the status of a vehicle is more important than ever, especially since some drivers are feeling “recall fatigue” and may tune out just which cars have issues.

Additionally, drivers suffering recall fatigue are more likely to put off fixing recalled vehicles, an issue that could be dangerous for drivers and passengers. In fact, NHTSA reports that about 25% of recalled autos still need repairs 18 months after the recall was first issued.

While the tool will likely provide valuable information for prospective buyers and current vehicle owners, some consumer advocates say the system doesn’t address all recall-related issues.

Rosemary Shahan, president of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, tells the Tribune that while she would encourage consumers to use the tool before purchasing the vehicle, not all consumers will be able to do so.

The system is only in English and only available online, meaning that consumers who speak different languages or don’t have access to a computer or smartphone won’t be able to research vehicles.

“When you look at the used car market, it is all colors and flavors of people,” Shahan tells the Tribune. “There are many millions who are buying cars to get to work, to get their kids to school and who won’t know to look or will find the information isn’t in their language.”

The new search tool also isn’t enough to protect consumers from possibly deceptive used car marketing practices.

See, while it’s illegal for consumers to sell many recalled products like microwaves and blenders, there isn’t a similar law for recalled vehicles. In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lacks the authority to actually force people people to fix recalled vehicles before they are sold or rented.

That issue led a number of consumer groups to send a petition to the Federal Trade Commission concerning CarMax, one of the largest used car sellers. They allege that while CarMax touts its quality control measures in advertising, the company continues to sell recalled vehicles that haven’t been repaired — often without the buyer’s knowledge.

The petitioners have asked the FTC to look through the millions of cars already sold by CarMax to determine how many recalled vehicles were sold, then notify the owners of those vehicles that they purchased cars with unresolved recall issues.

In a statement to the Tribune, CarMax officials say the new NHTSA tool is “a means for consumers to be better informed on all recalls. CarMax is evaluating this website to see how it may be useful within our processes.”

While the new online search tool may give consumers the power to research their vehicle before purchasing, if dealers continue to boast “125+ point inspections,” and other quality measures, consumers likely won’t feel the need to do their own homework when it comes to recalls.

NHTSA launches online search tool on auto recalls [Chicago Tribune]

Rated RR dared .22 cal trick shot expert 22plinkster to hit two side-by-side balloons with just one bullet… not once, but twice. He ended up doing it three times. Maybe this action hero was on to something after all.

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I love how the placement of the skulls tapers off the edge …

Hat tip to Carine Malhomme.

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Musician and vocalist Brett Domino provides a brief instructional video on putting together the kind of formulaic hooks and cheesy lyrics that eventually turn into pop gold. Apparently, all you need is a bassoon and Google.

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You might think it was impossible to put on your pants without the use of your hands, but the guy in this video proves not only that it can be done, but that it can be done with mad style.

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What parent hasn’t lost their temper when a kid misbehaves? A parent who hasn’t lost his or her cool is a mythical creature, probably riding on a unicorn over a rainbow right now.

I could count the times I’ve lost my cool as a dad on the fingers of one hand — of course, that hand would need to have limitless fingers and I’d need a really long time to count those fingers.

However, I can say one thing: I’m a much calmer dad these days. I still get mad from time to time (I’m human), but it’s no longer a daily occurrence or even weekly.

What’s my secret? Lots of conscious practice.

I realized this: that yelling and punishing don’t work.

Let me say that again: yelling and punishing are ineffective parenting methods. If they worked, we’d all be brilliant parents and kids would always be perfectly behaved after we yelled.

But they don’t work. I don’t need parenting studies to tell me that: I can see it in my own kids. Sure, I can yell at them, and perhaps they’ll cower in fear if they think I’ll raise a hand. What I’m teaching them is not good behavior, but to fear me. And worse, I’m teaching them to yell when they get angry, to resolve conflicts with violence, instead of talking things out and coming to a peaceful resolution.

I’m teaching them that what I want is more important than what they want, and I’m willing to do awful things to get what I want at any cost, even at the cost of our relationship.

Those aren’t things I want to teach my kids. I want them to know that my relationship with them is more important than getting them to behave a certain way this one time.

And yes, I know that kids need boundaries — I believe in boundaries too. I set them and my kids know it’s not cool to go beyond them.

And yes, I know that they need to be taught how to behave appropriately. I just no longer believe that yelling is the way to teach them appropriate behavior. Losing my temper and behaving badly is not the way to teach them how to act when they lose their temper and behave badly.

Because the example we set for them — how to act when things don’t go our way — is much, much more important than the rules we set for them. They learn lessons about behavior by our example, over time.

Walk the walk. That’s why I committed to being mindful and peaceful as a parent, even if I violate that commitment from time to time. When I violate the commitment, I apologize and talk about why I was wrong. Because then my example is how to behave after you’ve behaved badly.

So here are a few lessons on keeping your cool, when things go badly:

1. It’s not about you. We parents tend to take kids’ bad behavior personally, as if what they’re doing is a personal attack on us or our belief systems, a personal offense. That’s why we get mad. The anger isn’t helpful, but it comes up because we think they’ve done something to us. They’re not really trying to do anything to us — they’re kids, and they don’t know how to handle themselves when they don’t get what they want or they get angry for some reason. It’s about what they’re going through, and if we remove ourselves from the equation, we can more objectively see what they’re going through and how we can help.
2. Be their guide, not their dictator. Kids need to learn how to make their way through the world, because we won’t always be there to tell them how to act. And so the best way to teach them isn’t by laying down the law all the time — if we dictate their actions then they never learn how to make decisions on their own. We should let them make their own decisions, within boundaries of course, and guide them when they need our help. Imagine being Yoda (the mentor) instead of Darth Vader (the death-grip dictator). Sidenote: Using Star Wars to teach lessons to your kids is awesome.
3. What do they need? When things don’t go their way, when they’re angry, when they’re afraid … what do they need? You yelling at them or threatening them isn’t helpful — put yourself in that situation (and imagine you’re smaller) and ask if you’d like someone yelling at you when you’re upset. How would you react if someone bigger and more powerful than you were yelling and threatening you? You wouldn’t like it, and would just resent the bigger person. What would be helpful? Maybe some comfort? Some calm conversation about the problem, examining solutions. Some empathy and compassion. And yes, some stern words or a restraining hand if they’re actually going to hurt themselves.
4. Take a timeout. When you’re angry, in the moment, it’s usually best to walk away, and breathe, and calm down. Talk to them when you’re cooler, and can think straight. This is hard to do, because as parents we tend to just dive in and try to take care of the situation in the moment. But it’s hard to make good decisions, talk calmly, not act irrationally, when we’re upset. That’s true of kids too, btw.
5. If you haven’t yet lost your cool, drop down for a moment. When you see yourself stressing out about a situation, or starting to get angry but not full on lost it yet … take a breath. Pause. Drop down inside yourself and see yourself frustrated or stressed. Give yourself a moment of compassion for this frustration, which is perfectly normal and OK. Ease your pain, wish yourself happiness, and then take another breath. If you can, try to see that your child is suffering in much the same way, and needs your compassion too.
6. Commit to being mindful with them. I actually promised my kids that I’d be a more mindful parent, and asked them to watch me. If they caught me losing my temper, I would put a dollar in a jar to go get ice cream with them. It helped — they haven’t called me out yet. Suckers — they never get ice cream anymore! Only kidding — we still get ice cream.
7. Know that you’ll mess up. Expect to have difficulties, but learn from them. See where you went wrong. Be mindful as the difficulty is happening, and see this as a good step towards being more mindful and compassionate as a parent. Review your actions, and instead of feeling bad, see where you could improve, and have a plan for next time this happens. It’s important to plan it out when you’re calm, not decide how to handle things when you’re angry. And adjust the plan next time things go wrong, so that the plan gets better and better over time, and so do your compassionate parenting skills.

The main problem is that we have some ideal as parents, of how our kids should behave. We think they should be ideal kids, but in truth they’re not ideal, they’re real. They have faults, just like we do. They need help, they make mistakes, they get angry, they get frustrated. We do too. Let’s figure out how to behave when we make mistakes, get angry, get frustrated, and show the kids how to do this through our example.

Accept them for who they are, faults and all. Love them completely, with hugs instead of yelling. I’ve found hugs to be a much more effective teacher than anything else in my parenting toolset.

 

The LIX 3D printing pen does not require paper as it enables you to doodle in the air. The pen functions similarly to 3D printers. It quickly melts and cools coloured plastic, letting you create rigid and freestanding structures.

 

 

 

 

LIX is highly portable with its small size and a power cable that plugs into any traditional USB port. Its smaller size (Height: 6.45inch/164mm – Diameter: 0.55inch/14mm) has made it an ideal 3D printing pen for all those who want to give their creative skills a try.

 

 

 

LIX was created by 3 founders: Delphine Eloise Wood, Anton Suvorov and Ismail Baran. The company recently launched a Kickstarter campaign that has already exceeded its initial £30,000 goal with almost 2,500 backers pledging £210,568, with over a month left in the campaign.

 

 

 

 

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LEGO just announced this line of LEGO Simpsons minifigs (closeups of them all below) for release on May 4th to coincide with a special Simpsons LEGO episode on FOX. The figures will come blind-bagged (you don't know who you're getting) for $4 apiece. Obviously, I need the Ralph Wiggum one pretty bad. He even comes with his 'I Choo-Choo-Choose You' Valentine's card. I'm gonna carry him around in my pocket as a good luck charm, which will probably turn out to be a bad luck charm. Remember that time Ralph glued his head to his shoulder? I've done that before. Jk jk, it was my penis to the back of my knee, but still. Keep going for closeups of them all.

the digital interface reveals patterns of global forest change throughout the world.

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This is a short commercial for Volvo (previously: a hamster driving a Volvo) featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme performing his famous splits between two reversing Volvo big-rigs. It was supposed to "demonstrate the precision and directional stability of Volvo Dynamic Steering," but really just reminded us Jean-Claude Damme is a badass with balls big enough for astronomers to consider planets. "Hey!" YOU HEARD ME, PLUTO. Keep going for the worthwhile video with BONUS Enya soundtrack. Heck yeah! \oo/

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The pattern is available in this book: Think Outside the Sox: 60+ Winning Designs from the Knitter’s Magazine Contest.

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the semi-automatic pistol is based off the design of a classic 1911 and has already successfully fired over 50 rounds of bullets without breaking.

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