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26 Sep 13:48

10 Best PUA Books to Boost Your Dating Game

by James Buzinko
26 Sep 13:48

Ultimate Guide to XTRA Man Cream: Reviews, Ingredients & Results

by James Buzinko
26 Sep 13:48

Tongkat Ali: 9 Great Benefits for Sex Life & Side Effects

by James Buzinko
19 Mar 12:26

Photo



19 Mar 12:26

"I'm coming at you bro!"

19 Mar 12:26

cosmos: a spacetime odyssey

by kris

20140313-cosmos

i saw so many problems in the first episode of cosmos with neil degrasse tyson. i don’t see how anyone is going to learn anything

  • neil degrasse tyson grew and shrank at will, and stood directly in front of the big bang without harm coming to him
  • he walked around earth around the first appearance of life on the planet! how many countless microbes did he spread to earth’s past
  • he survived the blast wave from the meteor that killed all the dinosaurs

my kids are going to watch this and try to shrink off the goddamned roof!! thanks for nothing, “doctor” tyson and “seth” macfarlane

(actually the show is great, i teared up, please watch it)

19 Mar 06:38

[neonnoodle]

19 Mar 06:38

Вечереет

19 Mar 06:38

Feels overload.

19 Mar 06:38

March 18, 2014


The slow descent into madness rolls on.
19 Mar 06:38

March 17, 2014


One of my favorite comics I've done is over at The Nib for your perusal. If you go through my posts there, there's also a lot of exclusive content. Enjoy!
19 Mar 06:16

Amazing Houdini cat escapes cages by opening locks

by Jesus Diaz on Sploid, shared by Jesus Diaz to Gizmodo

Amazing Houdini cat escapes cages by opening locks

This is Marshmallow—the incredible Houdini cat who can escape any cell at a veterinary clinic in Marseille, France, just by unlocking the door. The veterinary calls him the "king of evasion."

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19 Mar 06:16

nevver: Dublin

19 Mar 06:16

Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro

by Christopher Jobson

Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro science quantum mechanics math chalk

Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro science quantum mechanics math chalk

Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro science quantum mechanics math chalk

Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro science quantum mechanics math chalk

Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro science quantum mechanics math chalk

Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro science quantum mechanics math chalk

Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro science quantum mechanics math chalk

Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro science quantum mechanics math chalk

Momentum is a project by artist Alejandro Guijarro who spent three years traveling to the quantum mechanics departments of Cambridge, Stanford, Berkeley, Oxford and elsewhere to shoot large format photographs of blackboards just after lectures. Completely removed from the context of a classroom or laboratory and displayed in a gallery, the cryptic equations from one of the most formidable branches of physics become abstract patterns of line and color. Via the artist’s statement:

Before he walks into a lecture hall Guijarro has no idea what he will find. He begins by recording the blackboard with the minimum of interference. No detail of the lecture hall is included, the blackboard frame is removed and we are left with a surface charged with abstract equations. At this stage they are documents. However, once removed from their institutional beginnings the meaning evolves. The viewer begins to appreciate the equations for their line and form. Colour comes into play and the waves created by the blackboard eraser suggest a vast landscape or galactic setting. The formulas appear to illustrate the worlds of Quantum Mechanics. What began as a precise lecture, a description of the physicist’s thought process, is transformed into a canvas open to any number of possibilities.

Guijarro graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with a MA in fine art and now lives
and works in both London and Madrid. He’ll have work later this year at PhotoEspaña. (via Not Shaking the Grass)

19 Mar 06:16

Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly

by Christopher Jobson

Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly gifs animation

Since 2008 Hungarian/German graphic designer David Szakaly has been churning out some of the most dizzying, hypnotic and wholly original gifs on the web under the name Davidope. His blend of twisting organic forms, flashes of black and white, and forays into pulsing technicolor shapes have inspired legions of others to experiment with the medium, many of whom have been featured here on Colossal. It’s hard to determine the scale of Szakaly’s influence online, but a simple Google image search for “animated gif” brings up dozens of his images that have been shared around Tumblr hundreds of thousands of times.

Szakaly began experimenting with the vector animation program Macromedia Flash back in 1999 where he used the software to create presentations, banners, and other creatives for clients. It was nearly a decade later when he decided to dedicate more time to experimenting with motion graphics and found that Tumblr was a great platform to share his quirky gifs. While he still works in the corporate world on other digital projects, he has also found commercial success making animations for clients around the world. Though it’s his personal work that really stands out. If or when gifs end up on gallery walls, it will be hard to deny Szakaly’s role in getting them there.

Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly gifs animation

Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly gifs animation

Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly gifs animation

Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly gifs animation

Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly gifs animation

Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly gifs animation

Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly gifs animation

19 Mar 06:16

When the master race still had it's flaws

19 Mar 06:16

If You Have a Cat, You Need This Sign

If You Have a Cat, You Need This Sign

Submitted by: Unknown

Tagged: booze , jerks , Cats , funny , after 12 , g rated
19 Mar 06:16

Manuals

The most ridiculous offender of all is the sudoers man page, which for 15 years has started with a 'quick guide' to EBNF, a system for defining the grammar of a language. 'Don't despair', it says, 'the definitions below are annotated.'
19 Mar 06:16

Water Droplets Flow Uphill through a Superheated Maze Thanks to the Leidenfrost Effect

by Christopher Jobson

Water Droplets Flow Uphill through a Superheated Maze Thanks to the Leidenfrost Effect water science mazes

Water Droplets Flow Uphill through a Superheated Maze Thanks to the Leidenfrost Effect water science mazes

Water Droplets Flow Uphill through a Superheated Maze Thanks to the Leidenfrost Effect water science mazes

The folks over at Science Friday made this fascinating video about the Leidenfrost Effect, where water dropped on an extremely hot surface is capable of floating instead of immediately evaporating. While studying the bizarre effect, physicists at the University of Bath realized that not only does the water float, but under the right conditions and temperatures it can actually climb upward. The playful experiments lead to the creation of an incredible superheated maze. (via The Awesomer)

19 Mar 06:16

You Are Not a Product: Why Premium Pricing is Here

It made us angry to see great products like Google Reader shut down for no good reason. It was frightening when we heard The Old Reader might have to close its doors.

It’s easy to shrug your shoulders and just hope that there will always be great free software for content delivery. And if you do eventually have to join some closed social network, it can’t be that terrible, right? It might be controlled by a giant Internet company, but hey, it’ll be free, right?

Why Freemium is the Thing

Since we introduced Premium pricing for The Old Reader, we’ve gotten some thoughtful comments, as well as some pushback. Why should I pay for a technology that’s always been free? Isn’t the whole point of RSS that it’s part of the free Internet? I want to explain why we’re here and why we’ve adopted the Premium pricing plan ($2/month for 500 subscriptions with full-text search).

RSS has been neglected and abused, but as I’ve said before, I believe it will be the preferred content-delivery format once people tire of private/closed networks. Twitter, Facebook and the rest aren’t delivering content- they’re delivering you to advertisers. RSS doesn’t fit that model. That’s why the big players aren’t supporting it. 

Get Your Sponsored Content Somewhere Else

One of the most common questions we get is why didn’t we just bring in advertising. We settled on the freemium model because its the one that supports the service the best while doing the least harm. The more I use Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms, the more I see the subtle and insidious ways they control what I see, what I do, and what I can say, all in the name of advertising.

We’re trying to provide something the closed Internet doesn’t do- give you unfiltered access to the content you choose. The value in RSS is that it doesn’t try to make money by observing your online habits and feeding you sponsored content. But there are costs to making that possible.

We can learn more about you by building closed systems and tracking and targeting your every move and serving up ad content. But as we’ve said, ads introduce bias and distract from the primary purpose of RSS readers. RSS should aggregate the content you choose from the web, not push advertising to you.  

Besides, ads won’t work. Most of you won’t look at the ads. You will do what I do- block them with Adblock or some other tool or just flat out ignore them. Advertisements that don’t get attention don’t pay any bills. Then we’re forced to find ways to make those ads effective, or lose advertisers. That means putting our resources into forcing you to watch more ads, click on more ads, or some other gambit that has nothing to do with getting the content you want.

Finally, an RSS reader knows a lot about people’s interests, but we don’t want to exploit that fact. We should be using that information to find more stuff you like, not selling it to advertisers. We believe in privacy and do our best to protect it. To maximize ad revenues we’d need to violate your privacy to some degree.

It’s Not a Free Ride

But why should Premium users have to pay the bill for the free users? It’s important to remember that this is a social network, and the more friends you have to share with, the better. Not all your friends will be Premium/power RSS users. But the more people using the service, the more great content you can find. (And not sponsored content from advertisers.)

In addition, we hope that over time we are able to attract more and more of our free users to Premium accounts. We know it’ll be a small percentage but we’re working hard to build incredible functionality worthy of a small monthly fee. Besides, I know you’ve heard the “it’s less than cup of coffee” line a thousand times, but we REALLY think it’s a reasonable amount for the power you have. If you’re a power user, know that the money we make from your subscription will be plowed into development. Real, honest-to-goodness development.

I know that there are still free RSS readers available. The Old Reader was completely free until a couple weeks ago. And for the VAST majority of our users it still can be completely free. The freemium model is important because we’re focused on making this a sustainable service that won’t be closing.

In The Words of a Wise Man…

Our goal isn’t just to keep The Old Reader chugging along, but to build an online platform and community that is an alternative to the Facebooks and Twitters of the world. I think Dave Winer said it best when he wrote in our blog comments:

We have as a community, been boring the hell out of users.

This what happens when a product doesn’t introduce any new features for 10 years! :-)

I’m talking about RSS, as a product — vs its competitors, Twitter and Facebook, which have been actively pushing new goodies for users.

We are not doing that in RSS.

So if we want to get users on board, and other developers, we have to move.

Everyone’s been doing it for themselves, and no one has been willing to go first with a new feature that might delight users, and inspire their competitors to follow them.

If we want to have a good open alternative to Twitter and Facebook, we have to do some new stuff!

We’re committed to the open web and giving you the best possible reading experience without sneaking in ads. And we’re also not going to be using your private information to sell you anything or help others sell you anything. That’s not just a promise. That’s the principle behind Premium membership. 

19 Mar 06:16

Manuals

The most ridiculous offender of all is the sudoers man page, which for 15 years has started with a 'quick guide' to EBNF, a system for defining the grammar of a language. 'Don't despair', it says, 'the definitions below are annotated.'
19 Mar 06:15

Review Of mSpy App: The Truth Is Revealed

by David Breckejn

Information is critical to conducting business. In order to succeed we need to keep our proprietary data secure to give us a competitive edge in the market. For this purpose there is a tool to make sure that no illicit activities are happening with employees, spouses or even our children to protect our assets, lifestyle […]

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19 Mar 06:15

All You Have To Know About Spokeo People Search

by David Breckejn

Spokeo.com bills itself as a “people search engine” that culls data from a variety of sources into one easy to use report, enabling you to track down long lost friends and relatives. Users can easily discover about their “target”: Addresses, Email, Social Media Accounts & Marital Status. In addition to personal applications, it promotes itself to business and non-profit organisations as well. […]

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19 Mar 06:15

Mobistealth Review: Will This Cell Phone Spy App Help You?

by David Breckejn

Mobistealth spy software is an all-in-one solution to your cell phone monitoring needs. Providing peace of mind to parents who want to monitor their children’s activities, alerting employers to abuses of company time and resources and answering the question “Is my spouse cheating on me?”, this product lets you have your eyes and ears everywhere… […]

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19 Mar 06:15

10 Effective Tips For Preventing Cell Phone Spyware

by David Breckejn

Cell phones have been one of the fastest growing varieties of technology in the modern world. With these leaps and bounds come new dangers and pitfalls for you to be aware of. [Also Read This: 5 Most Popular Mobile SMS Spy Tools On The Market] One of these is the ever-growing amount of spyware you […]

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19 Mar 06:15

Vital Things You Need To Know About Stealthgenie, A Review

by David Breckejn

With the popularity of mobile devices, individuals all over the world have begun to keep their entire lives on their smartphones. If you are in a situation where you require an application to help you monitor the activity of any device, Stealthgenie is a comprehensive app that allows you to do so. [Read More: 5 Most […]

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19 Mar 06:15

What You Need To Know About Pipl.com People Search Service

by David Breckejn

The information superhighway allows you to be able to do things that were virtually impossible without it few years ago. Within just a few seconds, you can connect to someone on the other side of the world and communicate with them for hours from the comfort of your own home. In addition to this efficient […]

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19 Mar 06:14

8 Best Cell Phone Tracker Apps That Will Help You Find The Truth

by David Breckejn

No. 1: Mobile Spy Mobile Spy set the industry standard for smartphone monitoring. Once installed, it runs silently in the background recording every action taken, along with GPS location. Compatibility – Available for use on Android, iPhone and Windows devices, the software instantly updates your online log with activity including Facebook, Twitter, SMS texts and […]

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19 Mar 06:14

Review Of SpyBubble Cell Phone Spy: What You Need To Know

by David Breckejn

Stealthy monitoring of mobile devices has become increasingly popular as more individuals have begun to use mobiles as a central hub for communication and storing information. If you are an employer or a parent who is looking to have complete control over what your employees and/or children are accessing with their smartphones, you may want […]

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19 Mar 06:14

5 Most Popular Mobile SMS Spy Tools On The Market

by David Breckejn

Technology has become a prevalent staple in today’s society and with that being said, it is imperative that you establish control over your personal gadgets. With the help of SMS tracking tools, you will be able to locate any mobile device that you have access to. These applications can be incredibly useful for parents who […]

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