Hidden City Curiosities

Yimmys Yayo™

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:06:26 -0500

Yimmys Yayo™

Pillow chairs

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:05:01 -0500

Pillow chairs

So sad, but so true. It drags a bit, but the end is great.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:16:09 -0500

So sad, but so true. It drags a bit, but the end is great.

lozateazer: aslowdescent: fakemustache: monkeyknifefight |...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:50:23 -0500

lozateazer:

aslowdescent:

fakemustache:

monkeyknifefight | seaponies | bookselves | (via imsvsims)

Husbands and Husbands

This video is only a minute long. You won’t regret watching it.

Watch what happens when a little boy named Calen meets a pair of husbands for the first time. He talked things out, asked a few questions, and things just seemed to click in his head for him.

Let’s quit with the ignorance and fear and play ping pong. (rb)

:’)

You can play, if you want to

xkcd: Single Ladies

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:50:52 -0500

xkcd: Single Ladies

alinasmith: morrowplanet: A Timeline of Science Fiction...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:37:47 -0500

alinasmith:

morrowplanet:

A Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions: Weapons, Warfare and Security: Science Fiction in the News

Uh, I don’t know what this “timeline” crap is, but that’s a diagram of the Sephirot. What is a Sephirot, you ask? Well!

“Sephirot (In Hebrew סְפִירוֹת), meaning “enumerations”, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which God (who is referred to as Ein Sof - The Limitless) reveals himself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms (Seder hishtalshelus). The term is alternatively transliterated into English as Sephiroth/Sefiroth, singular Sephirah etc.”

Welcome to Jewish Mysticism, bitches.

Is it weird that my first thought was “Why is Alina posting a Sephirot?”

thedailywhat: FoD Exclusive of the Day: Heidi Montag gets...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:38 -0500

thedailywhat:

FoD Exclusive of the Day: Heidi Montag gets serious about making fun of her plastic surgery in this Ron Howard-directed (get your head around that why dontcha) pro-consumer protection PSA.

[fod.]

I can’t decide if this helps the case for consumer protection, or hurts it.

’70s Science Fiction Disco. This … I just...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:21:35 -0500

’70s Science Fiction Disco. This … I just don’t understand.

xkot: willzone: j0e: captainsuits: via...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:36:32 -0500

xkot:

willzone:

j0e:

captainsuits:

via cheezprobablybadnews.files.wordpress.com

*rimshot*

Neil Gaiman on the Oscars red carpet (video)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:29:19 -0500

Neil Gaiman on the Oscars red carpet (video):

(via fuckyeahgaiman)

"However… well, just for beginners, let’s admit that literary fiction is a genre, too, shall we?..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:56 -0500

“However… well, just for beginners, let’s admit that literary fiction is a genre, too, shall we? Expectations guide its readers, that of respect for consensus reality and the poignancy of seemingly ordinary lives, of sensitive character-drawing and vivid scene-painting, of the reversals and conflicts characteristic of the several sub-genres of literary fiction: the academic novel, the comic novel, the adultery novel, the comic academic adultery-novel, the experimental novel, the novel of foreign travel or inward journey, of unexpected encounter, of breakdown, of alcoholism, of youth, of middle age, of a hundred different things so well-known and encoded that the fonts used for the titles and the authors’ names tell you as much as the flap copy.”

- What About Genre, What About Horror?

"I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:31:21 -0500

“I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them … are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!”

- Glenn Beck

Silly Glenn Beck Wants You To Leave Your Church if… - via Jesus Needs New PR

The man has just absolutely lost it… if he’s not actually a brilliant performance artist as I’ve postulated.

Also : love how his interpretation of religious freedom extends all the way to merely unique perspectives on the Bible. Theocracy, here we come!

(via danielholter)

Anyone who would listen to this man on religious matters — hell, on ANY topic — deserves what they get.

craigroflbomb: mememolly: Alice in Mad Men (via...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:04:09 -0500

craigroflbomb:

mememolly:

Alice in Mad Men (via dazedjaded)

Brilliant.

thedailywhat: Cute Animals Being Cute of the Day: Fareham,...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:36:19 -0500

thedailywhat:

Cute Animals Being Cute of the Day: Fareham, Hampshire resident Jane has found a nutty way of getting her lolz on: She suspends two coconuts in mid-air from her clothes line once a week, and watches as local squirrels dive face-first into a pre-cut hole in the fruit’s hard husk.

“The first time I saw them feeding I nearly died laughing,” Jane tells The Sun. “They looked like a pair of astronauts.”

Quite.

[arbroath.]

Mercedes-Benz Artificial Tornado “The twister takes around...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:58:26 -0500

Mercedes-Benz Artificial Tornado

“The twister takes around seven minutes to materialize,” Autoblog explains, “and is generated by 144 jets and 28 tons of air. The low pressure area at the center of the tornado works to create a jet stream that draws smoke out of the building’s corridors and funnels it upwards and out an exhaust vent on the roof.” It is also more than 100 feet tall—making it the official world-record holder for the World’s Largest Artificial Tornado.

Click through for a video of it forming.

For six months in the winter and fall of 1969, Niagara’s...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:47:18 -0500

For six months in the winter and fall of 1969, Niagara’s American Falls were “de-watered”, as the Army Corps of Engineers conducted a geological survey of the falls’ rock face, concerned that it was becoming destabilized by erosion. (via absent rivers, ephemeral parks - mammoth // building nothing out of something)

“Talking Board Planchette” by Chet Zar

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:44:07 -0500

“Talking Board Planchette” by Chet Zar

Steampunk Wheelchair

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:51:18 -0500

Steampunk Wheelchair

id-iomatics: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:41:39 -0500

id-iomatics: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer

thedailywhat: Spontaneous Sing-Along of the Day: A service...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:27:28 -0500

thedailywhat:

Spontaneous Sing-Along of the Day: A service delay prompts NYC Subway patrons at the Times Square stop to form an impromptu chorus as a busking band performs The Beatles’ “Hey Jude”.

[gothamist.]

Simple things like this, things like people forgetting about their inconvenience for a few minutes and singing a silly song alongside people they don’t even know just for the joy of singing and doing something with strangers — this is why I want humanity to survive, in spite of all the horrors we have wreaked on the world.