What did YOU find on the Internet today?

Strike that! and thank goodness I cannot. It could have been a catastrophy.

Upon further (sudden) reflection, as pretty as the word seems at first, especially with the idea of what it describes fillings ones mind, when broken apart it reads Anal Emma.

Unfortunate. Very.

But forget that.

Look at this!!

Explanation: An analemma is that figure-8 curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day for one year. But the trick to imaging an analemma of the Moon is to understand that on average the Moon returns to the same position in the sky about 51 minutes later each day. So, if you photograph the Moon 51 minutes later on successive days, over one lunation or lunar month it will trace out an analemma-like curve as the actual position of the Moon wanders compared to the average -- due to the Moon's tilted and elliptical orbit. For this excellent demonstration of the lunar analemma, astronomer Rich Richins chose the lunar month containing this year's northern hemisphere summer solstice. The southernmost Full Moon rises at the lower right above the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico, USA, with the New Moon phase at the upper left. The multiple exposure image required some digital manipulation, particularly to include thin crescent phases in daytime skies.

At first I thought that said analenema which would be unique.

http://manarchymag.com/core/2012/09/love-puberty-and-the-women-of-the-90...

New mckay story at the ManArchy if anyone's interested.

This is the best gif ever.

I stole this from Pete, but it is seriously the cutest thing!

I love how she keeps using the passe simple, is it really that widespread among young kids, Ludwig?

This story is funny, then scary, then funny, and mostly terrifying.

But she articulates words so beautifully! We had a professor who spoke just like that and I still aim to one day be able to pronounce French like this.

Well I wouldn't know about her pronunciation. I can't speak French.

She would have used passé simple if she had recited a written story.

Silly French and all their conjugating.

You're right! When she says "donc il décida de ne pas aller au ciel, mais le lion dit c'est trop tard maintenant" my radars started working and I figured she's used it all along. And then I was once again taken in by her cuteness.

BREAKING: 71-year-old killed by bear in village Pietrosita, while picking plums. According to sources from the Police Department, the man was picking plums with another 3 people, when the bear thrust itself upon him. Another woman was seriously injured a few hours later in the neighbouring village.

There's a Klimt exhibition at the Peles Castle in the mountains, starting today until December 15. I'll make sure to go when bears are hibernating.

i was at a klimt exhibition at the getty center two weekends ago.

i don't know if it's the same but if you're interested in his sketches, it's a good exhibition to go to.

It won't be sketches, from what I've understood it will be 20-something paintings he made in the Künstler-Compagnie workshop. What I find outrageous is that the student ticket is ONLY 50 cents. That's cheap even for our museums.

I just can't help but laugh every freakin' time.

It must have herd that Sarah was coming to eat it up.

"Kiara's father is an African lion, and her mother is a liger - a cross between a lion and a tiger."

This made my brain go crazy.

Particularly this part:

The researchers also found that viruses appear to be key "spreaders of information," Caetano-Anollés said.
"The protein structures that other organisms share with viruses have a particular quality, they are (more widely) distributed than other structures," he said. "Each and every one of these structures is an incredible discovery in evolution. And viruses are distributing this novelty," he said.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120913123520.htm

Regretsy.com is where it all happens.

What The Fuck.

That is one of the most hideous things I have ever seen.

Dude managed to take a bunch awesome and almost awesome subjects and and

[cheering]
"oh, it's like that?"
"of course, so it's fun!"

...

"she has a lovely voice."

they're filipinos. i always get a kick out of watching videos like this out of the blue and i understand what they're saying.

Still not as good as this guy.

I think a lot of you will appreciate this.

Ahaha, that's awesome!

Did you guys see some of this year's Guiness Book of Records winners?

I like this one. 4,519 items of Hello Kitty memorabilia. Makes my eyes hurt looking at these:

My school friend used to have a room of that size filled with Trolls. I must ask him what he got for selling them all.

Oh Jess, someone's got the better of you.

_eNdLeSs_MiKe_ wrote:

I think a lot of you will appreciate this.

No, but she might have been born this way?

That's a recent picture from a concert in Amsterdam.

Story Here

Haha, smoking a joint on stage.

I read that she was great during her last concerts.

It's okay. She looks so happy.

I found this today

http://chuckpalahniuk.net/forum/1000026/attention-jane-is-a-pie

attached to an image search I was looking through for pie. Only a couple pages down, too.

Famous writers and their rejection letters:

Sylvia Plath: There certainly isn’t enough genuine talent for us to take notice.
Rudyard Kipling: I’m sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use the English language.
Emily Dickinson: [Your poems] are quite as remarkable for defects as for beauties and are generally devoid of true poetical qualities.
Ernest Hemingway (on The Torrents of Spring): It would be extremely rotten taste, to say nothing of being horribly cruel, should we want to publish it.
Dr. Seuss: Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.
The Diary of Anne Frank: The girl doesn’t, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the ‘curiosity’ level.
Richard Bach (on Jonathan Livingston Seagull): will never make it as a paperback. (Over 7.25 million copies sold)
H.G. Wells (on The War of the Worlds): An endless nightmare. I do not believe it would “take”…I think the verdict would be ‘Oh don’t read that horrid book’. And (on The Time Machine): It is not interesting enough for the general reader and not thorough enough for the scientific reader.
Edgar Allan Poe: Readers in this country have a decided and strong preference for works in which a single and connected story occupies the entire volume.
Herman Melville (on Moby Dick): We regret to say that our united opinion is entirely against the book as we do not think it would be at all suitable for the Juvenile Market in [England]. It is very long, rather old-fashioned…
Jack London: [Your book is] forbidding and depressing.
William Faulkner: If the book had a plot and structure, we might suggest shortening and revisions, but it is so diffuse that I don’t think this would be of any use. My chief objection is that you don’t have any story to tell. And two years later: Good God, I can’t publish this!
Stephen King (on Carrie): We are not interested in science fiction which deals with negative utopias. They do not sell.
Joseph Heller (on Catch–22): I haven’t really the foggiest idea about what the man is trying to say… Apparently the author intends it to be funny – possibly even satire – but it is really not funny on any intellectual level … From your long publishing experience you will know that it is less disastrous to turn down a work of genius than to turn down talented mediocrities.
George Orwell (on Animal Farm): It is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA.
Oscar Wilde (on Lady Windermere’s Fan): My dear sir, I have read your manuscript. Oh, my dear sir.
Vladimir Nabokov (on Lolita): … overwhelmingly nauseating, even to an enlightened Freudian … the whole thing is an unsure cross between hideous reality and improbable fantasy. It often becomes a wild neurotic daydream … I recommend that it be buried under a stone for a thousand years.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit was turned down so many times, Beatrix Potter initially self-published it.
Lust for Life by Irving Stone was rejected 16 times, but found a publisher and went on to sell about 25 million copies.
John Grisham’s first novel was rejected 25 times.
Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) received 134 rejections.
Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) received 121 rejections.
Gertrude Stein spent 22 years submitting before getting a single poem accepted.
Judy Blume, beloved by children everywhere, received rejections for two straight years.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle received 26 rejections.
Frank Herbert’s Dune was rejected 20 times.
Carrie by Stephen King received 30 rejections.
The Diary of Anne Frank received 16 rejections.
Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rolling was rejected 12 times.
Dr. Seuss received 27 rejection letters

I do declare he might've liked it.

I'm so sad I wasn't around for this.

That thread is glorious. I wish I actually read those, because I was around when it was made.

Squirrels!

That 'pleasureful' is indeed a word.

"Pleasureful", like "prideful", is a word. Not proper English but, yes, a word.

I was convinced it was made up.

Also, prideful? It even sounds bad.

Yes! THANK you. I hate "prideful". Cringe-worthy word.

Prideful is worthy of a cockpunch.

Pleasureful is now on that list as well.

You guys have strange choices for words you hate.

Idk, I feel like that's kinda light for one of the single largest acts of terrorism ever.

I have some stuff in this NH promo video. Every body loves pop music!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VN_DJmBhK1w

There are others I can't think of, but the only word that I can think of that deserves a cockpunch is ginormous. It's like for god's sake, say giant or say enormous. Don't put them together and make a stupid stupid word.