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CLOSE ENOUGH. - Jessie

Yeah, the Tang Dynasty wasn't in the 1060's it was in the 1960's (see NASA). - Betsy #TeamMonique from FFHound(roid)!

"Pop culture is a goldmine of neologisms, and science fiction and fantasy is one rich seam that has been contributing to English for hundreds of years. Yes, hundreds: because what is Gulliver's Travels but a fantasy satire of 18th-century travel novels? And what is Frankenstein but science fiction? The name of Mary Shelley's monster lives on both as its own word and as a combining form used in words like "frankenfood". And Swift's fantasy novel was so evocative, we adopted a number of words from it, such as "Lilliputian", the tongue-twisting "Brobdingnagian", and – surprise – "yahoo"." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Savvy writers of each genre also liked to resurrect and breathe new life into old words. JRR Tolkien not only gave us "hobbit", he also popularized the plural "dwarves", which has appeared in English with increasing frequency since the publication of The Hobbit in 1968. "Eldritch", which dates to the 1500s, is linked in the modern mind almost exclusively to the stories of HP Lovecraft.... more... - Jessie

"A new app called CrashAlert aims to help save people from themselves. It involves using a distance-sensing camera to scan the path ahead and alert users to approaching obstacles. The camera acts like a second pair of eyes - looking forward while the user is looking down. CrashAlert CrashAlert is at prototype stage Just as a Nintendo Wii or Xbox can detect where and how a player is moving, CrashAlert's camera can interpret the location of objects on the street. When it senses something approaching, it flashes up a red square in a bar on top of the phone or tablet. The position of the square shows the direction of the obstacle - giving the user a chance to dodge out of the way." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Despite designing CrashAlert, Hincapié-Ramos accepts that the best solution of all is for people to stop checking their phones in the first place. "We should encourage people to text less while they're walking because it isolates them from their environment. However people are doing it and there are situations where you have to do it. It's for situations like this that CrashAlert can have a positive impact."" - Jessie

"In May 1813, a few months after the publication of Pride and Prejudice, Austen was in London, staying with her brother Henry. The event of the season was the exhibition of Sir Joshua Reynolds's paintings at the British Institution in Pall Mall. Lord Byron and the Prince Regent attended the opening. This was the first modern museum blockbuster, and the first retrospective exhibition in Britain dedicated to the work of a single artist (Reynolds died in 1792). Exactly 200 years ago, Austen herself went to see the exhibition, describing it enthusiastically in a letter to her sister, Cassandra." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Now this new website, designed by Austen expert Janine Barchas at the University of Texas, allows anyone to make their own virtual visit to the show. What Jane Saw has been reconstructed from the detailed visitors' guide that has survived, effusive accounts in newspapers, and architectural measurements of the British Institution's rooms (the building was demolished in the 1860s). The... more... - Jessie

"A litter of Mexican Gray Wolves, the most Endangered wolf species in the world, came to the Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden -- and not by conventional means. They arrived on a LightHawk* flight at Tri-State Aero, Inc. and were immediately given into the care of zoo staff. The pups are doing well. Born on May 8 at the Wolf Conservation Center in New York, the pups were pulled within hours of their birth with the goal of being in the care of the Mesker Park Zoo within 24 hours. There they have experienced Wolf parents standing by. The plan is for the pups to be partially hand reared and then, within a few months, be fostered by the resident Wolf parents. This is considered their best chance for surviving and contributing to the genetics of this Endangered species." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"There are only approximately 300 Mexican Gray Wolves in captivity and 60 to 70 in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico. These wolves have also been recently released in Mexico. " - Jessie

:O :O :O - Jessie from Bookmarklet

Yip yip - Rodfather

"The lesson here is you should never ask Weibo users to make you look cooler in a photograph." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

Haha those are great - Rodfather from Android

The one of the guy stuck in the drainage hole killed me. - Jessie

"White tigers today are only seen in zoos, but they belong in nature, say researchers reporting new evidence about what makes those tigers white. Their spectacular white coats are produced by a single change in a known pigment gene, according to the study, appearing on May 23 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"The researchers mapped the genomes of a family of 16 tigers living in Chimelong Safari Park, including both white and orange individuals. They then sequenced the whole genomes of each of the three parents in the family. Those genetic analyses led them to a pigment gene, called SLC45A2, which had already been associated with light coloration in modern Europeans and in other animals,... more... - Jessie

"Historical records of white tigers on the Indian subcontinent date back to the 1500s, Luo notes, but the last known free-ranging white tiger was shot in 1958. That many white tigers were hunted as mature adults suggests that they were fit to live in the wild. It's worth considering that tigers' chief prey species, such as deer, are likely colorblind." - Jessie

"Lego has unveiled a life-size Star Wars X-Wing fighter jet made entirely of Legos in Times Square. It promotes an upcoming Cartoon Network show called The Yoda Chronicles. You can also see a life-size Lego Chewy, Vader, R2-D2, C-3PO and Boba Fett in the promo for the show. But the X-Wing has the distinction of being the largest Lego structure built to date. At 11 feet tall, 43 feet long, 44 feet wide and almost 46,000 pounds, it's made of 5,335,200 individual Lego bricks. It took 32 people four months just to put it together. And you can climb into the cockpit for a photo. Which means all you Star Wars and Lego fans must make a pilgrimage to this, the largest and most awesome Lego thing ever made, and get a picture of your child sitting in the cockpit shouting "Pew! Pew!"" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Red fox Vulpes vulpes predation on roe deer Capreolus capreolus fawns is regarded as a very important factor affecting recruitment of roe deer. Therefore from a hunting management perspective, it is of interest to find efficient ways to reduce predation. Because predator removal during summer is highly controversial and banned by law in Scandinavia, supplemental feeding of red foxes during the short, critical fawning period of roe deer has been proposed as a means to relieve predation on fawns. We performed a two-year study of providing red fox vixens with food, supplied as close to active dens as possible, and monitored recruitment of radio-marked roe deer in the vicinity of these dens at a realistic management scale (i.e. the size of a large hunting area; y65 km 2 ). Even though red foxes found and consumed the food supplied, we found no tendency towards increased recruitment of roe deer. We conclude that supplemental feeding of red foxes during the fawning period is not a solution to this management problem, at least not at the chosen management scale and with the current red fox predation levels." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

Oh, that's interesting! Yeah I guess hoarding food would make this approach problematic. I'm glad they at least tried it, though. - Jessie

"I’m not sure if this puppy just admitted to murder or just a complete lack of compassion, but either way I’m not sure why you’d want to go out with her. " - Jessie from Bookmarklet

o.O - Jessie

"Illinois and Wisconsin are currently overrun with pregnant teenage boys, thanks to the Chicago Department of Public Health. Man, that's fun to say. The CDPH's Office of Adolescent and School Health has rolled out a new teen-pregnancy prevention campaign that features pictures of pregnant teenage boys, and the accompanying text reads "Unexpected? Most teen pregnancies are." The intended impact is twofold. Along with the initial shock of seeing a pregnant boy, the ads hope to communicate that pregnancy prevention isn't just the girl's responsibility." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Post-mastectomy tattoos" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

That is stunning. - Heather

I love that it also nicely complements the armband. - Jessie

"New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

There'd have to be at least two, since blue eyes are a recessive trait, no? :D - Victor Ganata from iPhone

"The agency's Sydney office packaged together a 10-book box set of previously published paperbacks "specifically edited to last just as long as each of Qantas's key routes." It's a fun idea, and Droga is playing the nostalgia factor to the hilt. "In this world of Kindles and iPads, it seems that the last bastion of the humble paperback novel is actually at 40,000 feet," says David Nobay, creative chairman of Droga5 Sydney. "You only need to look at the bulging shelves at any airport bookstore. Maybe it's the fact that everything seems so far removed from the real world up there."" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

Clever! - Jessie

"Hong Kong on Tuesday joyfully welcomed the return of a giant inflatable rubber duck, which drew tens of thousands of visitors before it was abruptly deflated for maintenance for almost a week. The southern Chinese city has taken the 16.5-metre-tall (54-feet) yellow inflatable duck, conceived by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, to its heart since it was towed into the harbour on May 2 to cheering crowds." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

I'd like to see some metropolitan area with a large bay (or harbor) deploy a duck in "tip-up" position. Then all you would see is the ass-end of a duck pointed toward the sky as it floats to-and-fro. #ButThatsJustMe - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

That first pic <3 - esther

I know, right? For some reason I love that one too. I think it's the facial expression. - Jessie

"The back of the neck." - Jessie

For some reason I like this better than "nape." It sounds so classy. :D - Jessie

"Angela's works are simply breathtaking, especially her Merida. Her tutorials can be found here, and various photographs of this and other designs are all over her previously mentioned web spaces. Of Merida costumes in general she says: One of my major Merida cosplay pet peeves is people using broadcloth or very lightweight, swishy fabrics for Merida’s dress. Or even worse, materials with a sheen and glitter! We are supposed to be in 10th century Scotland, and a horse-riding-archery-master-tom-boy-all-around-awesome-strong-female-character, we would not put up with that shit." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Angela, you kick ass. Merida would be very proud, indeed." - Jessie

BTW, she is 15. Someone give this girl a scholarship to a design school. - Jessie

P.S. It was a very tasty beer. - Jessie

LOVE ME, LOVE MY DRUNKFACE. :-P - Jessie

"It looks like porn studios have finally figured out a way to integrate Google Glass into their shoots. XBIZ, the adult industry news website of record, reports that studios are eager to get their hands on the device to get a grasp of their “full potential.” For example, since the face computers provide a more intimate angle than a traditional camera set-up, studios are thinking about making the actors wear them while they’re in various positions." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

Dammit Mo! *grabs brain bleach* - Soup in a TARDIS from FFHound!

"Saber-tooth tiger battles dire wolves for a mammoth carcass in the La Brea tar pits. by Robert Bruce Horsfall, 1913." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

So that's where "dire wolf" comes from... - Spidra Webster

The mascot for the kids' section of the Page Museum in L.A. used to be a direwolf puppy. I don't know if it still is but I hope they bring it back, since direwolves are a thing now. - Jessie

"The movie is called Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon II – The Green Destiny, and it’s based on one of the other books in the series Crouching Tiger was based on. The director will be legendary fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, who worked on the first Crouching Tiger in addition to the Kill Bill movies and The Matrix. As for the writer, that’s John Fusco, who wrote martial arts flick The Forbidden Kingdom alongside Viggo Mortensen‘s Hidalgo and animated kid’s movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (that’s… varied)." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"According to Bennett's neighbor, Marty Corbitt, the whole thing started about a week ago, when Bennett showed up at his home to complain about the unkempt grass. "Slapped me across the face and said, 'Mow your grass," Corbitt told 11Alive. "My grass was too tall for him. I was going to cut it today, and then he set my house on fire."" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

o.O - Jessie

o_o - Soup in a TARDIS

"I expected it to be ridiculous (because CW), but, well, take a look at this first clip from Reign for yourself and tell me if your reaction is anything other than staring at your screen in abject horror. Or, heck, maybe you’re staring at your screen in delight. This looks like it might be one of those so bad it’s good, buy some wine and give it the MST3K treatment sort of things. Either way, it is impossible to prepare yourself for the awfulness of this clip. Mary, I am so, so sorry. You deserved better." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

^ You're invited, too. - Jessie

"Stravinsky was hoping the new ballet would be an even bigger hit than Petrushka. “From all indications I can see that this piece is bound to 'emerge’ in a way that rarely happens,” he wrote gleefully to Nicholas Roerich, who was the guiding spirit behind the ballet’s vision of pagan Russia. It’s a fair bet that Diaghilev, the great entrepreneur behind the Ballets Russes, was hoping for something more than an emergence. He wanted a scandal. And he got one, though what actually happened that night is something of a mystery. The dancer Dame Marie Rambert remembered that “a shout went up in the gallery: 'Un docteur!’. Somebody else shouted louder, 'Un dentiste!’” Kessler said that people started to whisper and joke almost immediately. The conductor of the premiere, Pierre Monteux, was told by one of his double-bass players that “many a gentleman’s shiny top hat or soft fedora was ignominiously pulled down by an opponent over his eyes and ears, and canes were brandished like menacing implements of combat all over the theatre.”" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"These are just a few of dozens of eyewitness reports. As the musicologist Richard Taruskin points out, the Rite is the most over-documented premiere in history, and yet so many things are obscure. Was it the choreography that annoyed people, or the music? Were the police really called? Was it true that missiles were thrown, and challenges to a duel offered? Were the creators booed at the end, or cheered? " - Jessie

"At a deeper level, the music negates the very thing that for most people gives it meaning: the expression of human feelings. As Stravinsky put it, “there are simply no regions for soul-searching in The Rite of Spring”. This is what separates it so decisively from Stravinsky’s hit of 1911, Petrushka. There we’re immersed in a human world, which exudes the very specific cultural ambience... more... - Jessie

"Rough acrylic sketch of Belle. Just playing around with capturing a mood rather than crazy accuracy ;)" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Operating a taxi equipped with waterproof mats, paper boxes and pet food, a 54-year-old Taipei cab driver not only transports human passengers, but also ferries stray animals to their new owners. For several years Yu Ho-ching (尤河清) has helped animal shelters and volunteers take strays to their new homes, for a reasonable fee, in spite of the threat of unpleasant odors that nervous animals may leave behind. Yu has also provided free rides to stray animals whose foster carers are financially disadvantaged and he sometimes purchases pet supplies himself." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Saying that he would continue to transport his animal passengers until the day he retired, Yu urged the public to think twice before getting a pet, and to adopt a dog or a cat from a shelter rather than buying one." - Jessie