An innovative initiative is taking place in the Philippines to bring sustainable lighting to homes in impoverished communities. Empty plastic bottles are installed in the roof, filled with water and bleach they refract sunlight. These “solar light bulbs” provide light equivalent to a 55watt light bulb.
See how they’re made here. From Visual News
Why it pays to actually try
I just finished watching The Social Network. Again. Probably the fifteenth or twentieth time by now.
Why have I watched it so often? Well, for starters, Jessie Eisenberg’s quick and clipped delivery is attention-capturing and Andrew Garfield puts such emotion into character that when he hurts, you hurt (I can’t wait to see what he does with Spider-Man).
But that’s just the entertainment level. On a personal level, what Zuckerburg managed to do with Facebook is the type of thing I’ve wanted to do since I had my own computer and discovered the internet. To build something great, to be known for it, to matter. Hell, even just to be involved in something like that at the ground level!
Could I do it? At one point in my life, I seriously think I could have. For all the slacking I do, for the sheer laziness I exude at nearly everything I do, I’ve got skills and talents that few people have seen. Maybe not all in direct programming, admittedly, but I know I’ve got smarts and brains. My parents saw it, my teachers saw it, and a very small, dwindling number of people saw it in college and afterwards. I’ve signed NDAs, I’ve been in charge of large groups of people, I’ve had to account for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of business.
But somewhere along the line, I gave up. And I don’t know why. And watching The Social Network reminds me that I gave it up and tells me that I shouldn’t have and makes me think about what I did and why I did it. I still don’t have the answers, but I wish I did. Because I’m nearly 32 and I feel like I’ve missed it, I feel like I’ve wasted the few chances in life that I was going to get and now I’m condemned to a life of nothing but run-of-the-mill work where I nearly cry for how intellectually unchallenged and unstimulated I am.
Fluid motion is captured as a floral still life in these high-speed photos by Jack Long. The artist keeps mum about his set-up but notes that these are single capture events, not constructed composites. It looks as if the blossoms are created from the impact of a falling fluid with the upward jet that forms the stem. The leaves and vase appear to be created from the upward splashes, but whether those are generated by vibration or dropping an object is unclear. See Long’s Flickr page for more. (Photo credit: Jack Long via Gizmodo)
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I’m going to start referring to my vagina as The Predator now
This whole DVD is faaantastic.
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French artist Mademoiselle Maurice who creates stunning geometric figures on urban surfaces using rainbows of folded origami figures. via
Samurai Prime by TeeKetch is $11 for a limited time at The Yetee
The Emperor of Destruction by TeeKetch is $11 for a limited time at The Yetee
thor meets pikachu
requested by nettumbles
THOR! THOR LOOK!
And then he throws it on the ground and demands another
^ omg
just like that amirite
LMAO omfg
lmao
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I get a call like this at least once a week.
Did Daredevil get another re-design?
Also, is this John Cassaday work?
I think this is older art, based only on the design of the eyes on Spider-Man’s mask.
