Sigillum Aemeth

Notes: 13 / 1 year ago from uchicagoscavhunt (originally from macpiercescav)

The ZOETROPE

We held a very special screening of our showcase Zoetrope last Friday, and managed to render the 3D animated effect in full animated gif splendor. It. Is. Glorious.

Dear Internet — I give you, THE MARIO ZOETROPE!

If you want to read more about it, or about the history of zoetropes, or just see some cool pictures of the construction process, check out a recap blog post about the endeavor: The Making of a Zoetrope.

This is really cool.

I took the liberty of cropping the gif, to make the animation more obvious:

An animated gif of Mario jumping and hitting a question block, from the MacPierce zoetrope

1 year ago

http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2011/10/economics-vs-apples.html

Pervocracy hits it out of the park, as always. Great takedown of the “economic model” of sex. (Warning: some pretty detailed descriptions of sexual acts.)

Notes: 75 / 1 year ago from outlawroad-deactivated20130412

Attempted Danger: So, we're not allowed by the Powers That Be to use "sexual" as a descriptor anymore, but there's no real alternative...

outlawroad:

I feel there should be a word and not a phrase, but no one—not even the critics—are offering anything valid. Why “sexual” is offensive and the more specific sexual identity words aren’t offensive is still beyond me but whatever. People who have a problem want to be pleased.

So right now, all…

Wait, people are offended by the word “sexual”? Why??? /a confused sexual

Notes: 93 / 1 year ago from cornerof5thandvermouth (originally from stfueverything)

I find it ironic that people who oppose abortion are usually the same people who oppose social programs.

cornerof5thandvermouth:

nat-chos:

this is because anti-choice isn’t about preserving the sanctity of life, it’s about punishing women who have sex and get pregnant

also punishing the people who have the audacity to be poor

Why do people say shit like this?

I have plenty of pro-choice friends. They are pro-choice because they have the (incorrect) belief that a fetus is a baby.

Why do you assume the whole pro-life movement is lying about their motivation?

(Source: stfueverything)

Notes: 88487 / 1 year ago from thismakesmeanxious (originally from crispyclean)

thismakesmeanxious:

thesavagesalad:

hinduthug:

I posted this shit when it had 4000 notes. And now it has 20000+

IT’S SPELLED GANDHI.

ow my headd

Please get the spelling right y’all

His name is Gandhi.

srsly, why is this misspelling so prevalent? idgi

I heard a good explanation once:

An English speaker can’t really imagine a distinction between “di” and “dhi”. We can, however, distinguish between “ga” and “gha” (the first might be pronounced like the first part of “gap”, while the second has to pronounced the correct way for “Gandhi”). So people remember there’s an “h” somewhere, and put it the place that would help English speakers pronounce the name correctly.

1 year ago

Watching “Friends”, specifically “The One with the Giant Poking Device”. Thoughts:

1) The whole premise is that Janice couldn’t _possibly_ have feelings for more than one person. Even assuming they would never try poly, it still seems strange that they wouldn’t recognize the possibility of loving more than one person.

2) A 12-pack of condoms is your idea of a big expenditure? That’s like one good weekend.

3) I’m a little squicked out by the idea that “they have a kid together” means they automatically should “try to make it work”. Divorce is hard for kids sometimes, but I feel like trying to force a relationship that doesn’t work creates an even more toxic environment.

1 year ago

Possible spoilers for The Girl Who Waited (Doctor Who episode) after the break.

So if the universe is expanding faster and faster until it expands faster than light can travel… how is that possible while it contains mass?

nethdugan:

I mean, I know it isn’t the mass itself that is expanding, it’s the space that the mass sits in but mass effects space and warps it so wouldn’t it hinder the moving faster than light thing? Because nothing with mass can go the speed of light cause the energy needed would be infinite so you’d have to find a way to cancel out the mass first or something if that were even possible.

Erm.

Somehow I can’t find the original source, but the post here does a really good job of explaining the expansion of the universe.

Basically, your problem is that you’re thinking of expansion as a “movement”. It isn’t, really. What’s actually happening is that the distance between stationary things is getting bigger over time. Things are getting further apart while standing still. If that sounds hard to imagine, that’s because it is. :P The post I linked does a good job of explaining it pretty clearly, though.

Notes: 270 / 1 year ago from asexyramblings (originally from theamericannerd)

wtfwhiteprivilege:

One of my favorite comics ever.

Notes: 148 / 1 year ago from eyesclosedmindsopen (originally from sanityscraps)

Reblog if there’s a reason The Bible wants you dead.

eyesclosedmindopen:

happypyrodance:

eyesclosedmindopen:

happypyrodance:

astormofsquids:

Pansexual transsexual mostly-atheist who eats shrimp, wears mixed cloth, and probably drinks water that lizards have been in.

Wait you’re not allowed to drink lizardwater?

Or eat a kid boiled in its mother’s milk. Lawl. It’s somewhat like the same thing.

For me, it’d probably be my absolute disinterest in populating earth with my spawn.

Or maybe just my gay husband.

And mixed blend clothing. And eating shellfish, cooking and exchanging money on the Sabbath. And I think I coveted my neighbor’s dog yesterday or something.

Basically, I’m screwed.

Eating a kid boiled in its mother’s milk?

I.

WHAT?

Dude, if you eat kids you pretty much DESERVE to go to hell. Seriously what the fuck.

I think they meant a goat? It’s a prohibition against mixing meat and dairy products together (= the diff between something that’s kosher, pareve and trayf).

But I love that you thought the Bible discussed cannibalism in such sordid detail. There’s nothing like the love a mother feels for her child, amirite? ;)

-Will

P.S. FriendSoviet: FUCK YEAH, shellfish!

P.P.S. I got that info from Marie who’s Jewish. Like hell I knew all that crap on my own. I grew up Catholic and am currently a super atheist.

It’s actually the other way around. The original prohibition was just against cooking a baby goat in its mother’s milk. But the Rabbinical principle of “building a fence around the Torah” meant that they expanded it to banning any sort of mixed meat and dairy, just in case.

/also not a Jew, I just go to UChicago.

(Source: sanityscraps)