A group of bicyclists in Tokyo are drawing “geoglyphs” by using a GPS tracking device to log their routes. The preplanned courses turn into massive animal shapes when highlighted against a map.
Tracing Shapes of Animals From Bike Routes
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The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee investigates a group of people who face the brunt of hurtful bullying and bigotry: Christians. This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in ages. (via The Daily Show)
My blacked out Leonidas. Done by Devin @ Old School Electric Tattoos - Jacksonville, FL.
Rolling Stone's take on the death of contributor Michael Hastings:
Hastings’ hallmark as reporter was his refusal to cozy up to power. While other embedded reporters were charmed by McChrystal’s bad-boy bravado and might have excused his insubordination as a joke, Hastings was determined to expose the recklessness of a man leading what Hastings believed to be a reckless war. “Runaway General” was was a finalist for a National Magazine Award, won the 2010 Polk award for magazine reporting, and was the basis for Hastings’ book, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan.
For Hastings, there was no romance to America’s misbegotten wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He had felt the horror of war first-hand: While covering the Iraq war for Newsweek in early 2007, his then-fianceé, an aide worker, was killed in a Baghdad car bombing. Hastings memorialized that relationship in his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story.
An aide to Hillary Clinton, at the time in the midst of the Benghazi scandal, also told Hastings to fuck off one time. Which, of course, was published.
Cenk talks to Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson and Richard Eskow about the death of TYT contributor Michael Hastings and his reputation of speaking truth to those in power. “Michael was old school,” Eskow says. “He was a wild man. He went out there and he wrote what he wrote. He researched and he got it right whatever it took…nothing was going to stop him from saying it.”
Cenk agrees: “One of the many truly tragic things about this is that we’re not going to have his powerful voice anymore to call out the government on the next story and the story after that.”
(Source: drunkonstephen, via wilwheaton)
I think that there’s a group of people, younger people who are not fighting the war, who are libertarians mostly, who feel like the government is the problem.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by Time, on the NSA surveillance programs he helped write into law.
What political party has spent the last 50 years relentlessly pushing the message that “government is the problem”?
Republicans calling out Libertarians. Teapubangical’s eating their own. Let the games begin.
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A current shot of Taksim Sqaure, where clashes are ongoing. Via @BowenBBC.
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, on Tuesday unanimously passed a measure banning gay “propaganda.” Police detained more than 20 gay-rights activists after they staged a “kissing protest” and were attacked by anti-gay thugs affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church. The law still must be approved by the upper house and signed by President Vladimir Putin, but both are expected to endorse it.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
I don’t know how I missed this touching video of a binational gay couple’s story, but it’s beautiful and you should watch it. Psst — let’s bring down DOMA. (via Upworthy)
Roman Medallion with Alexander the Great, between circa 215 and circa 243 (Imperial Roman), made of gold.
Together with Walters 59.2 and 59.3, this piece was discovered in Egypt as part of a hoard that comprised about twenty similar medallions (now dispersed among various museums), eighteen gold ingots, and six hundred gold coins issued by Roman emperors from Severus Alexander (r. AD 222-235) to Constantius I (r. AD 293-306). One of the medallions, now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, bears an inscription that possibly reads “Olympic games of the year 274”, a date corresponding to AD 242-243. It is possible that the medallions were intended as prizes to be given out at that event. Alternatively, they may have been issued by Emperor Caracalla (r. AD 198-217), who is potrayed on some of them.
Caracalla liked to be compared to the great king and conquerror Alexander of Macedon (ruled 336-323 BC). Like Alexander, this Roman emperor waged war in the East, and actually died in the course of his campaign against the Parthians. This particular medallion shows Alexander the Great gazing heavenward and bearing a shield decorated with signs of the zodiac. This portrait shows him with his hair pulled back. He wears a decorated cuirass with a figure of Athena on the shoulder strap and, on the chest, a scene from the Gigantomachy (War of the Giants).
Courtesy & currently located at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA.
I’m going to be real honest with you—the Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote.
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