Thanks tism and keamoose!

#photos #christmas

Christopher Guest Brings His Mockumentary Style Back with Family Tree

Christopher Guest, who might well be considered an expert on the human condition at this point with films like Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and others under his belt. Now he’s bringing his style of sprawling casts and ad-libbed dialogue to the small screen in the comedy series Family Tree for HBO. The show starts Chris O’Dowd (the charming, accented police officer from Bridesmaids) as Tom Chadwick, a man who has just lost his job and his girlfriend, who hits the road in search of his ancestral roots after inheriting a trunk full of items from a great aunt.

Best in Show was on the not long ago and it was a perfect lazy Sunday afternoon rerun movie. Hope this Family Tree goes to 11.

And be sure to check out The IT Crowd with Chris O’Dowd if you’re looking for some Python-ish British humor. “I’ll just put it here with the rest of the fire.”

#movies #tv

Juxtapoz Magazine - Out Of Place: Works by Robert Rickhoff

This is how we like to kick off the year, with a series of Out of Place objects constructed by a very clever Robert Rickhoff. Playground slides that lead you to oncoming traffic, volleyball courts on the autobahn, skate ramp crosswalks, all situations that are going to lead you to some sort of disaster. Rickhoff is based in Germany, and works as an allaround creative.

Genius.

#meanwhile #arts

Gay rights in the US, state by state

Gay rights laws in America have evolved to allow — but in some cases ban — rights for gay, lesbian and transgender people on a range of issues, including marriage, hospital visitation, adoption, housing, employment and school bullying. The handling of gay rights issues vary by state and follow trends by region.

Must not be too many open-minded folk living in the south east.

#politics #LGBT

Octopi are known for their ink. But can they stay relevant in a paperless world?

Snapped from the Fake Science book.

#photos #funnies #tentacles

The Bat: A Long-Lived, Virus-Proof Anomaly

When researchers looked at bats’ immune response to the viruses they carry, they found something quite novel. When mammals, including humans, die from a virus, it is usually due to an extreme immune reaction called a cytokine storm. It’s the body’s attempt to save itself, but it can actually do the opposite. Bats, however, are missing the genes that trigger this reaction—they don’t experience a cytokine storm, allowing them to carry the viruses unharmed.

Cytokine storms are quite interesting.

#naturerocks

Wires? Where we’re going we don’t need wires.

#photos #homeimprovement

I can tell you it’s 7.5 inches tall

#photos

Dinosaur Comics - January 3rd, 2013 - awesome fun times!

How was I to know that this friggin’ movie would become the cultural name for “characters stuck in a variable but repeating time loop” […]

If you don’t read Dinosaur Comics at least weekly — you should.

. . or . .

FRIENDSHIP CANCELLED FOREVER.

#comics #dinos

The Greatest Science Photos Of The Year

It’s been a great year for science—Curiosity! The Higgs Boson!—and intrepid photographers have been there all along to document it. Narrowing our favorite photos down to just a dozen wasn’t easy, but here they are. Until next year, everybody.

Multi-exposure fencing, cube kites, explosions on the sun and more — something for the whole family!

#science