What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
– Carl SaganGot to love ‘em
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Via ☁☂
Power of the seven forces (:Capcom’s fighters are bustin’ down the doors from the video game universe to take over the streets of real life.
25th Anniversary, by Hanzo Steinbach.
The peacock is a symbol of immortality because the ancients believed that the peacock had flesh that did not decay after death.
The peacock naturally replaces his feathers annually; as such, the peacock is also a symbol of renewal.
Done by A. Fontana
Through the use of parking space sensors, Santa Monica’s meters now know when a car leaves a spot and can automatically reset itself to require whoever parks there next to pay the full price of parking. It’s part of the intelligent parking system that the city has been rolling out, which includes the ability to accept coins and credit cards, send text messages when metered time is running out, and compile information to help the city better price its parking to correspond with demand.
These smart parking spots even know when you’ve outstayed your time-sensitive welcome, disallowing you from putting more time in the meter if you’ve been there too long. Two-hour parking, all of a sudden, really does mean two-hour parking.
These are technological improvements that can have large-scale impacts on the ways cities relate to their parking enforcement efforts. By making parking spaces less of a birthright and more of a product, cities like Santa Monica hope they can get drivers to pay a reasonable, market-determined price for the space they’d like to use – or to let that price discourage them from using that space. Or from driving at all.
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gandalf qlo, fuck the police
Xesumare XDDDDDDDDD
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Via If you choose me, I’m waiting for you
Achievement Unlocked - 100,000-Notes Post
Not a common experience, and I can’t really take any credit for anything other than sharing it (the original post is here) about 10 months ago. If there is something worth noting, it’s the sense of virality which you may not personally experience on other online social platforms other than Tumblr, all within your dashboard. It’s a design feature that really makes a difference and enjoyable.
It is also interesting to see the reactions. I have to thank sherlocked-inside-the-tardis for taking the post to a different memetic level, by writing a short piece of fan fiction about the video - completely crazy, but a testament to the community side of the platform.
When a video of a tree branch falling on power lines gets a ton of activity on Tumblr, you get some of the greatest fan fiction ever created. Just an average day inside the Tumblr community.
Just awesome!(:
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I just simply love watching movies, and playing any kind of video games, especially when it's dealing with Zelda.
