At the airport now. I doubt the flight will look anything like this, but the airport’s been a model of friendliness and efficiency. Color me shocked!

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ayse:

Art Review - ‘Andrew Wyeth - Memory and Magic’ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art - NYTimes.com

via Dave Weigel:

Yes, that’s the guy who sings “Come On Eileen.”

jstn:

Star Wars: Retold (By Someone Who Hasn’t Seen It) (on Vimeo via Blake)

I think I found the (previously unknown, apparently) source for the Shepard Fairey “Hope” poster. I stretched the original a bit (really, a tiny amount) and flipped it horizontally, but didn’t need to rotate it at all.

A few minutes of Google image searching (for obama 2007) after reading this is all it took.

Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.

—Attack of the Super-Intelligent Purple Space Squid Creators: Debating evolution and intelligent design at FreedomFest 2008 - Reason Magazine

Heavy Metal Band Names

via: jwz

scz:

Milky Way Transit Authority

Typical. From where I live I *always* need to change trains at least once.

Versus:

Clearly, I’m really slow, to have just realized this now.