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This may have broken my mind a little bit.

khuyi:

The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.

The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. Pretty amazing when you think these things have been swimming around for so long.

They have hundreds of poisonous tentacles that it used to catch passing by fish. it then slowly drags in it’s prey and eats it. 

That is terrifying. 

never ever.

This kind of dumb (sorry) (not really) Quora thread about “epic” (please stop using that word) guitar solos reminded me of this epic (dammit) guitar solo that turned a very ignorant me into a very Prince fan.

I’m not one to geek out over guitar solos (I totally am), but this is pretty incredible. Looks effortless and sexy and now I’m going to quit guitar.

The whole thing is great, but the badassery really starts around 3’30”.

I’ve definitely eaten there

Heather and I watched the Portlandia Season 2 premiere last night, and was relieved that it did not disappoint. A sketch about a fake restaurant called Around the World in 80 Plates (third video down in this post) had us literally dying with laughter. We literally had to call 911 we were laughing so hard.

What I love about this show is it sometimes takes everyday frustrations with stupid little things or moments and blows them way out of proportion. Which I think is a principle Portland was founded on (I kid!)

Anyway. TiVo it. Or whatever you internetty kids do these days to watch television programs on your computing devices and/or telephones.

"Police Officer: [trying to describe the Batmobile] It’s a black…tank!"

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I forgot that Christopher Nolan, despite the dark, dramatic take on the Batman story, maintained some of the canonical corniness of the superhero genre. Not that it doesn’t work.

Batman Begins - Wikiquote

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Insulate yourself…

from anonymous angry people

Expose yourself to art you don’t yet understand

Precisely measure the results that are important to you

Stay blind to the metrics that don’t matter

Fail often

Ship

Lead, don’t manage so much

Seek out uncomfortable situations

Make an impact on the people who matter to you

Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else

Copyedit less, invent more

Give more speeches

Ignore unsolicited advice

"

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Good advice from Seth Godin.

(via Seth’s Blog)

"She could go on in this way for extended periods of time without mentioning any actual people, actions, or thoughts. There’s a business version of this illness. It involves the use of words such as “space,” “around,” “synergy,” and “value-add” with a healthy dose of equivocators like “sort of” and “kind of” to ensure that there is no commitment to anything being said: “I’m in the sort of sustainability space around kind of bringing synergistic value-add to other people’s work around this kind of space.” Oh, OK, that explains it."

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I’ve sort of noticed this kind of speechification patternizing in the kind of online applications e-biz.

I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review (via Mark Hurst)

"Let me break it down for you. Everyone loves bacon."

— It’s Time for Everyone to Shut Up About Bacon (via Hodgman)

"Some coma patients are being awoken by Ativan and Ambien and paradoxically so…both are sedative drugs used for treating insomnia."

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Wow. Family, friends and doctors reading this: remember this, just in case.

Insomnia drugs waking people from comas (via kottke.com)

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