This year, over 5 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to show how
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Gay New York Couple of 60+ Years Die Just Two Weeks Apart
According to Gay Blog Towleroad: Gay New York Couple of 60+ Years Who Married Last Year Die Just Two Weeks Apart Shaun O’Brien, a dancer of four decades with the New York City Ballet, died at the age of 86 on February 23. His husband (left) Cris Alexander, a Broadway actor and photographer, died on
Read on »Guinness World Record for largest kinetic tension experiment
Indianapolis teens Andre Jefferson and Miles Parnell set a world record Saturday, March 24, for the largest stick bomb, which is a mechanical spring-loaded device constructed out of flat sticks woven together under tension. A stick bomb works similarly to a line of dominoes; setting off the kinetic tension of the woven sticks causes them
Read on »Dinner with Stephanie
First time Stephanie and I have hung out in a week or so; between me rowing and her going to visit her Dad.
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From Flatwater Restaurant
Read on »Dear Men in Congress: If we knit you a uterus, will you stay out of ours?
If they have their own, they can leave ours alone! via Government Free VJJ | Dear Men in Congress: If we knit you a uterus, will you stay out of ours?. Knit or crochet a vagina or uterus Print a message to enclose Mail it to your male Senator or Congressional Representative We’re in the
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Every World Press Photo Winner From 1955-2011
From Buzzfeed, a collection of Every World Press Photo Winner From 1955-2011. Powerful photos, but a grim picture of our world.
Read on »How to Commit to a Goal
How to Commit to a Goal via How to Commit to a Goal — PsyBlog. The key, according to PsyBlog, is not to simply fantasize about how much better it will be when you achieve your goal, or to wallow in how unhappy you are now, but to contrast those two with each other each
Read on »Homophobic = Probably Gay
Written and directed by Katie Goodman and Soren Kisiel. Featuring, left to right, Erin Roberg, Katie Goodman, and Maggie Garver. Filmed by Ryan Stumpe and AVERIngenuity. Edited by Soren Kisiel and Ryan Stumpe.
Read on »Coolest roadside attractions
Courtesy of guyism.com, Coolest roadside attractions | Cadillac Ranch | Largest ball of twine: 10. Martini Drinking Elephant – Fortville, Indiana 9. Bigfoot Discovery Museum – Felton, California 8. Jimmy Carter Peanut – Plains, Georgia 7. 7 POPS Diner – Arcadia, Oklahoma 6. Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum – Jupiter, Florida 5. W’eel Turtle Sculpture-
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Stephanie, on why she doesn’t want to see Titanic in 3-D: I thought it was overhyped in the first place. And at the scene were the ship hits the iceberg, and the guy says “How long do we have?!” I looked at my watch and said “You have an hour and a half.”
Read on »Well, Howdy
Hey, I finally got my site all moved over to my host and just as importantly, to my new content management system. The design is quite different, and not yet mine. I’ve done some customization of the theme, but I have a lot more work planned on that end. And there’s a lot of clean
Read on »Beast Glatisant Du Jour: An Atomic Bedside Alarm Clock
The Beast Glatisant, or Questing Beast, was a mythological creature in King Arthur tales, with head and neck of a serpent, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion and the feet of a hart. Knights in the stories would take off hunting him when word came that he was terrorizing a village
Read on »Vivian Maier | Photographer
Vivian Maier | Vivian Maier Photographer. Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer born in New York City. Although born in the U.S., it was in France that Maier spent most of her youth. Maier returned to the U.S. in 1951 where she took up work as a
Read on »Window Watchers in a City of Strangers
Window Watchers in a City of Strangers – NYTimes.com. The ability to observe the private lives of strangers from the windows of our homes — and the knowledge that they can often watch us, as well — has long been a staple of city life, one that was immortalized in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film “Rear
Read on »EasyRGB – The inimitable RGB and COLOR search engine!
EasyRGB – The inimitable RGB and COLOR search engine!. Online tool that can match your computer generated RGB values to color cards, paint lines, inks, fandecks, standards and more… Helps you find a commercial paint product matching your computer generated colors.
Read on »Tear down wall of denial so we can fix broken IPS
former IPS School Board President Kelly Bentley has some thoughts about how to fix IPS in this Indy Star editorial: Tear down wall of denial so we can fix broken IPS | Indianapolis Star | indystar.com. Even recent good news about IPS is tempered by the reality that the numbers often aren’t as positive as
Read on »Episodic v. Serial – Complications Ensue
Episodic v. Serial – Complications Ensue: So when we actually saw Rob Thomas (creator of VERONICA MARS) giving a talk at Banff, DMc asked him about his thoughts on episodic vs. serial. Rob busted out a factoid I’d heard before, but which really hadn’t sunk in. When people say they watch a show, on average,
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Hamburger, onion, cheese, lettuce, bacon, peanut butter, jalepenos. From Red Lion Grog House in Fountain Square This is my very favoritest burger ever. You’d think peanut butter and jalepenos would be terrible, but it’s DELICIOUS.
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