I’ve reached a point in my life(due to age perhaps) that I have decided something crucial for my continuation. Inspiration! That’s what it all really comes down to for me. I am so completely bored with the uninspiring parts of life. It doesn’t have to be miraculous to be an inspiration. For…
“In March, due to a natural phenomenon, Siberia’s Lake Baikal is particularly amazing to photograph. The temperature, wind and sun cause the ice crust to crack and form beautiful turquoise blocks or ice hummocks on the lake’s surface.”
Photograph by Alex El Barto.
Speckled Egg Cake | The Cake Blog
I’ve been just staring at this cake for the last ten minutes, scrolling, scrolling, thinking, staring, So of course I just had to share it with you! It’s a tradition in my family that my mum always makes an Easter cake. She makes a chocolate cake in a bundt mold and then fills the middle with chocolate eggs and sprinkles it with chocolate shavings. This is like the mod, pastel version of that cake! I love tradition so i’m thinking this might be my version to continue it!
Mallory Ortberg, laying waste to fools on GAWKER, today, regarding CNN’s offensively lovey-dovey coverage of the two high school football stars who were convicted on Sunday of sexually assaulting a blacked-out drunk 16 year old girl from a neighboring town at a party, and then sharing pictures of her on the internet.
More details HERE.
I think it’s reasonable to say that, given the football culture of Steubenville, OH and the notorious difficulty of proving sexual assault even when the victim REMEMBERS WHAT HAPPENED, it is likely that what these jocks did to this other human would have become simply a dark part of Steubenville high school folklore, were it not for the digital trail of photos, tweets, and texts that the bystanders and assaulters themselves put out into the world.
SO THANK YOU, NERDS, FOR INVENTING SOCIAL MEDIA.
And thank you, Mallory and Manhattan snark-media for reminding some people—including CNN, apparently—what personal responsibility actually means.
That is all.
(via areasofmyexpertise)
If you love books and want to make them the centrepiece of your room, this is an amazing way to display them! Colour coding your books would make it even more of a stand out.
It’s not that you can’t have those cookies. It’s that you choose not to :)
Source: Book “Self-discipline in 10 days”
An Ebola outbreak occurred in the Ugandan area of Kibaalé at the end of July. MSF launched an emergency intervention to contain the spread of the virus, which has killed 16 people.