The Upturned Microscope | Musings of a biologian
thatsnothowyoupipette
Filed under: thatIShowyouDIEbymypipette, bitch! "From Doctor Who season 6 episode 7, ‘When a Good Man Goes to War’ She’s using the pipette as a weapon. I’d like to think that she would forcibly eject the tip into her attacker’s eye.” Ok, I was emailed about these shirts. At first I was like, “I will not be your shill !!!!’ Here is a woman that is entirely confident in her pipetting abilities. More Farscape. Thanks to follower SC for the gifs! Ok. Thanks to follower Tall Kat who sent in this submission and, apparently, is tall. Hey guys. Clipped from CSI: Miami, obviously. Thanks for the tip, Anonymous blog follower! Don’t use your pipette as some sort of sexual gratification tool. Filed under: ThatIShowyoupipette Check out this cool pipette tip video set to the RATATAT song “Bare feast” Born to pipette! I just remembered that show, “Fringe.” Ok, so this is Todd Alquist from Breaking Bad Season 5, epsiode 13. edit: still no lab coat or gloves.
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Newspaper Blackout
Brazilian ad agency uses blackout poetry to sell soap and deodorant The agency Salve recently did a campaign focused entirely around blackout poetry for their client, Natura. Here’s a bad Google translation of the messaging: Tododia has hidden poetry. At each step of the routine. Probably no coincidence that I’m headed to Brazil this weekend to talk about what’s stealing like an artist and what’s stealing like an ad agency. —Austin A blackout by David Rogers, a student at VCFA David very kindly let me know about a fun glitch using the TurboScan iPhone app: “Sometimes the transformation from Blackout to ScanOut gives the poem a subtle emphasis that’s transformative.” Funny enough, I already had the same app on my phone, so I started using the effect on some of my own poems. —Austin This tumblr is now four years old!
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A boy sleeps amid the rubble of his destroyed house in Gaza Strip on September 1, 2014. (Ahmed Hjazy/Barcoft Media) Tibetan Plateau, July 2015 Photographs by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images micdotcom: Cafe Art, a United Kingdom-based social enterprise, distributed 100 single-use cameras to homeless people in London in July and asked them to take photos with the simple theme, “My London.“ Eighty cameras came back, with more than 2,500 pictures on them. Photographs by Kazuyoshi Nomachi 1- Nuba, Sudan 2- Atbara, Sudan 3- Dallol, Ethiopia 4- Ruwenzori, Uganda 5- Lake Abbe, Djibouti 6- Lake Natron, Tanzania 7- Amhara, Ethiopia 8- Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 9- Dallol, Ethiopia 10- Ruwenzori, Uganda The Omo Valley, Ethiopia Photographs by Hans Silvester [+] Uzbek women work in cotton fields in southern Tajikistan, 2010. Photo by Carolyn Drake Young Buddhist novice monks play at a Tibetan nomadic summer grazing area on July 24, 2015 on the Tibetan Plateau in Yushu County, Qinghai. kafkasapartment:
Officials Say the Darndest Things
That sentence – that motivation for the report – may show deep, emotional feeling on the part of the senator, but I don’t think it leads you to an objective report. Former CIA and NSA director MIchael Hayden, on Sen. Diane Feinstein’s motivations behind the CIA interrogation report: to “ensure that an un-American, brutal program of detention and interrogation will never again be considered or permitted.” Dumb, dumb, dumb. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., reacting to news that USAID created a social network to try to undermine the Cuban government. I have full access to the recliner. Kansas Senator Pat Roberts, on his “residence" in his home state, a donor’s house that he pays $300 a month to occasionally stay at overnight. Baltimore’s police commissioner, whilst fielding questions about why the city’s homicide rate spiked last year though it fell elsewhere in the country.
WHEN PARENTS TEXT™
Today marks the 3rd year of When Parents Text. When we started the site in 2010, we had no idea what it would become. In three years we have published over five thousand texts, welcomed over 70 million visitors, designed an app, and published a book (now in its fourth printing). The transition from friends to business partners was fun, but not always easy. And after three years, we have decided to go back to being just friends. This is the When Parents Text Finale! We will leave the archive of texts up on our site and our app, and continue our Tumblr and Facebook pages. This past weekend we went to our hometown and the Panera where it all started. Feel free to follow our other projects. Lauren Kaelin is an illustrator and paints memes. She started Benjameme.net as an excuse to paint the internet. Benjameme Facebook Her Instagram Sophia Fraioli works as a Production Manager for Stylesight. Her Instagram Thanks for everything. Bowtie man 4eva ;-)8 Lauren and Sophia
garfield minus garfield
garfield minus garfield Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. Oct 21 G-G the book - G-G on Facebook - G-G on Twitter First Comics Previous Comic Next Comic Current Comic Buy Garfield minus Garfield the book! Site created by Dan Walsh of Travors.com
Hungover Owls
There it is, the picture that started it all—Old Brown from Squirrel Nutkin. Look how little shit he’s willing to put up with right now! None. None of the shit. I started this blog as an excuse to lie in bed hungover rather than stand outside hungover, and it’s only appropriate that it ends the same way. Yes, this is the 500th—and last—Hungover Owls post. And that’s all on you. If any one of these guys helped you deal with the physical and emotional fallout from that last theme party in any way, please consider dropping five bucks into the owl charity of your choice. If any of y’all are in Boston, I heartily encourage you to check out DigBoston.com, the alt-weekly/counter-cultural nexus I’m at. Well folks, this is it.
Animals Doing People Things
11th April 2014 Photo reblogged from Bunny Food with 18,625 notes Source: ilikedogs 9th April 2014 Photoset reblogged from Laughing Station on Tumblr with 176,278 notes acutelesbian: fencehopping: Another dinner spent all baaa myself. sometimes my family is around me while i’m on tumblr and i don’t really know how to explain to them what i’m looking at Source: fencehopping 8th April 2014 Photo reblogged from Bunny Food with 6,232 notes Source: frodobaggays 7th April 2014 Photo reblogged from Bunny Food with 11,283 notes Source: youtube.com 4th April 2014 Photo with 165 notes Winston in a kilt, all ready for Christmas dinner. 3rd April 2014 Photo with 126 notes
Nick Clegg Looking Sad
Nick Clegg was visited by an angel who showed him what things would be like if he’d never been born, and nothing was worse, and the streets were filled with eternal summer sunshine and the peals of children’s laughter, and Nick Clegg offered to kill himself but the angel said that wasn’t going to help, because the damage has already been done if you think about it, hasn’t it Nick? Hasn’t it? Nick? Nick Clegg tried to pay you in exact change, but you pointed out that one of his coins was Canadian, and he had no other way to pay, so you made him put his one item back on the shelf. Nick Clegg asked if you’d ever experienced true love, and you said “yes, of course”, and then there was a pause, and you said “why, haven’t you?” Nick Clegg thought he’d bought still water, but it was really sparkling water, and he wasted an hour shaking it to get all of the bubbles out.
