Anatomy and Pi

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#the sans is comic #the copperplate is...

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#the sans is comic

#the copperplate is gothic

#how many more puns will the futura bring

#by georgia is this pun hell-vetica or is comedy on tumblr just not as pro as myriad anymore?

#the calibri of these puns is deteriorating

#i don’t know about you but i really would have appreciated an arial view of this picture

#you all need to get a new courier because these jokes are terrible

i’m going to throw up from laughing

#these puns are so last century gothic

#these puns aren’t really making an impact on me

#you are all a bunch of wingdings

Everyone, typography humor.

#we’re all going to helvetica

Will Windings Consolas if being a Jokerman is not our Forte?

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zoosemiotics

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zoosemiotics

All Supermarkets should serve coffee whilst you shop

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analogue-interest: NASA just landed a rover on Mars. This JUST...

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analogue-interest:

NASA just landed a rover on Mars. This JUST happened minutes ago. (relative to the time below)

1:42am EST 8/6/2012

I've been using this to get to sleep at night

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I've been using this to get to sleep at night

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http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/manual-photography-chea...

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http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/manual-photography-cheat-sheet

awesome popsicles

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awesome popsicles

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Cartoon skeletons by Hyungkoo Lee. The characters are...

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Goofy

Bugs Bunny

Felix the Cat

Mickey Mouse

Hewey, Dewey & Louie

Roadrunner & Wile E Coyote

Donald Duck

Tweety

Roadrunner

Cartoon skeletons by Hyungkoo Lee. The characters are surprisingly easy to identify, but if you’re stumped you can click on the images.

Anthropocentric

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:39:00 -0400

an·thro·po·cen·tric

adj.

1. Regarding humans as the central element of the universe.

2. Interpreting reality exclusively in terms of human values and experience.

(from TheFreeDictionary.com)

Blood vessels show where the two skull bones are fusing in a...

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Blood vessels show where the two skull bones are fusing in a 9-week-old fetus. Photo by Lennart Nilsson

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The shortest story ever told: by Ernest Hemmingway.

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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

Agent 3Z: Solve this horror

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:53:55 -0400

Agent 3Z: Solve this horror:

A teacher who allegedly downloaded some colorfully horrific math problems with which to fascinate her third-graders, has been fired.

WUSA9 TV offered a very spooky tale of a teacher at Trinidad Center City School in Washington, D.C. who allegedly presented this problem to his kiddies: “I took a nap in a bog one day and woke up screaming. 3,796 leeches, 2,910 fleas and 1,044 vampire bats were stuck to my bald head drinking my blood in ecstasy. How many bloodthirsty bloodsuckers were dining on my head?”

Beverley Wheeler, the CEO of Center City Public Charter Schools, told WUSA9: “I was absolutely distressed. It doesn’t follow anything we do. We are about character, excellence, and service, and I found them to be violent and racist.”

One problem, for example, had a tiger cooking Africans, Americans, and Indians in ovens.

And here’s another: “John’s father gave him 1,359 marbles on his birthday. John swallowed 585 marbles and died. 9 of John’s friends came for his funeral the next day. John’s grieving father gave the remaining marbles to John’s friends in equal numbers. How many marbles did each friend get?”

You might wonder whether these problems came from the teacher’s interesting imagination. It seems not, for they came from Homeschooling-Paradise.com. (Sample line: “Creating this Web site is so much fun.”)

This is a very peculiar site that asks, “Want your kids to sharpen their mathematical skills to a razor’s edge? There is nothing better than grinding their neurons on Singapore math.”

Chris Murphy, the creator of Homeschooling-Paradise.com, told WUSA9 that he was tired of hearing that kids didn’t like math, so he created problems that were a little more pulsating.

There also seems to be some doubt about whether the teacher—reportedly a minister—chose to assign these problems to the children or whether someone else instructed her to do so. The school insists that, whichever it was, she should have known better.

The WUSA9 report offered no evidence that the children themselves were traumatized in any way. Which doesn’t mean to say that they weren’t.

Agent 3Z: 9 Foreign Words the English Language Desperately Needs

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Agent 3Z: 9 Foreign Words the English Language Desperately Needs :

9. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)

Means:

To eat past the point of being full just because the food tastes good.

Here is a word that describes such a quintessentially American phenomenon it’s shocking that another culture came up with it first. After all, there are entire civilizations that have never heard of “never-ending pasta bowls” or “dessert pizzas.” Fortunately, the Georgians (the European Georgians, that is) devised a word to describe it exactly. “Shemomedjamo” is the act of eating to the point where your body says, “OK, we did it! We’re all done now,” and then muscling through another three steaks.

8. Kummerspeck (German)

Means:

Excess weight gained from emotional overeating.

“Kummerspeck” translates to “grief bacon,” a word that finally acknowledges that when we are under a crushing weight of sadness or stress, many of us skip alcohol and narcotics in favor of delicious fried meats.

7. Hikikomori (Japanese)

Means:

A teenager or 20-something who has withdrawn from social life, often obsessed with TV and video games.

We need this word because we badly need to draw a distinction here. After all, we’re long past the “If you play video games, you’re a virgin who lives in your parents’ basement” stereotype. Pretty much everyone under the age of 40 owns at least one game machine.

6. Gadrii Nombor Shulen Jongu (Tibetan)

Means:

Giving an answer that is unrelated to the question.

“Gadrii nombor shulen jongu” translates literally to “giving a green answer to a blue question,” and you won’t find a gushier spring of it than in political debates. It sounds like this:

Moderator: How do you respond to allegations that you funneled federal grant money into your string of underground toddler fighting arenas?

Candidate: You know, I really can’t believe we’re focusing on this silly “scandal” when what Americans are really worried about is jobs.

5. Iktsuarpok (Inuit)

Means:

To go outside to check if an expected visitor has arrived, over and over again.

For lonely people eager to find new ways to express their loneliness, there is a new word that perfectly sums up the feeling of waiting for someone who, as time goes on, you realize probably isn’t coming. We’ve all been guilty of “iktsuarpok” at one point or another, whether it’s waiting for a prom date or waiting for a concealed-weapons permit in the mail after that prom fiasco. Time can seem to stretch on for eternity in moments that require you to wait on someone else, glancing out the window again and again, waiting for their car to pull into the driveway. The Inuit know the feeling so well they developed a word for it.

4. Kaelling (Danish)

Means:

An ugly, miserable woman who yells obscenities at her kids.

If you claim to have never seen one of these, go to the laundromat. Or Walmart. Or maybe it’s the woman who lives down the street and offers a Master’s class in parenting to everyone in earshot. Their calls are unmistakable, from “Get your asses in this house” to “Clean up your fucking mess” and even “I’ll beat the shit out of you in front of the whole goddamn neighborhood.”

3. Neidbau (German)

Means:

A building (often of little or no value to the proprietor) constructed with the sole purpose of harassing or inconveniencing his neighbor in some way.

Remember when we told you about the crazy neighbor who built a 16-foot-high wall just to annoy the person living next to him? That’s an example of a “Neidbau,” a word that in German represents a very special and intense flavor of dickbaggery so potent it comes at the expense of the dickbag. It translates to “envy building,” and, honestly, if a guy constructs an entire building just to say “Screw you,” how can you not be flattered by that?

2. Pochemuchka (Russian)

Means:

A person who asks too many questions.

So, your class/work meeting/couples therapy session is dragging on and you are just barely containing a hangover that’s making your internal organs try to crawl out of your mouth. Just when you think everybody has finally shut the hell up, it happens.

1. Pilkunnussija (Finnish)

Means:

A person who believes it is their destiny to stamp out all spelling and punctuation mistakes at the cost of popularity, self-esteem and mental well-being.

They’re out there. They’re reading this right now. Judging, smirking, analyzing. They care nothing about the actual meaning or fun of writing, but care everything about whether you used that semi-colon correctly. While we — perhaps inappropriately — call them Grammar Nazis, the Finns have a much more fitting name: “pilkunnussija.”

Or literally, “comma fuckers.”

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