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Natural Science

Lightning

This dude must be wishing he was dressed as Raiden right now. Even so he could at least have tried to make it look as if the lightning was spewing forth from his outstretched palms (though I guess making yourself taller in a lightning storm isn’t such a great idea).

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Lightning over Athens from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day.

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People

Gifts and Choices

Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder/CEO) gave the commencement speech at Princeton this year on the subject of how your choices (rather than your gifts) make you who you are:

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.

When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made.

(via Kottke)

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Business

We are a Fortune 500 Company, not a Lemonade Stand

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(via Laughing Squid)

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Computer Games

StarCraft II

I’ve never played the first one but everything I’ve seen/heard/read about them makes me think I’d enjoy them, then again you’d hope having spent $100 million on it that everyone would enjoy it.

Sexy trailers help too.

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Animals

“– be flooded — a way — good — having done one’s best — ! — “

On Thursday Milly and Molly will be one year old!

If I’m honest I wasn’t planning on doing anything as I doubt they know and I don’t think I’ll be able to get them to wear party hats for a comedy photo, but then how can I resists dressing them up as Anne of Green Gables and a Frog!

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Poor frog kitty doesn’t look very happy :(

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Art

Composite Beasts

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(via Bibliodyssey)