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Japanese shironuri artist Minori on the street in Harajuku wearing an outfit handmade from recycled clear umbrellas. This outfit is part of a new project Minori is working on based around reimagining Japan’s discarded materials as fashion/wearable art. Full Look Today, December 25th, Christmas day, is Minori’s birthday.

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I saw this on Instagram and honestly I can’t stop laughing

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16 past peak comedy and my boy just kept adding to it

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out: naming girls after virtues

in: naming them after vices

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OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AFTER 51 YEARS!!!

According to code-breaking expert David Oranchak, the cipher’s text includes: “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me. … I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice (sic) all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me.”

Oranchak, a 46-year-old web designer who lives in Virginia, has been working on the Zodiac’s codes since 2006.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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thinking about how an anonymous group (WHO DOESN’T SEEM TO BE AFFILIATED W/ SESAME STREET!!!) found out where jon armond lived and made him swear he wouldn’t show anyone cracks before they gave it to him

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Helloooooooo everybody! I am HomestuckExamination, and you may have seen my recent project of Homestuck Archived on Youtube! 

Fearing Adobe being assholes and not supporting Flash anymore after December of this year, I started recording, and uploading, Homestuck videos into Youtube, trying to preserve the ‘feel’ of them. Namely, trying to keep the website’s Framing so that special Flashes would have the same punch as the originals. If you’ve read Homestuck, you know exactly what I’m talking about. And given I was already recording them, I went the extra mile, using the HQ Audio from the Bandcamp, and also trying to keep the thumbnails spoiler-free, in case newcomers used my videos for liveblogging purposes.

And while I finished this project earlier this month, there was still something missing. Why, having the videos, collected, is good, for preservation and archival. But if I wanted to accomplish my goal of making it easier for newcomers to use my videos, I needed to go a step further.

Enter: Homestuck Archived - Chrome Extension.

I tried to get this to work in Firefox, but couldn’t, sadly. But as it stands? This Chrome Extension will remove every single Flash, Animation Container and Low Quality Video in the website, and replace it with my videos. On top of that, ‘character select’ type screens will add new links on the page, to allow you to click and get the full experience despite them being embed Youtube videos!

There’s the potential that, if the website changes in some way in the future, certain flashes may break. But if that happens I’ll keep supporting and updating it! Similarly, I was only able to test this in my PC and my Dad’s PC. There were no issues there, but if some version of Chrome or Windows breaks the extension, do send me a screenshot of your issue and I’ll see if there’s anything I can do.

Hope this helps someone!

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Different eyes for different purposes | source                         

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I would like to offer a cursed fact: parts of the Congo River are so deep that the fish in the bottom have lost their eyes and pigment, like cave fish, despite being nowhere near any caves.

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hey Bunjy! I know that humans obviously come out on top with our big brains (and thumbs), but are there any other physical characteristics or senses that humans are the best at, compared to other animals?

sharks are famous for their sense of smell, and rightly so! your average joe shark can sniff out a single molecule of eau-de-fish-guts in up to 10 billion molecules of regular water, or one-part-per-ten-billion.

amazing, right?

well, humans can detect the compound that causes the smell of oncoming rain in concentrations as low as five-parts-per-trillion.

yes, trillion. with a t. 

early humans were so dependent on rain for survival that they specced a large portion of the olfactory processing part of the brain specifically into detecting when it was coming! which makes sense- you usually smell a rainstorm coming long before it actually arrives. 

you’ve had an amazing superpower all along and never realized it!

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Halloween is just around the corner!