Steampunk

Abney Park - End of Days

via Youtube

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Steampunk Art Gallery

Eric Claeys, Cheshire Advice

Nigel Quarless, The Fall of Icarus

Lior Arditi, Stromboli's Catch

Fabricio Moraes, Steamnocchio

Marcin Jakubowski, Titanomachy: The Fall of Hyperion

Alexander Smolyakov, Sphinx

Jack Zhang, The Two Mighty Kings

Fabricio Moraes, Rocketeer

Aly Fell, Judith and Holofernes

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I wanna be an Airship Pirate.

wildcoyote

TIME

via TIME Magazine

It's okay. We're still not completely sure, either.

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

Faggots do! Queers too!

I get high with a little help...

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WikiLeaks

via XKCD

(STUDENTS ARE CALLING PRESIDENT JOHNSON EN MASSE TO PROTEST THE BOMBING AND IT'S JAMMED THE WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD. COULD THEY COLLAPSE OUR CRITICAL PHONE SYSTEMS? HAS THE FIRST TELEPHONE WAR BEGUN? STAY TUNED FOR MORE ON THIS DANGEROUS NEW TECHNOLOGY.)

Cycles of Creation

from Disney's Fantasia (1940)

via Youtube

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The Rite of Spring, Part 1: Genesis

Music: Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps

The Rite of Spring, Part 2: Evolution

Music: Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps

The Rite of Spring, Part 3: Extinction

Music: Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps

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from Disney's Fantasia 2000 (2000)

via Youtube

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Firebird

Music: Igor Stravinsky - Firebird


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: )
wildcoyote

Literature

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions: Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish (or read an excerpt). Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 Night - Elie Weisel

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 The Road - Cormac McCarthy

69 Midnight’s Children and Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 East of Eden - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce 

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 

84 Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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Go read something... worthwhile, K?

wildcoyote

Silvia

Silvia by Miike Snow
 

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Check out Miike Snow, folks.


visit the band's website here!
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wildcoyote

Stories

Politik

Hello United States of America!

Confused? Apathetic (or even blatantly ignorant)? Upset and frustrated, but don't know why?

Politics!

The real source of all your daily problems.

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Ass-erica lived up to its name this week at the G20 Summit. And was very proud and patriotic about it, too!

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White House Undecided On Whether To Let Republicans Walk All Over Them
via Wonkette

Democrats in Congress were too afraid even to try to pass an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the middle class before the election, because Republicans saying anything at all about Democrats and taxes is very scary!

At least deciding to let Republicans completely grab control of the law-making process and all of the ground at the bargaining table is a concrete resolution, and one that could shift the blame of the sagging economy to the Republican Party.

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Funnies

"Wall Street hands out record bonuses. Poor people--get ready to be trickled down on!"

- Stephen Colbert

"I'll say this -- the president [George W. Bush] is everywhere talking about his book. And he is being very candid: In one interview, he said that he used to do stupid things while he was drunk. But think about it: Who among us hasn't had a couple of drinks and invaded Iraq?"

- David Letterman

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Excuse me, but Alaska does not belong to you.

Sarah Palin's new reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, premieres this Sunday on The Learning Channel.

"Whether you think Palin is America's breath of fresh air or a lightweight opportunist, there can be no argument this show is way more Palin than Alaska," New York Daily News columnist David Hinckley wrote. "If she were buying the time, she couldn't have created a more flattering infomercial."

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He's Got the Whole Planet, In His Hands...

via Pharyngula

This is the Republican who wants to be in charge of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, John Shimkus.

We don't have to worry about global warming or pollution or other such merely human problems! God promised that we never have to worry about that again, and he believes in the truth of the literal word of god.

We are so screwed.

- PZ Myers

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Consider Humanism.

...because I believe that education is the best investment for humanity.
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The good news?

There's still one person out there with some sense in this head.

wildcoyote

Mimic

The Mimic Octopus

via Boston.com

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Astronomers Find Most Earth-like Planet to Date
via ScienceNOW

Survivalists take note. Astronomers may have found the most Earth-like alien planet to date, and it's located only a short distance away, cosmically speaking. The team says that the planet's proximity to its sun, coupled with the ease with which it was detected, suggests that the galaxy could be teeming with habitable worlds.

Most of the 500 or so planets astronomers have found orbiting other stars have fallen into the gas-giant class: very large worlds, some much bigger than Jupiter, that can't support life, because they lack solid surfaces, and because they orbit either too far from or much too close to their suns. The few rocky worlds discovered so far also orbit too near or far from stars to fall into what planetary scientists call the "habitable zone," in which liquid water—and therefore life—could exist.

But Gliese 581g looks like a game-changer. Detected from the minuscule amount of gravitational influence it exerts on its star, the planet lives a mere 20 light-years away in the constellation Libra. Gliese 581g is the sixth world discovered around its sun—and the fourth most distant. Yet its orbit brings it closer to its parent star than Mercury is to our sun. Still, it's squarely within the habitable zone, because the planet's star, which is a type known as a red dwarf, contains only about 30% of the sun's mass and shines with only about 1% of its brightness, the researchers will report in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal.

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Flux by Bloc Party
via YouTube

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fin.

wildcoyote