Tried four times; three are kinda lame, and the last one I actually would want to have.
- Precognitive Artistry
- Salt manipulation
- Lie Detection
- Illusion Manipulation
I got this after four tries:
U Jelly?
Proof that I am a giant clusterfuck of powers, these are mine:
So… Yeah
My powers:
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Watch and Buy: Kickstarter Is the Hipster Home Shopping Network
From aquariums made out of vintage iMacs to handcrafted bamboo sunglasses, the following projects read like a game of hipster bingo — look for words like “sustainable,” “custom,” “handmade,” “unique,” and “iPhone.” All are fully funded, meaning their creators have received the necessary funding to move forward with production.
Project: Coffee JouliesWhat it is: Metal coffee beans (filled with a proprietary melting substance) that cool down hot coffee, and then keep it at the “right” temperature.Money quote: “It started with a problem I think everyone has experienced: coffee isn’t always the right temperature.”Funding raised: $306,944What it costs: $40
Read more. [Image: Coffee Joulies]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4kzyspgwJ1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Watch and Buy: Kickstarter Is the Hipster Home Shopping Network
From aquariums made out of vintage iMacs to handcrafted bamboo sunglasses, the following projects read like a game of hipster bingo — look for words like “sustainable,” “custom,” “handmade,” “unique,” and “iPhone.” All are fully funded, meaning their creators have received the necessary funding to move forward with production.
Project: Coffee Joulies
What it is: Metal coffee beans (filled with a proprietary melting substance) that cool down hot coffee, and then keep it at the “right” temperature.
Money quote: “It started with a problem I think everyone has experienced: coffee isn’t always the right temperature.”
Funding raised: $306,944
What it costs: $40Read more. [Image: Coffee Joulies]
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How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus
Last year, Google, which had dabbled in official social-networking applications, released Google Plus. The site has all the things you’ve come to expect in a social network. There is a rich profile builder, a place for your photos, a nice videochat feature, a conversation feed, and, of course, “Circles,” which allow users to sort the people they know into different buckets. Word at the time was that Google’s full weight was behind this social push. The journalists who knew the company’s insiders best declared that Facebook was CEO Larry Page’s obsession.
I was bullish about Google Plus, even if it did feel like a Facebook clone. Google had built out a ton of infrastructure and was pushing Plus out through its major products. This had to be big!
But by most accounts and third-party research, the service is growing its number of users but not their engagement. People are “on” Google Plus, but they are not really ON Google Plus. The infrastructure is there. The street signs are there. People own plots of land. But there’s nobody actually visiting town.
Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4l178MkOH1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus
Last year, Google, which had dabbled in official social-networking applications, released Google Plus. The site has all the things you’ve come to expect in a social network. There is a rich profile builder, a place for your photos, a nice videochat feature, a conversation feed, and, of course, “Circles,” which allow users to sort the people they know into different buckets. Word at the time was that Google’s full weight was behind this social push. The journalists who knew the company’s insiders best declared that Facebook was CEO Larry Page’s obsession.
I was bullish about Google Plus, even if it did feel like a Facebook clone. Google had built out a ton of infrastructure and was pushing Plus out through its major products. This had to be big!
But by most accounts and third-party research, the service is growing its number of users but not their engagement. People are “on” Google Plus, but they are not really ON Google Plus. The infrastructure is there. The street signs are there. People own plots of land. But there’s nobody actually visiting town.
Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal]
In my desire to be Nude
I clothed myself in fire: –
Burned down my walls, my roof,
Burned all these down.
Emerged myself supremely lean
Unsheated like a holy knife.
With only His Hand to find
To hold me beyond annul.
And found Him found Him found Him
Found the Hand to hold me up!
He held me like a burning poem
And waved me all over the world
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Throughout the past year, Refinery29 has made a noted effort to acknowledge and address privilege in a way that no other mainstream fashion website or magazine has attempted. What I love is that they’ve more or less been rather casual about the situation, treating their diverse fans and followers not as “Others” but as members of their audience who deserve to be acknowledged. One of their better examples was a story on spring beauty techniques that featured a black model. It wasn’t a feature on “black beauty,” but just a feature on universal makeup techniques featuring a black model. It’s the little things, really.
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
A camera is both a tool and a collaborator, but without our direction, it cannot function. Eisenstaedt reminds us that our films and cameras can only take photos of what we see through our creative vision. It also emphasizes the importance of training the eye to “see” a picture before clicking the shutter.
Lomography picks 5 photography quotes to shoot by.
(via timelightbox)
Medusa
Sylvia Plath
Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs,
Eyes rolled by white sticks,
Ears cupping the sea’s incoherences,
You house your unnerving head — God-ball,
Lens of mercies,
Your stooges
Plying their wild cells in my keel’s shadow,
Pushing by like hearts,
Red stigmata at the very center,
Riding the rip tide to the nearest point of
departure,
Dragging their Jesus hair.
Did I escape, I wonder?
My mind winds to you
Old barnacled umbilicus, Atlantic cable,
Keeping itself, it seems, in a state of miraculous
repair.
In any case, you are always there,
Tremulous breath at the end of my line,
Curve of water upleaping
To my water rod, dazzling and grateful,
Touching and sucking.
I didn’t call you.
I didn’t call you at all.
Nevertheless, nevertheless
You steamed to me over the sea,
Fat and red, a placenta
Paralyzing the kicking lovers.
Cobra light
Squeezing the breath from the blood bells
Of the fuchsia. I could draw no breath,
Dead and moneyless,
Overexposed, like an X-ray.
Who do you think you are?
A Communion wafer? Blubbery Mary?
I shall take no bite of your body,
Bottle in which I live,
Ghastly Vatican.
I am sick to death of hot salt.
Green as eunuchs, your wishes
Hiss at my sins.
Off, off, eely tentacle!
There is nothing between us.
*
Medusa
Frieda Hughes
She is the gypsy
Whose young have rooted
In the very flesh of her scalp.
Her eyes are drill-holes where
Your senses spin, and you are stone
Even as you stand before her.
She opens her lips to speak,
And have you believe.
She has more tongues to deceive
Than you can deafen your ears to.
If you could look away, the voices
From the heads of her vipers
Would be hard to argue.
If you could look away,
The pedestals of your feet might move.
If you could look away,
The song from the cathedral of her mouth
Would fall to the floor like a lie.
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Legal Drug-Pushing: How Disease Mongers Keep Us All Doped Up
Entirely new diseases can be, and have been, invented to extend a manufacturer’s patent on a highly profitable drug. Fugh-Berman said Eli Lilly stood to lose a lot of profits once the patent expired on its hugely popular antidepressant Prozac. “So they positioned this new condition, PMDD (Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder), and then went to physicians and the FDA with their highly paid experts who said PMDD is a tragic disease, and they got approved for Sarafem, the same drug. It’s an on-label use for a repackaged drug; they created the disease and then got a drug re-approved that was going off patent.”
Just how sly a move was it? “If I as a physician write a prescription for Prozac 20 mg,” Fugh-Berman said, “the pharmacist can substitute fluoxetine, the generic. If I write a prescription for Serafem, they can’t substitute another drug.” […]
No other medical specialty has turned more aspects of human life into diagnoses than psychiatry. Not coincidentally, no other medical specialty shares a cozier relationship with the pharmaceutical industry — its resources flowing lavishly through conference and continuing medical education (CME) funding, medical research support, and generous contributions to patient advocacy groups happy for the donations and glad to endorse a drug if it will help others.
Read more. [Image: Paul Matthew Photography/Shutterstock]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wtpx91V51qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Legal Drug-Pushing: How Disease Mongers Keep Us All Doped Up
Entirely new diseases can be, and have been, invented to extend a manufacturer’s patent on a highly profitable drug. Fugh-Berman said Eli Lilly stood to lose a lot of profits once the patent expired on its hugely popular antidepressant Prozac. “So they positioned this new condition, PMDD (Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder), and then went to physicians and the FDA with their highly paid experts who said PMDD is a tragic disease, and they got approved for Sarafem, the same drug. It’s an on-label use for a repackaged drug; they created the disease and then got a drug re-approved that was going off patent.”
Just how sly a move was it? “If I as a physician write a prescription for Prozac 20 mg,” Fugh-Berman said, “the pharmacist can substitute fluoxetine, the generic. If I write a prescription for Serafem, they can’t substitute another drug.” […]
No other medical specialty has turned more aspects of human life into diagnoses than psychiatry. Not coincidentally, no other medical specialty shares a cozier relationship with the pharmaceutical industry — its resources flowing lavishly through conference and continuing medical education (CME) funding, medical research support, and generous contributions to patient advocacy groups happy for the donations and glad to endorse a drug if it will help others.
Read more. [Image: Paul Matthew Photography/Shutterstock]
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