eightbitpunkart:

Propagandhi - How to Clean Everything

eightbitpunkart:

Propagandhi - How to Clean Everything

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tanacetum-vulgare:

Isabel Chen, a medical student at UBC, is part of a team that has invented a mobile panic button for street-based sex trade workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
A voice or text message is first recorded onto a SIM card, which is inserted into a GPS-enabled device such as a pager that would only need to be charged once a week. Pressing a button on the pager activates the GPS and sends an emergency message and GPS location to a contact who can get help. Because the GPS is not activated until the device is activated, the anonymity of the user is preserved.
(via UBC med student develops panic button for sex trade workers | The Ubyssey, UBC’s official student newspaper)
This is such a great idea I’m surprised it wasn’t already invented years ago! 

filed under: totally awesome in a variety of ways.

tanacetum-vulgare:

Isabel Chen, a medical student at UBC, is part of a team that has invented a mobile panic button for street-based sex trade workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

A voice or text message is first recorded onto a SIM card, which is inserted into a GPS-enabled device such as a pager that would only need to be charged once a week. Pressing a button on the pager activates the GPS and sends an emergency message and GPS location to a contact who can get help. Because the GPS is not activated until the device is activated, the anonymity of the user is preserved.

(via UBC med student develops panic button for sex trade workers | The Ubyssey, UBC’s official student newspaper)

This is such a great idea I’m surprised it wasn’t already invented years ago! 

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to be paired with “i hate everything” by suicide machines

nevver:

Poorly drawn lines

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archiemcphee:

Mental Floss recently posted a fascinating selection of tattoos on teachers. This one, depicting an enraged Charles Darwin wielding an even angrier King Kong while being menaced by planes, is our favourite. It’s on the leg of a Massachusetts science teacher named Chris:

Chris writes, “I teach science at a public school in eastern Mass. This tattoo was taken from a New Yorker cartoon that my wife and I both have hanging in our classroom’s (she teaches science, too). Most people think it’s her Dad…there is a resemblance. When told it’s Charles Darwin, too many people reply, “Who’s Charles Darwin?”. It’s kind of sad. I call this Darwin Kong, the establishment trying to destroy Darwin for the same reason it destroyed Kong, it just didn’t understand him.”

Darwin Kong = Awesome

Less talk, more science AND ape-related tattoos!

Head over to Mental Floss to view more tattooed teachers.

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jtotheizzoe:

Today was 5/8/13 (in the American style of dates, anyway, which we can argue about another time)!!!! That’s part of the Fibonacci sequence!!! 1…1…2…3…5…8…13…21…

How did you guys almost let me forget this?!?

You guys like pigeons? Here’s some Fibonacci pigeons.

(via FoxTrot)

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speaking of The Derby @ Shirt.Woot … if i still lived in STL, this would probably become mine.

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Happiness is a Warm Gun

image I fear I wax philosophical lately, especially since I started reading Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story. As such, I’ve decided that much of my musical taste since high school can be directly linked to my love for Happiness is a Warm Gun from The Beatles’ eponymous record (1968).

(Image credit to The Derby @ Shirt.Woot)

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Tell me about the rabbits, George.
Tell me about the rabbits, George.

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