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I’d bet that what Frodo’s holding isn’t actually a ring, but — LEGO NERD ALERT — a 1 x 1 metallic gold round tile, held upside-down.
Would’ve loved to see that, great idea.-MBG
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So Lady Gaga is in Vanity Fair naked, so obviously I had to talk about it. And my official statement is Daymn! Look at her thighs. Hot Hot Hot. Oh and she is topless, but I’m more of an ass man myself. Whatcha think Nation?
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The amazing magical throwable fire extinguisher … how does it work??
Someone sent me this video on Twitter and they were a little confused. Essentially, it’s an anti-fire grenade, that when thrown into a blaze seems to magically extinguish it.
What’s going on? Have the Japanese invented some magical black magicks that return the cursed flames to their own fiery dimension?
Nope, it’s just simple chemistry. The canisters look like this:
They are filled with a mix of chemicals, usually the following (or similar): Urea, ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfate and sodium carbonate. Under the heat of a fire, the grenade breaks and the following reaction happens:
You can see that it creates lots of carbon dioxide, which starves the fire of oxygen, and ammonia, which has a cooling effect. Some versions even add in a fine inert powder that coats surfaces in a fire-protectant film.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
(by MrADDME2)
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“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” — Marcus Aurelius (via travors) -
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Lined & Unlined: Snowflakes 
I’ve been thinking about Emmett Williams a lot lately, even more since coming back from Amsterdam with a copy of his poem Sweethearts in hand. I’ve been thinking about the kind of verse that crops up in Sweethearts, where the word and its letters in their order become an engine to generate…
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“They are the ones who whispered it on the playground when nobody was looking. If we lose that language, we lose who we are.” —— Ryan Wilson, referring to tribal elders who were listening to young girls singing in Arapaho.
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Wilson, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and a board member of the National Indian Education Association, is working with the Northern Arapaho tribe to establish Hinono’ Eitiino’ Oowu’, an Arapaho language immersion school on the Wind River Reservation in northwest Wyoming. Wilson’s words remind me of something David Treuer said to Krista about his tribe’s effort to preserve the Ojibwe language:
“What I really love about language revitalization, what is so key to it, is that it’s always been ours and it’s a chance to define ourselves on and in our own terms and in ways that have nothing to do with what’s been taken. We can define ourselves by virtue of what we’ve saved.”
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SB Nation: The Best of the Costacos Bros Baseball Posters After Sports Illustrated’s amazing retrospective on early 90s posters reminded me of the many that used to hang in my childhood bedroom, I had to go to eBay to see what else was out there. Turns out, plenty of others enjoy a good pun and bizarre, dated photo just…
