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Sureal Picture Break: Yo Yo Ma and wombat

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Mornings on Maple Street: Attaching stories to Lewis Hine's Child Labor photos

UPDATE: Lewis Hine was a photographer who began working for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) in 1908 documenting working children.

Joe Manning ferreted out the stories behind this picture, and many others:

"As I type the opening words of this story, it has been five years to the month since I saw this picture for the first time, in August of 2006. It was posted on a photo blog I ran across while searching for information about Lewis Hine."

The children and families depicted in the child labor photographs of Lewis Hine were unwittingly caught in the act of making history, but we know almost nothing about them. The pictures were taken for a noble purpose, but a century later, they have become an enormous photo album of the American family. By finding out what happened to some of them, and by revealing the photos to their descendants (most descendants are unaware of them), we are dignifying their lives, and the lives of everyone that history has forgotten.

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Kenny G and Miles Davis and Nancy Reagan

Above: Kenny G and Miles Davis.

Miles Davis upon meeting First Lady Nancy Reagan: "Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?"

Picture via vinyl4giants.tumblr.com, Nancy Reagan quote via www.kungfugrippe.com

Meanwhile in Japan, Jesus' grave

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Fun fact: Finding Nemo

Male clownfish change gender after losing the female in their school. That means that for the entirety of Finding Nemo, Nemo’s dad was turning into Nemo’s mom.

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Rapunzel had nothing compared to this!

Update: Oops. Forgot to mention that this is a castle made of human hair. Almost as disgusting as this!

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People should be loved, things should be used...

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Swiffer Bunny

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"Justice is served...how food-breaks sway the decisions of judges

The vertical axis is the proportion of cases where the judges granted parole. The horizontal axis shows the order in which the cases were heard during the day. And the dotted lines, they represent the points where the judges went away for a morning snack and their lunch break.

The graph is dramatic. It shows that the odds that prisoners will be successfully paroled start off fairly high at around 65% and quickly plummet to nothing over a few hours (although, see footnote). After the judges have returned from their breaks, the odds abruptly climb back up to 65%, before resuming their downward slide.

via Not Exactley Rocket Science Blog at discovermagazine.com

Masturbating to Mary Tyler Moore

A pre-internet fetish group

Read the entire two-page solicitation at www.dangerousminds.net

A more innocent age...

via www.soberinanightclub.com

"Isn’t it like the blogosphere is just one massive global polyamorous long-distance relationship?"*

Via the new and surprisingly lovely sadstuffonthestreet.com blog*. This picture was submitted by Starlee Kine of This American Life (the best radio show on the planet!).

*Quote from one of the blog's creators. Note the use of the quaint old term "blogosphere."

The Ant and the Grasshopper updated

From the hysterical and often twisted www.smbc-comics.com

The next Harry Potter movie

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Happy 1/1/11!

Snooki of Jersey Shore inside a giant "friggin' hamster" ball for her New Year’s Eve Ball Drop, which was recorded in Seaside Heights  after she was kicked out of Times Square earlier in the week.

via thedailywh.at, with images & phrases from here and here