02 5 / 2012
ilovecharts: Some penguins are able to expel their poop with such great pressure that it lands far away from their nest, thus keeping their homes tidy. Scientists calculated the pressure that penguins would need to send their poop flying a given distance, and this chart outlines the parameters they used in their model. Click on the photo for the complete paper.
Ahhhhhh…..SCIENCE!
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15 4 / 2012
"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, ‘You are mad, you are not like us’."
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04 4 / 2012
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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29 3 / 2012
REBLOG AND CLICK HERE AND CLICK SEIBEI TO VOTE FOR SEIBEI! Every reblog counts as an entry, and in this round, I will pick FIVE rebloggers to win a free tee - IF AND ONLY IF we make it through this round! Last round’s winners are emoseal, natertatertot, humanboy, and patbaer (whose entry specifically said he wasn’t reblogging to win swag, BUT his was one of the ones randomly picked)!
THIS ROUND ONLY LASTS 24 HOURS - SO GETTING THE WORD OUT FAST IS A MUST!
Thanks for helping us get this far! WE’RE IN THE FINAL FOUR! As promised, here are two more new tees revealed: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE by Michael DeForge, and a new colorway of the Sandwich Dino by yours truly.
We’re in the final rounds of TEE MADNESS 2012. Soon I will stop annoying all of you. There’s just this round, and the FINALS - if we make it to the finals, I will be releasing a special edition CYBERBULLY WOLFPACK tee to commemorate the occasion!
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