I nabbed this and put it at TwitPic w/a caption. http://twitpic.com/9rfsg5
“Ancient Cemetery” Discovered-Sahara desert dated back to 7,700B.C
(August 14, 2008-National Geographic) “Dinosaur hunters have stumbled across the largest and oldest Stone Age cemetery in the Sahara desert. Paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team were scouring the rocks between harsh dunes in northern Niger in 2000 when they stumbled across the graveyard, on the shores of a long-gone lake. Thescientists eventually uncovered 200 burials of two vastly different cultures that span 5,000 years—the first time such a site has been found in one place.
Called Gobero, the area is a uniquely preserved record of human habitation and burials from the Kiffian (7700 to 6200 B.C.) and the Tenerian (5200 to 2500 B.C.) cultures, says a new study led by Sereno of the University of Chicago.One of the most striking discoveries was what the research team calls the “Stone Age Embrace”: A woman, possibly a mother, and two children laid to rest holding hands, arms outstretched toward each other, on a bed of flowers.”
Read More: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-sereno-sahara-missions.html
More Photos: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/green-sahara/hettwer-photography
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I support The Amazing Atheist’s efforts to diet. I do not share them, but I support his desire to improve himself. I should take this opportunity to feel inspired to follow in his footsteps. Most notably cuz I’ve noticed my umbilical hernia appears to have returned and I can’t afford to go back under the knife again so if I don’t start losing weight soon this may become a serious problem. Okay. It IS a serious problem. I mean, it was three years ago hence why I had to go to the hospital. But I also like Taco Bell. Dammit. We each pick our poison.
Anyway. Good on ya, man! Bust a gut!
Diet! - Week Eight
After hitting a low of 312 last week, I found myself plateau’d at 316 for almost this entire week. But, towards the end of the week, the plateau gave way and I weighed in at 315 yesterday and 311 today. 311 is a new low for me, so I’m calling this week at 311. Hoping to get to 309 this week. If I avoid any mishaps, that should be possible.
OVERALL WEIGHT LOST: 21 pounds.
WEIGHT LOST THIS WEEK: 1 pound. Though, considering I spent most of the week around 316, really 5.
I can think of even more deplorable reasons for an all female squad, and I’m only slightly less embarrassed about them.
Barbara Gordon Will Call You Out On Your Sexist Crap
In today’s Young Justice Batgirl has some thoughts about Nightwing having to explain why all female team is being deployed.
(Source: the-gotham-city)
Via DC Women Kicking Ass
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ZachsMind just posted a very thoughtful response to a post of mine from a few weeks back that seemed to get a wee bit of attention from the Tumblrsphere. The meat of my post that has been a few times bequoted is thus:
How many readers does it take to make a blog worthwhile? What…
…people read this stuff?
How many readers does it take to make a blog worthwhile? What constitutes a sufficient number of pageviews for a given post? The most obvious answer is that there is no line of demarcation; the act of writing is an end in itself. If I were to have a meaningful conversation with a single person, or…
DC Comics has actually been focusing on animated features for the past several years. Some of which have been phenomenal. Crisis on Two Earths for example, or Final Frontier. They’ve been doing well since before the Batman Animated Series. Most recently their Young Justice series has combined some of the best ideas from the comics’ “sidekicks” of the silver and modern ages into an enjoyable amalgam. It’s not canon but it’s fun storytelling. This second season seems to be getting a little dark and vain, but what the hell it’s still entertaining.
The problem DC comics has is trying to make live action believable. With animation, you just need good voice over talent and good artists. It’s much cheaper to have a dozen powered humans on screen at the same time when all you have to do is draw them. Everybody seems to love what they did to Batman. I find it horrendous personally, but then I actually thought Michael Keaton wasn’t half bad. Everything since then has sucked. I also pine for Christopher Reeve. He set the bar pretty damned high. I haven’t seen the Green Lantern attempt, cuz he’s my Aquaman. Everyone else thinks GL is cool. I’d rather see Brother Power The Movie.
The REAL reason why Ant-Man & Wasp aren’t in Avengers? HOW do you make them look believable? How do you NOT make them look STUPID in live action w/CGI or more conventional camera tricks? MAYBE now that they’re making billions, they’ll try it, but Ant-Man RIDES ON AN ANT for crying out loud and Wasp looks like frikkin’ Tinkerbell. Making them look cool & sexy will NOT come cheap.
What the fuck, DC comics? You are dropping the fucking ball. Have you seen what Marvel is doing?….
From bestofcosplay this is a great image of Wasp. Easily cinematic quality. I’m a firm advocate for Wasp making it into the next Avengers movie, but first she needs her own solo film to tell the origin of both her and her troubled boyfriend Henry Pym. I don’t think the film should be about Ant-Man tho. I think it should be about her falling in love with a young genius who goes insane and she ends up having to use his own gadgets to save him from himself and stop him from endangering others. For me, Pym & Dyne are like the Ike & Tina Turner of Marvel. We don’t need another bag of testosterone in The Avengers, but we do need more estrogen.
Wasp should get her own movie. She’d look fabulous. Then she could get featured status in the Avengers sequel.
Abandonment
I have abandoned this Tumblr. I should put more stuff here. For some reason, three months ago some of my tweets ended up here. Not sure what I was doing then that I’m not doing now. Aside from that, nothing’s really happened here before today. I should probably rectify that. Get rid of the cobwebs and stuff. ..not that anyone’s noticed.
So you walk up to Tom Wilson, cuz you recognize him from Back To The Future, something he did five, ten, twenty years ago. He’d smile, and as you’re asking him the first question that pops into your head, he hands you this card. Maybe he shakes your hand, maybe he mutters “thank you” and then he gets the heck as far away from you as he possibly can. This is actually a stroke of brilliance.
To me, Tom Wilson’s performance on Back To The Future is a shining memory of my childhood that I enjoyed immensely and will never forget. To him, it’s a gig that put food on his table for awhile, that he is proud and fond of cuz it made so many people laugh, but gets in the way of him doing what he wants to do today, cuz people randomly bother him about it. As a youth, I looked up to people like Tom Wilson, and wanted to get into movies or sitcoms or something where I’d be remembered. Today..? People don’t randomly approach me saying how awesome I was twenty years ago. I like the quiet.
Sometimes failure can be a good thing, but I admire and respect the people who succeeded once or twice, and put up with those of us who like to shake the hands of greatness and thank them for making us smile.
(Source: paulscheer)
u use the #atheist tag to insult #atheists @farhadahmed2 then act surprised when we don’t respect you? There’s this thing called reality.
Klout doesn’t have that much clout RT @benjaminjhare: According to Klout i’m an expert on #atheism. (blah blah blah) #JesusChrist
