hydrothermal vent environments, which are often home to unique and thriving ecosystems

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UnIendA6_Ns/T3chI5p8GNI/AAAAAAAAAbA/AQlexrgeLpE/s1600/3-hydrothermal-vent.jpg

1. look at that gif loop 2 more times http://i.imgur.com/zGAa9.gif

2. i love to orient my life around online infotainment. interesting articles and user-generated original content that is very useful in my daily life, all the live long day, forever and ever. it gives me the impression i know what's going on and a feeling of "control".

*welcome to ilxor's reddit links depot*

"World’s oldest ritual discovered. Worshipped the python 70,000 years ago "
http://www.apollon.uio.no/english/articles/2006/python-english.html

How have the micro/small states of Europe (Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino) remained sovereign states for so long?

Guy Installs Shower to Stop People Peeing In His Alley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnOmxR_qQ_Q&feature=player_detailpage

http://i.imgur.com/s2nutBR.jpg
Oak apple gall, there's a wasp larva in there.

TL:DR Burzynski is a quack that sells (overpriced) hope to the most vulnerable and desperate parents.

"This one is even more heartbreaking.

The parents try everything and simply can't let go. Culminating in the use of an "intuitive" to communicate telepathically with their son, while he is essentially brain dead."

the mammalian diving reflex seems to have an effect on anxiety and strong emotions

TIL that unlike other languages, the Korean script was a deliberate invention by a king, and is often considered the most scientific writing system in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

http://i.imgur.com/aaP8BfV.jpg

"Each grain of Kim's rice was hand-inspected for chips and cracks—only perfectly shaped rice, grown in North Korea, was approved. "

ah yes, i remember reading this somewhere before

http://www.zdnet.com/online-throttling-and-site-blocking-to-be-outlawed-in-europe-under-net-neutrality-plan-7000016324/

VivaLaVida77 explains the Turkish protests in simple terms, with explanation of the Ottoman Empire history, and comparing Mustafa Kemal with George Washington

http://imgur.com/IthIr0i

**this is now the thread about facts on wikipedia about numbers**

7

it is prime
In Mario Kart 7, there is an item called the "Lucky Seven"
The number of basic principles of the bushido
Sweet 7 is an album by Sugababes

290

The product of three primes, 290 is a sphenic number, and the sum of four consecutive primes (67 + 71 + 73 + 79). The sum of the squares of the divisors of 17 is 290. If you multiply 5, 2, and 29, you get 290.
Not only is it a nontotient and a noncototient, it is also an untouchable number.
"290" was the shipyard number of the CSS Alabama

wow, can't say i knew that!

19

The final year a person is a teenager.
Nineteen, Kentucky, a community in the United States
19 is the command in Age of Empires for the laughing emote.
The number of angels guarding Hell ("Hellfire") ("Saqar") according to the Qur'an: "Over it is nineteen"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Centered_triangular_number_19.svg/220px-Centered_triangular_number_19.svg.png

pretty useful to know this stuff, and there is plenty of it to go around.

also, here's this:

tribes in the Amazon are using technology like GPS and Google Earth to map their lands, monitor for illegal logging and mining, and maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions including knowledge of medicinal plants

http://i.imgur.com/4nQgRf2.jpg

Zizek: From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism

6 lines of JavaScript that write Doctor Who plots indistinguishable from the current series…
http://toys.usvsth3m.com/drwho/

http://i.imgur.com/FZZzSZw.jpg

A Catholic-school teacher who was fired after she became pregnant through artificial insemination won her anti-discrimination lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati yesterday and was awarded more than http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/06/03/jury-finds-for-cincinnati-teacher-fired-while-pregnant.html70,000.

Every day and in every way, you are gaining in control of your life.

A strong start to the day:

Musician Jack White saves Detroit Masonic Temple, paying off concert venue's http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/musician-jack-white-saves-detroit-masonic-temple-paying-off-concert-venues-142k-tax-bill42K tax bill

http://i.imgur.com/Z3wmz5K.gif

*this thread is now about the inspiration of silence*

just testing a joke: who cares

http://thejointblog.com/california-senate-unanimously-approves-hemp-legalization/

thinking of adding a blurb of original content to each link, to put a human face behind this process

haha, i like that idea

i like where this thread is going!

thinking of playing it straight, with a crypto-touch of disgruntled leftist

The Instinctive Drowning Response—so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help.

"something something the left not KO on it's ass it's fucking deaiaiaiaiaiad"

TIL that the 15 largest commercial ships in the world create as much pollution in a year as every car on the planet

"i knew keeping yachtforums in my google reader would pay off eventually"

Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc... Free to "anyone and everyone." If successful, it will be the first "food forest" of the nation.

i don't see why i can't act upon that information.

After a hungry 6th grader was denied food for being 40 cents short of affording a school lunch, his concerned bus driver posts about the situation on Facebook, only to be fired for "making derogatory statements about the school."

like a twist on the old favorite "your most important local news story the world must know about " : important local news are all over the place to keep yourself informed to death.

http://i.minus.com/iIOyK7SKp8TYc.gif

http://i.imgur.com/9LO9e.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3ZXpNw8.jpg

nsfw
http://i.imgur.com/WWHYz.jpg

I want Sid's Bowie t-shirt.

A group of MIT researchers have developed a software system that mapped 17,000 rooftops in Cambridge, Mass., providing residents with a user-friendly Web interface to look up their homes and get an accurate projection on the cost and return of investing in photovoltaic solar panels

yada yada ray of sunshine have a good day :-)

"This guy has been uploading two to five hours of content every day for the past three years. Most of the videos seem to be weird adaptations of Thomas the Tank Engine stories or him reading children's books to the camera while wearing a Gumby costume. The weirdest part is that if you watch videos from 3 years ago, you can understand what he's saying, but over the course of months and years his voice devolves into nonsense. Now it's just incomprehensible grunting for hours at a time. I mean, the explanation is probably just that he's insane, but...there's thousands of goddamn hours of content."

"I don't know if any of you guys were following the thread on /co/, but I've been trying to sift through this guy's more than 2000 videos(many of them are hours long) looking for any interesting details about this guy's life and I've managed to find what looks like him recording at a family reunion or something similar at his(most likely his parents') home.

From what I gather his name is Chris, he lives in Tasmania, and he appears to be very autistic and spends his days making episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine from his own transcripts using model trains and even toys from Dr Who. He also records himself reading childrens' book while dressed in a Gumby suit.

What bothers me most is his disturbing voice. In all his earlier videos his voice sounds normal. But in all of his latest videos sounds as if his tongue was cut out. I'm still trying to find out when this began.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghrsd3cZ1LA Here's one of his earlier videos in which he mentions the project he and his mother are working on. As you'll notice his voice here sounds relatively normal. Also notice the child-like handwriting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPp-0SEt_WM At around 24:00 when he finishes making one of his Thomas the Tank Engine episodes, it cuts to the suspected family reunion footage. Some minutes later he shows an older man and woman his model trains after another man asks "if they've seen the trains yet?" After showing them, he begins using a typewriter while recording himself. The man and woman walk out the door after when he begins doing this."

<a href="http://www.google.com";>Link test</a>

aww

Turkish game show host breaks self-censorship by making answers about ongoing unrest: 70 times.

spending some hours online every day since the late 90s made me pretty ok at trivias?

Hello, world!

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/09/the-man-who-could-be-virginias-next-lt-governor-thinks-evolution-is-a-lie-and-sin-leads-to-birth-defects/

*pours nice cup of genmaicha* good morning read. i feel connected to the plight of friendly atheist virginians.

Bruce Schneier: "Democracy requires an informed citizenry in order to function properly, and transparency and accountability are essential parts of that. That means knowing what our government is doing to us, in our name...Otherwise, we're living in a police state. We need whistle-blowers."

oh sure!

checking le reddit real quick before closing le old shoppe and oh my here's a double bill to my liking:

America's 50 worst charities rake in nearly http://www.tampabay.com/topics/specials/worst-charities1.page billion for corporate fundraisers

+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE0eeH9Mnck

"Scott Widak has Down syndrome and suffers from liver disease, and he loves receiving mail. His nephew Sean posted his P.O. Box on Reddit and the site’s users responded with hundreds of letters, packages, and gifts."

that connection feel

http://i.imgur.com/HMiTx9s.gif

entertainment!

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2013/jairo-mora-sandoval-06-03-2013.html0,000 reward offered for information on assassination of Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist

ain't that some shit

hhttp://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2013/jairo-mora-sandoval-06-03-2013.html0,000 reward offered for information on assassination of Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist

$10,000 reward offered for information on assassination of Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2013/jairo-mora-sandoval-06-03-2013.html

oh bbcode

study of modern visual culture, it's a thing
http://i.imgur.com/DDpSGVA.jpg

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/chatting-with-quebecs-young-separatists
article about quebec separatism in english. so useful for me. got to use the 80–20 rule when it comes at reading online articles.

"There are no invalids in the USSR!" (Fefelov 1986)
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1g5mz4/how_were_people_with_conditions_like_down/

cool!

It's a mean chicken the size of a man, and it's an ungainly creature that can't seem to gain flight.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1gj9mt/i_am_mitch_hurwitz_creator_of_arrested/

yet another meaningful read , on the internet.

“narcotizing dysfunction” : when " by learning about a particular issue, we think we’re somehow helping. Because I saw—and shared!—a video about xyz , I can sleep at night knowing I’ve done my part to reform xyz

https://medium.com/better-humans/492bc0271e79

feeling it, on the internet (thanks for the memes, hro)

http://beforeidieiwantto.org/usa_other.html
a nation rowing and growing together

(...) immersion play "Sleep No More" wherein the "audience" is given masks to wear and told at the start that they must not remove the mask and cannot speak. They are then allowed to roam a multi-storied complex freely or to follow the actors in the play as they go through the acts of a modern adaptation of Macbeth with no speaking. The lighting in the complex is very low to give a sense of tension and enigma to everything. The people in this environment find themselves acting in ways that, when they leave the play and take off the mask, they can't believe how they've acted. Some of them will touch the actors appropriately. Some people will have sex in the complex, even knowing they could be caught any moment by other audience members or the actors. Some become brave and compassionate, for instance seeking to comfort and console the distraught and insane Lady Macbeth before she can kill herself.

so glad i'm not a "gamer".

brand new amusingly irrelevant and impotent content:

imgur.com/a/7t3Z4#2

http://i.imgur.com/47QrSZp.jpg

"These images refer to an infamous and singular event that happened in August, 1892, between a two female members of the aristocracy (Princess Pauline Metternich, and the Countess Kielmannsegg) in Lichtenstein, apparently over a disagreement about floral arrangements. Since everyone involved in the duel, including the duelists, the seconds, and the presiding referee, were women, the referee decided that for the practical reasons (allowing even the smallest wounds to be seen more clearly, and preventing potential wounds from getting infected by bits of clothing being introduced into them), it was best if the participants stripped to the waist. When word got out about what happened, it became a meme of sorts, and was represented by artists as you've seen, in more or less titillating versions.

In the end, the Princess Pauline drew the first blood and "won," but both women received injury during the duel."