Scrunch, owned by Amy McHugh, of Cedar Rapids. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP
Drake Relays Beautiful Bulldog Contest – in pictures
The 33rd annual pageant took place at Drake University – whose mascot is a bulldog – in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday
OH MY GOD DANNY DEVITO I LOVE YOUR WORK
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Life was immeasurably better once I forced myself to stop taking it seriously.
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Someday I swear I’ll find this magical place where people obtain “experience.”
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Let’s go to Sin City! (Taken with picplz at SFO in South San Francisco, CA.)
New Year’s resolutions by designer Theresa Wozniak, reminiscent in style of Mico Toledo’s brilliant Music Philosophy project (via)
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The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.
- Ingvar Kamprad
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You have to make those opportunities happen and take those risks. I’ve always said that if what I’m doing isn’t resonating with where I am, it’s better for me to go somewhere else where it does. So, if you want to get into a certain type of work, you just have to do it on your own terms so that people will then pay you to do it.
Hey girl. It’s okay you only have 0.001% equity in your company. You are the primary shareholder of my heart.
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When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?
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When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.
- Tim O’Reilly
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Selected is a series of animated gifs where Mike Guppy replaced the main character with an marching ants outline. His version of the Mona Lisa is a response to Replaced Mona Lisa by Mike Ruiz.
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I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.
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Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Pochemuchka: (Russian) A person who asks a lot of questions.
Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation.
Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Ilunga: (Tshiluba, Congo) A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
Schadenfreude: (German) the pleasure derived from someone else’s pain.
Age-otori (Japanese) To look worse after a haircut.
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese) An act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favour, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude.
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