Crazy dust storm last night!
Damn Nature U Scary of the Day: A massive, potentially record-setting dust storm — the first “haboob” of the monsoon season — swept across the Phoenix area last night, shutting down PHX, causing power outages, starting a fire, but mostly looking ominous as hell.
Above: Time-lapse footage of the dust storm taking over downtown Phoenix.
Below: An aerial view of the dust storm; a street-level view of the dust storm.
[abc15 / visualnews / gawker / reddit.]
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Simian Self-Portrait of the Day: A crested black macaque snapped a pic of itself with a camera belonging to award-winning photographer David Slater, which was temporarily left unattended at a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
“He must have taken hundreds of pictures by the time I got my camera back, but not very many were in focus,” said Slater. “He obviously hadn’t worked that out yet.
I wish I could have stayed longer as he probably would have taken a full family album.”
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Simian Self-Portrait of the Day: A crested black macaque snapped a pic of itself with a camera belonging to award-winning photographer David Slater, which was temporarily left unattended at a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
“He must have taken hundreds of pictures by the time I got my camera back, but not very many were in focus,” said Slater. “He obviously hadn’t worked that out yet.
I wish I could have stayed longer as he probably would have taken a full family album.”
[dailymail / thanks 4nt1g0ne!]
This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: MacKenzie Fegan (of Dodge Charger Super Bowl ad retort fame) is back with yet another necessary rebuttal, this time to Miss USA’s controversial delegate Q&A re: teaching evolution in schools.
[jezebel.]
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Creepyass Kid of the Day: Toddlers & Tiaras star Little Eden offers her thoughts on hairspray. Slowed way down, of course.
[gregrutter / hugel.]
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The phrase was first published in Rousseau’s Confessions when Marie was only 10 years old and most scholars believe that Rousseau coined it himself, or that it was said by Maria-Theresa, the wife of Louis XIV. Even Rousseau (or Maria-Theresa) did not use the exact words but actually Qu’ils…
Look At This Sheepherding Dog of the Day: Nancy the sheepherding Chihuahua makes Ci look like an even bigger coward, proving in the process that size really doesn’t matter.
[newslite.]
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Punctuation Rule of the Day: Who gives a f*ck about an Oxford comma? Not Oxford University’s branding style guide, which instructs its readers thus:
As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’.
It should be noted that an exception has been made for sentences where an Oxford comma would “assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity,” such as when “one of the items in the list is already joined by ‘and’.”
FWIW, The Oxford Style Manual continues to promote the usage of an Oxford comma in all cases.
[mefi / kottke / image: someecards.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnkjfjhTAS1qzpwi0o1_500.png)
Punctuation Rule of the Day: Who gives a f*ck about an Oxford comma? Not Oxford University’s branding style guide, which instructs its readers thus:
As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’.
It should be noted that an exception has been made for sentences where an Oxford comma would “assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity,” such as when “one of the items in the list is already joined by ‘and’.”
FWIW, The Oxford Style Manual continues to promote the usage of an Oxford comma in all cases.
[mefi / kottke / image: someecards.]
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Well This Is Sufficiently Terrifying of the Day: And when you gaze long into the hair helmet-mullet combo, the hair helmet-mullet combo also gazes into you.
Oh, and here come the memixes:
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Well This Is Sufficiently Terrifying of the Day: And when you gaze long into the hair helmet-mullet combo, the hair helmet-mullet combo also gazes into you.
Oh, and here come the memixes:
[reddit.]
The most powerful being ever created a universe of over 100 billion galaxies, each with over 100 billion stars like our sun, which existed for 14 billion years, and then picked one of the 100 billion galaxies and picked one of the 100 billion stars in that galaxy, and picked one planet revolving around that star and of the million species on that planet he picked one animal member of all those species and said: ‘I’ve really got to tell that guy to stop gathering sticks on the Sabbath’
– Michael Nugent, chairman of Atheist Ireland group (via liberal-life) Via Friendly Atheist
