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Auckland, New Zealand</description><title>taf</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @taf)</generator><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>heuteund:

areminder:

pinder:

Mystery as spiral blue light...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuege9Cet21qz6gi1o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://heuteund.tumblr.com/post/276636047"&gt;heuteund&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://areminder.tumblr.com/post/276473162/pinder-mystery-as-spiral-blue-light-display"&gt;areminder&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinder.tumblr.com/post/276410594/mystery-as-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-above"&gt;pinder&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html"&gt;Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe its the wormhole from DS9.  Beware of the boring fucking Cardasians!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The Jem Hadar, now they were the fucking business.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blastrophysics.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/aliens_are_hypnotizing_norway/"&gt;A more likely explanation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/276637955</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/276637955</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:53:43 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>Moko the dolphin no 'sexual predator'</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/3144396/Moko-the-dolphin-no-sexual-predator"&gt;Moko the dolphin no 'sexual predator'&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Oh for fuck’s sake people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s a wild animal. Just because it’s a dolphin doesn’t mean you can go up and play with it like you would someone’s pet puppy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now people are getting all up in arms because it’s displaying unpredictable behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;GEEZ&lt;/i&gt;. Show him some respect.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/275766811</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/275766811</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:19:00 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>Via intimationsofimmortality:weallbelong
And on that note:
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kud569ubpW1qzs9n7o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://intimationsofimmortality.tumblr.com/post/275469467/via-weallbelong"&gt;intimationsofimmortality&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://weallbelong.tumblr.com/"&gt;weallbelong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And on that &lt;a href="http://www.good.is/post/War-Is-Over-in-47-Languages"&gt;note&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="389" width="578" src="http://user.cloudfront.goodinc.com/community/andrewprice/warisover.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/275648689</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/275648689</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:42:56 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>Seed Grenade</title><description>&lt;img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kucxi7xWM71qz4z89o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-build-seed-grenade.html"&gt;Seed Grenade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/275229487</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/275229487</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:34:54 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>I am supremely, terribly shortsighted (-10 diopter, hurray!). Sometimes when I’m in bed and...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I am supremely, terribly shortsighted (-10 diopter, hurray!). Sometimes when I’m in bed and want to see the tv but am without contacts and can’t be bothered reaching for my glasses, I peer through a tiny hole made by scrunching up my index finger under my thumb. It’s like a make-shift correcting lens.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/12/does_squinting_reall.html"&gt;Related&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/275224305</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/275224305</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:30:00 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>Best and worst thing about living together now is that I am there when he comes home drunk at 3.16...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Best and worst thing about living together now is that I am there when he comes home drunk at 3.16 AM and starts making baked beans on toast, singing made up words to the national anthem and the haka because the rugby is on, and when asked why he is putting on a green Las Vegas visor he replies, “I don’t want people to see what I’m betting”.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/272280162</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/272280162</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:01:00 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>flavors.me</title><description>&lt;a href="http://flavors.me/teresa"&gt;flavors.me&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Playing around on the flavors.me site. It’s still in beta and therefore a little twitchy and buggy but looks promising.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/265776812</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/265776812</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:53:00 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>One of my very best friends got married.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktuphukhEi1qz4z89o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of my very best friends got married.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/261526348</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/261526348</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:25:05 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>pterodactyls:

Am I too demanding to want to know when I will...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktnd835SSO1qz8bvfo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pterodactyls.tumblr.com/post/256479306/am-i-too-demanding-to-want-to-know-when-i-will"&gt;pterodactyls&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Am I too demanding to want to know when I will find this cake? Or where? Or….why?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Have you tried looking &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie#In_popular_culture"&gt;in your bed&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hur hur.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/256486305</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/256486305</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:22:51 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>Created using Polapremium’s new Fade To Black...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="267" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=15f0c5b467&amp;photo_id=4132819414" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=15f0c5b467&amp;photo_id=4132819414" height="267" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Created using Polapremium’s new Fade To Black film.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sx70manipulator/"&gt;sx70manipulator&lt;/a&gt; does the &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sx70manipulator/4132819414/?addedcomment=1#comment72157622747654853"&gt;wildest&lt;/a&gt; stuff with Polaroid film.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/256482996</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/256482996</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:20:06 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>California City
Via BLDGBLOG</title><description>&lt;img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktnc2qwAwv1qz4z89o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;California City&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/california-city.html"&gt;BLDGBLOG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/256449903</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/256449903</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:52:01 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>JAG Black</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.jag-jeans.com/main.php?id=128044"&gt;JAG Black&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Jag Jeans have a new online campaign where you can “shoot” models yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This was my creation. Dude is hot.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/254767908</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/254767908</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:10:05 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>Cruel Nicknames for Overweight Vampires.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/10MartySems,NathanChandler,CalClinchard,andAmyCassner-Sems.html"&gt;Cruel Nicknames for Overweight Vampires.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Snackula&lt;br/&gt; Undead Weight&lt;br/&gt; Count Chocoholic&lt;br/&gt; Vampire the Buffet Slayer&lt;br/&gt; Cholesteratu&lt;br/&gt; The Vampurgler&lt;br/&gt; The Vampire Lestop For Some Tacos&lt;br/&gt; Vlad the Inhaler&lt;br/&gt; Child Of Candy Cain&lt;br/&gt; Quiche Lilith&lt;br/&gt; Ghoulash&lt;br/&gt; Queen of the Hammed&lt;br/&gt; Taco Bela&lt;br/&gt; Bela Obesi&lt;br/&gt; Transylvania 6-5000 Calories&lt;br/&gt; Dick Cheney&lt;br/&gt; Das Vhoppyr&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253740313</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253740313</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:58:00 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>We now own a deep fryer</title><description>&lt;p&gt;What should I fry?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253732049</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253732049</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:52:05 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>The latest hell billboards of Mark Hotchin and Eric Watson...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktjgjoejmS1qz4z89o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latest hell billboards of Mark Hotchin and Eric Watson (Hanover Finance owners)… this is in front of Hotchin’s new multimillion dollar house.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitpic.com/qhgmu"&gt;GREED - The House that Mark Built on Twitpic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/e_maceated"&gt;Via&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253716240</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253716240</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:38:11 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>The New (Media) Workout Plan - Patrick Moberg</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.patrickmoberg.com/workoutplan/"&gt;The New (Media) Workout Plan - Patrick Moberg&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;If I followed this I would be hella buff.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253696446</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253696446</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:21:00 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>Sean Plunkett Does Crafts</title><description>&lt;a href="http://seanmakescrafts.tumblr.com/"&gt;Sean Plunkett Does Crafts&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sundaybreakfast.tumblr.com/post/251797766/sean-plunkett-does-crafts"&gt;sundaybreakfast&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Stripped of the opportunity to write in Metro about politics, the Morning Report attack dog turns to the Internet and his love of crafts.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Is this for real? Not that I care. It’s bloody fantastic.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253690945</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/253690945</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:16:38 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>loscheiner:

Very neat: moving x-ray images of speech.  If i...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktd2h6fHmK1qzvrlqo1_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://loscheiner.tumblr.com/post/249682917/very-neat-moving-x-ray-images-of-speech-if-i"&gt;loscheiner&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Very neat: moving x-ray images of speech.  If i knew how to make a .gif work on tumblr, you could see it in action.  Since I can’t, click through to see the original.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Things to notice:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Underneath the jaw there’s a bone.  It looks like it’s floating because it kind of is.  That’s your hyoid bone.  Your tongue and your larynx (“voice box”) are attached to the hyoid.  But no other bones attach to it.  And since muscles and cartilages don’t show up on this CT, the hyoid is just kind of hanging out by itself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Behind the hyoid bone, to the left you can see the cervical vertebrae.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Between the vertebrae and the hyoid there’s some lighter space.  That’s the opening to the larynx.  Above the white space is a thin, sticky-outy- thing  It looks vaguely phallic from this angle.  That’s your epiglottis.  It’s job is to cover the opening to your larynx, which is right in front of your esophagus- when you swallow.  If food or water gets into your larynx, it can go straight down your trachea into your lungs, causing you to choke- or if the stuff causes an infection, you can get pneumonia.  So you want your epiglottis to work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(image via &lt;a href="http://hundertmarkblog.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pion_fp11.gif"&gt;hundertmarkblog.de&lt;/a&gt;; anatomy lesson via years and years and thousands of dollars of grad classes in speech-language pathology)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This is great. Also, the tongue reminds me of a diplodocus.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/250039049</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/250039049</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:12:23 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>Make Me Mighty</title><description>&lt;a href="http://makememighty.ca/"&gt;Make Me Mighty&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://jhnbrssndn.tumblr.com/post/249727659/make-me-mighty"&gt;jhnbrssndn&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tjmahr.com/post/249717364"&gt;tristn&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pterodactyls.tumblr.com/post/249710575/make-me-mighty"&gt;pterodactyls&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://livejamie.com/post/249007549/make-me-mighty"&gt;livejamie&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This website transforms your name into something epic. I am “Captain Jamiehawk: The Arch-friend”&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Empress Victoria Johnsongon, The Skyforger: Human Asteroid From Beyond the Dogstar Cluster.  How did they &lt;i&gt;know?!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;(Also: “A total eclipse of the heart is being performed to deliver your name”)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Emperor Tristan Mahrhawk, The Astral Body, The Gloveless Spine Extractor&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Meh&lt;/i&gt;.  Mine’s just John Brissendenlax The Barbarian, Heir to the Rune-Hammer of the Apocalypse.  That’s what the wife calls me anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Well, gosh.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Doctor (good omen?!?!) Teresa Yangulon&lt;br/&gt;The Mastodonic&lt;br/&gt;Herald of Zenith, Ninth Wonder of Neptune&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/250036428</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/250036428</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:09:39 +1300</pubDate></item><item><title>What Happens When You Bring a 22-Year-Old Mac to the Genius Bar? (Video)</title><description>&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/5406566/what-happens-when-you-bring-a-25+year+old-mac-to-the-genius-bar"&gt;What Happens When You Bring a 22-Year-Old Mac to the Genius Bar? (Video)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://jhnbrssndn.tumblr.com/"&gt;jhnbrssndn&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“So, it’s definitely a hardware issue.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/247787841</link><guid>http://taf.tumblr.com/post/247787841</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:46:29 +1300</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
