Quoted: The Burj Dubai (Arabic: برج دبي "Dubai Tower") is a supertall skyscraper currently under construction in the "New Downtown" of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Although not yet complete, it is currently the tallest high-rise building in the world. When it is completed, it will be the tallest man-made structure in the world by far.

textured redot. a big fat YES to this kid right now.

Quoted: This is all you need to know about the following clip: The boy on your right won the Spelling Bee. He also has a major attitude, and is very likely not normal. Also? He might be my personal hero. Sorry Bette Midler!<br><br> No but really, this 3-and-a-half minute clip needs to be turned into a full-length movie. INCREDIBLE! And our true heart goes out to the anchor who tries to be as polite as possible in the face of sheer insanity. I would have been like "Eff off, spell that, son!"

a friend of mine has a hunch that this is the inspiration for the television show, 'heroes'. he likened it to the ulysses of comic books.

the book prior to world war z.

Symptoms

* Hour 1: Pain and discoloration (brown-purple) of the infected area. Immediate clotting of the wound (provided the infection came from a wound).
* Hour 5: Fever (99-103° F), chills, slight dementia, vomiting, acute pains in the joints.
* Hour 8: Numbing of extremities and infected area, increased fever (103-106° F), increased dementia, loss of muscular coordination.
* Hour 11: Paralysis in the lower body, overall numbness, slowed heart rate.
* Hour 16: Coma
* Hour 20: Heart stops. Zero brain activity.
* Hour 23: Reanimation.

Quoted: The famous 11m-long gypsum crystals in the Mexican Naica mine complex grew under perfect temperature conditions, say scientists.

Here Foucault most explicitly suggests that modernity is the epoch of space, not time...

i sometimes think the gullible targets deserve it.

i'm spelling my name NL for now on.

YOU DON'T KNOW!

yeaaahhh! i want this in my will...fucking sweet...

He died on January 14, 1753 while his wife was reading him a sermon. In keeping with his will, his body was "kept five days above ground, ... even till it grow offensive by the cadaverous smell" (Works 8:381), a provision that was intended to prevent premature burial. (This was the age in which some caskets were fitted with bells above ground so the "dead" could “ring up” if their beneficiaries had been a bit hasty.)