This is awesome, aside from all the gender stereotypes and propoganda.

Images I collected this week, for your weekend pleasure.

Previous diary entries:
Collection 4
Collection 3
Collection 2
Collection 1

Sister cigarette

Shave

أنا لا انتمي

Will

Troll

The dark side

Unattainability

هدوء

Light

انا إمرأة حرة

Is yours open?

Pina

Gwen

لم نفسك قبل منلمك

Similaritude

Seriously.

Hamed

Freddy

عشق

Pokemon

Rainbow pinwheel cookies <3

I love people with hands that look smart; long tapered fingers and a solid build give the impression of genius, and I love that. There is something so personal and majestic about hands that look like they can use a brush with madness, a pick with vehemence, and a pen with passion.

I love people whose eyes light up when they talk about something they love to do. I don’t watch movies, but damn it, I’ll watch those movies with you because nothing beats being sucked into long conversations where you’re trying to show me just what is it exactly that makes that scene so f*cking perfect.

And what about the few people who are honest with you and honest with themselves? Oh, I can’t even begin to describe to you how much I love the honest ones. I tip my hat and bow to all the men and the women who are not afraid to explore the deep, dark allies of “why“. Thank you for telling me exactly how you feel, for sharing your thoughts with the world, and for trying to understand. There is pain in honesty, and I love you for taking the pain with a straight face.

Then there is words, and people who understand the thing about words: words are not a scent that fades or a hug that disappears once the giver is gone. They are not a beautiful moment that by its very nature is just a moment. Words are the scents, the moments, the little pleasures of life. Words are the creation of everything. They don’t end, they don’t smolder out. And people who understand the magical essence of words are magical too.

It is this kind of magic that makes me love people.

This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while: the Baloney Detection Kit.

Honey, stop backing up your absurd debates with pseudoscience. And stop believing everything anyone tells you, including the Internet. Please use this Baloney Detection Kit.

And for your reference, the below “beliefs” are pseudoscience:
- Moon landing conspiracy theories
- Astrology
- Lunar effect (the belief that the full moon influences human behavior)
- Channeling
- Psychokinesis
- Ufology
- Hypnosis
- Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
- Psychoanalysis
- Alternative medicince
- Biorythms
- Chiropractic
- Crystal healing
- Faith healing
- Homeopathy
- Acupuncture
- Feng Shui
- Dream interpretation

The complete checklist in the Baloney Detection Kit:

1. How reliable is the source of the claim?

2. Does the source make similar claims?

3. Have the claims been verified by somebody else?

4. Does this fit with the way the world works?

5. Has anyone tried to disprove the claim?

6. Where does the preponderance of evidence point?

7. Is the claimant playing by the rules of science?

8. Is the claimant providing positive evidence?

9. Does the new theory account for as many phenomena as the old theory?

10. Are personal beliefs driving the claim?

Video via Brain Pickings

This is awesome.

Daftar’s website

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.

2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.

3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.

4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.

6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

[Via Brain Pickings]