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elodieunderglass: archiemcphee: Seattle-based artist Carol Milne knits with glass, or rather, she creates wonderful glass sculptures that...

elodieunderglass:

archiemcphee:

Seattle-based artist Carol Milne knits with glass, or rather, she creates wonderful glass sculptures that make it seem as though she’s either a superhuman glass knitter or in possession of enchanted knitting needles and very specialized gloves. The reality is actually much more complicated, but no less awesome. Milne invented her glass knitting technique back in 2006. It’s a process that involves knitting with wax instead of glass, followed by lost-wax casting, mold-making and kiln-casting.

First, a model

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resized: youre-bey0nd-beautiful: angrymuslimah: “Gulabi Gang” is a gang of women in India who track down and beat abusive...

resized:

youre-bey0nd-beautiful:

angrymuslimah:

“Gulabi Gang” is a gang of women in India who track down and beat abusive husbands with brooms.

this is too thug not to reblog

That’s not all they do - they’ve got more information on their website. 

What else they do that is awesome:

  • Stop child marriages

  • Persuade families to educate girl-child

  • Train women in self-defense

  • Oppose corruption in administration

  • Create awareness about the evils of dowry

  • Register FIRs against sex-offenders and abusive husbands

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runnerjive: thre3dprint: Open Source Clothing. Now I feel it imperative to reblog this, because the project seems to have hit a snag: The...

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thre3dprint:

Open Source Clothing.

Now I feel it imperative to reblog this, because the project seems to have hit a snag: The video they put up has been taken down because of claims of 3rd-party content, whatever whatever corporate lawyer stuff internet throttling stuff. That makes me think that Bennetton or one of the others whose stores were glimpsed in the background got their hooks in Vimeo.
So I thought I’d tell you a yarn about how this thing works:

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A gentle reminder that all three of these books are available for download at Smashwords. Please buy the ones you can buy? And pick a price...

A gentle reminder that all three of these books are available for download at Smashwords.

Please buy the ones you can buy? And pick a price for One Year of Instants?

My ability to keep my software running kinda depends on sales. I have this way of killing computers…

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bee-the-gatekeeper: Alright. One more. Tried to use the female Rabbit build for the outer portion of the design, not sure it worked out. I...

bee-the-gatekeeper:

Alright. One more. Tried to use the female Rabbit build for the outer portion of the design, not sure it worked out.

I shouldn’t stay up late… because as I created this Venice Carnival mask of Rabbit’s face (which was practically one already) I kept thinking how the Carnival there seemed less like a big fun party and more like a Comicon on LSD… It looks like the kind of party you’d invite your enemies to instead of

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spacemuffinz: SPG: THE GAME! all the water is turning into a slimey radioactive snot substance! the land and creatures are dying and that...

spacemuffinz:

SPG: THE GAME!

all the water is turning into a slimey radioactive snot substance!
the land and creatures are dying and that also spells bad news for our favorite steam powered gang! will they be able to save the land and water and discover the menacing force behind it all before it’s too late?

DUNDUNDUNNN

you control all 3 bots by switching between them as your main character while the game controls the others, or you can play with friends

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womenwhokickass: Mariam "Al-Astrolabiya" Al-Ijliya: Why she kicks ass She lived in the tenth century in Aleppo, Syria and was a famous...

womenwhokickass:

Mariam “Al-Astrolabiya” Al-Ijliya: Why she kicks ass

  • She lived in the tenth century in Aleppo, Syria and was a famous scientist who designed and constructed astrolabes.
  • Astrolabes were global positioning instruments that determine the position of the sun and planets, so they were used in the fields of astronomy, astrology and horoscopes. They were also used to tell time and for navigation by finding location by latitude and longitude. They were also used to find the Qibla, prayer times, and determine

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odditiesoflife: The Dino Pet - A Self Sustaining Night Light Designed by Yonder Biology ("The DNA Art Company"), the Dino Pet is a...

odditiesoflife:

The Dino Pet - A Self Sustaining Night Light

Designed by Yonder Biology (“The DNA Art Company”), the Dino Pet is a dinosaur-shaped habitat for a species of bioluminescent marine algae that photosynthesizes during the day and glows at night. “Dino” is actually a play on words, as the actual organisms contained inside the dinosaur-shaped model are called dinoflagellates and are known for their ability to glow when physically agitated (shaken). You might have already seen them in action as they

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by-grace-of-god: The truly inspiring story of the Chinese rubbish collector who saved and raised THIRTY babies abandoned at the roadside A...

by-grace-of-god:

The truly inspiring story of the Chinese rubbish collector who saved and raised THIRTY babies abandoned at the roadside

A woman has been hailed a hero after details of her astonishing work with abandoned children has emerged.

Lou Xiaoying, now 88 and suffering from kidney failure, found and raised more than 30 abandoned Chinese babies from the streets of Jinhua, in the eastern Zhejiang province where she managed to make a living by recycling rubbish.

She and her late husband Li

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