fair is fair.

The NCAA has given an unprecedented and harsh punishment to Penn State football, handing down a four-year postseason ban and a $60 million fine for covering up the sexual abuse crimes of former coach Jerry Sandsuky. In addition, the school is on a five-year probation that slashes scholarships to unheard of levels and vacated all of its wins since 1998, when the cover-up began. The $60 million fine was determined as the equivalent of one-year of gross revenue for the football program, and that money will be used to set up an endowment to to benefit victims of child abuse. (via)

speaking of sammi sweetheart...

check out these regal kitties!

what is yella bear's corgi friend doing?

he just wants to look cool like he's smoking.

what is yella bear doing?

deep-throating his bone.









#nogagreflex

greenpoint is the new williamsburg

according to the always-on-the-tip-of-the-internet new york times:

On a scorching July afternoon, the frisson of hustle and bustle that delineates the weekday rush hour was in full swing at the intersection of Greenpoint and Manhattan Avenues, the dowdy commercial heart of Greenpoint. Horns blared, and unlike other times of day or night, when the traffic ranges from intermittent to invisible, pedestrians actually did have to look both ways before jaywalking. In this, the genuine Brooklyn, crosswalks are for sissies, classic apartments are walk-ups, loud is the default sound level, and burly men of a certain vintage still wear sleeveless undershirts in public.

Until Greenpoint’s artsy sister neighborhood to the south, Williamsburg, set a brash example by surrendering to glassy condominium and hotel towers and urbane renewal that yanked the cost of shelter in a Manhattan-ish direction, vinyl-sided six-family tenements were the backbone of the housing stock here. And century-old trees shaded the crumbling sidewalks. But lately the biggest shadow being cast in Greenpoint belongs to Williamsburg.

Vinyl siding doesn’t represent Greenpoint’s cachet any longer; virtual doormen, rooftop farms, artisanal gin and brick-faced condominiums do. The virtual gatekeeper is a prime amenity at the sold-out 93-unit Pencil Factory condominium on West Street, where the penthouse sold for just over $1 million, a neighborhood first. (via)

oh, just shut up.

thx liz!

vol me maybe

i hope that kiffin see me with all of this orange on.


bonus link : #teamnosleep (see how long you can watch before you have to look away in embearassment)

maps

shipping lanes

railway networks

slopes on the earth's surface

tree cover

click here for an awesome collection of data visualization maps.

too tsunami!

A tourist from Australia came to my uncle and asked if she could get a ride to the glacier just north of Ilulissat, Greenland, so he asked me if I wanted to be his translator. I am from another town where glaciers are fairytales, I was as much of a tourist as the Australian tourist, so I decided to join the crew.

The beautiful scenery was amazing, but the nature doesn't care about anyone. That day almost became our last day. (via)

"the line"

Spanish photographer Palíndromo Mészáros took the eerie images in his series "The Line" in western Hungary, where a retaining wall around a reservoir holding an aluminum company's toxic waste burst in October 2010, sending a million cubic meters of deadly sludge into surrounding towns and countryside.

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A$AP rocky arrested for getting in a fight and then getting in a fight

"TMZ reported that 23 year-old MC was taken into custody after he got into a verbal dispute with an unnamed person in downtown Manhattan. In the midst of the confrontation, two bystanders reportedly began taking pictures of argument. When Rocky and the unnamed friend notice the two amateur photographers taking photos, they confronted them and a street brawl erupted between all four men." more here

What's for lunch: public school birthdie edition

tuna fish sandwich and watermelon slices.
(not pictured: chocolate milk)

this song comes back and haunts my brain basically every week and i don't even mind

twerkin' on a headstand

shout out from beyonce: "BRILLIANT. I think he did this video better than I did. :) Love B."

what the booze cruise was like

that about sums it up.

happy bearthdie, djv....

just keep swimming, ok?