Roy Lichtenstein - Bull Series; I-VI, 1973. Lithograph, screenprint and linocut on paper.
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Someone calculated the points of every Whose Line cast member:
Wayne Brady: 50,072,587,425
Ryan Stiles: 11,113,372,791.5
Colin Mochrie: 3,012,399,040.5
Chip Esten: 2,004,047,000
Greg Proops: 1,001,122,117
Brad Sherwood: 1,071,980.5
Denny Segal: 1,059,560
Karen Maruyama: 1,004,450
Kathy Greenwood: 59,810
Stephen Colbert: 12,000
Kathy Griffin: 5,000
Ian Gomez: 4,000
Jeff Davis: 3,300
Josie Lawrence: 3000
Whoopi Goldberg: 2,500
Patrick Bristow: 1,000
Robin Williams: 1,000
Kathy Kinney: 50
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Test scores plummet — so Florida drops passing grade
Florida gave a new standardized writing test to students in various grades and the scores were worse than awful. Only 27 percent of fourth-graders had proficient scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), which was down from last year’s 81 percent.
State education officials panicked, and at an emergency meeting last week, the Florida Board of Education decided in a 4-3 vote that the best thing to do was to lower the passing score on this exam.
Let me repeat that: In order to make sure that students succeeded on the test, the passing grade was lowered.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHA I WOULD POST THIS ON REAL NEWS BUT THIS IS JUST TOO FUCKING FNUNNYY SO IT GOES ON NOHETERO AHAHSFHAWDSJS OMG
why does everyone SUCK at problem-solving
i fucking hate florida
are you kidding me
are you actually
kidding me oh m yG DO
a group of real life state education officials
a group of people whose job it is to oversee state education
today’s robert moog google doodle is hella fun
this is as close as I’ll ever get to shredding on a qwerty keyboard i think
specifically went on tumblr because I knew Tom had probably done this.
Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art
TAKE US CLOSER TO ONE OF THE LITTLE ONES
When you take a moonlit stroll on the beach, how often do you think about the tiny grains of sand creeping in between your toes? From above, sand seems like a bunch of tiny brown rocks, perhaps peppered with occasional shells or cigarette butts. But sand has a far more fascinating story to tell.
Composed of the remnants of volcanic explosions, eroded mountains, dead organisms, and even degraded man-made structures, sand can reveal the history—both biological and geologic—of a local environment. And examined closely enough, as the scientist and artist Gary Greenberg has, sand can reveal spectacular colors, shapes, and textures.
These images of sand from around the world were taken by Greenberg using an Edge 3D Microscope and can be found in his book, A Grain of Sand, which was published earlier this year by Voyageur Press.
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Holy shit Tina… Holy shit.
tina fey good at words
World’s First Virtual Shopping Store opens in Korea. All the Shelves are infact LCD Screens. User Choose their desired items by touching the LCD screen and checkout at the counter in the end to have all their ordered stuff packed in Bags.
:o shoplifting would be nonexistent
This is brilliant! Evan says it’s making people lazy but I think it’s smart. It’ll save room from cart shopping, you already have to search the aisle and find it to grab, so just touching it makes it easier, it’ll cut back on shoplifting and it’s overall just a futuristic approach that I find very cool.
An interesting hybrid of current shopping standards and the “behind the counter” dispensing used in the pre- self-service days … though there might be a problem with getting the product information some expect.
it’s so expensive though
it must cost like at least ten times more than just using regular shelves
Also, let’s look at what I suspect is the real reason behind this (companies don’t do things “because they’re cool”, however much we might like to think that).
One of the first things you learn when working in retail as a salesperson is to get merchandise out of the customer’s arms and up to the front counter as quick as possible. This gives them both A.) a sense of obligation to actually buy those things and B.) no visual reference as to how much they’re actually buying. The less the customer thinks about how much they’re buying, the more they will buy.
This effect is going to be insanely pronounced in a store like this. Instead of seeing what you’ve bought in your cart, you just go around buying everything you think you need/want; it reduces the ability of a customer to make value judgements based on what they can/cannot afford (or for those without money issues, what they do/do not want). It will almost invariably make more money for the companies utilizing it in the long run, but it reduces the ability of customers to easily, visually have information on their purchases. Personally, that makes me exceedingly uncomfortable.
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