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npr:

And this is a problem because…why? — Tanya Ballard Brown

life:

Lazy Sunday. Lazy Fat Animals. Appropriate? I’d say so.

here you can see how they got the people out. they let them out onto the wings and then they got on ferry boats.

the news was interviewing some tourists who were on the circle line tour and got booted off for the rescue.
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a plane just went down into the hudson river after takeoff at laguardia here in NYC

apparently it hit a flock of seagulls

and, miraculously, the pilot managed to land in the hudson and it seems they’ve already gotten everyone out alive.

total freaking miracle. (via cybermelli)

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robot-heart:

justinesamantha:michaelmcgee:prideofboston:xbuzz:thedailywhat:

Awesomest Photo of the Day: A passenger aboard downed US Airways flight posts a photo of the plane to his twitter account from a rescue ferry.

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This looks much less terrifying than I thought it would.

Looks like everyone is okay, which is great.

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superamit:

jstn:

peterbaker:

The new official presidential portrait is the first one ever shot on a digital camera, which also means EXIF data:

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, taken January 13th, 2009 at 5:38:39pm
No flash, 105mm focal length, 1/125 exp, f/10, ISO 100

Exposure program: Manual

Womans Expression 101

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Don’t take Facebook too seriouly.

Delivery Fail (in my hometown, haha)

Teapot: A Japanese teapot I got today for steeping my teas.

TEA!: I went out to a local tea house here today and picked up a few more tea related items to add to my stash.

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jakehurwitz:

My mom is so chill.

xkcd - Windows 7

Raising Cane’s: This stuff is terrible for me, but it’s hard not to eat it. It helps that I had a coupon for a free box combo (I couldn’t really say no to something free).