Oh Shit, Son, How Did I Not Realize That Nu-Star Tours Was Gonna Be In 3-D??

Oh shit, son, how did I not realize that nu-Star Tours was gonna be in 3-D??

Ask MetaFilter: Why Am I Addicted to the Internet?

zachawry: Your brain gives you a little shot of dopamine every time it gains another piece of information. Yep, the Internet uses the same neural positive feedback mechanism as cocaine.

jessamyn: Temple Grandin has a quote about how the "seeking behavior" is a more powerful brain feelgood motivator than nearly anything else, more than food, sex, whatever...it's turning in to a place where things are happening and wondering "What happens next?" and looking to find out.

Temple Grandin:

We have a lot of evidence that the reason a drug like cocaine feels good is that it's intensely stimulating to the SEEKING system in the brain, not to any pleasure center...that's what feels good: being excited about things and intensely interested in what's going on -- being what people used to call "high on life!"

...Humans enjoy any kind of hunt: they like hunting through flea markets for hidden finds; they like hunting for answers to medical problems on the Internet; they like hunting for the ultimate meaning of life in church or in a philosophy seminar. All of those activities come out of the same system in the brain.

Not only does this make perfect sense re: my tendency to browse the Internet endlessly in hopes of finding cool stuff, but it also explains why I'll read ONTD live discussions of things like Sister Wives that I don't even watch. It's my brain going "Oh my god! Everyone's so excited about this! What will happen next??"

tl;dr version of this post: Tumblr = cocaine.

traversetwilight: #i miss the old bride  #this new bitch thinks she's super clever with her murder puns 

Not to mention her delicate, child-sized axe. That thing couldn't cut a cantelope in half, let alone take off a dude's head!

Have you played Loved yet?

AWESOME NEW BLOG IDEA

You guys, I had a great idea! I've been eating some apples lately, so I'm going to start a new blog project called ABREE REVIEWS APPLES.

First up: Pink Ladies.

These are pretty good.

You may know Kimya Dawson from The Moldy Peaches or her songs on the Juno soundtrack, but now you know her from that time she looked TOTALLY BADASS going down a water slide.