Mew Mew

Yes, one more giveaway! But this time it’s going to be a bit different.. Would you like to get a miniature CUSTOMIZED version of YOUR OWN kitten? Yay, that’s the prize! If you win, you will receive a teeny tiny replica of your cat, or of any other cat of your choice. Sweet, uh? Here are the rules (nothing complicated, I promise):

1- Must be following my blog (which is btw a land of tiny kittens, baby otters, miniature unicorns and micro dragons.. just sayin’..)

2- Simply reblog this post to enter the giveaway

3- Your ask/message box must be open, otherwise I won’t be able to contact you in case you win

That’s pretty much it! :) I’m accepting entries from any country in the world. If you win, I’ll ask you to send me a picture of the “model” cat you wish to get, and I’ll paint one of my miniature kittens accordingly. Black, white, tabby, ginger, tuxedo, siamese cats etc. are all acceptable requests, and so are kittens with specific spots/hair patterns (I’ll do my best to recreate them with accuracy).The kitten will have in any case black glass eyes. That’s all, I guess. I’ll randomly pick a winner on November the 25th 2016. Good luck to all of you!  :)

Mijbil

Hollywood continues freaking awesome gender-reversal trend with ‘Splash’ remake

The internet raised its collective hands in praise on Monday as news hit that a new remake of the classic 1984 film Splash would star Channing Tatum—as the mermaid.

What we do know about the Splash remake is that signing Channing Tatum to play the role originally occupied by 80s sex symbol Daryl Hannah (and comedian Jillian Bell in the original Tom Hanks role) continues a well-overdue trend of Hollywood gender role-reversals, following on the heels of the all-female Ghostbusters remake.

It’s the two-year anniversary of Dee Dee Del Fuego joining our family. And while she’s likely somewhere between three to five years old, and her true birthdate is unknown, we treat this day as her birthday around here. 

It’s always difficult to look at photos from her first few days with us, but they provide an insight into how far she’s come. For those of you who don’t know how we came upon a dying Dee Dee on a street corner two years ago, you can read the full story here. It’s a doozy. 

What’s certain is how much joy she’s brought us and how fun it has been to share her life with you. We appreciate your support. 

On this day I like to remind people interested in getting a pet to please consider adopting from a shelter or taking in a troubled animal from the street. The amount of love Dee Dee has given us in return for taking her in is unparalleled and priceless. 

“…last year this photograph of children looking at their smartphones by Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam [went viral.] It was often accompanied by outraged, dispirited comments such as “a perfect metaphor for our age,” “the end of civilization” or “a sad picture of our society”.

…It turns out that the Rijksmuseum has an app that, among other things, contains guided tours and further information about the works on display. As part of their visit to the museum, the children, who minutes earlier had admired the art and listened attentively to explanations by expert adults, had been instructed to complete an assignment by their school teachers, using, among other things, the museum’s excellent smartphone app….

The tragic thing is that this — the truth — will never go viral. So, I wonder, what is more likely to bring about the death of civilization, children using smartphones to learn about art or the willful ignorance of adults who are too quick to make assumptions?” José Picardo, Medium

I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

NHS Choices

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

Wow.

The suits the actors wore for the Iron Man costumes were nicknamed the “football suits” due to containing only a chest piece and a helmet. (x)

Howdy! I have the funnest job in the world - I got to draw some animals for this cool WHAT ANIMAL ARE YOU quiz we made for Earth Day! 

(Two guests run up to the gay concierge. One guest is out of breath and tries to talk to the concierge. The other sits down in exhaustion.)

GUEST: I need your help. CONCIERGE: Is everything okay? GUEST: I… (pants) sorry. CONCIERGE: It’s okay. Take your time. Did you lose your wallet? GUEST: No. Sorry. I ran here. I just realized it’s Monday. CONCIERGE: I’ll grab you a bottle of water. GUEST: No time. Snatch Game. CONCIERGE: Snatch Game? Like… RuPaul’s Drag Race?

(The other guest who was sitting down BOLTS up.)