Caption The Photo: Eagles OL Evan Mathis Peeing On IRS Building Sign
” I hope Mathis doesn’t owe any Taxes, because I am sure an audit is coming his way now. He is straight on Instagram flexing, Bleacher Report captured the photo before Chip Kelly makes him take it down and drink a protein shake (no more fast food at the Eagles camp).”
There Is No Magic Formula. But That Doesn’t Mean There’s No Formula At All.
” At the heart of any successful business is a great idea. Some seem so simple we wonder why nobody thought of them before. Others are so revolutionary we wonder how anybody could’ve thought of them at all.
But those great ideas don’t come on command. And that leaves lots of would-be entrepreneurs asking the same question: How did everybody else get inspiration to strike—and how can we work the same magic?
To find out, we turned to the experts—investors, advisers and professors who have seen and heard countless success stories, as well as entrepreneurs who have written success stories of their own. They saw inspiration coming from all sorts of sources—everyday puzzles, driving passions and the subconscious mind.
Here’s what they had to say.”
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” We asked readers to submit their photos on Instagram and Twitter to be critiqued by photo experts. Here’s a selection of WSJ Photo Editor Dan Gaba’s favorites. (@DanGaba on Instagram.)”
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One of seventeen found here
” Are there days when you wish you could just disappear from the Internet?
Maybe you’re haunted by things you’ve said on social networks, or you’re just sick of having companies track and catalog your every digital move.
Yeah, it’d be nice to pull the plug on the whole thing, but it would be easier to stop a runaway train, right?
Actually, it’s not terribly difficult to pull the Internet equivalent of escaping to a deserted island. All it takes is time and tenacity.”
” Santa Claus came to town – and he was packing heat – as numerous Americans were seen on social networks posing in front of their Christmas trees with the same assault rifle used by the gunmen in three recent bloody killings.
Grinning from ear-to-ear, those who received AR-15 assault rifles took to sites like Twitter and Instagram, posting photos of themselves with their brand new toys.
One Twitter user posted: ‘I got just what I wanted. An Armalite semi-automatic AR-15 rifle. It’s like the Christmas Story, but I’ll shoot more than my eye out.’ “
Imagery by Dronestagram
” So far this year the American military has launched more than 330 drone strikes in Afghanistan alone– an average greater than one per day.
In Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia the numbers are smaller — 80 altogether — but the lesser frequency doesn’t make the strikes any.more comprehensible. From this side of the war, America’s drone strikes feel very remote, their consequences quite abstract,
their targets unmoored to actual physical locations.
But with our powerful maps and
comprehensive satellite images of the world over, visuals of each of those places lives online, a few clicks away, if we would bother to look.
A new project, Dronestagram , is doing the searching for you, marrying the images of Google Maps satellite view to the episodic, image-sharing capacities of Tumblr and Instagram. When drone strikes are reported by the Bureau of
Investigative Journalism (which focuses on Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia but not Afghanistan), writer James Bridle tracks down the locations on Google Maps and
then Instagrams the picture. He annotates each drone’s-eye-view with a caption about the strike, noting any known casualties. “
Allahpundit on a San Diego fireworks display gone awry . Video at the link .
” To cleanse the palate. I was going to do a post on the Higgs boson, but what would you rather spend time on? Reading a dummy like me try to find insight about afantastically complex matter of particle physics or watching the single most awesome 15 seconds of fireworks that you’ll ever see? The bad news: The crowd apparently was bummed that hours of waiting outside paid off with less than half a minute of sparkly fun goodness. The good news: I’m reasonably sure that this is going to be the first Instagram pic to win a Pulitzer. Looks like a sexy space amoeba descending to Earth to spread love and music and hallucinogens and maybe a radioactive pathogen that’ll kill us all. Can’t wait to see which band buys the rights to it as cover art for their next album. “
